The Twelve Decisive Battles of the War: A History of the Easternand Western Campaigns, in Relation to the Actions that Decided Their IssueDiek & Fitzgerald, 1871 - 520 pages |
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... rest , I am convinced , from much examination , that they will stand the test of criticism . Possibly , he who objects to the presence or absence of this or the other battle in the list may find his neighbor quite satisfied on that ...
... rest , I am convinced , from much examination , that they will stand the test of criticism . Possibly , he who objects to the presence or absence of this or the other battle in the list may find his neighbor quite satisfied on that ...
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... rest of the day . Had the assaulting army been what it late was when it streamed up Marye's heights or stormed the salient at Spott- sylvania , had its brigade and battalion commanders been al- ready the trained soldiers who later ...
... rest of the day . Had the assaulting army been what it late was when it streamed up Marye's heights or stormed the salient at Spott- sylvania , had its brigade and battalion commanders been al- ready the trained soldiers who later ...
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... rest , and for refreshment . On the contrary , while excitement or igno- rance of probabilities had kept the Union troops sleepless , their unthinking improvidence caused them to fling away haversacks and canteens in the hot morning ...
... rest , and for refreshment . On the contrary , while excitement or igno- rance of probabilities had kept the Union troops sleepless , their unthinking improvidence caused them to fling away haversacks and canteens in the hot morning ...
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... rests his fortunes in his patron's hands , to be submitted to the dull , mechanical chan- nels of an unsympathetic professional routine , with all the law's delay and with new chances of failure from the superior professional talent of ...
... rests his fortunes in his patron's hands , to be submitted to the dull , mechanical chan- nels of an unsympathetic professional routine , with all the law's delay and with new chances of failure from the superior professional talent of ...
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... rest were brought to a stand upon the ground wrested from McClernard . So stood affairs when General Grant reached the field of action . Bitter as must have been the pang experienced by that commander at the sight of his wrecked and ...
... rest were brought to a stand upon the ground wrested from McClernard . So stood affairs when General Grant reached the field of action . Bitter as must have been the pang experienced by that commander at the sight of his wrecked and ...
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advance Antietam artillery assault Atlanta attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Bragg bridge brigade Buell Bull Run campaign camps captured cavalry centre Chattanooga column Confederacy Confederate army Corinth corps Creek crossed Culp's Hill Cumberland D. H. Hill defence division Donelson east enemy enemy's field fight fire Five Forks fleet Ford Fort Donelson Fort Henry forward front garrison Gettysburg Grant gun-boats guns Hampton Roads Harper's Ferry Hill Hood Hood's hundred infantry intrenched Jackson Johnston latter Lee's Longstreet manœuvre McClellan McClernand meanwhile Merrimac miles military Mississippi morning Mountain moved movement Murfreesboro Nashville night North numbers o'clock offensive officers operations passed Pemberton pike position Potomac railroad rear regiments repulse retreat Richmond Ridge river road Rosecrans Schofield Shenandoah Valley Sheridan Sherman Shiloh side skirmish South success Tennessee Thomas thousand tion turnpike Union army Union force Union troops valley Vicksburg victory Virginia whole woods Yazoo
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Page 170 - Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth its hands to the government.
Page 170 - midsummer, 1862. Things had gone on from bad to worse, until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope on the plan of operations we had been pursuing, that we had about played our last card and must change our tactics or lose the game!
Page 310 - Upon the suggestion of the former officer that he could damage the enemy and delay his passage of the river by getting in his rear, he was authorized to do so, and it was left to his discretion whether to enter Maryland east or west of the Blue Ridge ; but he was instructed to lose no time in placing his command on the right of our column as soon as he should perceive the enemy moving northward.
Page 412 - His preparations were immediately made, and when the place surrendered on the 4th, two days earlier than I had fixed for the attack, Sherman was found ready, and moved at once, with a force increased by the remainder of both the thirteenth and fifteenth army corps, and is at present investing Jackson, where Johnston has made a stand.
Page 287 - McClernand was caused, no doubt, by the enemy presenting a front of artillery and infantry, where it was impossible, from the nature of the ground and the density of the forest, to discover his numbers. As it was, the battle of Champion's Hill, or Baker's Creek, was fought mainly by Hovey's division of McClernand's corps, and Logan's and Quimby's divisions (the latter commanded by Brigadier-General MM Crocker) of McPherson's corps.
Page 461 - Whose blood and judgment are so well co-mingled That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 241 - ... and was informed by my marine officer, who was stationed on the poop, that at least fifty solid shot struck her on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position, in doing which she grounded, and again I poured into her all the guns which could be brought to bear upon her. As soon as she got off she stood down the bay, the little battery...
Page 143 - The condition of Maryland encouraged the belief that the presence of our army, however inferior to that of the enemy, would induce the Washington Government to retain all its available force to provide against contingencies which its course toward the people of that State gave it reason to apprehend.
Page 404 - That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war...
Page 170 - ... card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game! I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation policy; and, without consultation with, or the knowledge of the Cabinet, I prepared the original draft of the proclamation, and, after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject. This was the last of July, or the first part of the month of August, 1862.