Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography ...D. Appleton, 1866 - 470 頁 |
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A. P. Hill advance arms artillery Ashby assault attack Banks batteries bridge campaign Captain captured centre Centreville Chancellorsville charge cheers Chickahominy Cold Harbor Colonel column commenced Confederate corps crossed D. H. Hill defeat direction division driving enemy enemy's eral Ewell fall back Federal army Federal cavalry Federal commander Federal forces Federal line Federal troops fell field fighting fire flank ford forward fought Fredericksburg front Front Royal Gordonsville ground guns Harper's Ferry Harrisonburg heavy Hooker horse infantry Jackson James River Johnston Lee's line of battle Longstreet main body Manassas Martinsburg McClellan ment miles military morning moved movement night officers passed pieces of artillery Port Republic position Potomac Railroad Rappahannock reached rear reënforcements regiments repulsed retired retreat Richmond river road seemed sent Shenandoah soldier soon Stonewall Brigade Stonewall Jackson Stuart tion took town turnpike valley victory Virginia Warrenton whole Winchester woods wounded
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第 136 頁 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, , Good Lord, deliver us.
第 360 頁 - President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Your army must move now, while the roads are good.
第 440 頁 - I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy.
第 251 頁 - The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy.
第 171 頁 - Ashby bore to my command, for most of the previous twelve months, will justify me in saying that, as a partisan officer, I never knew his superior. His daring was proverbial, his powers of endurance almost incredible, his tone of character heroic, and his sagacity almost intuitive in divining the purposes and movements of the enemy.
第 351 頁 - No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
第 98 頁 - My dear Sir : — You and I have distinct and different plans for a movement of the Army of the Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River; mine to move directly to a point on the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours.
第 99 頁 - In fact, would it not be less valuable in this, that it would break no great line of the enemy's communications, while mine would? Fifth. In case of disaster, would not a retreat be more difficult by your plan than mine?
第 445 頁 - PM The daring, skill, and energy of this great and good soldier, by the decree of an all-wise Providence, are now lost to us. But while we mourn his death, we feel that his spirit still lives, and will inspire the whole army...