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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, V. Life in log huts. (search)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 7 : the return of the Army . (search)
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Beauregard . (search)
Beauregard.
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The most uniformly fortunate General of the late war was Beauregard.
So marked was this circumstance, and so regularly did victory perch upon his standard, that Daniel, the trenchant and hardy critic of the Examiner, called him Beauregard Felix. Among the Romans that term signified happy, fortunate, favoured of the gods; and what is called good luck seemed to follow the Confederate leader to whom it was applied.
Often he appeared to be outgeneralled, checkmated, and driven to the last ditch, but ever some fortunate circumstance intervened to change the whole situation.
More than once the fortune of war seemed to go against him, but he always retrieved the day by some surprising movement.
In the very beginning of his career, at the first great battle of Manassas, when his left was about to be driven to hopeless rout, his good genius sent thither Evans and Jackson, those stubborn obstacles, and the battle which was nearly lost terminated in a victory.
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Confederate negro enlistments. (search)
Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 33 : wit and humor of the war. (search)
Parthenia Antoinette Hague, A blockaded family: Life in southern Alabama during the war, Chapter 10 : (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxxvi. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xlii. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lviii. (search)