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| William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 416 pages
...McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away...light of the thousand miles that lay between us and Richmond. Some band, by accident, struck up the anthem of " John Brown's soul goes marching on;" the... | |
| Lyman G. Bennett, William M. Haigh - United States - 1876 - 826 pages
...the march to the sea was commenced. Gen. Sherman in his memoirs, in describing the scene, says : '• Away off in the distance on the McDonough road, was the rear of Howard's column, the gun barrels glistening in the sun, the white topped wagons stretching away to the south, and right... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - United States - 1879 - 290 pages
...McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away...Fourteenth Corps, marching steadily and rapidly, with a cheerj' look and swinging pace, that made light of the thousand miles that lay between us and Richmond.... | |
| John Campbell Butler - Georgia - 1879 - 394 pages
...McPherson fell. Behind us, lay Atlanta smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away...the McDonough road, was the rear of Howard's column, their gun barrels glistening in the sun, the white-topped wagons stretching away to the South, and... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - United States - 1880 - 284 pages
...MePherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away...south ; and right before us the Fourteenth Corps, inarching steadily and rapidly, with a cheery look and swinging pace, that made light of the thousand... | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1886 - 622 pages
...and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Awav off in the distance, on the McDonough road, was the...white-topped wagons stretching away to the south ; and right hefore us the Fourteenth Corps, marching steadily and rapidly, with a cheery look and swinging pace,... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away...column, the gun-barrels glistening in the sun, the white- topped wagons stretching away to the south ; and right before us the Fourteenth Corps, marching... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 pages
...McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away...light of the thousand miles that lay between us and Richmond. Some band, by accident, struck up the anthem of 'John Brown's soul goes marching on'; the... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1890 - 548 pages
...McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away...column, the gun-barrels glistening in the sun, the white -topped wagons stretching away to the south ; and right before us the Fourteenth Corps, marching... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 pages
...McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away...column, the gun-barrels glistening in the sun, the white- topped wagons stretching away to the south ; and right before us the Fourteenth Corps, marching... | |
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