 | Charles Bernard Gibson - Crime - 1863 - 330 pages
...correspondent, when describing the battle of Fredericksburg : — "To the Irish division, commanded by General Meagher, was principally committed the desperate task...withering fire of the Confederate batteries, to attack Mary's Heights, lowering immediately in their front. Never at Fontenoy, at Albuera, or at Waterloo,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 852 pages
...among the Northern generals. IW bitterly they deceived themselves subse(¡uiTit events served to show. To the Irish division, commanded by Gen. Meagher,...the desperate task of bursting out of the town of Fredericksburgh, and forming, under the withering fire of the confederate batteries, to attack Marye's... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 888 pages
...generals. How bitterly they deceived themselves subsequent events served to show. To the Irish divisiun, commanded by Gen. Meagher, was principally committed...the desperate task of bursting out of the town of Fredericksburgh, and forming, under the withering fire of the confederate batteries, to attack Marye's... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...heights, and writing from Lee's headquarters, says : " To the Irish division, commanded by Gen. Measlier, was principally committed the desperate task of bursting...fire of the Confederate batteries, to attack Marye's force Franklin ; while Hooker himself, believing the attack hopeless, required repeated and imperative... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...Timers correspondent, watching the battle from the heights, and writing from Lee's headquarters, says: " To the Irish division, commanded by Gen. Meagher,...fire of the Confederate batteries, to attack Marye's force Franklin; while Hooker himself, believing the attack hopeless, required repeated and imperative... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...the heights, and writing from Lee's headquarters, says: " To the Irish division, commanded by Gren. Meagher, was principally committed the desperate task...fire of the Confederate batteries, to attack Marye's force Franklin; while Hooker himself, believing the attack hopeless, required repeated and imperative... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...correspondent, watching the battle from the heights, and writing from Lee's headquarters, says : " To the Irish division, commanded by Gen. Meagher,...the desperate task of bursting out of the town of Fredericksburp, nnd forming, under the withering fire of the Confederate batteries, to attack Marye's... | |
 | Great Britain - 1883 - 934 pages
...division, commanded by General Meagher, was principally committed the desperate task of bursting out of Fredericksburg, and forming under the withering fire of the Confederate batteries to attack Maire's height immediately in their front, and never :it Fontenoy, at Albuera, or at Waterloo was more... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...the heights, and writing from eadquarters, says : " To the Irish division, commanded by Gen. Meander, was principally committed the desperate task of bursting out of the town of Frederidtsburjr, and forming, under the withering firo «f Uie Confedéralo batteries, to attack Marye's... | |
 | Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...at the battle of Fredericksburg, I3th December 1862 : "To the Irish division, commanded by General Meagher, was principally committed the desperate task...withering fire of the Confederate batteries, to attack Mary e's Heights, towering immediately in their front. Never at Fontenoy, Albuera, nor at Waterloo,... | |
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Albuera, or at Waterloo was more undoubted courage displayed by the sons of Erin than during those six frantic dashes which they directed against the almost impregnable position of their foe. 
