Under the Old Flag: Recollections of Military Operations in the War for the Union, the Spanish War, the Boxer Rebellion, Etc, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1912 |
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... fire on the enemy's batteries . It was a splendid sight as the ships steamed slowly up one side of the harbor and down the other between the rebel batteries , deliver- ing first one broadside and then the other till the enemy's guns ...
... fire on the enemy's batteries . It was a splendid sight as the ships steamed slowly up one side of the harbor and down the other between the rebel batteries , deliver- ing first one broadside and then the other till the enemy's guns ...
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... fire till they got within close range , when we opened on them with our eight- inch guns , and not only halted them at once , but sent them scurrying back to the city . A corduroy road was laid to the battery and maintained , thus com ...
... fire till they got within close range , when we opened on them with our eight- inch guns , and not only halted them at once , but sent them scurrying back to the city . A corduroy road was laid to the battery and maintained , thus com ...
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... fire on the fort about three- quarters of a mile away . Having volunteered my services , I was directed to supervise the batteries åt Goat's Point . General Hunter and staff arrived April 7 , 1862 , and at half - past five on the 9th I ...
... fire on the fort about three- quarters of a mile away . Having volunteered my services , I was directed to supervise the batteries åt Goat's Point . General Hunter and staff arrived April 7 , 1862 , and at half - past five on the 9th I ...
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... fire . In turn he had to send formal instructions to the battery com- manders , which he entrusted to Badeau , who was now a captain and additional aid - de - camp . This was his first important duty and the great event of his life ...
... fire . In turn he had to send formal instructions to the battery com- manders , which he entrusted to Badeau , who was now a captain and additional aid - de - camp . This was his first important duty and the great event of his life ...
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... fire . The night our arrangements were all completed Porter and I slept but little . The positions assigned us were supposed to be quite as dangerous as any in the line of batteries . We naturally thought that one or both might be ...
... fire . The night our arrangements were all completed Porter and I slept but little . The positions assigned us were supposed to be quite as dangerous as any in the line of batteries . We naturally thought that one or both might be ...
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advance afterward army corps batteries battle became bridge brigade camp campaign Captain capture cavalry Chattanooga chief Colonel command Confederate coöperation Court House crossing Dana direct division duty enemy enemy's engineer entire eral favor field fighting flank force Fortunately friends front gallant gave Grant guns Hampton headquarters horses infantry James James River June 20 Kautz knew Lee's lieutenant lieutenant colonel Lynchburg mand McClellan McClernand McPherson Meade ments miles military Missionary Ridge Mississippi morning movement never night O. R. Serial o'clock officers operations orders Port Royal expedition position Potomac railroad rank Rawlins reached Reams Station rear rebel received reënforcements regiment replied Richmond river road Secretary of War sent Sheridan Sherman soldier soon Spottsylvania Court House staff success Tennessee tion took Torbert troops turned Vicksburg Vicksburg campaign volunteer Washington West Point William Farrar Smith Wilson
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Página 219 - The effusion of blood you propose stopping by this course, can be ended at any time you may choose, by an unconditional surrender of the city and garrison. Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure you, will be treated with all the respect due them as prisoners of. war. I do not favor the proposition of appointing commissioners to arrange terms of capitulation, because I have no other terms than...
Página 62 - I have served my country, under the flag of the Union, for more than fifty years; and as long as God permits me to live, I will defend that flag with my sword, even if my own native State assails it.
Página 45 - I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America...
Página 388 - Grant went into his tent, and, throwing himself face downward on his cot, gave way to the greatest emotion, but without uttering any word of doubt or discouragement.
Página 25 - The conspiracy is now known. Armies have been raised, war is levied to accomplish it. There are only two sides to the question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war — only patriots or traitors.
Página 214 - We have gained the enemy's intrenchments at several points, but are brought to a stand.
Página 446 - I have seen but little generalship during the campaign. Some of our corps commanders are not fit to be corporals. Lazy and indifferent they will not even ride along their lines, yet without hesitancy they will order us to attack the enemy, no matter what their position or numbers.
Página 359 - Ridge, and gave him command of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac. In...
Página 446 - On that day we had a murderous engagement. I say "murderous" because we were recklessly ordered to assault the enemy's entrenchments, knowing neither their strength nor position.
Página 157 - Eawlins gave the reasons clearly and emphatically for the faith that was in us, no one came to his support. Even Grant kept silent, though he tells us clearly enough in his memoirs, written many years afterward, that it was his purpose from the first to carry that plan into effect if the others failed.
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