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... Intrenchments . - Result of Intrenching Operations . - Logan explodes a Mine . - Fight in the Crater . Johnston threatens to raise the Siege . Grant's Ex- pedients to meet him . Constructs Countervallations . - Fortifies Haine's Bluff ...
... Intrenchments . - Result of Intrenching Operations . - Logan explodes a Mine . - Fight in the Crater . Johnston threatens to raise the Siege . Grant's Ex- pedients to meet him . Constructs Countervallations . - Fortifies Haine's Bluff ...
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... intrenchments , and apt in constructing fascines , hur- dles , and sap - rollers ; with all his sensibilities vivid , all his senses keen , intent , animated , the model of Cadet Grant is physical power and activity , launched into the ...
... intrenchments , and apt in constructing fascines , hur- dles , and sap - rollers ; with all his sensibilities vivid , all his senses keen , intent , animated , the model of Cadet Grant is physical power and activity , launched into the ...
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... intrenchments were carried . The performance corresponds with the programme , except that Twiggs , being annoyed by a party of skirmishers in executing his movement , throws off to his left a detachment to scatter them , which unex ...
... intrenchments were carried . The performance corresponds with the programme , except that Twiggs , being annoyed by a party of skirmishers in executing his movement , throws off to his left a detachment to scatter them , which unex ...
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... intrenchments and batteries will be attacked in front , and at the same time turned , early in the day to - morrow , probably before ten o'clock , A.M. tu al be The second ( Twiggs's ) division of regulars is already advanced within ...
... intrenchments and batteries will be attacked in front , and at the same time turned , early in the day to - morrow , probably before ten o'clock , A.M. tu al be The second ( Twiggs's ) division of regulars is already advanced within ...
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... intrenchments , and drive out the enemy in a long straggling column , which Clarke , now charging from the meadows on its flank , cuts near the centre ; hurling the rear upon the village of Do- lores as unworthy of further notice , but ...
... intrenchments , and drive out the enemy in a long straggling column , which Clarke , now charging from the meadows on its flank , cuts near the centre ; hurling the rear upon the village of Do- lores as unworthy of further notice , but ...
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Page 100 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 362 - You are now Washington's legitimate successor, and occupy a position of almost dangerous elevation; but if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings...
Page 480 - Answer quick, as I know we will not have the telegraph long. "WT SHERMAN, Major-General. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT." "CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, "October 11,1864 — 11.30 PM "Your dispatch of to-day received. If you are satisfied the trip to the sea-coast can be made, holding the line of the Tennessee River firmly, you may make it, destroying all the railroad south of Dalton or Chattanooga, as you think best.
Page 155 - It is hard to censure a successful general immediately after a victory, but I think he richly deserves it. I can get no returns, no reports, no information of any kind from him. Satisfied with his victory, he sits down and enjoys it without any regard to the future. I am worn out and tired with this neglect and inefficiency. CF Smith is almost the only officer equal to the emergency.
Page 363 - Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk.
Page 510 - I am satisfied that the mass of the thinking men of the South accept the present situation of affairs in good faith. The questions which have heretofore divided the sentiments of the people of the two sections Slavery and State Rights, or the right of a State to secede from the Union they regard as having been settled forever by the highest tribunal - arms - that man can resort to.
Page 473 - Church, and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you. Notice sent to me on this road where you wish the interview to take place, will meet me.
Page 470 - GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the army of Northern Virginia.
Page 505 - SOLDIERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, — By your patriotic devotion to your country in the hour of danger and alarm, your magnificent fighting, bravery, and endurance, you have maintained the supremacy of the Union and the Constitution...
Page 381 - I may here state that, commanding all the armies as I did, I tried, as far as possible, to leave General Meade in independent command of the Army of the Potomac. My instructions for that army were all through him, and were general in their nature, leaving all the details and the execution to him.