Identifier: pictorialhistorywils (find matches)
Title: Pictorial history of the great Civil War : embracing full and authentic accounts of battles by land and sea ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Wilson, John Laird, 1832-1896
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Publisher: (New York, N.Y.?) : J.R. Jones
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER FAMOUS CAVALRY COMMANDER, ASSOCIATED WITH GENERAL SHERIDAN IN THE PURSUIT AND CAPTURE OF GENERAL LEES ARMY ; AFTERWARD CELEBRATED INDIAN FIGHTER; KILLED BY THE INDIANS, JUNE 25, 1876 holli:ns boast. 60 ihej Avere fast in the mud. I pepperedthem well. There were no casualtieson our side. It was a complete suc-cess. HOLLINS. What were the facts in this case?The Confederates had extemporized aflotilla, consisting of a steam-ram calledthe Manassas, mounted with one sixty-four-pounder Dahlgren; the steamerCalhoun, with one twenty-four-pounderDahlgren; the steamer Ivy, with aneight-inch thirty-two-pounder, rifled;the steamer Jackson, with two eight-inch columbiads and a twenty-four-pounder, rifled; and the cutter Pickens,with an eight-inch columbiad and fourtwenty-four-pound carronades. The Ma-nassas was originally the steamer EnochTrain, but had been completely recon-structed. In her new form she had a pe-culiar ram-like shape, and altogetherhad a formidable appear

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