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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... thousand men at Manassas. A New York paper, having a large circulation, pictured Manassas as an impregnable position; a plain commanded by heavy guns upon the surrounding hills! It is indeed a plain, but the “commanding” hills are ...
... thousand men at Manassas. A New York paper, having a large circulation, pictured Manassas as an impregnable position; a plain commanded by heavy guns upon the surrounding hills! It is indeed a plain, but the “commanding” hills are ...
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... thousand infantry. They laid down their arms when they saw it was no use to resist, were marched back to Alexandria, and put to the hard drudgery of camp life. The soldiers had an amusing story to tell of one of their number who went ...
... thousand infantry. They laid down their arms when they saw it was no use to resist, were marched back to Alexandria, and put to the hard drudgery of camp life. The soldiers had an amusing story to tell of one of their number who went ...
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... thousand men of General Johnson's division. General Smith heard while on the Manassas Railroad cars the roar of battle. He stopped the train, and hurried his troops across the field to the point just where he was most 24 FOUR YEARS OF ...
... thousand men of General Johnson's division. General Smith heard while on the Manassas Railroad cars the roar of battle. He stopped the train, and hurried his troops across the field to the point just where he was most 24 FOUR YEARS OF ...
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... thousand, but he came upon the field in such a manner, that some of the Union officers supposed it was a portion of ... thousand men, with eighteen pieces of artillery, drive back inglori ously a force exceeding thirty-five thousand ...
... thousand, but he came upon the field in such a manner, that some of the Union officers supposed it was a portion of ... thousand men, with eighteen pieces of artillery, drive back inglori ously a force exceeding thirty-five thousand ...
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... thousand pairs of handcuffs were taken, designed for Rebel prisoners! This absurd statement was believed throughout the South. In January, 1862, while in Kentucky, I met a Southern lady who declared that it must be true, for she had ...
... thousand pairs of handcuffs were taken, designed for Rebel prisoners! This absurd statement was believed throughout the South. In January, 1862, while in Kentucky, I met a Southern lady who declared that it must be true, for she had ...
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