History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers: During the War of the Rebellion |
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Page 112
... skirmishers , the cavalry in rear of infantry . Batteries were in readiness , at the first note of conflict , to mingle in the fray and hurl their screaming shells upon the ranks of the enemy . Reaching the prairie the whole vast line ...
... skirmishers , the cavalry in rear of infantry . Batteries were in readiness , at the first note of conflict , to mingle in the fray and hurl their screaming shells upon the ranks of the enemy . Reaching the prairie the whole vast line ...
Page 114
... skirmishers , coming directly towards the house where the squad had been comfortably quartered . The horses were quickly mounted and then three of the men dashed out of the yard and broke for Springfield at a rate of speed which it was ...
... skirmishers , coming directly towards the house where the squad had been comfortably quartered . The horses were quickly mounted and then three of the men dashed out of the yard and broke for Springfield at a rate of speed which it was ...
Page 134
... skirmishers thrown out , and the regiment formed in line of battle , partially protected behind the banks of a shallow ravine . The different regiments composing the brigade turned off from the road into the fields or thick underbrush ...
... skirmishers thrown out , and the regiment formed in line of battle , partially protected behind the banks of a shallow ravine . The different regiments composing the brigade turned off from the road into the fields or thick underbrush ...
Page 137
... skirmishers , and charging up the bluffs kept them at bay while the command passed down the ravine . Discovering the small numbers of those holding them in check , the enemy were on the point of rushing down and overwhelming the skirmishers ...
... skirmishers , and charging up the bluffs kept them at bay while the command passed down the ravine . Discovering the small numbers of those holding them in check , the enemy were on the point of rushing down and overwhelming the skirmishers ...
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... skirmishers occupied the field on our arrival , and were seen skulking through the dry and deadened cornstalks back to their lines , and many of their numbers were brought down by the unerring aim of our marksmen , and never left that ...
... skirmishers occupied the field on our arrival , and were seen skulking through the dry and deadened cornstalks back to their lines , and many of their numbers were brought down by the unerring aim of our marksmen , and never left that ...
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History of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers During the War of ... L. G. Bennett No preview available - 2017 |
History of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers During the War of ... L G Bennett,Wm M Haigh No preview available - 2015 |
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36th Illinois Adairsville advance arms army arrived artillery attack battery Bentonville boys Bragg brigade broken camp Camp Hammond Capt captured cavalry Chaplain charge Chattanooga cheer column command Company F comrades Confederate Corinth Corporal Corps Creek crossing dead detachment Division duty enemy enemy's Federal fell field fire flag flank force front George George W Greusel ground guard guns halted Henry hills horses hospital hundred infantry James John Kendall County killed Lieut Lieutenant line of battle ment miles Missouri morning mountain moved movement Murfreesboro musketry Nashville Negley night o'clock officers Osterhaus passed Pea Ridge picket pike position prisoners railroad rain ranks reached rear Rebel regiment remained retreat Ridge Rienzi river road Rolla Rosecrans sent Sergeant Sergt shell Sheridan Sherman shot side skirmishers soldiers soon Stone River storm tents Thomas timber tion town train troops valley wagons William woods wounded
Popular passages
Page 378 - WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad.
Page 18 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles of war.
Page 479 - I am dying, Egypt, dying; Hark! the insulting foeman's cry; They are coming ; quick, my falchion ! Let me front them ere I die.
Page 777 - ... air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away off in the distance, on the McDonough road, was the rear of Howard's column, the gun-barrels glistening in the sun, the white-topped wagons stretching away to the south; and right before us the Fourteenth Corps, marching steadily and rapidly, with a cheery look and swinging pace, that made light of the thousand miles that lay between us and Richmond. Some band, by accident, struck up the anthem of "John Brown's soul goes marching on;" the...
Page 718 - Oh, if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear, Tis the last libation Liberty draws From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause!'
Page 424 - ... made. The chaplain so appointed must be a regular ordained minister of a Christian denomination, and shall receive the pay and allowances of a captain of cavalry, and shall be required to report to the colonel commanding the regiment, to which he is attached, at the end of each quarter, the moral and religious condition of the regiment, and such suggestions as may conduce to the social happiness and moral improvement of the troops.
Page 560 - I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; and keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself...
Page 479 - Die the great triumvir still. Let not Caesar's servile minions Mock the lion thus laid low; 'Twas no foeman's hand that slew him, 'Twas his own that struck the blow...
Page 479 - Twas his own that struck the blow—- His who, pillowed on thy bosom, Turned aside from glory's ray — His who, drunk with thy caresses, Madly threw a world away. Should the base plebeian rabble Dare assail my name at Rome, Where the noble spouse, Octavia, Weeps within her widowed home...
Page 525 - Under tree trunks, among rocks, stumbling over the dead, struggling with the living, facing the steady fire of eight thousand infantry poured down upon their heads as if it were the old historic curse from heaven, they wrestle with the Ridge.