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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... shells went screaming towards them, and in an instant they disappeared, running into the woods, casting away ... shell was sent among them. They were about leaving, having been ordered to retreat by Beauregard. The shell accelerated ...
... shells went screaming towards them, and in an instant they disappeared, running into the woods, casting away ... shell was sent among them. They were about leaving, having been ordered to retreat by Beauregard. The shell accelerated ...
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... shells, one of which ploughed through the Second Ohio, mangling two soldiers, sprinkling their warm blood upon the greensward. While drinking at a spring, there was a sudden uproar, a rattling of musketry, and one or two discharges of ...
... shells, one of which ploughed through the Second Ohio, mangling two soldiers, sprinkling their warm blood upon the greensward. While drinking at a spring, there was a sudden uproar, a rattling of musketry, and one or two discharges of ...
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... shell right into the town. I reckon it waked them up some.” He laughed and chuckled, rubbed his hands, took a fresh quid of tobacco, and began to talk again of his father's exploits on the Pacific. The Rebels under Major-General Bishop ...
... shell right into the town. I reckon it waked them up some.” He laughed and chuckled, rubbed his hands, took a fresh quid of tobacco, and began to talk again of his father's exploits on the Pacific. The Rebels under Major-General Bishop ...
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... shell, fire and sword, naval expeditions and blockades, and every possible means, upon the men who had conspired to subvert the government. There was no reply, and he soon left the room. Buell's right wing under General Crittenden, was ...
... shell, fire and sword, naval expeditions and blockades, and every possible means, upon the men who had conspired to subvert the government. There was no reply, and he soon left the room. Buell's right wing under General Crittenden, was ...
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... shells one after another in swift succession rising, rotating, rushing upward and onward, sailing a thousand feet ... shell dropped from the sky. Round shot skipped along the surface of the river, tearing through the Rebel works, filling ...
... shells one after another in swift succession rising, rotating, rushing upward and onward, sailing a thousand feet ... shell dropped from the sky. Round shot skipped along the surface of the river, tearing through the Rebel works, filling ...
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