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Title: History of the Civil War in America
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Paris, Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans, comte de, 1838-1894 Tasistro, Louis F. (Louis Fitzgerald), 1808-1868 Coppée, Henry, 1821-1895 Nicholson, John P. (John Page), b. 1842
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Publisher: Philadelphia : J.H. Coates & Co.
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CEDAR MOUNTAIN. 243 wrest from him. A few words will suffice to explain this strangeresult. We have seen how the personal ambition, the jealousy and theunwarranted alarms, which at the time of the embarkation of thearmy of the Potomac had conspired to exercise a fatal influenceover Mr. Lincolns mind, had since continued to embarrass Mc-Clellan. After having kept McDowell back for the defence ofWashington, the President and his Secretary of War, who was asgreat a novice as himself in such matters, had undertaken to di-rect the campaign from the recesses of their cabinet. AVe knowthe result. The three small independent armies of McDowell,Banks and Fremont, formed at the expense of the reinforcementsintended for the army of the Potomac, had been beaten in detail.While Jackson was stealing away to repair to Gaines Mill, theUnion generals were only occupied in the reorganization of theirtroops, exhausted by forced marches and useless countermarches.McDowell returned, but too late, to his p

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