 | Markinfield Addey - 1863 - 262 pages
...dark at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry." When the messenger was riding away, he called him back....the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." As the light faded the cannonade died away, and before it was quite dark the battle was over. After... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1863 - 324 pages
...Burnside, urging him to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back—"Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge,...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The enemy held the bridge, but of other portions of the field we retained possession. Varying as may... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1864 - 414 pages
...was sinking in the west, he dispatched orders to Gen. Burnside, urging him to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The enemy held the bridge, but of other portions of the field we retained possession. Varying as may... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - 1864 - 574 pages
...dark, at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry." When the messenger was riding away, he called him back....the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." As the light faded the cannonade died away, and before it was quite dark the battle was over. Alluding... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 pages
...aid in offensive operations, and replies with a peremptory order to hold the bridge at all hazards: "Tell him, if he cannot hold his ground, then the...always the bridge! if the bridge is lost, all is lost." He, however, detached General Morrell, with nve thousand men, to Burnside, to aid in holding the bridge,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866 - 662 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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1866 - 640 pages
...only answer' is a glance at the western sky. Then he turns and speaks, very slowly : 4 Tell General Burnside, this is the battle of the war. He must hold...the bridge. If the bridge is lost, all is lost.'"* The bridge was held — darkness soon covered the field, and the great battle was over. If Burnside... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1866 - 654 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... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866 - 688 pages
...Battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry.' Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called Mm back. ' Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then...the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost.' "The sun is already down; not half an hour of daylight ia left. Till Burnside's message came it had... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 1314 pages
...to hold his position, and as the messenger was riding away he called him back — " Tell him if ho cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last...always the bridge! If the bridge is lost, all is lost." The enemy held the bridge, but of other portions of tlio field we retained possession. Varying as may... | |
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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... 
