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 Expecially 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, Volume 2O. D. Case, 1867 - Slavery |
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Page 24
... opened a deadly fire of grape , canister , and shell , as they 14 March 24 . 15 Representative from Texas in the XXXIII Congress . came within range , tearing through their ranks , but not stopping their advance . A short but desperate ...
... opened a deadly fire of grape , canister , and shell , as they 14 March 24 . 15 Representative from Texas in the XXXIII Congress . came within range , tearing through their ranks , but not stopping their advance . A short but desperate ...
Page 30
... opened from it a most gall- ing fire . Returning to the center , he directed the 1st Iowa battery , Capt . David , to take position in an open field and commence operations ; and so battery after battery opened The Richmond Whig of ...
... opened from it a most gall- ing fire . Returning to the center , he directed the 1st Iowa battery , Capt . David , to take position in an open field and commence operations ; and so battery after battery opened The Richmond Whig of ...
Page 35
... opened the State to , incur- sions from the Rebels , still in force in western Arkansas ; while consider- ble numbers of Price's men were clandestinely sent home to enlist re- cruits and organize guerrilla bands for activity during the ...
... opened the State to , incur- sions from the Rebels , still in force in western Arkansas ; while consider- ble numbers of Price's men were clandestinely sent home to enlist re- cruits and organize guerrilla bands for activity during the ...
Page 51
... opened without hearing groans . " And in his list of regi- ments we do not find the 20th Mississippi , whose commander , Maj . W. M. Brown , officially reports that he surrendered 454 ; nor the 32d Tennes- see , Col. Cook , who reports ...
... opened without hearing groans . " And in his list of regi- ments we do not find the 20th Mississippi , whose commander , Maj . W. M. Brown , officially reports that he surrendered 454 ; nor the 32d Tennes- see , Col. Cook , who reports ...
Page 65
... opened , at a distance of a few hundred yards , on our last possible . holding - ground . Our next recoil must be over the bank , into the hideous , helpless massacre of a grand- er Ball's Bluff . Promptly and most efficiently ...
... opened , at a distance of a few hundred yards , on our last possible . holding - ground . Our next recoil must be over the bank , into the hideous , helpless massacre of a grand- er Ball's Bluff . Promptly and most efficiently ...
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