Heroes of the Army in AmericaJ.B. Lippincott, 1919 - 346 pages |
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... Hill just before , but they were untrained militia , and their new commander had a hard task in teaching them the soldier's art and supplying them with arms . But in eight months after his arrival he had made an army out of this raw ...
... Hill just before , but they were untrained militia , and their new commander had a hard task in teaching them the soldier's art and supplying them with arms . But in eight months after his arrival he had made an army out of this raw ...
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... Hill , where he was ranking officer , though he left the actual command in Prescott's hands . He bade his men to reserve their fire till the enemy were within eight rods , which Prescott bettered by telling them not to fire " till they ...
... Hill , where he was ranking officer , though he left the actual command in Prescott's hands . He bade his men to reserve their fire till the enemy were within eight rods , which Prescott bettered by telling them not to fire " till they ...
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... hill in safety and the daring rider escaped . Putnam was now near the end of his long military career . In 1779 , while returning from a visit home , one of his legs became paralyzed , and he was obliged to retire from the service . The ...
... hill in safety and the daring rider escaped . Putnam was now near the end of his long military career . In 1779 , while returning from a visit home , one of his legs became paralyzed , and he was obliged to retire from the service . The ...
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... Hill . Here they held their ground firmly and repelled the enemy with great loss , until the fourth British charge was made and the lack of ammunition forced the Americans to retreat . In the heat of the action a soldier came to Stark ...
... Hill . Here they held their ground firmly and repelled the enemy with great loss , until the fourth British charge was made and the lack of ammunition forced the Americans to retreat . In the heat of the action a soldier came to Stark ...
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... hill on which he was encamped was given the name of Mount Inde- pendence , and he was soon after ordered to clear and fortify this hill , then a wilderness . A detachment from the northern army , including Colonel Stark's regiment , was ...
... hill on which he was encamped was given the name of Mount Inde- pendence , and he was soon after ordered to clear and fortify this hill , then a wilderness . A detachment from the northern army , including Colonel Stark's regiment , was ...
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Popular passages
Page 153 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 186 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 29 - Edmund Palmer, an officer in the enemy's service, was taken as a spy lurking within our lines ; he has been tried as a spy, condemned as a spy, and shall be executed as a spy ; and the flag is ordered to depart immediately. " ISRAEL PUTNAM. " PS — He has, accordingly, been executed.
Page 161 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 183 - There are many officers to whom these remarks are applicable to a greater or less degree, proportionate to their ability as soldiers ; but what I want is to express my thanks to you and McPherson, as the men to whom, above all others, I feel indebted for whatever I have had of success.
Page 172 - With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Page 14 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Page 220 - In this position, the left wing received six distinct assaults by the combined forces of Hoke, Hardee, and Cheatham, under the immediate command of General Johnston himself, without giving an inch of ground, and doing good execution on the enemy's ranks, especially with our artillery, the enemy having little or none.
Page 187 - I declined it publicly, and the fact was universally noticed. I then took my post on the left of the President, and for six hours and a half stood, while the army passed in the order of the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth, and Fourteenth Corps. It was, in my judgment, the most magnificent army in existence — sixty-five thousand men, in splendid physique, who had just completed a march of nearly two thousand miles in a hostile country...