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... morning . These slight obstructions were strengthened from day to day and the advance on Petersburg degenerated into the slow and tedious process called the siege of Petersburg . The Federal works consisted of a front line of earth ...
... morning . These slight obstructions were strengthened from day to day and the advance on Petersburg degenerated into the slow and tedious process called the siege of Petersburg . The Federal works consisted of a front line of earth ...
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... morning in March , 1865 , General Jonn B. Gordon , my corps commander , requested me to ride with him , and we crossed the Pocahontas bridge , and rode to a point on the hills on the left bank of the Appomattox river opposite the ...
... morning in March , 1865 , General Jonn B. Gordon , my corps commander , requested me to ride with him , and we crossed the Pocahontas bridge , and rode to a point on the hills on the left bank of the Appomattox river opposite the ...
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... morning , the stars were shin- ing overhead , and save for the colloquy between the two pickets , all was as quiet as the grave . There was no evidence that , within a few hundred yards of the spot where we stood , ten thousand armed ...
... morning , the stars were shin- ing overhead , and save for the colloquy between the two pickets , all was as quiet as the grave . There was no evidence that , within a few hundred yards of the spot where we stood , ten thousand armed ...
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... morning made every sound distinct and clear , and the only sound heard was the tramp ! tramp ! of the men as they kept step as regularly as if on drill , and the cries of the Federal picket as he ran with all speed into the fort ...
... morning made every sound distinct and clear , and the only sound heard was the tramp ! tramp ! of the men as they kept step as regularly as if on drill , and the cries of the Federal picket as he ran with all speed into the fort ...
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... morning , but it is most likely that he suffered himself to be captured rather than return and be shot by a sentence of court - martial . I have always declined to give the name or regiment of this man . If he or his descendants are ...
... morning , but it is most likely that he suffered himself to be captured rather than return and be shot by a sentence of court - martial . I have always declined to give the name or regiment of this man . If he or his descendants are ...
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