Southern History of the War: The first year of the warC.B. Richardson, 1863 - Confederate States of America |
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Page 110
... mand was gallantly obeyed , and his men silenced the battery of which he died in the charge . Colonel Fisher had also been killed . He had fallen at the head of the torn and thinned ranks of his regiment . The conflict had been awfully ...
... mand was gallantly obeyed , and his men silenced the battery of which he died in the charge . Colonel Fisher had also been killed . He had fallen at the head of the torn and thinned ranks of his regiment . The conflict had been awfully ...
Page 118
... mand there redeemed the pledge made for them ? The battle was fought and won , ' as he vowed at Bunker Hill , and he sealed in death his first promise in the field of war . Will you call this courage - bravery ? No , no . Bartow never ...
... mand there redeemed the pledge made for them ? The battle was fought and won , ' as he vowed at Bunker Hill , and he sealed in death his first promise in the field of war . Will you call this courage - bravery ? No , no . Bartow never ...
Page 126
... mand of the Army of the Potomac was any thing more than the creature of a feeble popular applause . A leading Southern newspaper had declared , on the an- nouncement of the complete and brilliant victory at Manassas , " the independence ...
... mand of the Army of the Potomac was any thing more than the creature of a feeble popular applause . A leading Southern newspaper had declared , on the an- nouncement of the complete and brilliant victory at Manassas , " the independence ...
Page 130
... mand made their escape . The Missourians lost four men killed and fifteen or twenty wounded . They captured three hundred and sixty - two muskets ; thus partially supplying themselves with bayonets , the weapons for which they said they ...
... mand made their escape . The Missourians lost four men killed and fifteen or twenty wounded . They captured three hundred and sixty - two muskets ; thus partially supplying themselves with bayonets , the weapons for which they said they ...
Page 131
... mand a distance of twenty - three miles by nine o'clock on the evening of the 4th , at which hour he stopped for the night . Be- fore the next morning , he received authentic intelligence that a column of men , three thousand in number ...
... mand a distance of twenty - three miles by nine o'clock on the evening of the 4th , at which hour he stopped for the night . Be- fore the next morning , he received authentic intelligence that a column of men , three thousand in number ...
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