Battle-fields of the South: From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh ; with Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the CampsJ. Bradburn, 1864 - 517 pages |
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advance approach arms army arrived artillery attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Beaver Dam Creek began boys bridge brigade camps cannon captured cavalry centre Centreville Colonel command Corinth corps Creek crossed D. H. Hill dead distance enemy enemy's engaged fall back Federal fell field fight fire flank force fortified forward Frazier's Fremont front ground gunboats guns halted hand Harper's Ferry heavy Heintzelman horse hundred infantry Jackson James River Johnston Leesburgh Longstreet loss Magruder Malvern Hill Manassas Maryland McClellan Mechanicsville ment miles morning move movements never night North Northern officers passed pickets pieces Pope position Potomac prisoners pushed rapidly rear reenforcements regiments retreat Richmond rifle river road route rushed seemed sent shell Shenandoah Valley shot skirmishing smoke soon thing thousand timber tion town troops Valley Virginia wagons whole woods wounded Yankee York River
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Page xvii - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found...
Page xiv - Your conduct ranks you among the celebrated armies of history. No one will now question that each of you may always with pride say, ' I belong to the Army of the Potomac.
Page xiv - You have saved all your material, all your trains and all your guns, except a few lost in battle, taking in return guns and colors from the enemy. Upon your march, you have been assailed day after day, with desperate fury, by men of the same race and nation, skilfully massed and led.
Page xxvi - Marylander, to whom in better days no citizen appealed for right in vain, was treated with scorn and contempt; the government of your chief city has been usurped by armed strangers; your legislature has been dissolved by the unlawful arrest of its members; freedom of the press and of speech...
Page xiv - SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC : — Your achievements of the last ten days have illustrated the valor and endurance of the American soldier. Attacked by superior forces, and without hope of reinforcements, you have succeeded in changing your base of operations by a flank movement, always regarded as the most hazardous of military expedients. You have saved all your material, all your trains and all your guns, except a few lost in battle, taking in return guns and colors from the enemy.
Page xxvi - The people of the Confederate States have long watched with the deepest sympathy the wrongs and outrages that have been inflicted upon the citizens of a commonwealth allied to the states of the South by the strongest social, political, and commercial ties, and reduced to the condition of a conquered province.
Page 141 - may be a very fine old gentleman, and an honest, good-tempered, industrious man, but I should admire "him much more in a state of rest than continually seeing him moving in front. And such a dry old stick, too ! As for uniform, he has none — his wardrobe isn't worth a dollar; and his horse is quite in keeping, being a poor lean animal of little spirit or activity. And don't he keep his aides moving about ! Thirty miles...
Page xvii - To the Officers and Soldiers of the Army of Virginia: " By special assignment of the President of the United States, I have assumed command of this army. I have spent two weeks in learning your whereabouts, your condition, and your wants; in preparing you for active operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose.
Page xxvi - To THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND. It is right that you should know the purpose that has brought the army under my command within the limits of your State, so far as that purpose concerns yourselves.
Page 142 - I'd as soon face the devil, for Jackson takes no excuses when duty is on hand. He is about thirty-five years old, of medium height, strongly built, solemn and thoughtful, speaks but little and always in a calm, decided tone ; and from what he says there is no appeal, for he seems to know every hole and corner of this valley as if he made it, or, at least, as if it had been designed for his own use. He knows all the distances, all the roads, even to cowpaths through the woods, and goat-tracks along...