Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear ThemR. F. Fenno, 1905 - 386 Seiten |
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Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them: (Abridged, Annotated) Michael Hendrick Fitch Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 261 - And base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.
Seite 266 - When I reached the Treasury Building and looked back, the sight was simply magnificent. The column was compact, and the glittering muskets looked like a solid mass of steel, moving with the regularity of a pendulum.
Seite 78 - General Buell's preparations have been completed to move against the enemy, and I therefore respectfully ask that he may be retained in command. My position is very embarrassing, not being as well informed as I should be as the commander of this army and on the assumption of such a responsibility...
Seite 92 - Stewartsborough to join him. The enemy were finally repulsed and driven off with loss. Starkweather's loss was small, as will be seen by his report of the action. In this affair the whole brigade behaved handsomely. The burden of the fight fell upon the Twenty-first Wisconsin, Lieutenant-Colonel Hobart commanding. This regiment, led by its efficient commander, behaved like veterans.
Seite 162 - shall float its sluggish current to the beautiful Tennessee, and the night wind chant its solemn dirges over their soldier graves, their names, enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen, will be held in grateful remembrance as the champions and defenders of their country who had sealed their devotion with their blood on one of the most glorious battle-fields of our revolution.
Seite 148 - The fight on the left, after two PM, was that of the army. Never, in the history of this war at least, have troops fought with greater energy and determination. Bayonet charges, often heard of, but seldom seen, were repeatedly made by brigades and regiments, in several of our divisions.
Seite 156 - He fought stoutly to the last, but, after Chickamauga, with the sullenness of despair and without the enthusiasm of .hope. That 'barren victory* sealed the fate of the Southern Confederacy.
Seite 149 - Thruston, of McCook's staff, and Captains Gaw and Barker, of my staff, who had been sent to the rear to bring back the ammunition, if possible. General Garfield gave me the first reliable information that the right and centre of our army had been driven, and of its condition at that time. I soon after received a dispatch from General Rosecrans, directing me to assume command of all the forces, and, with Crittenden and McCook, take a strong position, and assume a threatening attitude at Rossville,...
Seite 149 - At 5.30 pm Captain Barker, commanding my escort, was sent to notify General Reynolds to commence the movement, and I left the position behind General Wood's command to meet Reynolds and point out to him the position where I wished him to form line to cover the retirement of the other troops on the left. In passing through an open woods bordering the State road, and between my last and Reynolds...
Seite 151 - My line from right to left soon became furiously engaged, the enemy pouring a most destructive fire of canister and musketry into my advancing line — so terrible, indeed, that my line could not advance in the face of it, but lying down, partially protected by the crest of a hill, we continued the fight some hour and a half.