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Page 86
... cavalry com- panies - amounting in all to about 500 infantry and 150 cavalry . These troops had been at Grafton but a few days , when , or about the 25th of May , Colonel Porterfield was reliably informed of the force of the enemy and ...
... cavalry com- panies - amounting in all to about 500 infantry and 150 cavalry . These troops had been at Grafton but a few days , when , or about the 25th of May , Colonel Porterfield was reliably informed of the force of the enemy and ...
Page 90
... cavalry . The disposition of these forces was in the immediate vicinity of Rich Mountain . Col. Pegram occu- pied the mountain with a force of about sixteen hundred men and some pieces of artillery . On the slopes of Laurel Hill ...
... cavalry . The disposition of these forces was in the immediate vicinity of Rich Mountain . Col. Pegram occu- pied the mountain with a force of about sixteen hundred men and some pieces of artillery . On the slopes of Laurel Hill ...
Page 114
... cavalry . The enemy's force now bearing hotly and confidently down on our position - regiment after regiment of the best - equipped men that ever took the field - according to their own official history of the day , was formed of ...
... cavalry . The enemy's force now bearing hotly and confidently down on our position - regiment after regiment of the best - equipped men that ever took the field - according to their own official history of the day , was formed of ...
Page 117
... cavalry . It was a truly magnificent , though redoubtable spectacle , as they threw forward in fine style , on the broad gentle slopes of the ridge occupied by their main lines , a cloud of skirmishers , preparatory for another attack ...
... cavalry . It was a truly magnificent , though redoubtable spectacle , as they threw forward in fine style , on the broad gentle slopes of the ridge occupied by their main lines , a cloud of skirmishers , preparatory for another attack ...
Page 118
... cavalry , and Beckham had also taken up the pursuit along the road by which the enemy had come upon the field that morning ; but , soon cumbered by prisoners who thronged the way , the former was unable to at- tack the mass of the fast ...
... cavalry , and Beckham had also taken up the pursuit along the road by which the enemy had come upon the field that morning ; but , soon cumbered by prisoners who thronged the way , the former was unable to at- tack the mass of the fast ...
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Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2016 |
Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War (Classic Reprint) Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2017 |
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