| Author | Wert, Jeffry D.
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| Title | The sword of Lincoln : the Army of the Potomac / Jeffry D. Wert.
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| Published | New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.
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| Description | xii, 559 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-7432-2506-6 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-534) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: "Things look very mutch like war" -- Bloody Sabbath at Bull Run -- An Army born -- To the Peninsula -- Along the Chickahominy -- "If we were defeated, the Army and the country would be lost" -- "McClellan has the Army with him" -- "Behold, a pale horse" -- The Army's "Saddest Hour" -- Winter of transition -- "God almighty could not prevent me from winning a victory" -- "Big fight some wears ahead" -- "An Army of lions" -- Virginia interlude -- "This war is horrid" -- "A sit down before the wall of Petersburg" -- "I never seen a crazier set of fellows."
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| Subjects | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
United States. Army of the Potomac.
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| LC Card Number | 2004-58467 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 470.2 W499
mq230377: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 139182] |
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