History of the One Hundred Forty-first Regiment: Pennsylvania Volunteers. 1862-1865author., 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 190 - It was not only a desperate struggle, but it was literally a handto-hand fight. Nothing but the piled-up logs or breastworks separated the combatants. Our men would reach over the logs and fire into the faces of the enemy, would stab over with their bayonets; many were shot and stabbed through the crevices and holes between the logs; men mounted the works, and with muskets rapidly handed them, kept up a continuous fire until they were shot down, when others would take their places and continue the...
Page 156 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the -family of the deceased, and that they be spread upon the records of this society.
Page 95 - By our celerity and secrecy of movement our advance and passage of the rivers were undisputed, and on our withdrawal not a rebel ventured to follow. The events of the last week may swell with pride the heart 'of every officer and soldier of this Army.
Page 20 - By direction of the President of the United States, it is ordered that Major-General McClellan be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac, and that Major-General Burnside take the command of that army. By order of the Secretary of War. ED TOWNsEND, Assistant Adjutant-General.
Page 190 - ... and continue the deadly work. . . . Several times during the day the Rebels would show a white flag about the works, and when our fire slackened, jump over and surrender, and others were crowded down to fill their places. ... It was there that the somewhat celebrated tree was cut off by bullets ; there that the brush and logs were cut to pieces and whipped into basket-stuff ; . . . there that the Rebel ditches and cross-sections were filled with dead men several deep. ... I was at the angle the...
Page 95 - The events of the last week may swell with pride the heart of every officer and soldier of this army. We have added new lustre to its renown. We have made long marches, crossed rivers, surprised the enemy in his intrenchments, and whenever we have fought have inflicted heavier blows than we have received.
Page 190 - Of all the struggles of the war this was perhaps the fiercest and most deadly. Frequently, throughout the conflict, so close was the contest that the rival standards were planted on opposite sides of the breastworks. The enemy's most savage sallies were directed to retake the famous salient which was now become an angle of death, and presented a spectacle ghastly and terrible.
Page 198 - Before the lines of Spottsylvania, the Army of the Potomac had for twelve days and nights engaged in a fierce wrestle in which it had done all that valour may do to carry a position by nature and art impregnable.
Page 65 - Lee's cavalry, under General Stuart in person. As the rear of the train was passing the furnace, a large force of the enemy advanced from Chancellorsville and attempted its capture.
Page 45 - A bridge or two withal. Double and triple teams of horses and mules were harnessed to each boat ; but it was in vain. Long stout ropes were then attached to the teams and a hundred and fifty men put to the task on each. The effort was but little more successful. Floundering through the mire for a few feet, the gang of Liliputians with their huge-ribbed Gulliver, were forced to give over, breathless. Night arrived, but the pontons could not be got up, and the enemy's pickets, discovering what was...