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... battery , and a few guns in position , and Talliaferro's cavalry , kept them at bay . The Yankees were twice repulsed , but succeeded , at last , in penetrating a gap in our line ; when reinforcements coming up drove back the insolent ...
... battery , and a few guns in position , and Talliaferro's cavalry , kept them at bay . The Yankees were twice repulsed , but succeeded , at last , in penetrating a gap in our line ; when reinforcements coming up drove back the insolent ...
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... batteries covering the approaches to the city on the northeast . Having got possession of this line of works , held principally by Confederate militia , Smith waited the coming up of the Second Corps . On the evening of the 16th an ...
... batteries covering the approaches to the city on the northeast . Having got possession of this line of works , held principally by Confederate militia , Smith waited the coming up of the Second Corps . On the evening of the 16th an ...
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... battery of four guns , and took prisoners one entire brigade , General Pearce's , and part of another . Another attempt or raid on the railroad , by Wilson's and Kautz's divisions of cavalry , terminated in disaster . In the ...
... battery of four guns , and took prisoners one entire brigade , General Pearce's , and part of another . Another attempt or raid on the railroad , by Wilson's and Kautz's divisions of cavalry , terminated in disaster . In the ...
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... batteries into play . It was naturally expected that the shock of the ex- plosion , and of the suddenness of this ... battery . It was followed immediately by such a thunder of artillery as had seldom been heard before . Ninety - five ...
... batteries into play . It was naturally expected that the shock of the ex- plosion , and of the suddenness of this ... battery . It was followed immediately by such a thunder of artillery as had seldom been heard before . Ninety - five ...
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... batteries near the Williamsburg road , and were shelling our works most furiously . Their artillery was handled with great skill and precision . Our batteries did not respond , because they desired to hold their fire for the advance of ...
... batteries near the Williamsburg road , and were shelling our works most furiously . Their artillery was handled with great skill and precision . Our batteries did not respond , because they desired to hold their fire for the advance of ...
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Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2016 |
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