Sketches of War History, 1861-1865: Papers Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Volume 5Robert Clark & Company, 1903 - United States |
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Adjutant advance April arms Army Corps arrived artillery assault Atlanta campaign attack battalion battery battle of Monocacy battle of Shiloh Blair boys Bragg Buell camp campaign Captain captured cavalry charge Colonel command Confederate Corinth Creek defensive division duty early enemy enemy's engaged eral Federal field fight fire flag flank fought Fremont front gave Governor Grant guns headquarters Hickenlooper horses hundred Hundred Days Men infantry intrenchments Johnson's Island Kentucky killed and wounded Lieutenant line of battle loss Major ment miles military Missouri morning moved movement muster never night o'clock officers Ohio Ohio National Guard Ohio River organized passed position Potomac Prentiss prisoners railroad reached rear rebel regiment Regular Brigade replied repulsed retreat River road says sent Seventeenth Army Sherman Shiloh shot skirmishers soldiers soon surrender Tennessee Thomas thousand told troops Volunteers Wallace Washington woods
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Page 503 - Fremont shall be reached by the messenger — yourself or any one sent by you — he shall then have, in personal command, fought and won a battle, or shall then be actually in a battle, or shall then be in the immediate presence of the enemy in expectation of a battle, it is not to be delivered, but held for further orders.
Page 493 - The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri who shall take up arms against the United States, or shall be directly proven to have taken active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared free men.
Page 477 - I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges the day before, so covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across the clearing, in any direction, stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground.
Page 522 - HAVING defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge walls seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames...
Page 270 - If the enemy has left Maryland, as I suppose he has, he should have upon his heels, veterans, militia-men, men on horseback, and everything that can be got to follow, to eat out Virginia clear and clean, as far as they go, so that crows flying over it, for the balance of the season, will have to carry their provender with them.
Page 494 - I think there is great danger that the closing paragraph, in relation to the confiscation of property and the liberating slaves of traitorous owners, will alarm our Southern Union friends and turn them against us; perhaps ruin our rather fair prospect for Kentucky.
Page 418 - A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of...
Page 495 - If 1 were to retract of my own accord, it would imply that I myself thought it wrong, and that I had acted without the reflection which the gravity of the point demanded. But I did not. I acted with full d liberation, and upon the certain conviction that it was a measure right and necessary, and I think so still.
Page 468 - AM, I saw the glistening bayonets of heavy masses of infantry to our left front, in the woods beyond the small stream alluded to, and became satisfied for the first time, that the enemy designed a determined attack on our whole camp.
Page 494 - If upon reflection, your better judgment still decides that I am wrong in the article respecting the liberation of slaves, I shall have to ask that you will openly direct me to make the correction. The implied censure will be received as a soldier always should, the reprimand of his chief. If I were to retract of my own accord it would imply that I myself thought it wrong, and that I had acted without the reflection which...