 | 1863 - 804 pages
...•desperate foe, manfully repelling every assault and patiently awaiting' my order« to storm 'tli-e fortifications. No General ever commanded a braver...better army. It is composed of the best blood and the bra. vest men of Missouri." • It is not to bo supposed that this triumphant siege was conducted... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 830 pages
...without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain, and in the very presence of a watchful nnd desperate foe, manfully repelling every assault, and...fortifications. No general ever commanded a braver or a better army. It is composed of the best blood and the bravest men of Missouri. When nearly every... | |
 | Frank Moore - American literature - 1862 - 808 pages
...charge. They lay for fifty-two hours in tho open air, without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain, and in the very presence of a watchful and...manfully repelling every assault, and patiently awaiting myordorsto storm tho fortifications. No general ever commanded a bruvcr or a better army. It is composed... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 850 pages
...fifty-two hours in the open air, without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain, and in tho very presence- of a watchful and desperate foe, manfully...assault, and patiently awaiting my orders to storm tho fortifications. No general ever commanded a braver or a better army. It is composed of tho best... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 394 pages
...charge. They lay for fifty-two hours in the open air, without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain, and in the very presence of a watchful and...fortifications. No general ever commanded a braver o better army. It is composed of the best blood and bravest men of Missouri." During the siege, quite... | |
 | William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 576 pages
...battle, General Price did not forget to bestow a very high meed of praise upon his troops. Said he, " No general ever commanded a braver or better army....country, and fought as they expressed it, "on their own hook." A participator in the battle tells an anecdote of an old man, about sixty years of age, who... | |
 | Rushmore G. Horton - Battles - 1867 - 428 pages
...charge. They lay for fifty-two hours in the open air, without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain, and in the very presence of a watchful and...composed of the best blood and bravest men of Missouri." Just before this battle, General Fremont had been appointed by Mr. Lincoln to the command of the Department... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 864 pages
...fifty -two hours in the open air without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain, and in the presence of a watchful and desperate foe, manfully...better army. It is composed of the best blood and the bravest men of Missouri." So far the bold and brilliant movements of the campaign in Missouri drew... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 894 pages
...fifty-two hours in the open air without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain, and in the presence of a watchful and desperate foe, manfully...better army. It is composed of the best blood and the bravest men of Missouri." So far the bold and brilliant movements of the campaign in Missouri drew... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1871 - 936 pages
...fifty-two hours in the open air without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain, and in the presence of a watchful and desperate foe, manfully...better army. It is composed of the best blood and the bravest men of Missouri." So far the bold and brilliant movements of the campaign in Missouri drew... | |
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This victory has demonstrated the fitness of our citizen soldiers for the tedious operations of a siege as well as for a dashing charge. They lay for fifty-two hours in the open air without tents or covering, regardless of the sun and rain and in the... 
