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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 24 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 21 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 17 3 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 14 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 9 1 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1864., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 27 (search)
den light, while the smoke from the cannon's mouth and bursting shell, rolled gently upward in dark columns, or whirling aloft, chasing itself in graceful rings like a thing of beauty. As night drew on we could see the fire in rapid succession leaping out from the cannon's mouth, displaying a scene of grandeur and awe. For six and eight miles distant, the windows of dwellings rattled as if an earthquake was at work. It was thought best that but few should cross until morning. Our division (Howe's) retired from the river to the mountain and bivouacked in the woods till morning. Friday morning before the sun was up we were under motion. We soon stood along the bank, while thousands were hurriedly dashing their way to the opposite shore. It was a bright sunny morning, and the church spires of Frederick City were full in view. The smoky sky and the clouds of thin foggy vapor were fleeing away, while the gleaming of a hundred thousand guns greeted our eyes. The tramp of the war-ho
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 164 (search)
ng down the creek, and was now out of range. One hundred and twenty-five of the sick troops of General Sherman were put on board the Carondelet, and many on other. vessels. Wednesday, March 25.--On the way down, the boats stopped at the plantations and took aboard what cotton could be. conveniently carried, and the rest was destroyed. Some of the soldiers, on their own responsibility, burned three or four buildings. All the boats took on what cotton they could. Two prisoners, Dean and Howe, who had been detained, were released and sent ashore. On Wednesday, Gen. Sherman's sick were put ashore at Hill's. Information reached here that the Dew Drop, with one thousand two hundred rebel soldiers, had followed as far as Little Deer Creek, six miles distant. Late in the afternoon, Gen. Sherman's force were engaged in skirmishing with a rebel force near by. One of the Eighty-third Indiana was killed. The rebels had three regiments of infantry and one of cavalry. Thursday, 26.--At
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 193 (search)
, when, with other regiments of the Light brigade, it was moved to the right, and in the direction of Banks's Ford, to feel for the enemy and keep open the communication with the ford. At about dusk the regiment, with another, was sent to support Howe's division, which was being heavily attacked. The regiment was under a heavy fire from musketry; fortunately, with little loss, Captain Crepps and five enlisted men being wounded. The design of the enemy, to cut our communication, being foiled, n the morning of the third instant, the head of the column was moving up the Bowling Green road into Fredericksburgh. Then the action commenced. Newton's division and the Light brigade occupied the streets of Fredericksburgh. This division, General Howe commanding, occupied the Bowling Green road, just outside and on the left of Fredericksburgh, its right resting on a creek which flows into the Rappahannock immediately on the left of Fredericksburgh. Commanding Fredericksburgh are two rang