Men of the Time: Being Biographies of Generals, Volumes 1-3Beadle, 1862 - Generals |
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Men of the Time: Being Biographies of Generals, Volumes 1-3 Orville James Victor No preview available - 2015 |
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advance appointed arms army artillery attack Banks battery battle BEADLE AND COMPANY Beadle's became brevet brigade Brigadier-General Buell's Bull Run Burnside Butler camp Captain captured cavalry charge Colonel command commenced Confederate Corinth corps creek defeat duty enemy enemy's entered field fight fire Fitz John Porter flank Floyd followed forward fought front gallant Gauley River Gordonsville Grant guns Hadley Halleck Heintzelman hill Hooker hundred Illinois infantry intrenchments Jackson JOHN ALEXANDER MCCLERNAND Joseph Hooker Kearney killed Lew Wallace Lieutenant loss MAJOR-GENERAL Manassas March McClellan McClernand McCook ment miles military Mississippi morning moved movement Murfreesboro Negley night o'clock officers ordered Pope position Potomac Prentiss prisoners ranks rear rebels received reconnoissance regiment reinforcements retired retreat river road Rosecrans sent Sherman Siegel soldiers soon Tennessee thousand tion took troops Union Union army valley victory Warrenton Washington West Point WILLIAM STARKE ROSECRANS woods wounded York
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Page 15 - Plummer marched with all speed, and after some cannonading from gunboats which he found there, succeeded in making a lodgment, constructing his batteries and rifle-pits, and occupying them in sufficient force to maintain them against any open assault. " After repeated and persistent cannonading from the gunboats, the enemy found it impossible to dislodge him, and he maintained obstinately his position, and the blockade of the river to transports, during the whole of our operations. Meantime, the...
Page 7 - I know their courage ; I have been among them ; I have been with them ; I have been reared with them ; they have courage ; and do not you pretend to think they have not. I tell you what it is, it is no child's play you are entering upon. They will fight, and with a determination and a power which is irresistible. Make up your mind to it. Let every man put his life in his hand and say, ' There is the altar of my country ; there I will sacrifice my life.
Page 35 - ... all told. If you can push them, you may do so as far as to have a strong position near Leesburg, if you can keep them before you, avoiding their batteries. If they pass Leesburg and take the Gum Springs road, you will not follow far, but seize the first good position to cover that road.
Page 96 - As a political question, and a question of humanity, can I receive the services of a father and a mother and not take the children ? Of the humanitarian aspect, I have no doubt ; of the political one, I have no right to judge.
Page 13 - Should any one in this army be unequal to the task before us, let him transfer his arms and equipments at once to braver, firmer hands, and return to his home. Our cause is as just and sacred as ever animated men to take up arms ; and if we are true to it and to ourselves, with the continued protection of...