Four Years of Fighting: A Volume of Personal Observation with the Army and Navy, from the First Battle of Bull Run to the Fall of RichmondTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 558 Seiten |
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... Batteries . General Pope's Operations . Capture of Rebels . - Surrender of Island No. 10 - 76 CHAPTER VII . PITTSBURG LANDING , FORT PILLOW , AND MEMPHIS . The Opposing Forces . - The Battle - Field . - The Poor Whites of the South ...
... Batteries . General Pope's Operations . Capture of Rebels . - Surrender of Island No. 10 - 76 CHAPTER VII . PITTSBURG LANDING , FORT PILLOW , AND MEMPHIS . The Opposing Forces . - The Battle - Field . - The Poor Whites of the South ...
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... Batteries . The Ninth Massachusetts Battery . - Barnes's Division . - The Reg- Resistance of the Pennsylvania Reserves . Hood's Advance . O Colonel Chamberlain's Position . - Slocum's Movement . - Double- day and Williams . - Men of ...
... Batteries . The Ninth Massachusetts Battery . - Barnes's Division . - The Reg- Resistance of the Pennsylvania Reserves . Hood's Advance . O Colonel Chamberlain's Position . - Slocum's Movement . - Double- day and Williams . - Men of ...
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... Battery . - Fifty - Fifth Massachusetts . - Distribution of Supplies . Rebel Prisons . Responsibility of Rebel Officials . Amiability of General Lee . Andersonville of the Greyhound . - - - - CHAPTER XXV . SCENES IN SAVANNAH . — - Aunt ...
... Battery . - Fifty - Fifth Massachusetts . - Distribution of Supplies . Rebel Prisons . Responsibility of Rebel Officials . Amiability of General Lee . Andersonville of the Greyhound . - - - - CHAPTER XXV . SCENES IN SAVANNAH . — - Aunt ...
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... Batteries . - render of the Fort . - The Bombardment . - - Negotiations for the Sur- - Scenes in Charleston after - - Visit to the Fort . Captured Blockade - Runners . - the Surrender . Condition of the Fort.- - Scenes of the Morning ...
... Batteries . - render of the Fort . - The Bombardment . - - Negotiations for the Sur- - Scenes in Charleston after - - Visit to the Fort . Captured Blockade - Runners . - the Surrender . Condition of the Fort.- - Scenes of the Morning ...
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... batteries belonging to the Baltimore Artillery which had been delivered up to Governor Hicks in April . The Seces- sionists raved over the transaction at the time , and in their rage cursed the Governor who turned them over to the ...
... batteries belonging to the Baltimore Artillery which had been delivered up to Governor Hicks in April . The Seces- sionists raved over the transaction at the time , and in their rage cursed the Governor who turned them over to the ...
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Seite 362 - The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Seite 298 - Never mind, General, all this has been MY fault — it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.
Seite 496 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Seite 309 - I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy, preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistauce. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy...
Seite 225 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Seite 362 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Seite 397 - A little loose in foraging, they " did some things they ought not to have done," yet on the whole they have supplied the wants of the army with as little violence as could be expected, and as little loss as I calculated.
Seite 397 - If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it out as we propose to do, and not deal in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity. God will judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and the families of a brave people at our back, or to remove them in time to places of safety among their own friends and people.
Seite 49 - It has been represented that important information respecting the numbers and condition of our forces is conveyed to the enemy by means of fugitive slaves who are admitted within our lines. In order to remedy this evil, it is directed that no such persons be hereafter permitted to enter the lines of any camp, or of any forces on the march, and that any within such lines be immediately excluded therefrom.
Seite 456 - I am directed by the President of the United States to notify you to expect an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with provisions only ; and that, if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition will be made without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the fort.