| Frank Moore - United States - 1864 - 870 pages
...legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock. A shell tore up the. little step at the headquarters cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife....carried off one of its two pillars. Soon a spherical ease burst opposite the open door — another ripped through the low garret. The remaining I'ular went... | |
| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Pennsylvania - 1865 - 754 pages
...legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock. A shell tore up the little step of the Headquarters Cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife....through the low garret. The remaining pillar went ahnost immediately to the howl of a fixed shot that Whitworth. must have made. During this fire the... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1866 - 662 pages
...legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock. A shell tore up the little step at the head-quarter's cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife....howl of a fixed shot that Whitworth must have made. Soldiers in Federal blue were torn to pieces in the road, and died with the peculiar yell that blends... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Civil war - 1866 - 688 pages
...legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock. A shell tore up the little step at the head-quarter's cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife. Another soon carried off ono of its two pillars. Soon a spherical case burst opposite tho open door ; another ripped through... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...tore up the little step at the head-quarters cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife. Another carried off one of its two pillars. Soon a spherical...case burst opposite the open door — another ripped throuch the low turret .... Shells through the two lower rooms. A shell in the chimney that fortunately... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1881 - 674 pages
...legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock. A shell tore up the little step at the head-quarters cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife....almost immediately to the howl of a fixed shot that Whitwurili must have made. During this fire, the horses at twenty and thirty feet distant were receiving... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1882 - 594 pages
...legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock. A shell tore up the little step of the Headquarters Cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife....twenty and thirty feet distant were receiving their d'cath, and soldiers in Federal blue were torn to pieces in the road, and died with the peculiar yells... | |
| J. Howard Wert - Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) - 1886 - 246 pages
...a knife. Another soon carried off one of the pillars. Soon a spherical case burst opposite the opeu door. Another ripped through the low garret. The remaining pillar went almost immediately to the bowl of a fixed shot that Whitworth must have made. Soldiers in Federal blue were torn to pieces in... | |
| Harry A. Lewis - Success - 1887 - 534 pages
...carried off one of its two pillars. Soon a spherical case burst opposite the open door, another tore through the low garret, the remaining pillar went...howl of a fixed shot that Whitworth must have made. Soldiers in Federal blue were torn to pieces in the road and died with the peculiar yell that hlends... | |
| Frank Moore - American literature - 1889 - 598 pages
...legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock. A shill tore up the little step of the Headquarters Cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife....and thirty feet distant were receiving their death, nnd soldiers in Federal blue were torn to pieces in the road, and died with the peculiar yells that... | |
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