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... columns were formed in total darkness , and set forward rapidly . In dead silence they pushed on through the storm ... column of Colonel Kelly came in sight across the river below the The hour fixed 90 KELLY WOUNDED . camp , and hearing ...
... columns were formed in total darkness , and set forward rapidly . In dead silence they pushed on through the storm ... column of Colonel Kelly came in sight across the river below the The hour fixed 90 KELLY WOUNDED . camp , and hearing ...
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... columns under Hunter and Heintzelman . Hour after hour this division stood thus on the ridge that overlooked Bull Run and the bridge , doing nothing except now and then sending a shell from its thirty - two pound Parrott gun at bodies ...
... columns under Hunter and Heintzelman . Hour after hour this division stood thus on the ridge that overlooked Bull Run and the bridge , doing nothing except now and then sending a shell from its thirty - two pound Parrott gun at bodies ...
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... columns were at last seen from the lookouts at Tyler's position , and huge columns of smoke rising in the summer air and waving to and fro in the sunlight showed where the encountering hosts were struggling for victory . Then all along ...
... columns were at last seen from the lookouts at Tyler's position , and huge columns of smoke rising in the summer air and waving to and fro in the sunlight showed where the encountering hosts were struggling for victory . Then all along ...
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... columns , and at daylight fall like a thun- derbolt on the enemy , and by a sacrifice as great as it was noble ... column halted , to wait for daylight . Sigel was directed to make a detour around the right of the enemy , and fall on his ...
... columns , and at daylight fall like a thun- derbolt on the enemy , and by a sacrifice as great as it was noble ... column halted , to wait for daylight . Sigel was directed to make a detour around the right of the enemy , and fall on his ...
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... column arrived breathless in the lines , saying that Sigel was routed , his artillery captured , and he himself ... columns appeared in sight , and orders were given to the different regiments and the artillery not to fire , as they ...
... column arrived breathless in the lines , saying that Sigel was routed , his artillery captured , and he himself ... columns appeared in sight , and orders were given to the different regiments and the artillery not to fire , as they ...
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