The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 3T. Belknap, 1877 - United States |
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... charge of General Joseph Hooker , after sad disasters at Fredericksburg , encamped near the Rappa- hannock ; let us now observe its movements from that time until its triumphs in the conflict at Gettysburg , between the Susquehannah and ...
... charge of General Joseph Hooker , after sad disasters at Fredericksburg , encamped near the Rappa- hannock ; let us now observe its movements from that time until its triumphs in the conflict at Gettysburg , between the Susquehannah and ...
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... charge upon it . He did so , and cut off and captured a Georgia ( Twenty - third ) regi- ment , five hundred strong , when Birney's farther advance was checked by Colonel Brown's artillery and a brigade under Anderson . DAVID D. BIRNEY ...
... charge upon it . He did so , and cut off and captured a Georgia ( Twenty - third ) regi- ment , five hundred strong , when Birney's farther advance was checked by Colonel Brown's artillery and a brigade under Anderson . DAVID D. BIRNEY ...
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... Charge , and remember Jackson ! " He swung around his right , and seizing the elevation which the Eleventh Corps had ... charged heavily upon the National line fronting westward , com- posed of the corps of Sickles and the divisions of ...
... Charge , and remember Jackson ! " He swung around his right , and seizing the elevation which the Eleventh Corps had ... charged heavily upon the National line fronting westward , com- posed of the corps of Sickles and the divisions of ...
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... charge of “ conduct to the prejudice of discipline and good order , " and dismissed from the service . It is the opinion of experts , who have well weighed the cir- cumstances and the testimony before the court , that General Revere ...
... charge of “ conduct to the prejudice of discipline and good order , " and dismissed from the service . It is the opinion of experts , who have well weighed the cir- cumstances and the testimony before the court , that General Revere ...
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... Follet , chief of artillery . The forts were in charge of the following officers : Fort Union , Colonel Drake ; Nansemond , Colonel Hawkins ; Halleck , Colonel Sullivan ; Draw - bridge Bat- 44 • May 8 , 1868 . SERVICES OF THE.
... Follet , chief of artillery . The forts were in charge of the following officers : Fort Union , Colonel Drake ; Nansemond , Colonel Hawkins ; Halleck , Colonel Sullivan ; Draw - bridge Bat- 44 • May 8 , 1868 . SERVICES OF THE.
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advance army artillery assailants assault Atlanta attack Banks battery battle BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA Battle of Gettysburg Bragg bridge brigade Burnside Captain captured cavalry Cemetery Hill Charleston Chattanooga Chickamauga Colonel column command Confederates corps Creek crossed Culp's Hill Cumberland destroyed direction division expedition fight fire flank force Fort Fisher Fort Sumter Fort Wagner front garrison Gettysburg Government Grant gun-boats guns head-quarters heavy Hooker hundred infantry intrenchments July killed Knoxville latter Lee's Little Round Top Longstreet Lookout Mountain loss Meade Meade's miles Mississippi Morgan morning Morris Island moved movement Murfreesboro National nearly night o'clock officers Ohio ordered passed Pennsylvania pontoon bridge position Potomac prisoners pushed raid railway Rapid Anna Rappahannock re-enforcements rear regiments repulsed retreat Richmond Ridge River road Rosecrans Seminary Ridge sent Sherman skirmishers soldiers Tennessee River thousand tion troops Union Valley vessels Virginia volume wounded York
Popular passages
Page 80 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 232 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Page 529 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before the conflict itself should cease.
Page 556 - GENERAL: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Page 529 - South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 557 - The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Page 556 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 556 - GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the army of Northern Virginia.
Page 587 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Page 556 - I would say that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon, namely : that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the government of the United States until properly exchanged. I will meet you, or will designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose, at any point agreeable to you, for the purpose of arranging definitely the terms upon which the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia will...