 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1889 - 1294 pages
...columns with crushing power. The heads of the columns were swept away to the woods, from which they opened a furious but ineffectual fire of musketry....order, and forming in lines of brigades in rear of the artillery.aud on the flanks. My position was now secure in the adequate infantry support which had... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1882 - 280 pages
...columns with crushing power. The heads of the columns were swept away to the woods, from which they opened a furious, but ineffectual, fire of musketry....the advance of Whipple and Birney, who were coming np rapidly, but in perfect order, and forming in lines of brigades in rear of the artillery and on... | |
 | William Henry Powell - United States - 1895 - 1076 pages
...the American color,, and displayed 8 or zo rebel battle flags." away to the woods, from which they opened a furious but ineffectual fire of musketry....attempted a flank movement, but the first was checked by the artillery, and the second and most formidable was baffled by the advance of Whipple and Birney,... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1896 - 227 pages
...double-shotted with canister. The heads of the columns were swept away to the woods, from which they opened a furious but ineffectual fire of musketry....in the adequate infantry support which had arrived. The loud cheers of our men as twilight closed the combat vainly challenged the enemy to renew the encounter."... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1896 - 234 pages
...double-shotted with canister. The heads of the columns were swept away to the woods, from which they opened a furious but ineffectual fire of musketry....in the adequate infantry support which had arrived. The loud cheers of our men as twilight closed the combat vainly challenged the enemy to renew the encounter."... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 1306 pages
...columns with crushing power. The heads of the columns were swept away to the woods, from which they opened a furious but ineffectual fire of musketry....formidable was baffled by the advance of Whipple and Biruey, who were coming up rapidly, but in perfect order, and forming in lines of brigades in rear... | |
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The heads of the columns were swept away to the woods, from which they opened a furious but ineffectual fire of musketry. Twice they attempted a flank movement, but the first was checked by our guns, and the second and most formidable was baffled by the... 