 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1898 - 324 pages
...on my horse in a moment. I had no sooner collected my thoughts and looked around toward the front, where all this din came from, than I saw our lines...The graybacks came through with a rush, and soon the musket balls and the cannon shot began to reach the place where we stood. The whole right of the army... | |
 | John Allan Wyeth - 1899 - 782 pages
...on my horse in a moment. I had no sooner collected my thoughts and looked around towards the front, where all this din came from, than I saw our lines...whole right of the army had apparently been routed. My orderly stuck to me like a veteran, and we drew back for greater safety into the woods a little... | |
 | Bromfield Lewis Ridley - 1906 - 724 pages
...this din came from than I saw vour lines break and melt away like leaves before the wind. Then t\1e headquarters around me disappeared — the graybacks came through with a rush and soon the musket balls and cannon shots began to reach the place where we stood. The whole right of the army... | |
 | Freeman Cleaves - 1986 - 372 pages
...a desperate situation.' I was on my horse in a moment. I had no sooner collected my thoughts . . . than I saw our lines break and melt away like leaves before the wind."13 Dana was witnessing a great Union tragedy at Chickamauga. It all began when one of Thomas's... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - 1998 - 702 pages
...on my horse in a moment. I had no sooner collected my thoughts and looked around toward the front, where all this din came from, than I saw our lines...gray-backs came through with a rush, and soon the musket balls and the cannon shot began to reach the place where we stood. The whole right of the army... | |
 | James L. McDonough - 1984 - 324 pages
...himself, we are in a desperate situation.' " Dana recounted how he was on his horse "in a moment ... I saw our lines break and melt away like leaves before...disappeared. The gray-backs came through with a rush. . . . The whole right of the army had apparently been routed. My orderly stuck to me like a veteran,... | |
 | Peter Cozzens - 1992 - 704 pages
...Dana jumped on his horse. "I had no sooner collected my thoughts and looked around toward the front, where all this din came from, than I saw our lines...break and melt away like leaves before the wind."" Bullets began to fall on the knoll. A minie ball ripped open James St. Clair Morton's hand as he stood... | |
 | 1897 - 828 pages
...on my horse in a moment. I had no sooner collected my thoughts and looked around toward the front, where all this din came from, than I saw our lines...gray-backs came through with a rush, and soon the musket balls and the cannon shot began to reach the place where we stood. The whole right of the army... | |
 | 1907 - 812 pages
...on my horse in a moment. I had no sooner collected my thoughts and looked around toward the front, where all this din came from, than I saw our lines...wind. Then the headquarters around me disappeared. Then Confederates came through with a rush, and soon the musketry balls and cannon shot began to reach... | |
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Hello! " I said to myself, " if the general is crossing himself, we are in a desperate situation." I was on my horse in a moment. I had no sooner collected my thoughts and looked around toward the front, where all this din came from, than I saw our lines... 