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" Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded on all sides by a dense forest filled with a tangled undergrowth, in the midst of which breastworks of logs had been constructed, with trees felled in front so as to form an almost... "
The Battle of Chancellorsville - Page 173
by Samuel Penniman Bates - 1882 - 261 pages
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Four Years of Fighting: A Volume of Personal Observation with the Army and ...

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1866 - 602 pages
...give battle, but he found Hooker in a position of such strength that he hesitated. Lee says: — " The enemy had assumed a position of great natural...surrounded on all sides by a dense forest, filled with tangled undergrowth, in the midst of which breastworks of logs had been constructed, with trees felled...
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The Battle-fields of Virginia: Chancellorsville; Embracing the Oerations of ...

Jedediah Hotchkiss, William Allan - 1867 - 190 pages
...which were only from a half to one mile from Chancellorsville. " Here," in the words of General Lee, " the enemy had assumed a position of great natural...constructed, with trees felled in front, so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which the position could be...
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The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents ..., Volume 10

Frank Moore - 1867 - 868 pages
...rapidly, vigorously pursued by our troops, until they arrived within about one mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural...had | been constructed, with trees felled in front Ťo as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his...
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The Life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, ("Stonewall" Jackson)

Sarah Nicholas Randolph - 1876 - 394 pages
...mile from Chanecllorsville. The strength of the enemy's position there General Lee thus describes : " Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural...constructed, with trees felled in front, so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which the position could be...
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Army of Northern Virginia Memorial Volume

John William Jones - 1879 - 402 pages
...now within a mile of Chancellorsville, and close up to the enemy's entrenchments. Here, as he says, the enemy had "assumed a position of great natural...surrounded on all sides by a dense forest, filled with tangled undergrowth, in the midst of which breastworks of logs had been constructed with trees felled...
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union ...

United States. War Department - 1889 - 1294 pages
...rapidly, vigorously pursued by our troops until they arrived within about 1 mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural...constructed, with trees felled in front, so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be...
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2

Jefferson Davis - 1881 - 908 pages
...rapidly, vigorously pursued by our troops until they arrived within about one mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural...constructed with trees felled in front so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be...
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Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: His Military and Personal History, Embracing a ...

Armistead Lindsay Long, Marcus Joseph Wright - 1886 - 760 pages
...rapidly, vigorously pursued by our troops until they arrived within about one mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural...constructed, with trees felled in front so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be...
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A Short History of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis - 1890 - 554 pages
...rapidly, vigorously pursued by our troops until they arrived within about one mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural...constructed, with trees felled in front so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 7

John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 554 pages
...and Lenders." Vol. III., p. IN. Report Committee on Conduct of the War, 1865. Part I., p. 64. ural strength, surrounded on all sides by a dense forest,...constructed, with trees felled in front so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be...
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