The Campaigns of the Confederate ArmyFoote and Davies, 1901 - 107 頁 |
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A. P. Hill advance Alabama arms Army of Tennessee artillery assault Atlanta attack battle battle of Chickamauga Beauregard Bragg breastworks brigade Buckner Buell Burnside camp campaign Captain captured Carolinians cavalry charge Chattanooga Chickamauga Cold Harbor command Confederacy Confederates Corinth Creek crossed Cumberland D. H. Hill defeat defenses destroyed Donelson Dorn driven back drove enemy enemy's entrenchments eral Federal army field fight fire Fitzhugh Lee flank forces Forrest Fort Donelson Fort Henry fought Fredericksburg front gallant Georgia Gettysburg Grant gunboats guns Hardee Hill Hood horses hundred ironclad killed Lee's Longstreet lost Manassas marched McClelland miles Missionary Ridge Mississippi morning moved Murfreesboro Nashville night North ordered Polk position raid railroad rear regiment reinforcements retreat Richmond River rode Rosecrans sent Sherman Shiloh shot side Sidney Johnston soldier South Spottsylvania Stonewall Jackson Stuart surrendered Tennessee River thou thousand Federals three thousand troops vessels Vicksburg victory Virginia Washington wounded
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第 37 頁 - Never mind, General, all this has been MY fault — it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.
第 79 頁 - It must be remembered that we make war only upon armed men, and that we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without lowering ourselves in the eyes of all whose abhorrence has been excited by the atrocities of our...
第 79 頁 - We consumed the corn and fodder in the region of country thirty miles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah; also the sweet potatoes, hogs, sheep and poultry, and carried off more than ten thousand horses and mules. I estimate the damage done to the State of Georgia at one hundred million dollars, at least twenty millions of which enured to our benefit, and the remainder was simply waste and destruction.
第 79 頁 - RH Anderson, in his report of the Gettysburg campaign, says: "The conduct of my troops was in the highest degree praiseworthy. Obedient to the order of the commanding general, they refrained from retaliating upon the enemy for outrages inflicted upon their homes. Peaceable inhabitants suffered no molestation. In a land of plenty, they often suffered hunger and want. One-fourth their number marched ragged and barefooted through towns in which merchants were known to have concealed ample supplies of...
第 95 頁 - will change the whole character of the war; she will destroy, seriatim, every naval vessel; she will lay all the cities on the seaboard under contribution. I shall immediately recall Burnside; Port Royal must be abandoned. I will notify the governors and municipal authorities in the North to take instant measures to protect their harbors.
第 96 頁 - On the cautious approach of the enemy, who kept at a respectful distance, he landed his crew, cut her from her moorings, fired her with his own hands, and turned her adrift down the river. With every gun shotted, our flag floating from her bow, and not a man on board, the, Arkansas bore down upon the enemy and gave him battle.
第 25 頁 - ... between the armies their dead lay in such numbers as civilised war has seldom seen. So fearful had been the carnage, and comprised within such narrow limits, that a Federal patrol, it is related, passing into the corn-field, where the fighting had been fiercest, believed that they had surprised a whole Confederate brigade. There, in the shadow of the woods, lay the skirmishers, their muskets beside them, and there, in regular ranks, lay the line of battle, sleeping, as it seemed, the profound...
第 79 頁 - 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.
第 47 頁 - I do not care to die, but I pray God I may never leave this field," he said.(') He might have remained, and with the reinforcements sent by Meade renewed the attack in the morning, but he thought it better to accept defeat and withdraw. A despatch came from Meade directing him to return. General Lee, at the same time, while rejoicing over what Hill and Heth had accomplished...