The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 2 |
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... Morning Attack of the Enemy - Capture of Heck- man and his Brigade - Gillmore and Butler on the Situation of the Army - Retreat to Bermuda Hundred - Total Failure of the Peninsular Movement - Grant's Opinion of Butler's Conduct ...
... Morning Attack of the Enemy - Capture of Heck- man and his Brigade - Gillmore and Butler on the Situation of the Army - Retreat to Bermuda Hundred - Total Failure of the Peninsular Movement - Grant's Opinion of Butler's Conduct ...
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... morning dawned , the Army of the Potomac was all on the Richmond side of the Chickahominy , while more than half of the Confederate forces were on the opposite side , and the bridges broken down between . This was a complete surprise to ...
... morning dawned , the Army of the Potomac was all on the Richmond side of the Chickahominy , while more than half of the Confederate forces were on the opposite side , and the bridges broken down between . This was a complete surprise to ...
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... morning of the first of July , made the entire circuit of the position himself with some of his general officers , to see that no mistake should occur . BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL . McClellan had been for the last three days fighting at ...
... morning of the first of July , made the entire circuit of the position himself with some of his general officers , to see that no mistake should occur . BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL . McClellan had been for the last three days fighting at ...
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... morning , but the enemy seemed in no haste to enter on the desperate undertaking before him . At length , how- ever , about two o'clock , a dark mass emerged on the plain and moved steadily forward on Couch's division . The artil- lery ...
... morning , but the enemy seemed in no haste to enter on the desperate undertaking before him . At length , how- ever , about two o'clock , a dark mass emerged on the plain and moved steadily forward on Couch's division . The artil- lery ...
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... seem a desperate case for Jackson . Between him and the Gap , lay twenty - five thousand men — behind him , ready to fall on him in the morning , were twenty - five thousand A BAYONET CHARGE . 61 more , while the rebel.
... seem a desperate case for Jackson . Between him and the Gap , lay twenty - five thousand men — behind him , ready to fall on him in the morning , were twenty - five thousand A BAYONET CHARGE . 61 more , while the rebel.
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A. P. Hill advance army artillery assault attack Banks batteries BATTLE OF ANTIETAM BATTLE OF GAINES Bragg brave bridge brigade Buell Burnside campaign cannon captured cavalry charge Chattanooga close Colonel columns command commenced compelled Corinth Corps crossed Cumberland Gap dark dashed desperate division enemy enemy's fall back fell field fierce fight fire flank Fort Wagner forward Fredericksburg front gallant Grant gunboats guns Halleck heavy heights hill Hooker horses hundred Jackson James River latter Lee's line of battle McClellan McClernand meantime miles military Mississippi Morgan morning mountain moved movement Murfreesboro night numbers o'clock opened Porter position Potomac pressed prisoners pushed railroad Rappahannock reached rear rebellion regiment retreat Richmond road Rosecrans Savage Station sent Sherman shot and shell shout side siege soldiers stood storm stream struggle swept Tennessee thousand thunder troops Valley Vicksburg victory White Oak Swamp whole woods wounded