Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry: Comprising a Sketch of the Life of General Kilpatrick : with an Account of the Cavalry Raids, Engagements, and Operations Under His Command : from the Beginning of the Rebellion to the Surrender of JohnstonW.J. Widdleton, 1865 - 245 pagine |
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advance Aldie arms artillery attack barricades Brandy Station brave bravery bridge brigade Buford burning camp campaign Captain captured Castle Thunder cavalry command charge Colonel Colonel Atkins columns corps Court-House Creek crossed Culpepper Dahlgren daring defeat desperate destroyed encamped enemy enemy's fell field fight Fitzhugh Lee flank force Ford gallant Georgia Gettysburg glorious grand Gregg guns Hampton Harris Light HEAD-QUARTERS heart honor Hooker horse hundred Judson Kilpatrick Kilpatrick leader Lee's Libby Prison Lieutenant Little Round Top Lynch River Macon Major-General mand miles military Milledgeville moved movement night officers Ohio Cavalry ordered patriotism picket Pleasanton Potomac prisoners railroad rapidly Rappahannock reached rear rebel army rebel cavalry rebel infantry regiment repulsed retreat Richmond River road rode sabre Second Kentucky Cavalry sent Sherman skirmish soldiers South splendid Stevensburg Stuart success town troops victory W. T. SHERMAN Waynesboro West Point Wheeler wounded young
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Pagina 70 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Pagina 223 - I beg to assure you, that for every soldier of mine "murdered" by you, I shall have executed at once two of yours, giving, in all cases, preference to any officers who may be in my hands. In reference to the statement you make regarding the death of your foragers, I have only to say that I know nothing of it; that no orders given by...
Pagina 137 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.1 But this eternal blazon* must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Pagina 224 - I shall hold fifty-six of your men as hostages for those whom you have ordered to be executed. "I am yours, etc., (Signed) "WADE HAMPTON,
Pagina 224 - ... its ruins thousands of old men and helpless women and children, who are likely to perish of starvation and exposure. Your line of march can be traced by the lurid light of burning houses, and, in more than one household, there is an agony far more bitter than death.
Pagina 222 - ... about three miles from Feasterville. I have ordered a similar number of prisoners in our hands to be disposed of in like manner. I hold about 1,000 prisoners captured in various ways, and can stand it as long as you ; but I hardly think these murders are committed with your knowledge, and would suggest that you give notice to the people at large that every life taken by them simply results in the death of one of your Confederates. Of course you cannot question my right to "forage on the country.
Pagina 224 - I have only to request that when you have any of my men disposed of, or "murdered," for the terms appear to be synonymous with you, you will let me hear of it, in order that I may know what action to take In the matter. In the meantime I shall hold fifty-six of your men as hostages for those whom you have ordered to be executed. I am yours, etc., WADE HAMPTON, Lieutenant-General.
Pagina 222 - I have no doubt this is the occasion of much misbehavior on the part of our men, but I cannot permit an enemy to judge or punish with wholesale murder. Personally, I regret the bitter feelings engendered by this war, but they were to be expected, and I simply allege that those who struck the first blow, and made war inevitable, ought not, in fairness, to reproach us for the natural consequences. I merely assert our war-right to forage, and my resolve to protect my foragers to the extent of life for...
Pagina 200 - Harris Light!" Back, the "Tenth New York!" Reform your squadrons and charge!' "With magical alacrity the order was obeyed, and the two regiments, which had been so humbled by their first reverse, now rushed into the fight with a spirit and success which redeemed them from censure, and accounted them worthy of their gallant leader. The commanding position was won; a battery...
Pagina 221 - GENERAL: It is officially reported to me that our foraging parties are murdered after capture and labelled, "Death to all foragers.