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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... ground , the heat envelopes you like a blanket ; it will keep off fever and ague . Better endure the discomfort of the smoke , better look like a Cincinnati ham , than to feel an ache in every bone in the morning , which you will be ...
... ground , the heat envelopes you like a blanket ; it will keep off fever and ague . Better endure the discomfort of the smoke , better look like a Cincinnati ham , than to feel an ache in every bone in the morning , which you will be ...
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... ground . It was the first shot fired by the grand army on the march towards Ma- nassas . The other troopers put spurs to their horses and fled towards Fairfax , where a sudden commotion was visible . " The Rebels are in force just ahead ...
... ground . It was the first shot fired by the grand army on the march towards Ma- nassas . The other troopers put spurs to their horses and fled towards Fairfax , where a sudden commotion was visible . " The Rebels are in force just ahead ...
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... ground , and fled in terror towards Alexandria . The fright was soon over . The lines at Centreville were in tolerable order when I left that place at five o'clock . Experience is an excellent teacher , though the tuition is sometimes ...
... ground , and fled in terror towards Alexandria . The fright was soon over . The lines at Centreville were in tolerable order when I left that place at five o'clock . Experience is an excellent teacher , though the tuition is sometimes ...
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... ground . General Butler had retained the negroes who came into his camp , calling them " contraband of war . " Men were beginning to discuss the propriety of not only retaining , but of seizing , the slaves of those who were in arms ...
... ground . General Butler had retained the negroes who came into his camp , calling them " contraband of war . " Men were beginning to discuss the propriety of not only retaining , but of seizing , the slaves of those who were in arms ...
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... ground was miry . It was a sad spectacle , those half - naked , shivering soldiers , who had lost everything , clothes , equipments , and arms . They were almost heart - broken at the disaster . - " I enlisted to fight , " said one ...
... ground was miry . It was a sad spectacle , those half - naked , shivering soldiers , who had lost everything , clothes , equipments , and arms . They were almost heart - broken at the disaster . - " I enlisted to fight , " said one ...
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A. P. Hill advance army artillery attack battle boats bridge brigade Burnside cannon Captain cavalry Chambersburg Chancellorsville Charleston church Cold Harbor Colonel colored command crossed Culp's Hill D. H. Hill division enemy enemy's field fight fire flag flank force Ford Fort Pillow fought Fredericksburg front Gordonsville Grant ground gunboats guns hands head-quarters hill Hooker horses Howard hundred infantry Jackson Kentucky Lee's Longstreet look lying massa McClellan Meade Meade's miles morning Morris Island moved movement negroes night North o'clock officers passed pickets position Potomac prisoners railroad reached rear Rebel batteries regiment Richmond ridge river road Savannah says Second Corps sent shells Sherman shot Sickles side Sixth Corps slavery slaves soldiers South South Carolina stream Sumter Taneytown thousand tion took town troops Union Union army wagons Washington Weehawken woods wounded Yankees