The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 2 |
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... gunboats opened with their pond- erous guns , sending their awful missiles of death through the astonished hostile lines . The latter , maddened that the foe was about to escape them , resolved at whatever sacrifice of life to break ...
... gunboats opened with their pond- erous guns , sending their awful missiles of death through the astonished hostile lines . The latter , maddened that the foe was about to escape them , resolved at whatever sacrifice of life to break ...
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... gunboats , under Commodore Rodgers , for the purpose of hurling their ponderous shells into the advancing columns of the enemy . In front were several ravines , furnishing natural obstacles to an approaching enemy , while the ground ...
... gunboats , under Commodore Rodgers , for the purpose of hurling their ponderous shells into the advancing columns of the enemy . In front were several ravines , furnishing natural obstacles to an approaching enemy , while the ground ...
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... the volleys of the infantry . In the midst of the horrible din and uproar , and this terrible slaughter , ever and anon came the deep boom of the one hundred pounders on 50 APPEARANCE OF THE FIELD board the gunboats , followed.
... the volleys of the infantry . In the midst of the horrible din and uproar , and this terrible slaughter , ever and anon came the deep boom of the one hundred pounders on 50 APPEARANCE OF THE FIELD board the gunboats , followed.
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... gunboats , followed by a shrieking mass rushing through the clouds of smoke - the next second to explode , like a clap of thunder , amid the ranks of the astonished foe . The fiery sun went down on this strange scene , —his beams ...
... gunboats , followed by a shrieking mass rushing through the clouds of smoke - the next second to explode , like a clap of thunder , amid the ranks of the astonished foe . The fiery sun went down on this strange scene , —his beams ...
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... gunboats ; so that , while it was hoped that we had reached the end of our labors , it was found that they had only begun . In the middle of July , the rebel rain Arkansas , an iron- plated vessel , came down the Yazoo , and , passing ...
... gunboats ; so that , while it was hoped that we had reached the end of our labors , it was found that they had only begun . In the middle of July , the rebel rain Arkansas , an iron- plated vessel , came down the Yazoo , and , passing ...
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A. P. Hill advance army artillery assault attack Banks batteries BATTLE OF ANTIETAM BATTLE OF GAINES Bragg brave bridge brigade Buell Burnside campaign cannon captured cavalry charge Chattanooga close Colonel columns command commenced compelled Corinth Corps crossed Cumberland Gap dark dashed desperate division enemy enemy's fall back fell field fierce fight fire flank Fort Wagner forward Fredericksburg front gallant Grant gunboats guns Halleck heavy heights hill Hooker horses hundred Jackson James River latter Lee's line of battle McClellan McClernand meantime miles military Mississippi Morgan morning mountain moved movement Murfreesboro night numbers o'clock opened Porter position Potomac pressed prisoners pushed railroad Rappahannock reached rear rebellion regiment retreat Richmond road Rosecrans Savage Station sent Sherman shot and shell shout side siege soldiers stood storm stream struggle swept Tennessee thousand thunder troops Valley Vicksburg victory White Oak Swamp whole woods wounded