 | Richard Miller Devens - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...infantry." Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back — " Tell him if he can not 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 Burnside's message came it had... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1866 - 780 pages
...infantry." Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back — " Tell him if he can not hold his ground, then the bridge to the last man !...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an hour of daylight is left. Till Burnside's message came it had... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 864 pages
...thoughts and purposes and words of the General. Burnside's messenger rides up. His message is : 1 1 want troops and guns. If you do not send them, I cannot...of the enemy, and as night fell they were recalled to their former position, satisfied to have driven Burnside under the shelter of his batteries. The... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1867 - 602 pages
...for the moment is a glance at the western sky. Then he turns and speaks very slowly : " Tell General Burnside this is the battle of the war. He must hold...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an hour of daylight is left. Till Burnside's message came it had... | |
 | New York state, bureau of military statistics - 1867 - 708 pages
...till dark at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery,' I can do nothing more. I have no infantry. Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." " Well " said Burnside, on receiving the answer, " we will obey ; " and he at once, the sun down, not... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1867 - 620 pages
...have no infantry." Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cunnot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the nridge is lost, all is lost." The sun is already down ; not half an hour of daylight is left. Till... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1870 - 318 pages
...McClellan, seeing Burnside driven back, sent him word, it is said : " Hold your ground ! If you cannot, then the bridge to the last man ! Always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost ! " The defeat of Burnside was so decisive, that the moment was indeed full of peril. But night came... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1871 - 936 pages
...words of the General. Burnside's messenger rides up. His message is : ' I want troops and guns. If 3Tou do not send them, I cannot hold my position half an...the Confederates did not press their advantage; they fcund the approaches to the Antietam swept by a heavy artillery fire ; they were too much exhausted... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1871 - 870 pages
...this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark at any cost. I will send him Millers battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry.'...of the enemy, and as night fell they were recalled to their former position, satisfied to have driven Burnside under the shelter of his batteries. The... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1871 - 684 pages
...McClellan, that he is said to have sent General Burnside the message : " Hold your ground ! If you cannot, then the bridge, to the last man. Always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost ! " The urgency of this order sufficiently indicates that the Federal commander was not without solicitude... | |
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Burnside this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry." Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold... 
