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Union victory, the President replied, would come much sooner "were it not for a certain military school they have which supplies them with trained officers." Testifying before a Congressional committee in 1865, Major General Joseph Hooker, who had fought Confederate armies in Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia and who had had the opportunity to compare both Union and Confederate forces in both East and West, observed of the main Secessionist army in Virginia, "With a rank and file vastly inferior to our own, intellectually and physically, that army has, by discipline alone, acquired a character for steadiness and efficiency unsurpassed, in my judgment, in ancient or modern times. According to one (possibly apocryphal) story, someone once asked President Lincoln why his large well-equipped Federal armies were taking so long to defeat the weaker Confederate forces. HOWARD, INC., LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, 1999 OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK This wonderful, limited edition, numbered, First Edition book is signed twice and inscribed by the author. McMURRY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR FIRST EDITION LIMITED EDITION - ONLY 1000 PUBLISHED THIS IS NUMBER 98 MINT CONDITION MINT CONDITION DUST JACKET PROTECTED IN A CLEAR, MYLAR COVER Original, Sharp, Bright, Clean, Solidly Bound, Pristine Condition Book Handsome Cover Design with Virginia Civil War Battles and Leaders Series Seal Loaded with Wonderful Illustrations and Photos HANDSOMELY PUBLISHED BY H.E.

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