 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...the mountain town of Knoxville, eighty-four miles distant — that they needed relief, and inusthave it in three days. This was enough, and it had to be done." The column was put on the march at daybreak Dec. 1st for Athens and Loudon, and on the night of Dec.... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 830 pages
...twelve thousand of our fellow-soldiers were beleaguered in the mountain town of Knoxville, eighty -four miles distant, that they needed relief, and must have...repaired and planked the railroad bridge, and at daylight tho army passed the Hiawassee, and marched to Athens, fifteen miles. I had supposed rightfully that... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1865 - 410 pages
...twelve thousand of our fellow-soldiers were beleaguered in the mountain town of Knoxville, eighty-four miles distant, that they needed relief, and must have...three days. This was enough ; and it had to be done.' " That night General Howard repaired and planked the raili oad-bridge, and at daylight the army passed... | |
 | Faunt Le Roy Senour - Atlanta Campaign, 1864 - 1865 - 736 pages
...twelve thousand of our fellow soldiers were beleaguered in the mountain town of Knoxville, eighty-four miles distant, that they needed relief, and must have...three days. This was enough ; and it had to be done." Howard planked and repaired the railroad bridge that night, and at daybreak the army passed the Hiawassee... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 574 pages
...twelve thousand of their fellow-soldiers were beleaguered in a mountain town eighty-four miles distant: they needed relief, and must have it in three days. This was enough. Without a murmur, without waiting for any thing, the Army of the Tennessee directed its course upon... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 566 pages
...twelve thousand of their fellow-soldiers were beleaguered in a mountain town eighty-four miles distant : they needed relief, and must have it in three days. This was enough. Without a murmur, without waiting for any thing, the Army of the Tennessee directed its course upon... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1866 - 316 pages
...twelve thousand of our fellow-soldiers were beleaguered in the mountain-town of Knoxville, eighty-four miles distant, that they needed relief, and must have...three days. This was enough ; and it had to be done." The railroad bridge over the Hiawassee was repaired and planked, and at daylight of the 1st of December... | |
 | J. T. Headley - History - 1866 - 774 pages
...twelve thousand of our fellowsoldiers were beleaguered in the mountain town of Knoxville, eighty-four miles distant ; that they needed relief, and must...have it in three days. This was enough, and it had to le done.''' Noble words, from a noble man! His tired troops, though feeling that others could better... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - Iowa - 1866 - 758 pages
...twelve thousand of our fellow-soldiers were beleaguered in the mountain-town of Knoxville, eighty-four miles distant, that they needed relief, and must have it in three days. This was enough : it had to be done." ' Kittrd, Captain Robert Allison ; Sergeant Robert Mitchell ; George H. Wlghtman... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Generals - 1868 - 606 pages
...twelve thousand of their fellow-soldiers were beleaguered in a mountain town eighty-four miles distant; they needed relief, and must have it in three days. This was enough. Without a murmur, without waiting for anything, the Army of the Tennessee directed its course upon... | |
| |
... single blanket or coat per man, from myself to the private included. Of course, we then had no provisions save what we gathered by the road, and were ill supplied for such a march. But we learned that twelve thousand of our fellow-soldiers were beleaguered... 
