The war with the south: a history of the late rebellion with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc, Volume 2Virtue & Yorston, 1867 - 680 pages |
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... nearly three hours , the enemy were driven back , and by a spirited charge of bayonets forced to a total rout . The brunt of the bat- tle was borne by the Fourth Kentucky , Second Minnesota , Ninth Ohio , and Tenth Indiana . Shortly ...
... nearly three hours , the enemy were driven back , and by a spirited charge of bayonets forced to a total rout . The brunt of the bat- tle was borne by the Fourth Kentucky , Second Minnesota , Ninth Ohio , and Tenth Indiana . Shortly ...
Page 34
... nearly a mile and a half . They had opened the gap , and not only that , but had in the joust driven us , captured five guns , and had reason to feel that the day was theirs . " him , regained the lost field , recovered McClernand's ...
... nearly a mile and a half . They had opened the gap , and not only that , but had in the joust driven us , captured five guns , and had reason to feel that the day was theirs . " him , regained the lost field , recovered McClernand's ...
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... nearly two hun- dred acres . Here we found a part of the Second Illinois Cavalry , under Col- onel Hogg , who had come into town the day before from Paducah , and are justly entitled to the credit of pioneering the Union army into ...
... nearly two hun- dred acres . Here we found a part of the Second Illinois Cavalry , under Col- onel Hogg , who had come into town the day before from Paducah , and are justly entitled to the credit of pioneering the Union army into ...
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... nearly 2,000 infantry and 400 cavalry , which I will strengthen immediately . GEORGE W. CULLUM , " Brigadier - General , Chief of Staff . " CHAPTER V. The United States establishing its Civil Authority in THE ENEMY AT NO. 10. ...
... nearly 2,000 infantry and 400 cavalry , which I will strengthen immediately . GEORGE W. CULLUM , " Brigadier - General , Chief of Staff . " CHAPTER V. The United States establishing its Civil Authority in THE ENEMY AT NO. 10. ...
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... nearly to the Missouri boundary . Here he took the main road from Springfield and marched directly south toward Sugar Creek , and in the rear of the Union army . He had left ; however , a small force to make a feint in front of General ...
... nearly to the Missouri boundary . Here he took the main road from Springfield and marched directly south toward Sugar Creek , and in the rear of the Union army . He had left ; however , a small force to make a feint in front of General ...
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