 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1865 - 410 pages
...party.. 'At three PM,' writes Sherman, ' column after column of the enemy was streaming toward me, gun after gun poured its concentric shot on us from every...spur that gave a view of any part of the ground.' Long and anxiously he waited for the centre to open its part of the contest, and meanwhile held stubbornly... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 830 pages
...General Thomas " early in the day." Column after column of the enemy were streaming toward me, gun after gun poured its concentric shot on us from every...and spur that gave a view of any part of the ground held by us. All directed their fire as carefully as possible to clear the hill to our front without... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - Bookbinding - 1865 - 568 pages
...enemy were streaming towards Sherman, and the enemy's artillery poured its concentric fire upon him from every hill and spur that gave a view of any part of his position. All Sherman's batteries directed their fire as carefully as possible to clear the hill... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 574 pages
...enemy were streaming towards Sherman, and the enemy's artillery poured its concentric fire upon him from every hill and spur that gave a view of any part of his position. All Sherman's batteries directed their fire as carefully as possible to clear the hill... | |
 | J. T. Headley - History - 1866 - 774 pages
...and at three o'clock, says Sherman, " column after column of the enemy was streaming toward me ; gun after gun poured its concentric shot on us from every...spur that gave a view of any part of the ground." Once, he was partially forced back, but by a skillful move, he recovered his ground and drove the pursuing,... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1866 - 316 pages
...three p. M.," writes General Sherman, " column after column of the enemy was streaming towards me, gun after gun poured its concentric shot on us from every...spur that gave a view of any part of the ground." From Orchard knob General Grant watched, with deep interest, the struggle ; and when, after another... | |
 | J. T. Headley - United States - 1866 - 640 pages
...after column of the enemy was streaming toward me ; gun after gun poured its concentric shot on lis from every hill and spur that gave a view of any part of the ground." 0)ice, he was partially forced back, but by a skillful move, he recovered his ground and drove the... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...column of the enemy was streaming toward me ; gun upon gun poured its concentrated shot on my troops from every hill and spur that gave a view of any part of the ground held by me. An occasional shot from Orchard Knob, and some musketry and artillery fire over about Lookout,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 864 pages
...Sherman says : " I saw column after column of the enemy streaming toward me — gun after gun pouring its concentric shot on us from every hill and spur that gave a view of any part of the ground held by us ;" but still the attack of Thomas was unaccountably delayed, and he felt that he could not... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - United States - 1879 - 290 pages
...General Thomas " early in the day." Column after column of the enemy was streaming toward me ; gun after gun poured its concentric shot on us, from every hill and open that gave a view of any part of the ground held by us. An occasional shot from Fort Wood and Orchard... | |
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Column after column of the enemy was streaming toward me; gun after gun poured its concentric shot on us, from every hill and spur that gave a view of any part of the ground held by us. 
