The United Service, Volume 13L.R. Hamersly & Company, 1885 |
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... leave to cross the Rappahannock and attack Hill . The problem was simple . He could overwhelm this one corps before Lee could possibly get back to it , and could then march straight on Richmond . Washington had thirty - five thousand ...
... leave to cross the Rappahannock and attack Hill . The problem was simple . He could overwhelm this one corps before Lee could possibly get back to it , and could then march straight on Richmond . Washington had thirty - five thousand ...
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... leave Cemetery Ridge in our possession . This fact justifies even the enormous loss we sustained . There had been some sixteen thousand five hundred Union troops engaged against about twenty - two thousand Confederates ; but when the ...
... leave Cemetery Ridge in our possession . This fact justifies even the enormous loss we sustained . There had been some sixteen thousand five hundred Union troops engaged against about twenty - two thousand Confederates ; but when the ...
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... leave Ewell in force on our right with a similar purpose was scarcely defensible in a military sense . It is especially necessary , when the weaker army attacks the stronger , that its blow should be concentrated to the last degree . A ...
... leave Ewell in force on our right with a similar purpose was scarcely defensible in a military sense . It is especially necessary , when the weaker army attacks the stronger , that its blow should be concentrated to the last degree . A ...
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... leave his line in its then long and weak con- dition . Lee's powers in Pennsylvania seemed to be less active than on his native soil . Meade , to prepare for the morrow , ordered the Twelfth Corps , re- inforced by some troops from the ...
... leave his line in its then long and weak con- dition . Lee's powers in Pennsylvania seemed to be less active than on his native soil . Meade , to prepare for the morrow , ordered the Twelfth Corps , re- inforced by some troops from the ...
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... leave them in hands shown to be fatally clumsy at every critical moment of the campaign.3 Sherman's corps , of which only Blair's division had shared in the action of Baker's Creek , had overtaken the main force and was thrown to the ...
... leave them in hands shown to be fatally clumsy at every critical moment of the campaign.3 Sherman's corps , of which only Blair's division had shared in the action of Baker's Creek , had overtaken the main force and was thrown to the ...
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Page 5 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Page 161 - Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Page 252 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 251 - Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page 531 - The apparent firmness of the United States troops at Centreville who had not been engaged, which checked our pursuit ; the strong forces occupying the works near Georgetown, Arlington, and Alexandria; the certainty, too, that General Patterson, if needed, would reach Washington, with his army of thirty thousand men, sooner than we could ; and the condition and inadequate means of the army in ammunition, provisions, and transportation, prevented any serious thoughts of advancing against the capital.
Page 36 - The commission shall, at Washington, and in one or more places in each State and Territory where examinations are to take place, designate and select a suitable number of persons, not less than three...
Page 32 - The useless effusion of blood you propose stopping by this course can be ended at any time you may choose, by the unconditional surrender of the city and garrison. Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure you will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war. I do not favor the proposition of appointing commissioners to arrange the terms of capitulation, because I have no terms other...
Page 253 - Now MARK THIS, if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than two hundred men, does not come in ten days, the town may fall ; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good bye. CG GORDON. You send me no information, though you have lots of money. CGG APPENDICES REFERRED TO IN THE JOURNALS.
Page 181 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.