Four Years of Fighting: A Volume of Personal Observation with the Army and Navy, from the First Battle of Bull Run to the Fall of RichmondTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 558 pages |
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... enemy's country , they could not forget the day . They sat down to an ample collation . Eloquent speeches were made , and an ode was sung , written by one of their number . " Though many miles away From home and friends to - day , We're ...
... enemy's country , they could not forget the day . They sat down to an ample collation . Eloquent speeches were made , and an ode was sung , written by one of their number . " Though many miles away From home and friends to - day , We're ...
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... enemy . Some crouched behind the cars ; others gained the shelter of the woods , where a line was formed . " Why don't you fall into line ? " was the sharp command of an officer to a soldier standing beside a tree . " I would , sir , if ...
... enemy . Some crouched behind the cars ; others gained the shelter of the woods , where a line was formed . " Why don't you fall into line ? " was the sharp command of an officer to a soldier standing beside a tree . " I would , sir , if ...
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... enemy . Her dress was worn and faded , her shoes were down at the heel and out at the toes . There was nothing left of the estate of her fathers except a mean old house and one aged negro slave . She was reduced to absolute poverty ...
... enemy . Her dress was worn and faded , her shoes were down at the heel and out at the toes . There was nothing left of the estate of her fathers except a mean old house and one aged negro slave . She was reduced to absolute poverty ...
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... enemy , their arrival at that point of the field being entirely unexpected . The enemy fell back and a panic seized them . " Smith had about seventeen hundred men instead of four thousand , but he came upon the field in such a manner ...
... enemy , their arrival at that point of the field being entirely unexpected . The enemy fell back and a panic seized them . " Smith had about seventeen hundred men instead of four thousand , but he came upon the field in such a manner ...
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... enemy by means of fugi- tive slaves who are admitted within our lines . In order to remedy this evil , it is directed that no such persons be hereafter permitted to enter the lines of any camp , or of any forces on the march , and that ...
... enemy by means of fugi- tive slaves who are admitted within our lines . In order to remedy this evil , it is directed that no such persons be hereafter permitted to enter the lines of any camp , or of any forces on the march , and that ...
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