Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 3D. McKay, 1866 - United States |
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... front reaching from Banks's Ford to Port Royal , more than twenty - five miles . Even with his superior force Hooker could not hope to take these works , so he made preparations to force Lee out of them by turn- ing the flank of the ...
... front reaching from Banks's Ford to Port Royal , more than twenty - five miles . Even with his superior force Hooker could not hope to take these works , so he made preparations to force Lee out of them by turn- ing the flank of the ...
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... front so as to form a strong abatis . His cannon commanded these woods , and swept the approaching roads . The question at the council was , Shall we contract and strengthen our lines , and wait for an attack ? or , Shall we assail the ...
... front so as to form a strong abatis . His cannon commanded these woods , and swept the approaching roads . The question at the council was , Shall we contract and strengthen our lines , and wait for an attack ? or , Shall we assail the ...
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... front and threw Buschbeck's brigade into works near Melzie Chancellor's ( Dowdall's tavern ) , where some of Schurz's men were rallied , and for a brief space the advance of the Confederates was checked . But the halt was very short ...
... front and threw Buschbeck's brigade into works near Melzie Chancellor's ( Dowdall's tavern ) , where some of Schurz's men were rallied , and for a brief space the advance of the Confederates was checked . But the halt was very short ...
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... front , was held in check by his skirmish line , under Colonel N. A. Miles.1 And while Lee was thus failing , a heavier misfortune than he had yet endured befell him , in the paralysis of the right - arm of his power , by the fall of ...
... front , was held in check by his skirmish line , under Colonel N. A. Miles.1 And while Lee was thus failing , a heavier misfortune than he had yet endured befell him , in the paralysis of the right - arm of his power , by the fall of ...
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... front of Dow- dall's tavern . This was done at dawn on Sunday morning . Hooker's situation was extremely critical , but with characteristic energy he had made new dispositions on Saturday night to meet the inevitable attack on the ...
... front of Dow- dall's tavern . This was done at dawn on Sunday morning . Hooker's situation was extremely critical , but with characteristic energy he had made new dispositions on Saturday night to meet the inevitable attack on the ...
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advance army artillery assailants assault Atlanta attack Banks battery battle BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA Battle of Gettysburg Bragg bridge brigade Burnside Captain captured cavalry Cemetery Hill Charleston Chattanooga Chickamauga Colonel column command Confederates corps Creek crossed Culp's Hill destroyed direction division expedition Ferry fight fire flank force Fort Fisher Fort Sumter Fort Wagner front garrison Gettysburg Government Grant gun-boats guns head-quarters heavy Hooker hundred infantry intrenchments July killed Knoxville latter Lee's Little Round Top Longstreet Lookout Mountain loss Meade Meade's miles Mississippi Morgan morning Morris Island moved movement Murfreesboro National nearly night o'clock officers Ohio ordered passed Pennsylvania pontoon bridge position Potomac prisoners pushed raid railway Rapid Anna Rappahannock re-enforcements rear regiments repulsed retreat Richmond Ridge River road Rosecrans Seminary Ridge sent Sherman skirmishers soldiers Tennessee Tennessee River thousand tion troops Union Valley vessels Virginia wounded York