Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at the ... Meeting[s] ..., Volumes 14-16The Society., 1885 - United States |
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... enemy . The next day we gained ground stead- ily , and about 4 P. M. , I was again on horseback close by our old camp ; the tents were still standing , though riddled with bullets . At the picket rope in front lay two of my horses dead ...
... enemy . The next day we gained ground stead- ily , and about 4 P. M. , I was again on horseback close by our old camp ; the tents were still standing , though riddled with bullets . At the picket rope in front lay two of my horses dead ...
Page 55
... enemy , who from behind the trees could drive the gunners from their posts . I ordered the Colonel of one of my regiments to occupy that ravine to anticipate the enemy , but he did not quickly catch my meaning or comprehend the tactics ...
... enemy , who from behind the trees could drive the gunners from their posts . I ordered the Colonel of one of my regiments to occupy that ravine to anticipate the enemy , but he did not quickly catch my meaning or comprehend the tactics ...
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... enemy's position at Corinth ; that General Buell's army of the Ohio was marching from Nashville to re - en- force us , and that the Rebel General Albert Sydney Johnston re- solved not to await our attack at Corinth , but to attack us ...
... enemy's position at Corinth ; that General Buell's army of the Ohio was marching from Nashville to re - en- force us , and that the Rebel General Albert Sydney Johnston re- solved not to await our attack at Corinth , but to attack us ...
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... enemy press- ing on with batteries and musketry in front and a cross - fire of cannon from above and ten thousand panic - stricken men out of the fight crying ; We are whip- ped ! ' The battle is lost ! ' ' It's no use to form ! ' They ...
... enemy press- ing on with batteries and musketry in front and a cross - fire of cannon from above and ten thousand panic - stricken men out of the fight crying ; We are whip- ped ! ' The battle is lost ! ' ' It's no use to form ! ' They ...
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... enemy until I received a second order from General Prentiss to fall back , which was done in good order , and resuming my first position behind my breastworks , slight as it was , and holding it until I was again ordered by Gen- eral ...
... enemy until I received a second order from General Prentiss to fall back , which was done in good order , and resuming my first position behind my breastworks , slight as it was , and holding it until I was again ordered by Gen- eral ...
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Page 180 - Hurrah ! hurrah ! we bring the jubilee ! Hurrah ! hurrah ! the flag that makes you free ! So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching through Georgia.
Page 102 - ... thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
Page 101 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page 102 - And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
Page 448 - Freedom ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten...
Page 539 - In the prison cell I sit, Thinking, Mother dear, of you, And our bright and happy home so far away, And the tears they fill my eyes Spite of all that I can do, Tho' I try to cheer my comrades and be gay.
Page 532 - Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Page 515 - That from and after the fourth day of July next, the Flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.
Page 452 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 453 - A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that" I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support...