Four Years of Fighting: A Volume of Personal Observation with the Army and Navy, from the First Battle of Bull Run to the Fall of RichmondTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 558 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 17
... ground , the heat envelopes you like a blanket ; it will keep off fever and ague . Better endure the discomfort of the smoke , better look like a Cincinnati ham , than to feel an ache in every bone in the morning , which you will be ...
... ground , the heat envelopes you like a blanket ; it will keep off fever and ague . Better endure the discomfort of the smoke , better look like a Cincinnati ham , than to feel an ache in every bone in the morning , which you will be ...
Page 19
... ground . It was the first shot fired by the grand army on the march towards Ma- nassas . The other troopers put spurs to their horses and fled towards Fairfax , where a sudden commotion was visible . " The Rebels are in force just ahead ...
... ground . It was the first shot fired by the grand army on the march towards Ma- nassas . The other troopers put spurs to their horses and fled towards Fairfax , where a sudden commotion was visible . " The Rebels are in force just ahead ...
Page 26
... ground . General Butler had retained the negroes who came into his camp , calling them " contraband of war . " Men were beginning to discuss the propriety of not only retaining , but of seizing , the slaves of those who were in arms ...
... ground . General Butler had retained the negroes who came into his camp , calling them " contraband of war . " Men were beginning to discuss the propriety of not only retaining , but of seizing , the slaves of those who were in arms ...
Page 32
... ground was miry . It was a sad spectacle , those half - naked , shivering soldiers , who had lost everything , — clothes , equipments , and arms . They were almost heart - broken at the disaster . " I enlisted to fight , " said one ...
... ground was miry . It was a sad spectacle , those half - naked , shivering soldiers , who had lost everything , — clothes , equipments , and arms . They were almost heart - broken at the disaster . " I enlisted to fight , " said one ...
Page 64
... ground , though it does not approach in height the top of our staircase . If we take the average altitude in the two countries , we shall find that the American heads are the more elevated of the two . I conceived rather an affection ...
... ground , though it does not approach in height the top of our staircase . If we take the average altitude in the two countries , we shall find that the American heads are the more elevated of the two . I conceived rather an affection ...
Other editions - View all
Four Years of Fighting: A Volume of Personal Observation with the Army and ... Charles Carleton Coffin No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
A. P. Hill advance army artillery attack battle battle of Fredericksburg Beauregard boats bridge brigade Burnside Cairo cannon Captain cavalry Chambersburg Chancellorsville church Cold Harbor Colonel column command Corinth crossed Culp's Hill division enemy eyes field fight fire flag flank fleet force Ford Fort Pillow Fredericksburg front Germanna Gordonsville Grant ground gunboats guns hands head-quarters hill Hooker horses Howard hundred infantry Jackson Jeff Thompson Kentucky land Lee's Longstreet look lying massa McClellan Meade Meade's miles morning moved movement negroes night North o'clock officers opened passed pickets position Potomac prisoners railroad reached rear Rebel batteries regiment Richmond ridge river road says Second Corps sent shells shot Sickles side Sixth Corps slavery slaves soldiers South steamer Stevensburg stream Sumter Taneytown thousand tion took town troops Union Union army wagons Washington Weehawken woods wounded Yankees
Popular passages
Page 362 - The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Page 298 - Never mind, General, all this has been MY fault — it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.
Page 496 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Page 309 - I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy, preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistauce. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy...
Page 225 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 362 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 397 - A little loose in foraging, they " did some things they ought not to have done," yet on the whole they have supplied the wants of the army with as little violence as could be expected, and as little loss as I calculated.
Page 397 - If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it out as we propose to do, and not deal in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity. God will judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and the families of a brave people at our back, or to remove them in time to places of safety among their own friends and people.
Page 49 - It has been represented that important information respecting the numbers and condition of our forces is conveyed to the enemy by means of fugitive slaves who are admitted within our lines. In order to remedy this evil, it is directed that no such persons be hereafter permitted to enter the lines of any camp, or of any forces on the march, and that any within such lines be immediately excluded therefrom.
Page 456 - I am directed by the President of the United States to notify you to expect an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with provisions only ; and that, if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition will be made without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the fort.