 | Markinfield Addey - Soldiers - 1863 - 256 pages
...western sky, and then said slowly : " Tell General, Burnside this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark at any cost. I will send...battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry." When the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - Soldiers - 1863 - 262 pages
...dark at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry." When the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge to the last man ! always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost,... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...Burnside this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark at any cost. I will send nim Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no...was riding away he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man! — always the bridge I If the bridge is... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - 1864 - 574 pages
...western sky, and then said, slowly : " Tell General Burnside -this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark, at any cost. I will send...battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry." When the messenger was riding away, he called him back. "Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 414 pages
...was sinking in the west, he dispatched orders to Gen. Burnside, urging him to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back — " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...turns and speaks very slowly : " Tell General Burnside that this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark at any cost, I will send...not hold his ground, then the bridge to the last man ! — always the bridge! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1866 - 780 pages
...turns and speaks very slowly : " Tell General Buruside that this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark at any cost. I will send...not hold his ground, then the bridge to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1866 - 654 pages
...Then he turns and speaks very slowly : "Tell General Burnside this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark at any cost. I will send...riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is... | |
 | J. T. Headley - United States - 1866 - 640 pages
...he turns and speaks, very slowly : 4 Tell General Burnside, this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark, at any cost. I will send...riding away, he called him back : — 'Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man— always the bridge. If the bridge is lost,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Civil war - 1866 - 688 pages
...Then he turns and speaks very slowly : ' Tell General Burna'de this is the battle of the war. lie must hold his ground till dark at any cost. I will send...Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called Mm back. ' Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! always the bridge... | |
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Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost. 
