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Page 122
... present position and prob- able future movements of the force of the enemy which crossed the Potomac yesterday . Lieut . Geisinger reports that he proceeded as far as Clear Spring , and that from citizens and United States troops he dis ...
... present position and prob- able future movements of the force of the enemy which crossed the Potomac yesterday . Lieut . Geisinger reports that he proceeded as far as Clear Spring , and that from citizens and United States troops he dis ...
Page 126
... present defense of these Forts there has been ordered to you ( 1 ) one section of Mulligan's Battery under Lt. MeAffee ; ( 2 ) two sections of Moore's Battery , the 54th Pa . the 15th Va . the 2d Maryland . 126 HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY .
... present defense of these Forts there has been ordered to you ( 1 ) one section of Mulligan's Battery under Lt. MeAffee ; ( 2 ) two sections of Moore's Battery , the 54th Pa . the 15th Va . the 2d Maryland . 126 HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY .
Page 127
... present , consisting of the following troops : 54th Pennsylvania , Lieut . Col. John P. Linton ; 1st West Virginia , Col. Joseph Thoburn ; Lafayette ( Penna . ) Cavalry , Serg . Jefferson G. Van Gilder ; Ringgold ( Penna . ) Cavalry ...
... present , consisting of the following troops : 54th Pennsylvania , Lieut . Col. John P. Linton ; 1st West Virginia , Col. Joseph Thoburn ; Lafayette ( Penna . ) Cavalry , Serg . Jefferson G. Van Gilder ; Ringgold ( Penna . ) Cavalry ...
Page 149
... present during the battle , having just arrived at Winchester , as our forces were retreating through the town , nor did I see any of the forces of the divi- sion until the morning of the 25th of July , when I was ordered by General ...
... present during the battle , having just arrived at Winchester , as our forces were retreating through the town , nor did I see any of the forces of the divi- sion until the morning of the 25th of July , when I was ordered by General ...
Page 156
... present themselves to the picket at the river who would start them over Jordan and take care of Marse and I just learn they have taken my advice . Now I am not an agent for the Underground rail- way unless it is forced upon me like this ...
... present themselves to the picket at the river who would start them over Jordan and take care of Marse and I just learn they have taken my advice . Now I am not an agent for the Underground rail- way unless it is forced upon me like this ...
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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.