 It seems as awful as a visible interposition of God. Neither Grant nor Thomas intended it. Their orders were to carry the rifle-pits along the base of the ridge and capture their occupants, but when this was accomplished the unaccountable spirit of the...  Civil War Times, 1861-1865 - Page 239by Daniel Wait Howe - 1902 - 421 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1890 - 878 pages
...occupants, but when this was accomplished the unaccountable spirit of the troops bore them bodily up those impracticable steeps, over the bristling rifle-pits...were ready themselves to undertake impossibilities. Our losses in this assault are estimated at about 2,000, though we have no reports yet. Probably the... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 884 pages
...occupants, but when this was accomplished the unaccountable spirit of the troops bore them bodily up those impracticable steeps, over the bristling rifle-pits...were ready themselves to undertake impossibilities. Our losses in this assault are estimated at about 2,000, though we have no reports yet. Probably the... | |
 | Periodicals - 1894 - 576 pages
...carry the rifle-pits along the base of the Ridge and capture their occupants ; but, when this was done, the unaccountable spirit of the troops bore them bodily...generals had caught the inspiration of the men, and were themselves ready to undertake impossibilities." In the middle of December Mr. Dana went back to Washington,... | |
 | American literature - 1894 - 612 pages
...of the troops bore them bodily up these impracticable steeps, over the bristling rifle-pits on *.he crest and the thirty cannon enfilading every gully....generals had caught the inspiration of the men, and were themselves ready to undertake impossibilities." In the middle of December Mr. Dana went back to Washington,... | |
 | Authors - 1895 - 308 pages
...carry the rifle-pits along the base of the Ridge and capture their occupants ; but, when this was done, the unaccountable spirit of the troops bore them bodily...generals had caught the inspiration of the men, and were themselves ready to undertake impossibilities." In the middle of December Mr. Dana went back to Washington,... | |
 | Charles T. Clark - United States - 1895 - 520 pages
...unaccountable spirit of the troops bore them bodily up those impracticable steeps over the bristling rifle pits on the crest and the thirty cannon enfilading every...caught the inspiration of the men, and were ready them!elves to undertake impossibilities." 148 149 General Grant's intention was for the assaulting... | |
 | Charles Eugene Belknap - Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 - 1897 - 498 pages
...them boldly up those impracticable steeps, over the bristling rifle-pits on the crest and the fifty cannon enfilading every gully. The order to storm...were ready themselves to undertake impossibilities. Our losses in this assault are estimated at aliout li.OOO. though we have no report yet. I'robably... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1898 - 328 pages
...those impracticable steeps, in spite of the bristling rifle-pits on the crest, and the thirty cannons enfilading every gully. The order to storm appears...were ready themselves to undertake impossibilities. The first time I saw Sheridan after the battle I said to him, " Why did you go up there? " " When I... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 pages
...occupants ; but when this was accomplished the unaccountable spirit of the troops bore them bodily up those impracticable steeps, over the bristling rifle-pits...were ready themselves to undertake impossibilities. " 2 1 Nicolay and Hay, vol. viii. p. 150 ; see another account of this incident, Century War Book,... | |
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