The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 1National Tribune, 1898 - UNITED STATES--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 |
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Page 84
... immediately de- tailed to destroy the railroad track leading to Richmond , while Colonel Ellsworth with the remainder proceeded to the telegraph office to cut the wires . On his way through the street , he caught sight of a large ...
... immediately de- tailed to destroy the railroad track leading to Richmond , while Colonel Ellsworth with the remainder proceeded to the telegraph office to cut the wires . On his way through the street , he caught sight of a large ...
Page 92
... Immediately after , he began his series of movements , which met with no successful resistance till he had finished the work assigned him . With a definite object in view , he pushed straight forward , deterred neither by mountains ...
... Immediately after , he began his series of movements , which met with no successful resistance till he had finished the work assigned him . With a definite object in view , he pushed straight forward , deterred neither by mountains ...
Page 93
... immediately dispatched twenty - five hundred men and three pieces of artillery to the top of the mountain to resist the advance of Rosecrans .. Arriving there before him , they greeted his arrival with a sudden discharge of cannon . The ...
... immediately dispatched twenty - five hundred men and three pieces of artillery to the top of the mountain to resist the advance of Rosecrans .. Arriving there before him , they greeted his arrival with a sudden discharge of cannon . The ...
Page 94
... immediately took twenty sharp shooters and hurrying forward , posted them behind some rocks , and began to pick off the gunners . But as fast as they fell others took their places , when Lander endeavored to make his little handful ...
... immediately took twenty sharp shooters and hurrying forward , posted them behind some rocks , and began to pick off the gunners . But as fast as they fell others took their places , when Lander endeavored to make his little handful ...
Page 95
... immediately advance to meet them . But dismayed at this sudden apparition in their rear , the latter broke for the woods , and fled in every direction . McClellan , in the meantime , was cutting a road through the woods towards the ...
... immediately advance to meet them . But dismayed at this sudden apparition in their rear , the latter broke for the woods , and fled in every direction . McClellan , in the meantime , was cutting a road through the woods towards the ...
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