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Locals like William Wright and James McAllister assisted these runaways while publicly advocating to abolish slavery

Increasingly

Ewell's Corps swept toward the strategically important Susquehanna River and the Pennsylvania capital looming beyond

killing her instantly

Hardcover / April 2010 / 216 pages

Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (William Marvel - UA) bugle Locals like William Wright andRadical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (Civil War America) by William Marvel Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822 1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a well respected officer at the outset of the Civil War, as a general in the Union army he became a favorite of George B. McClellan, who chose him to command the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac.