The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860 - '65 : Its Causes, Incidents, and Results Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union. II |
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... Batteries - Grier- Bon's Raid to Baton Rouge - Porter attacks the Bat- teries at Grand Gulf - Grant crosses at Bruinsburg -Sherman feints on Haines's Bluff Crosses the Mississippi at Hankinson's Ferry - Fight at Port Gibson - Fight at ...
... Batteries - Grier- Bon's Raid to Baton Rouge - Porter attacks the Bat- teries at Grand Gulf - Grant crosses at Bruinsburg -Sherman feints on Haines's Bluff Crosses the Mississippi at Hankinson's Ferry - Fight at Port Gibson - Fight at ...
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... batteries fell back , being out of ammunition , and the Rebels were enabled to fire the last shot . A little after dark , both armies sank down on the battle - field , and slept amid the dead and the dying . Curtis , finding that Van ...
... batteries fell back , being out of ammunition , and the Rebels were enabled to fire the last shot . A little after dark , both armies sank down on the battle - field , and slept amid the dead and the dying . Curtis , finding that Van ...
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... batteries , backed by three good regiments of infantry , across the regular ford . These batteries were so excellent and so admirably served that they had silenced , in one hour's firing , their Rebel antagonists . Ours were thereupon ...
... batteries , backed by three good regiments of infantry , across the regular ford . These batteries were so excellent and so admirably served that they had silenced , in one hour's firing , their Rebel antagonists . Ours were thereupon ...
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... batteries , firing shell and case - shot at short range , soon proved an overmatch for the two Rebel batteries opposed to them , driving them and their supports back into the woods ; where they were charged by Col. Weer , leading the ...
... batteries , firing shell and case - shot at short range , soon proved an overmatch for the two Rebel batteries opposed to them , driving them and their supports back into the woods ; where they were charged by Col. Weer , leading the ...
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... batteries on the bank at its base , of 9 and 3 guns respect- ively , one of them a 10 - inch colum- biad , three 64 - pounders , and the rest 32 - pounders ; all protected by very heavy earthworks , and all bearing on the approach up ...
... batteries on the bank at its base , of 9 and 3 guns respect- ively , one of them a 10 - inch colum- biad , three 64 - pounders , and the rest 32 - pounders ; all protected by very heavy earthworks , and all bearing on the approach up ...
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