Report of the Operations of the 3d Brigade, 3d Division of the 20th Army Corps in the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 |
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14th Corps 1st Brigade 1st Division 20th Conn 26th Wis 2d Brigade 2d Division 33d Mass 55th Ohio 73d Ohio artillery assault ATLANTA CAMPAIGN attack battery battle of Gettysburg bivouacked bluff bravery Brig brigade line brigade marched brigade occupied brigade took Buckhead Butterfield Buzzard Roost Gap captured Cassville Cemetery Chattahoochee River column Comdg command covered crest Culp's Hill dead dedicate direction enemy enemy's skirmishers Faulkner fire flag formed forward front line gallantry Geary Geary's ground held hill Hooker hundred yards intrenched JAMES WOOD July June left flank Lew Wallace line of battle line of breastworks line of skirmishers Little Round Top Maj.-Gen ment miles monument morning moved night occupied this position officers patriotism Peach Tree Creek rear rebellion reconnoissance Resaca retreated ridge Rocky Face Mountain Seminary Ridge skir skirmish line tion took position troops Turner's Ferry Union army valley vanced Ward Ward's Wood Wood's Store wounded
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Page 60 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 52 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
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Page 62 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
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Page 31 - I cannot discharge my whole duty in this respect without pointing out for special commendation the conduct of the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and its brave and able commander. The position of this regiment in the line was such that the brunt of the attack on this brigade fell upon it. The brave, skillful, and determined manner in which it met this attack, rolled back the onset, pressed forward in a countercharge, and drove back the enemy, could not be excelled by the troops in this...
Page 31 - ... the line was such that the brunt of the attack on this brigade fell upon it. The brave, skillful, and determined manner in which it met this attack, rolled back the onset, pressed forward in a countercharge, and drove back the enemy, could not be excelled by the troops in this or any other army, and is worthy of the highest commendation and praise. It is to be hoped that such conduct will be held up as an example for others, and will meet its appropriate reward.
Page 31 - ... together with forty prisoners of that regiment, whose retreat they had intercepted. The loss of the regiment was nine killed and thirty-six wounded, and having expended all their ammunition, they were relieved by fresh troops. " The following finds an appropriate place in their record: "Where all behaved well, it may be regarded as invidious to call attention to individuals, yet it seems to me that I cannot discharge my whole duty in this report, without pointing out for special commendation,...