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... enemy were coming to that town to destroy the railroad shops and the tunnel at Gallitzin . They had arms and ammuni- tion , but no men ; and Johnstown had the men , but not sufficient arms nor ammunition . The appeal from Altoona to ...
... enemy were coming to that town to destroy the railroad shops and the tunnel at Gallitzin . They had arms and ammuni- tion , but no men ; and Johnstown had the men , but not sufficient arms nor ammunition . The appeal from Altoona to ...
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... enemy while the panic - stricken troops on the right and center fled , and then on to Chattanooga , Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge , where they drove the enemy from the mountain tops . It shifts again to the east . They cross the ...
... enemy while the panic - stricken troops on the right and center fled , and then on to Chattanooga , Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge , where they drove the enemy from the mountain tops . It shifts again to the east . They cross the ...
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... enemy was killed and two wounded . In the afternoon the whole column entered Martinsburg with demonstrations of joy and welcome . The regiment was ordered to move at daylight on Monday , the 15th , with five days ' rations in the ...
... enemy was killed and two wounded . In the afternoon the whole column entered Martinsburg with demonstrations of joy and welcome . The regiment was ordered to move at daylight on Monday , the 15th , with five days ' rations in the ...
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... enemy in front , and after hard fighting , in which our own and the enemy's forces nearly came together , he finally gave way and fled . While resisting another attack of the enemy in our front and in pursuit my battalion ( Co. C ) ...
... enemy in front , and after hard fighting , in which our own and the enemy's forces nearly came together , he finally gave way and fled . While resisting another attack of the enemy in our front and in pursuit my battalion ( Co. C ) ...
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... enemy appeared in an open field and were rushing on when Rosecrans ' artillery opened on the ad- vancing foe . It was a terrible blast of bullets and shell ; men put cotton in their ears to deaden the sound ; huge gaps were torn in the ...
... enemy appeared in an open field and were rushing on when Rosecrans ' artillery opened on the ad- vancing foe . It was a terrible blast of bullets and shell ; men put cotton in their ears to deaden the sound ; huge gaps were torn in the ...
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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.