The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc, Volume 8Frank Moore Putnam, 1866 - United States |
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A. P. Hill advance Alabama artillery Assistant Atlanta attack battery bivouacked bridge brigade Brigadier-General camp Captain captured casualties cavalry charge Chickahominy Colonel column command Creek crossed D. H. Hill Davisboro December destroyed direction Eatonton encamped enemy enemy's engaged eral field fifteenth fire five P.M. flank forage force forward front gade gallant gallantry Georgia guns half-past halted HEADQUARTERS Hill honor horses hundred yards infantry Jackson Kearsarge killed Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle Major Major-General Malvern Hill mand marched ment miles Milledgeville morning moved New-York night ninth November o'clock A.M. obedient servant Oconee River officers Ogeechee Ogeechee River ordered pickets Port Republic position prisoners railroad reached rear rebel regiment respectfully River road Sandersville Savannah Second brigade sent seven A.M. shell six A.M. skirmishers swamp tenth Third brigade Third division tion train troops Twentieth army Twentieth army corps twenty-ninth Virginia wagons Waynesboro woods wounded
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Page 214 - The practicability of your plan was not, in fact, brought to a test. By reason of a gale, well known in advance to be possible an.d not improbable, the tugs, an essential part of the plan, never reached the ground; while, by an accident for which you were in no wise responsible, and possibly I to some extent was, you were deprived of a war vessel, with her men, which you deemed of great importance to the enterprise.
Page 327 - In this charge, in which upwards of a thousand men fell, killed and wounded, before the fire of the enemy, and in which fourteen pieces of artillery and nearly a regiment were captured, the fourth Texas, under the lead of General Hood, was the first to pierce these strong-holds and seize the guns.
Page 135 - SIR : I have the honor to submit the following as my report of the hydraulic grading performed in Plum Point Reach since December 1, 1882.
Page 234 - This planking had been ripped off in every direction by our shot and shell, the chain broken and indented in many places, and forced partly into the ship's side. She was most effectually guarded, however, in this section, from penetration.
Page 271 - PM ; by that time the enemy had been driven with great slaughter from every position but one, which he maintained until he was enabled to withdraw under cover of darkness.
Page 272 - It was deemed inexpedient to attack him ; and in view of the condition of our troops, who had been marching and fighting almost incessantly for seven days, under the most trying circumstances, it was determined to withdraw in order to afford them the repose of which they stood so much in need.
Page 234 - The firing now became very hot, and the enemy's shot and shell soon began to tell upon our hull, knocking down, killing, and disabling a number of men in different parts of the ship.
Page 39 - I have the honor to be, Captain, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) AG BENNETT, Lieutenant-Colonel 21st regiment USCT A copy of the report of the evacuation and occupation of Charleston.