Others were pointing and laughing at Hood's ragged Jacks, who were passing at the time. This division, well known for its fighting qualities, is composed of Texans, Alabamians, and Arkansians, and they certainly are a queer lot to look at. They carry... The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 - Page 24by Samuel Adams Drake - 1891 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
...for its fighting qualities, is composed of Texans, Alabamians, and Arkansians, and they certainly arc a queer lot to look at. They carry less than any other...full of good-humor and confidence in themselves and in their general, Hood. They answered the numerous taunte of the Chambersburg ladies with cheers and... | |
| Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle - History - 1863 - 348 pages
...known for its fighting qualities, is composed of Texans, Alabamians, and Arkansians, and they certainly are a queer lot to look at. They carry less than any...in the mud ; all are ragged and dirty, but full of goodhumour and confidence in themselves and in their general, Hood. They answered the numerous taunts... | |
| Scotland - 1863 - 828 pages
...for its fighting qualities, is composed of Texions, Alahamians, and Arksnsinns, nnd they certaiuly are a queer lot to look at. They carry less than any other troops^ many of them have ouly got an old piece of carpet or rug as haggage; many have discarded their shoes in the mnd; all... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 414 pages
...known for its fighting qualities, is composed of Texans, Alabamians and Arkansians, and they certainly are a queer lot to look at. They carry less than any...full of good-humor and confidence in themselves and in their general, Hood. They answered the numerous taunts of the Chambersburg ladies with cheiys and... | |
| Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 324 pages
...known for its fighting qualities, is composed of Texans, Alabamians, and Arkansians, and they certainly are a queer lot to look at. They carry less than any...full of good-humor and confidence in themselves and in their general, Hood. They answered the numerous taunts of the Chambersburg ladies with cheers and... | |
| Gerard A. Patterson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 234 pages
...Hood's men passing through a town: "This division, well known for its fighting qualities . . . certainly are a queer lot to look at. They carry less than any...shoes in the mud, all are ragged and dirty but full of good humor and confidence in themselves and in their general, Hood. They answered the numerous taunts... | |
| Scott Bowden, Bill Ward - History - 2009 - 646 pages
...certainly are a queer lot to look at." The dichotomy that was Lee's army never ceased to amaze Fremantle: They carry less than any other troops; many of them...full of good-humor and confidence in themselves and in their general, Hood. They answered the numerous taunts of the Chambersburg ladies with cheers and... | |
| Stephen W. Sears - History - 2004 - 645 pages
...First Corps, he noted, was composed in part "of Texans, Alabamians, and Arkansians, and they certainly are a queer lot to look at. They carry less than any...in the mud; all are ragged and dirty, but full of good-humour and confidence in themselves and in their general, Hood." In an interview with Longstreet,... | |
| Robert Wooster - History - 2005 - 310 pages
...offers a classic description of the hardened veterans of John Bell Hood's division: "They certainly are a queer lot to look at. They carry less than any...and dirty, but full of good-humor and confidence" (p. 239). Fremantle's record of the third day of fighting at Gettysburg is particularly rich. After... | |
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