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Page 17
... brigade , and the Yankees driven back with the loss of some guns . In the mean time Gordon's gallant brigade of Georgians crushed through the enemy's first lines , and driving furiously on , struck back the Yankee front in confusion ...
... brigade , and the Yankees driven back with the loss of some guns . In the mean time Gordon's gallant brigade of Georgians crushed through the enemy's first lines , and driving furiously on , struck back the Yankee front in confusion ...
Page 20
... brigade or two of other troops , Brigadier - General George H. Stuart in command . But the surprise was only momentary . One of the most thrilling scenes of the war was to occur . In a moment when all was excitement , and when it could ...
... brigade or two of other troops , Brigadier - General George H. Stuart in command . But the surprise was only momentary . One of the most thrilling scenes of the war was to occur . In a moment when all was excitement , and when it could ...
Page 21
... brigades dashed on , through bog and swamp , and briers and undergrowth , to the breast works . For long hours a battle raged over the intrenchments , the intense fury , heroism , and horror of which it is impossible to describe . From ...
... brigades dashed on , through bog and swamp , and briers and undergrowth , to the breast works . For long hours a battle raged over the intrenchments , the intense fury , heroism , and horror of which it is impossible to describe . From ...
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... brigades of the same color at Fort Powhatan ; thence up to City Point , where Hinks's division was landed ; and at Ber- muda Hundred , just below the mouth of the Appomattox , the entire army was disembarked . On the 7th , five brigades ...
... brigades of the same color at Fort Powhatan ; thence up to City Point , where Hinks's division was landed ; and at Ber- muda Hundred , just below the mouth of the Appomattox , the entire army was disembarked . On the 7th , five brigades ...
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... brigade , and the Maryland battalion , soon dashed forward to retrieve the honors which the Yankees had snatched . This engagement was on the right ; Breckinridge's division , with Field's , constituting a part of Longstreet's corps ...
... brigade , and the Maryland battalion , soon dashed forward to retrieve the honors which the Yankees had snatched . This engagement was on the right ; Breckinridge's division , with Field's , constituting a part of Longstreet's corps ...
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Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2016 |
Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War (Classic Reprint) Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2017 |
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advance American ANDREW JOHNSON Appomattox arms Army of Northern artillery assault Atlanta attack authority batteries battle Boonsboro brigade Brigadier-General campaign captured cavalry Colonel columns command Confederacy Confederate Confederate Congress Congress constitution Convention corps crossed declared defence destroyed division Early enemy enemy's engaged eral Ewell's federacy Federal fight fire flank force Fort Fisher Fort Gregg Fortress Monroe front Georgia Government Grant guns Harper's Ferry Hill honor Hood Hood's hundred infantry intrenched Jackson James River Jefferson Johnston laws Lee's army Lincoln Longstreet loss Lynchburg Major-General Manassas ment miles military morning moved movement negro night North o'clock officers party peace persons Petersburg pieces of artillery political position President Davis prisoners proclamation railroad rear repulsed retreat Richmond River road Sharpsburg Sheridan Sherman side slavery slaves soldiers South Carolina surrender thousand tion troops Union United victory Washington wounded Yankee