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As useful and valid today as it was when first published nearly 100 years ago

the Harpers Ferry operation

This book uses hundreds of contemporary newspaper articles

but he understood that people were more inclined to listen to reason when greeted from a position of strength

The veteran Indiana politician-turned-soldier was convinced the enemy consisted of nothing more than cavalry or was simply a feint

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