Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 55
ew army. Hundreds of clerks employed in the Govern-ment Departments, left their desks and hurriedSouth, crippling the service just at the time whenthe sudden increase of work made their presencedoubly needed. A large proportion of the offi-cers of the Army and Navy, perhaps as manyas one-third gave… … MAJOR ROBERT ANDHRSON. colonel by Lincoln, and whom General Scotthad recommended as the most promisingofficer to command the new force of 75,000men called out by the Presidents proclama-tion. He chose instead to resign and casthis fortunes with the South, where he becamethe head of all the…
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