Four Years of FightingDigital Scanning Inc, 2001 - 582 Seiten FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING is Charles Coffin's engrossing account of his eyewitness experiences as an Army War Correspondent during the Civil War, from the first battle at Bull Run to the fall of Richmond. Coffin was in Savannah soon after its occupation by Sherman on his great 'March to the Sea'. |
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... cannon's flame. I hear the drum-beat and the wild hurrah! Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Meade, Burnside, Howard, Hancock, and Logan are leading them; while Sedgwick, Wadsworth, McPherson, Mansfield, Richardson, Rice, Baker, Wallace, Shaw ...
... cannon's flame. I hear the drum-beat and the wild hurrah! Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Meade, Burnside, Howard, Hancock, and Logan are leading them; while Sedgwick, Wadsworth, McPherson, Mansfield, Richardson, Rice, Baker, Wallace, Shaw ...
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... cannon. What could it be? A reconnoitring party of Ohio troops had gone up the Loudon railroad. Had anything happened to them? There were eager inquiries. The men fall into line, prepared for any emergency. A few hours later the train ...
... cannon. What could it be? A reconnoitring party of Ohio troops had gone up the Loudon railroad. Had anything happened to them? There were eager inquiries. The men fall into line, prepared for any emergency. A few hours later the train ...
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... cannon shot. They gathered up the wounded, carried them to the rear in blankets, began their homeward march, while the Rebels, eleven hundred strong, up to this moment sheltered behind a woodpile, rushed out, destroyed the cars, and ...
... cannon shot. They gathered up the wounded, carried them to the rear in blankets, began their homeward march, while the Rebels, eleven hundred strong, up to this moment sheltered behind a woodpile, rushed out, destroyed the cars, and ...
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... cannon at the Washington end of the bridge had poured their iron hail and leaden rain along the causeway? It was not pleasant to think of these possibilities, but we were in for whatever might happen; and, remembering that God's ...
... cannon at the Washington end of the bridge had poured their iron hail and leaden rain along the causeway? It was not pleasant to think of these possibilities, but we were in for whatever might happen; and, remembering that God's ...
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... cannon-shots were fired, will find the locality at Flint Hill, at that time the site of a small school-house. The cannon were on either side of the building. “Load with shell,” was the order, and the cartridges went home in an instant ...
... cannon-shots were fired, will find the locality at Flint Hill, at that time the site of a small school-house. The cannon were on either side of the building. “Load with shell,” was the order, and the cartridges went home in an instant ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER XXII | 384 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 391 |
CHRISTIANITY AND BARBARISM | 402 |
CHAPTER XXV | 414 |
CHAPTER IX | 436 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 444 |
CHAPTER XXVIII | 454 |
THE IRONCLADS IN ACTION | 459 |
INVASION OF MARYLAND | 110 |
Second Wisconsin and Colonel Utley Judge Robertson and his | 122 |
CHAPTER X | 137 |
CHAPTER XII | 174 |
CAVALRY OPERATIONS | 212 |
THE ATLANTIC COAST | 224 |
Howard Ride along the Lines Stannards Brigade Meades | 269 |
CHAPTER XIX | 306 |
SIEGE OPERATIONS | 376 |
CHAPTER XXIX | 462 |
THE LAST CAMPAIGN | 485 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 499 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 523 |
SURRENDER OF | 543 |
CHAPTER XXXIV | 556 |
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | 559 |
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A. P. Hill advance army artillery attack battle bridge brigade Burnside cannon Captain cavalry cemetery Chambersburg Chancellorsville church Cold Harbor Colonel colored column command crossed division enemy enemy’s Ewell field Fifth Corps fight fire flag flank force Ford Fredericksburg front Germanna Gettysburg Gordonsville Grant ground guns hands Harper’s Ferry head-quarters hill Hooker horses Howard hundred infantry Jackson Lee’s Longstreet look lying McClellan Meade Meade’s miles morning Morris Island moved movement negroes night North o’clock officers passed Petersburg pickets plank-road position Potomac prisoners railroad reached rear Rebel batteries regiment Richmond ridge river road rode Savannah says Second Corps sent shells Sherman shot Sickles side Sixth Corps skirmishers slavery slaves Slocum soldiers South South Carolina Stevensburg stream Sumter Taneytown thousand town troops Union Union army wagons Washington Weed’s Weehawken woods wounded Yankees