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Page 52
... engaged in enrolling men for the Federal service . On the 6th of April , the frigate Powhatan was ready for sea , and , with her armament of ten heavy guns and four hundred men , prepared as convoy to the transports Atlantic , Baltic ...
... engaged in enrolling men for the Federal service . On the 6th of April , the frigate Powhatan was ready for sea , and , with her armament of ten heavy guns and four hundred men , prepared as convoy to the transports Atlantic , Baltic ...
Page 82
... to instruc- tions , again fell back before him ; but , in retiring , gave him a severe lesson . With a battalion of the Fifth Virginia Regi ment and Pendleton's Battery of Field Artillery , he engaged 82 THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR .
... to instruc- tions , again fell back before him ; but , in retiring , gave him a severe lesson . With a battalion of the Fifth Virginia Regi ment and Pendleton's Battery of Field Artillery , he engaged 82 THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR .
Page 83
... engaged the enemy's advance . Skilfully taking a position where the smallness of his force was concealed , he engaged them for a considerable time , inflicted a heavy loss , and retired when about to be outflanked , scarcely losing a ...
... engaged the enemy's advance . Skilfully taking a position where the smallness of his force was concealed , he engaged them for a considerable time , inflicted a heavy loss , and retired when about to be outflanked , scarcely losing a ...
Page 87
... engaged . The people in the neighborhood re- ported a heavy loss , which they stated the enemy endeavored . to conceal by transporting the dead and wounded to Bealington in covered wagons , permitting no one to approach them . At the ...
... engaged . The people in the neighborhood re- ported a heavy loss , which they stated the enemy endeavored . to conceal by transporting the dead and wounded to Bealington in covered wagons , permitting no one to approach them . At the ...
Page 103
... engaged in slight skirmishing , while the main body of the enemy was marching his devious way through the " Big Forest , " to cross Bull Run some two miles above our left , to take our forces in flank and rear . This movement was ...
... engaged in slight skirmishing , while the main body of the enemy was marching his devious way through the " Big Forest , " to cross Bull Run some two miles above our left , to take our forces in flank and rear . This movement was ...
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