Southern History of the War: The first year of the warC.B. Richardson, 1863 - Confederate States of America |
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Page 43
... shot on the Cap- itol steps , by an air - gun , in the hands of a Secessionist selected for this desperate and romantic task of assassination . The President , with nerves already shattered by his flight from Harrisburg , was easily put ...
... shot on the Cap- itol steps , by an air - gun , in the hands of a Secessionist selected for this desperate and romantic task of assassination . The President , with nerves already shattered by his flight from Harrisburg , was easily put ...
Page 55
... shots had been fired in all ; a frowning fortification had been reduced to a blackened mass of ruins ; and yet not a life had been lost , or a limb injured in the engagement . The news of the fall of Fort Sumter , when it was received ...
... shots had been fired in all ; a frowning fortification had been reduced to a blackened mass of ruins ; and yet not a life had been lost , or a limb injured in the engagement . The news of the fall of Fort Sumter , when it was received ...
Page 64
... shot ; several of the citizens had been killed , and more than twenty variously wounded . The excitement in Baltimore continued for weeks ; the bridges on the railroad to the Susquehanna were destroyed ; the regular route of travel ...
... shot ; several of the citizens had been killed , and more than twenty variously wounded . The excitement in Baltimore continued for weeks ; the bridges on the railroad to the Susquehanna were destroyed ; the regular route of travel ...
Page 66
... shot up from the Pawnee , and then , almost in an in- stant , the whole front of the Navy Yard seemed one vast sheet of flame . The next minute streaks of flame flashed along the rigging of the Pennsylvania and the other doomed ships ...
... shot up from the Pawnee , and then , almost in an in- stant , the whole front of the Navy Yard seemed one vast sheet of flame . The next minute streaks of flame flashed along the rigging of the Pennsylvania and the other doomed ships ...
Page 77
... shot from the Parrott gun in our main battery aimed by himself . One of the guns of the battery being spiked by the breaking of a priming wire in the vent , the infantry supports were withdrawn , and the work was occu- pied for a moment ...
... shot from the Parrott gun in our main battery aimed by himself . One of the guns of the battery being spiked by the breaking of a priming wire in the vent , the infantry supports were withdrawn , and the work was occu- pied for a moment ...
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