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advance Alexander's bridges arrived artillery assault Atlanta Atlanta campaign attack Baird battery battle battle of Chickamauga Bragg Brannan brigade Brown's Ferry Buell camp campaign capture cavalry Chattanooga Chickamauga Colonel command CONFED Confederate Creek Crittenden crossed Cumberland defeat directed enemy enemy's entire eral fall back Federal field fight fire force Fourth Corps Franklin front Gordon Granger Grant guns Hill Hood Hood's hundred intrenchments Johnston join Kentucky left flank mand McCook ment miles military Mill Springs Missionary Ridge move movement Murfreesboro Nashville Negley Negley's division night Nolensville numbers officers Ohio Peach Tree Creek pike position railroad rapidly re-enforcements rear received regiment retired retreat Reynolds Reynolds's road Rosecrans Rossville says Schoepf Schofield sent Sheridan Sherman soldier soon South Southern splendid Stone's River strong success Tennessee Thomas Thomas's thousand tion Union army Union troops victory Virginia Washington West Point Wilson Wilson's cavalry Wood
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Page 89 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 240 - Hood, instead of following Sherman, continued his move northward, which seemed to me to be leading to his certain doom. At all events, had I had the power to command both armies, I should not have changed the orders under which he seemed to be acting.
Page 195 - ... general himself, directed him to form line perpendicular to the State road, changing the head of his column to the left, with his right resting on that road, and to charge the enemy, who were then in his immediate front. This movement was made with the utmost promptitude, and facing to the right while on the march, Turchin threw his brigade upon the rebel force, routing them and driving them in utter confusion entirely beyond Baird's left.
Page 63 - McCook's brigade) encamped three fourths of a mile to the right, on the Robertsport road. Strong pickets were thrown out in the direction of the enemy, beyond where the Somerset and Mill Springs road comes into the main road from my camp to Mill Springs, and a picket of cavalry some distance in advance of the infantry. General Schoepf visited me on the day of my arrival, and, after consultation, I directed him to send to my camp Standards battery, the Twelfth Kentucky and the First and Second Tennessee...