I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges the day before, so covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across the clearing, in any direction, stepping on dead bodies,... Education - Strana 3521886Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| 1885 - 980 str.
...equaled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges...on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground. On our side Federal and Confederate were mingled together in about equal proportions ; but on the remainder... | |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 614 str.
...equalled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges...on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground. On our side National and Confederate troops were mingled together in about equal proportions ; but... | |
| 1885 - 108 str.
...fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederate forces had made repeated charges the day before, so covered...walk across the clearing in any direction, stepping op dead bodies without a foot touching the ground. On our side Federal and Confederate were mingled... | |
| 1886 - 520 str.
...but , short-lived occupation. No one then believed that the war would last long. Mr. Jefferson Davis told a meeting at La Grange, Mississippi, that he...Donelson, Shiloh, and Vicksburg have generally been recognised as affording conclusive proofs of Grant's military capacity ; but his campaigns in Virginia... | |
| Henry Allon - 1886 - 550 str.
...equalled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges...bodies, without a foot touching the ground. . . . The enemy fought bravely, but they had started out to defeat and destroy an army and capture a position.... | |
| Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel - 1887 - 784 str.
...equaled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges...that it would have been possible to walk across the dealing, in any direction, stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground. On our side... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 580 str.
...says of an open field on this part of the line, overwhich repeated charges were made, that it was " so covered with dead that it would have been possible...on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground. On our side National and Confederate troops were mingled together in about equal proportions ; but... | |
| H. O. Mackey - 1890 - 360 str.
...950. War, Horrors of. -•"I SAW an open field, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges, so covered with dead, that it would have been possible...dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground." — General Grant. 951. War, Horrors of. GENERAL GRANT, speaking of the after-results of the battle... | |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1892 - 612 str.
...equalled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges...on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground. On our side National and Confederate troops were mingled together in about equal proportions ; but... | |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1894 - 694 str.
...injustice, and if convinced that I have done one, I am always willing to make the fullest admission. day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges...with dead that it would have been possible to walk aeross the clearing, in any direction, stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground.... | |
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