 | Frank Moore - United States - 1864 - 868 pages
...writhing themselves about in hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. The earth, torn up in clouds,...the branches of the trees and among the grave-stones in the cemetery a shower of destruction crashed ceaselessly. As, with hundreds of others, I groped... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 878 pages
...hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. Tho earth, torn up in clouds, blinded the eyes of hurrying...the shelter of the bluff, an old man, a private in a company belonging to the 24th Michigan, was struck, scarcely ten feet away, by a cannon ball, which... | |
 | 1864 - 878 pages
...scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the ah-. The earth, torn up in clouds, blinded the eye* of hurrying men; and through the branches of the trees...cemetery a shower of destruction crashed ceaselessly. Aa, with .hundreds of others, I groped through this tempest of death for the shelter of the bluff,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1864 - 870 pages
...hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. Tho earth, torn up in clouds, blinded the eyes of hurrying...the branches of the trees and among the grave-stones in the cemetery a shower of destruction crashed ceaselessly. As, with hundreds of others, I groped... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. The earth, torn np in clouds, blinded the eyes of hurrying men; and through...the shelter of the bluff, an old man, a private in a company belonging to the 24th Michigan, was struck, scarcely ten feet away, by a ca'nnon ball, which... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 884 pages
...writhing themselves about in hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. The earth, torn up in clouds,...crashed ceaselessly. As, with hundreds of others, 1 groped through this tempest of death for the shelter of the bluff, an old man, a private in я company... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...writhing themselves about in hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. The earth, torn up in clouds,...cemetery a shower of destruction crashed ceaselessly." The hill, wihch seemed alone devoted to this rain of death, was clearin nearly all its unsheltered... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - History - 1866 - 910 pages
...writhing themselves about in hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. The earth, torn up in clouds,...the shelter of the bluff, an old man, a private in a company belonging to the 24th Michigan, was struck, scarcely ten feet away, by a ca'nnon ball, which... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1866 - 554 pages
...writhing themselves about in hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. The earth, torn up in clouds, blinded the eyes of Lurrying men ; and through the branches of the trees and among the gravestones of the cemetery a shower... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 944 pages
...writhing themselves about in hopeless agony. TLe boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. The earth, torn up in clouds,...of hurrying men ; and through the branches of the tree* and among the gravestones of the cemetery a ehower of destruction crashed ceaselessly. A?, with... | |
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Horses fell, shrieking such awful cries as Cooper told of, and writhing themselves about in hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered by explosion, flew in splinters through the air. The earth, torn up in clouds, blinded the eyes of hurrying men;... 
