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... covered with explod- ing shells . At length the band , one - third the number of the famous warriors at Thermopylæ , against ten thou- sand , saw the hopelessness of resistance , and made hon- orable terms to themselves , of surrender ...
... covered with explod- ing shells . At length the band , one - third the number of the famous warriors at Thermopylæ , against ten thou- sand , saw the hopelessness of resistance , and made hon- orable terms to themselves , of surrender ...
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... covered with dust , his face besmeared with powder and blood . He was giving directions at the moment to Major Taylor , his chief of artillery , who had just brought a battery into position . Mounted orderlies were coming and going in ...
... covered with dust , his face besmeared with powder and blood . He was giving directions at the moment to Major Taylor , his chief of artillery , who had just brought a battery into position . Mounted orderlies were coming and going in ...
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... covered , and , by rising and advancing a few paces , could deliver their fire with terrible effect . But his troops were mostly green , and wholly untrained in the art of war . The rebel onset was well directed , rapid , and most ...
... covered , and , by rising and advancing a few paces , could deliver their fire with terrible effect . But his troops were mostly green , and wholly untrained in the art of war . The rebel onset was well directed , rapid , and most ...
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... covered by a cloud of skirmish- ers , then reserves formed , and then , in connection with the main line , they advance . For a moment all is still as the grave to those in the background ; as the line moves on , the eye is strained in ...
... covered by a cloud of skirmish- ers , then reserves formed , and then , in connection with the main line , they advance . For a moment all is still as the grave to those in the background ; as the line moves on , the eye is strained in ...
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... covering a large territory bordering the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers . Memphis , which had surrendered June 6th , was a very important base of operations and supplies . But guerrillas and contraband traders infested the country ...
... covering a large territory bordering the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers . Memphis , which had surrendered June 6th , was a very important base of operations and supplies . But guerrillas and contraband traders infested the country ...
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Page 33 - Recent events foreshadow a great change, and it becomes all men to choose. If Louisiana withdraw from the Federal Union, I prefer to maintain my allegiance to the constitution as long as a fragment of it survives and my longer stay here would be wrong in every sense of the word. In that event, I...
Page 295 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 133 - 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.
Page 245 - To army corps commanders is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins, etc., and for them this general principle is laid down : In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested, no destruction of such property should be permitted ; but should...
Page 223 - Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent with its character as a home for families. There will be no manufactures, commerce, or agriculture here for the maintenance of families and Sooner or later want will compel the Inhabitants to go.
Page 224 - War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it: and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to Secure Peace. But you cannot have Peace and a Division of our Country.
Page 246 - In all foraging, of whatever kind, the parties engaged will refrain from abusive or threatening language, and may, when the officer in command thinks proper, give written certificates of the facts, but no receipts ; and they will endeavor to leave with each family a reasonable portion for their maintenance.
Page 225 - I myself have seen, in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry, and with bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburg, and Mississippi, we fed thousands upon thousands of the families of rebel soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not see starve.
Page 141 - wLich form a part of their nature, and which they cannot throw off without an effort of reason or the slower process of natural change. Now, the question arises, should we treat as absolute enemies all in. the South who differ from us in opinion or...
Page 245 - As for horses, mules, wagons, etc., belonging to the inhabitants, the cavalry and artillery may appropriate freely and without limit ; discriminating, however, between the rich who are usually hostile, and the poor and industrious, usually neutral or friendly.