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" Shirly is regarded as highly important to the defenses of the Mississippi. One of them at Columbus would have enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. "
Thieves of Mercy: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea - Page 3
by James L. Nelson - 2009 - 480 pages
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Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th ..., Volume 27

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1882 - 1050 pages
...Commanding Forces at Columbus, Ky. : SIR: The completion of the iron-clad gunboats at Memphis by Mr. Shirly is regarded as highly important to the defenses of...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. Had I not supposed that every facility for obtaining carpenters from the army near Memphis would have...
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union ...

United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1882 - 1042 pages
...Commanding Forces at Columbus, Ky.: SIR : The completion of the iron-clad gunboats at Memphis by Mr. Shirty is regarded as highly important to the defenses of...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. Had I not supposed that every facility for obtaining carpenters from the army near Memphis would have...
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History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the ...

John Thomas Scharf - United States - 1886 - 934 pages
...carpenters in his army to work upon the rams. The Secretary wrote to him on December 24th, 1861, that: ' ' The completion of the iron-clad gunboat at Memphis,...Mr. Shirley is regarded as highly important to the defences of the Mississippi. "One of them at Columbus would have enabled you to complete the annihilation...
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion

United States. Naval War Records Office, United States. Office of Naval Records and Library - United States - 1921 - 1038 pages
...gunboats Arkansas and Tennessee. CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT, Richmond, December 24, 1861. SIR: The completion of the ironclad gunboat at Memphis...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. bave felt authorized to bave commenced their construction then, as is was evident that ruinous delays...
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union ...

United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1882 - 1040 pages
...Commanding Forces at Columbus, Ky.: SIR : The completion of the iron-clad gunboats at Memphis by Mr. Shirly is regarded as highly important to the defenses of...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. Had I not supposed that every facility for obtaining carpenters from the army near Memphis would have...
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The Confederate States Navy

Arthur Wyllie - Reference - 2007 - 660 pages
...in the Army" were refused — "on furlough or otherwise" — although the general was reminded that, "One of them at Columbus would have enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy . . . Mr. Shirley," Mallory prophesied correctly, "will fail in completing them within the stipulated...
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United States Congressional Serial Set

United States - 1908 - 1006 pages
...Richmond, December 24, 1861. SIR: The completion of the ironclad gunboat at Memphis by Mr. [John T.] Shirley is regarded as highly important to the defenses...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. Had I not supposed that every facility for obtaining carpenters from the army near Memphis would have...
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion

United States. Naval War Records Office - United States - 1894 - 1070 pages
...gunboats Arkansas and Tennessee. CONTEDERATE STATES NAVY DEPABTMK.VT. Richmond, Deceinber 2J, 1SS1. SIR: The completion of the Ironclad gunboat at Memphis by Mr. Shirley Is regarded ns highly important to the defenses of the Mississippi. One of them at Columbus would have emibled...
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