History of the Civil War in America: book 1. Eastern Tennessee. book 2. Siege of Chattanooga. book 3. The third winter. book 4. The war in the South-West. [1888J.H. Coates & Company, 1888 - United States |
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Page 649 - Robert EA Crofton. 18th United States, 1st Battalion, Capt. George W. Smith. 18th United States, 2d Battalion, Capt. Henry Haymond. 19th United States, 1st Battalion, Capt Henry S. Welton. Third Brigade.* Brig.
Page 654 - Lightburn 83d Indiana, Col. Benjamin J. Spooner 30th Ohio, Col. Theodore Jones 37th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Louis von Blessingh 47th Ohio, Col. Augustus C. Parry 54th Ohio, Maj. Robert Williams, Jr. 4th West Virginia, Col. James H. Dayton Artillery 1st Illinois Light, Battery A, Capt. Peter P. Wood 1st Illinois Light, Battery B, Capt. Israel P. Rumsey 1st Illinois Light, Battery H, Lieut. Francis...
Page 472 - If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war ; but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter.
Page 2 - You will take care of yourselves; with or without arms, with or without leaders, we will, at least, in the effort to defend our rights as a free people, build up a great mausoleum of hearts, to which men who yearn for liberty will, in after years, with bowed heads and reverently, resort, as Christian pilgrims to the sacred shrines of the Holy Land.
Page 648 - Ario Pardee, jr. Second Brigade. Col. GEORGE A. COBHAM, Jr. 29th Pennsylvania. Col. William Rickards, jr. 109th Pennsylvania, Capt. Frederick L. Gimber.
Page 1 - Turn itself back to re-behold the pass Which never yet a living person left After my weary body I had rested, The way resumed I on the desert slope, So that the firm foot ever was the lower.
Page 650 - BRIGADE BRIG. GEN. JAMES D. MORGAN 10th Illinois, Col. John Tillson. 16th Illinois, Lieut. Col. James B. Cahill. 60th Illinois, Col. William B. Anderson.
Page 357 - ... in on one side by the sea and on the other by the lake.
Page 640 - Longstreet's corps, Anderson's, Wofford's and Bryan's Georgia brigades did not arrive in time to take part in the battle. But the brigade of Gen.
Page iii - Coatee $3.50 ea v. 3-4, ed. by J: P. Nicholson, v. 4 contains the seventh volume of the French edition, and so much of the eighth volume as was contained in the manuscript which the distinguished author carried with him when he was banished from France.—Pref.