 | Markinfield Addey - Soldiers - 1863 - 262 pages
...more. I have no infantry." When the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge to the last man ! always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." As the light faded the cannonade died away, and before it was quite... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 324 pages
...him to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back—"Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man!— always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The enemy held the bridge, but of other portions of the field we... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 414 pages
...to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back — " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The enemy held the bridge, but of other portions of the field we... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - 1864 - 574 pages
...more. I have no infantry." When the messenger was riding away, he called him back. "Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." As the light faded the cannonade died away, and before it was quite... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...more. I have no infantry."* Then as the messenger was riding away he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man! — always the bridge I If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an hour of daylight is left.... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...operations, and replies with a peremptory order to hold the bridge at all hazards: "Tell him, if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man! — always the bridge! if the bridge is lost, all is lost." He, however, detached General Morrell, with nve thousand men, to... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - United States - 1866 - 1314 pages
...Burnside, urging him to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back — " Tell him if ho cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The enemy held the bridge, but of other portions of tlio field we... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Civil war - 1866 - 688 pages
...more. I have no infantry.' Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called Mm back. ' Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost.' "The sun is already down; not half an hour of daylight ia left. Till... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 490 pages
...despatched orders to General Burnside to hold his position, calling after the courier : " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground — then the bridge ! — to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost ! " The main body of General McClellan was thrown, as we have said,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1866 - 654 pages
...more. I have no infantry." Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an hour of daylight is left. Till... | |
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Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost. 
