 | 1889 - 894 pages
...as I arrived in rear of the first division the mine was sprung. It was a magnificent spectacle, and as the mass of earth went up into the air, carrying...like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude, so close were the Union lines that the mass appeared as if it would descend immediately upon the troops... | |
 | William S. Dunlop - 1899 - 524 pages
...participant, describes this battle substantially as follows, to-wit : " It was a magnificent spectacle, and as the mass of earth went up into the air, carrying...like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude, so close were the Union lines that the mass appeared as if it would descend immediately upon the troops... | |
 | 1912 - 438 pages
...gunpowder under Confederate Elliott's or Pegram's Salient. "It was a magnificent spectacle," we are told, " as the mass of earth went up into the air, carrying with it men, guns, carriages and timbers, and spreading out like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude." What adjectives the mothers, wives... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - 1998 - 702 pages
...of the Mine at Petersburg Figure 58. Approach to the Crater from southeast of the mouth of the Mine earth went up into the air, carrying with it men,...like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude, so close were the Union lines that the mass appeared as if it would descend immediately upon the troops... | |
 | John B. O. Landrum - 2009 - 745 pages
...officer who was an eye-witness states : " It was a magnificent spectacle, and as the mass of earth went into the air, carrying with it men, guns, carriages and timbers, and spreading out like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude, so close were the Union lines that... | |
 | Frank Bury Woodford - 1999 - 384 pages
...momentarily with the frightful thunder clap. "It was a magnificent spectacle," said one observer; "and as the mass of earth went up into the air, carrying...like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude, so close were the Union lines that the mass appeared as if it would descend immediately upon the troops... | |
 | John Cannan - 2009 - 170 pages
...Major William H. Powell, a staff officer under Ledlie recalled, "It was a magnificent spectacle, and as the mass of earth went up into the air, carrying...like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude, so close were the Union lines that the mass appeared as if it would descend immediately upon the troops... | |
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It was a magnificent spectacle, and as the mass of earth went up into the air, carrying with it men, guns, carriages and timbers, and spread out like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude, so close were the Union lines that the mass appeared as... 