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... CREEK - HOW THE CALLS FOR TROOPS BY LINCOLN AND CURTIN WERE ANSWERED THE DRAFTS AND WHAT JOHNSTOWN DID THE FALL OF RICHMOND - DEATH OF LINCOLN THE SOLDIERS ' ROYAL WELCOME HOME . The attack on Fort Sumter was begun at 4 o'clock on the ...
... CREEK - HOW THE CALLS FOR TROOPS BY LINCOLN AND CURTIN WERE ANSWERED THE DRAFTS AND WHAT JOHNSTOWN DID THE FALL OF RICHMOND - DEATH OF LINCOLN THE SOLDIERS ' ROYAL WELCOME HOME . The attack on Fort Sumter was begun at 4 o'clock on the ...
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... creek for the night , and re- sumed their march on the following Sunday . The Pioneer Corps , under the charge of S. M. Cornell , started in wagons , equipped with rifles and axes , to block the highways . On Sun- day morning , June 21 ...
... creek for the night , and re- sumed their march on the following Sunday . The Pioneer Corps , under the charge of S. M. Cornell , started in wagons , equipped with rifles and axes , to block the highways . On Sun- day morning , June 21 ...
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... Creek , June 20 , 1863 . FRIEND JOHN : Yours of the 17th instant came to hand this morning and was the first reliable news we had from you for a week . Several letters have been received during the week , but none that had been written ...
... Creek , June 20 , 1863 . FRIEND JOHN : Yours of the 17th instant came to hand this morning and was the first reliable news we had from you for a week . Several letters have been received during the week , but none that had been written ...
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... Creek were Rectortown and Harper's Ferry , and the distance was too great for a practical messenger service to keep the government advised of the prog- ress of the conflict . Mr. Lincoln knew a battle was raging at a very early hour in ...
... Creek were Rectortown and Harper's Ferry , and the distance was too great for a practical messenger service to keep the government advised of the prog- ress of the conflict . Mr. Lincoln knew a battle was raging at a very early hour in ...
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... Creek until Gen. Crook's men got in line to make the last charge on Gen. Early's army , because these men had done such good work at Opequon and Fisher's Hill , that he wanted them to participate in the glory . Another happy moment it ...
... Creek until Gen. Crook's men got in line to make the last charge on Gen. Early's army , because these men had done such good work at Opequon and Fisher's Hill , that he wanted them to participate in the glory . Another happy moment it ...
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Page 141 - I want Sheridan put in command of all the troops in the field with instructions to put himself south of the enemy and follow him to the death. Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.
Page 350 - We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the* enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
Page 141 - This, I think, is exactly right, as to how our forces should move. But please look over the despatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover, if you can, that there is any idea in the head of any one here, of "putting our army south of the enemy," or of "following him to the death
Page 48 - I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges the day before, so covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across the clearing, in any direction, stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground.
Page 55 - But it seems to me that the elan of the Southern soldier was never seen after Chickamauga — that brilliant dash which had distinguished him was gone forever.
Page 302 - In the time I am writing every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before.
Page 302 - ... the carnage on both sides was terrific. At this early hour, General Starke was killed, Colonel Douglas (commanding Lawton's brigade) was also killed. General Lawton, commanding division, and Colonel Walker, commanding brigade, were severely wounded. More than half of the brigades of Lawton and Hays were either killed or wounded, and more than a third of Trimble's, and all the regimental commanders in those brigades, except two, were killed or wounded.
Page 143 - Up to this time he was very successful; and but for the difficulty of taking with him sufficient ordnance stores over so long a march, through a hostile country, he would, no doubt, have captured that, to the enemy important, point.
Page 374 - Sheridan on the 19th of October, at Cedar Run, whereby, under the blessing of Providence, his routed army was reorganized, a great national disaster averted, and a brilliant victory achieved over the rebels for the third time in pitched battle within thirty days, Philip H.
Page 143 - Hunter, and am not now disposed to find fault with him, for I have no doubt he acted within what he conceived to be the spirit of his instructions and the interests of the service. The promptitude of his movements and his gallantry should entitle him to the commendation of his country.