Pictorial History of the War for the Union: A Complete and Reliable History of the War from Its Commencement to Its Close ... Together with a Complete Chronological Analysis of the War, Volume 1B. W. Hitchcock, 1866 - United States |
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... fell to work . The guns of Fort Sumter were run out ready for action , but just then the steamer veered on her course and moved seaward . Had Major Anderson known that the Star of the West was struggling to give him succor , those ...
... fell to work . The guns of Fort Sumter were run out ready for action , but just then the steamer veered on her course and moved seaward . Had Major Anderson known that the Star of the West was struggling to give him succor , those ...
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... fell . After the barracks were well on fire , the batteries directed upon Fort Sumter increased their cannonading to a rapidity greater than had been attained before . About this time , the shells and ammunition in the upper service ...
... fell . After the barracks were well on fire , the batteries directed upon Fort Sumter increased their cannonading to a rapidity greater than had been attained before . About this time , the shells and ammunition in the upper service ...
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... fell into their possession , and shortly afterwards Fort McRae met with the same fate ; but Lieutenant Slemmer , the United States officer in com- mand of the forts of Pensacola harbor ; courageously threw his small force of eighty ...
... fell into their possession , and shortly afterwards Fort McRae met with the same fate ; but Lieutenant Slemmer , the United States officer in com- mand of the forts of Pensacola harbor ; courageously threw his small force of eighty ...
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... fell back , and he escaped by the canal and took refuge in the woods . A quarter of an hour after , when this band of valiant men were grouped in the darkness of the woods , the first thunders of the explo- sion echoed through the hills ...
... fell back , and he escaped by the canal and took refuge in the woods . A quarter of an hour after , when this band of valiant men were grouped in the darkness of the woods , the first thunders of the explo- sion echoed through the hills ...
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... fell upon the country . Fear , amounting almost to panic , seized upon the people , and when the orders were issued for the instant assembling of troops , the rush to arms was proof positive of this deep alarm . As in the olden days ...
... fell upon the country . Fear , amounting almost to panic , seized upon the people , and when the orders were issued for the instant assembling of troops , the rush to arms was proof positive of this deep alarm . As in the olden days ...
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advance arms army arrived artillery attack Baltimore battery battle Blackburn's Ford boats brave bridge brigade broken camp Captain captured cavalry Centreville charge Cheat Mountain Colonel column command commenced companies Confederate Creek Davies division encamped enemy enemy's engagement Federal forces Federal troops fell field fight fire flag flank fleet Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Pulaski Fort Sumter forward front Government Governor guard gunboats guns Harriet Lane hill horses hour hundred Illinois Indiana infantry Island Kentucky killed land Lieutenant loyal Major Anderson Massachusetts McClernand ment miles military Missouri morning night o'clock officers Ohio opened passed pickets position prisoners proclamation railroad reached rear rebels regiment retreat rifled river road rushed secession sent shell shot side skirmishers soldiers soon steamer storm Sumter Tennessee thousand tion took town vessels Virginia volley Volunteers Washington woods wounded yards York Zouaves