 | 1863 - 652 pages
...fail him except the man in the ditch. It is difficult tu exaggerate the critical state of affairs аз they appeared about this time. If the enemy or their...is no saying what might have happened. General Lee find his officers were evidently fully impressed with a sense of the situation ; yet there was much... | |
 | Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle - 1864 - 400 pages
...fail him except the man in the ditch. It is difficult to exaggerate the critical state of affairs as they appeared about this time. If the enemy or their...wood, were brought up in detachments, and lay down 270 GALLANT AKTILLERYMEN. quietly and coolly in the positions assigned to them. "VVe heard that Generals... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1864 - 414 pages
...fail him except the man in the ditch. It is difficult to exaggerate the critical state of affairs as they appeared about this time. If the enemy or their...enterprise, there is no saying what might have happened. Gen. Lee and his officers were evidently fully impressed with a sense of the situation ; yet there... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1865 - 430 pages
...is difficult," says the same intelligent spectator, "to exaggerate the critical state of affairs as they appeared about this time. If the enemy or their...less noise, fuss, or confusion of orders, than at any ordinary field day ; the men, as they were rallied in the wood, were brought up in detachments... | |
 | William Parker Snow - 1865 - 924 pages
...exaggerate the critical state of affairs as they appeared about this time. General Lee and his officers were fully impressed with a sense of the situation ; yet...less noise, fuss, or confusion of orders, than at any ordinary field day. The men, as they were rallied in the wood, • •were brought up in detachments,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1866 - 702 pages
...sitnation after Pickctt's repulse, he says: "It is difficult to exaggerate the critical state of affairs as they appeared about this time. If the enemy, or their...evidently fully impressed with a sense of the situation." But the sequel seems to belie this ; for he immediately remarks : " Yet there was much less noise,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 758 pages
...recovery. An English colonel, who rode by the side of the great Confederate commander, remarks : " Gen. Lee and his officers were evidently fully impressed...less noise, fuss, or confusion of orders, than at any ordinary field-day ; the men, as they were rallied in the wood, were brought up in detachments,... | |
 | William Parker Snow - 1866 - 576 pages
...exaggerate the critical state of affairs as they appeared about this time. General Lee and his officers were fully impressed with a sense of the situation ; yet...less noise, fuss, or confusion of orders, than at any ordinary field day. The men, as they were rallied in the wood, were brought up in detachments,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1866 - 702 pages
...But the sequel seems to belie this ; for he immediately remarks : " Yet there was much less noiso, fuss, or confusion of orders than at an ordinary field-day ; the men as they were rallied in the woods, were brought up in detachments, and lay down quietly and coolly in the positions assigned them."... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1867 - 776 pages
...recovery. An English colonel, who rode by the side of the great Confederate commander, remarks : " Gen. Lee and his officers were evidently fully impressed...less noise, fuss, or confusion of orders, than at any ordinary field-day ; the men, as they were rallied in the wood, were brought up in detachments,... | |
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It is difficult to exaggerate the critical state of affairs as they appeared about this time. If the enemy or their general had shown any enterprise, there is no saying what might have happened. General Lee and his officers were evidently fully impressed... 
