Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History, Volume 6

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Clement Anselm Evans
Confederate publishing Company, 1899 - Confederate States of America
 

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Page 295 - You I propose to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and to get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources.
Page 350 - And now, sir, permit me to say, that the unprecedented measure you propose transcends, in studied and ingenious cruelty, all acts ever before brought to my attention in the dark history of war.
Page 300 - Resaca, and his right on some high chestnut hills to the north of the town. I at once ordered a pontoon bridge to be laid across the...
Page 300 - McPherson decided to withdraw the command and take up a position for the night between Sugar valley and the entrance to the gap.
Page 415 - Georgia regiment had suffered heavily, being exposed, as it took and maintained its position, to a fire from the enemy already posted within a hundred yards of their front and right, sheltered by fences and other cover. It was at this time that Lieutenant-Colonel Gardener was severely wounded, as also several other valuable officers...
Page 368 - We have also consumed the corn and fodder in the region of country thirty miles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah, as also the sweet potatoes, cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry, and have carried away more than ten thousand horses and mules, as well as a countless number of their slaves.
Page 87 - The three States of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the south, having deliberately declared themselves no longer under the protection of the United States of America, and having taken up arms against the said United States, it becomes a military necessity to declare them under martial law.
Page 251 - Brannan's right, moved forward his artillery and drove the enemy down the southern slope, inflicting on him a most terrible loss in killed and wounded. This opportune arrival of fresh troops revived the flagging spirits of our men on the right and inspired them with new ardor for the contest. Every assault of the enemy from that time until nightfall was repulsed in the most gallant style by the whole line. By this time the ammunition in the boxes of the men was reduced on an average to two or three...
Page 313 - House,' and upon studying the ground, I had no alternative in my turn but to assault his lines or turn his position. Either course had its difficulties and dangers. And I perceived that the enemy and our own officers had settled down into a conviction that I would not assault fortified lines. All looked to me to
Page 313 - Thomas's troops. The hour was fixed, and all the details given in Field Orders, No. 28, of June 24. On the 2Hh of June the two assaults were made at the time and in the manner prescribed, and both failed, costing us many valuable lives, among them those of Generals Harker and McCook; Colonel Rice and others badly wounded. Our aggregate loss being near 3,000, while we inflicted comparatively little loss to the enemy, who lay behind his wellformed breastworks.

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