The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America, Band 3T. Belknap, 1877 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 85
Seite 31
... loss to the Confederacy , and especially to the Army of Northern Virginia , as Lee's troops were called , was irreparable . * Jackson had ordered a forward movement so soon as Hill should reach the front , and it was at the moment when ...
... loss to the Confederacy , and especially to the Army of Northern Virginia , as Lee's troops were called , was irreparable . * Jackson had ordered a forward movement so soon as Hill should reach the front , and it was at the moment when ...
Seite 36
... loss in the morning at Fredericksburg to about five thousand men . Wearied and disheartened , the National troops , like their foes , slept on their arms that night , with little expectation of being able to advance in the morning ...
... loss in the morning at Fredericksburg to about five thousand men . Wearied and disheartened , the National troops , like their foes , slept on their arms that night , with little expectation of being able to advance in the morning ...
Seite 39
... losses , and it is only from those of his subordinates , published with his report in 1864 , that the number , above given , has been ascertained . A Confederate surgeon at Richmond reported their loss , immediately after the battle ...
... losses , and it is only from those of his subordinates , published with his report in 1864 , that the number , above given , has been ascertained . A Confederate surgeon at Richmond reported their loss , immediately after the battle ...
Seite 50
... loss of about five hundred men . Stuart reported his loss at six hundred men , among whom was Gen- eral W. H. F. Lee , wounded . Pleasanton's cavalry reconnoissance developed the fact of Lee's grand movement , but so perfectly were his ...
... loss of about five hundred men . Stuart reported his loss at six hundred men , among whom was Gen- eral W. H. F. Lee , wounded . Pleasanton's cavalry reconnoissance developed the fact of Lee's grand movement , but so perfectly were his ...
Seite 58
... loss of 1 The enemy are on our soil , " he said ; " the whole country now looks anxiously to this army to deliver it from the presence of the foe ; our failure to do so will leave us no such welcome as the swelling of millions of hearts ...
... loss of 1 The enemy are on our soil , " he said ; " the whole country now looks anxiously to this army to deliver it from the presence of the foe ; our failure to do so will leave us no such welcome as the swelling of millions of hearts ...
Inhalt
17 | |
21 | |
23 | |
29 | |
35 | |
44 | |
51 | |
55 | |
306 | |
317 | |
318 | |
327 | |
341 | |
351 | |
362 | |
368 | |
60 | |
89 | |
95 | |
101 | |
104 | |
107 | |
115 | |
143 | |
155 | |
161 | |
171 | |
173 | |
178 | |
188 | |
194 | |
198 | |
223 | |
226 | |
233 | |
251 | |
274 | |
276 | |
285 | |
295 | |
374 | |
376 | |
387 | |
400 | |
401 | |
409 | |
417 | |
423 | |
430 | |
432 | |
455 | |
469 | |
478 | |
484 | |
506 | |
526 | |
532 | |
552 | |
561 | |
570 | |
575 | |
589 | |
600 | |
618 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
advance army artillery assailants assault Atlanta attack Banks battery battle BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA Battle of Gettysburg Bragg bridge brigade Burnside Captain captured cavalry Cemetery Hill Charleston Chattanooga Chickamauga Colonel column command Confederates corps Creek crossed Culp's Hill Cumberland destroyed direction division expedition fight fire flank force Fort Fisher Fort Sumter Fort Wagner front garrison Gettysburg Government Grant gun-boats guns head-quarters heavy Hooker hundred infantry intrenchments July killed Knoxville latter Lee's Little Round Top Longstreet Lookout Mountain loss Meade Meade's miles Mississippi Morgan morning Morris Island moved movement Murfreesboro National nearly night o'clock officers Ohio ordered passed Pennsylvania pontoon bridge position Potomac prisoners pushed raid railway Rapid Anna Rappahannock re-enforcements rear regiments repulsed retreat Richmond Ridge River road Rosecrans Seminary Ridge sent Sherman skirmishers soldiers Tennessee River thousand tion troops Union Valley vessels Virginia volume wounded York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 80 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Seite 232 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Seite 529 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before the conflict itself should cease.
Seite 556 - GENERAL: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Seite 529 - South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Seite 557 - The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Seite 556 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Seite 556 - 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.
Seite 587 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Seite 556 - I would say that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon, namely : that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the government of the United States until properly exchanged. I will meet you, or will designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose, at any point agreeable to you, for the purpose of arranging definitely the terms upon which the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia will...