 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 428 pages
...on the principle of an advance against fortified positions. The whole country is one vast fort, and Johnston must have at least fifty miles of connected trenches, with abatis and finished batteries. We gain ground daily, fighting all the time. On the 21st General Stanley gained a position near the... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1886 - 628 pages
...principle of an advance against fortified positions. The whole country is one vast fort, and Johnston mnst have at least fifty miles of connected trenches, with abatis and finished batteries. We gain ground daily, fighting all the time. On the 21st General Stanley gained a position near the... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - Presidents - 1892 - 508 pages
...Atlanta he was passing through a country that was, to use his own language, "one vast fort," and with " at least fifty miles of connected trenches with abatis and finished batteries." With the single exception of his assault upon Johnston's lines at Kenesaw he did not meet with a serious... | |
 | Hosea Whitford Rood - United States - 1893 - 616 pages
...on the principle of an advance against fortified positions. The whole country is one vast fort, and Johnston must have at least fifty miles of connected trenches with abatis and finished batteries. We gain ground daily, fighting all the time. * * * * Our lines are now in close contact, and the fighting... | |
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The whole country is one vast fort, and Johnston must have at least fifty miles of connected trenches, with abatis and finished batteries. We gain ground daily, fighting all the time. On the 21st General Stanley gained a position near the south end of... 