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Couch's official reports for the Fredericksburg Campaign.
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The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War
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1589:Frogs of the United States and Canada, 2-vol. set
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1843:. Springfield, MA: C. W. Bryan & Co., 1888.
1742:Major General Darius Nash Couch: Enigmatic Valor
1643:. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1952.
1884:—Georgia's Blue and Gray Trail site biography;
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1840:Massachusetts in the War, 1861–1865
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2421:People from Norwalk, Connecticut
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1867:Encyclopædia Britannica
1688:Civil War High Commands
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1942:Theodore H. Sweetser
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2002:Winfield S. Hancock
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2036:Political offices
1888:2010-07-21 at the
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1057:Connecticut portal
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