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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksOther editions - View allCommon terms and phrases2d Corps 6th Corps A. P. Hill advance ambulances Appomattox Court House Army of Potomac artillery asked assault attack batteries Brandy Station breastworks brevet bridge brigade Burkeville Burnside camp campaign cannon Captain cavalry City Point Colonel command crossed Culpeper division enemy enemy's eral fight fire flag flank front George Gordon Meade Grant Griffin guns Hancock head Headquarters Army heavy horses Humphreys infantry Jetersville killed last night look Lyman Lyman's Journal marched Meade miles military minie ball morning move musketry officers ordered Peeble house Petersburg picket line plank road pontoon bridge poor position pretty prisoners railroad rear Rebel Rebs redoubt regiment Richmond ride river rode round sent shells Sheridan shot side skirmishers soldiers sort Staff stood tell tent Theodore Lyman thing to-day told took troops waggons Warren Warrenton Washington whole woods wounded yesterday Popular passagesPage 156 - He is an odd combination; there is one good thing, at any rate — he is the concentration of all that is American. He talks bad grammar, but he talks it naturally, as much as to say, 'I was so brought up and, if I try fine phrases, I shall only appear silly. Page 126 - Sir, I consider that despatch an insult to the army I command and to me personally. The Army of the Potomac does not require General Grant's inspiration or anybody's else inspiration to make it fight! Page 101 - Why, we never saw any Rebels where we were; only smoke and bushes, and lots of our men tumbling about"; and now I appreciate this most fully. Page 81 - He habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it. Page 100 - When our line advances, there is the line of the enemy, nothing showing but the bayonets, and the battle-flags stuck on the top of the work. Page 79 - Killcavalry's raid fulfilled. I have heard many persons very indignant with him. They said he went to the President and pressed his plan; told Pleasonton he would not come back alive if he didn't succeed; that he is a frothy braggart, without brains and not over-stocked with desire to fall on the field; and that he gets all his reputation by newspapers and political influence. Page 148 - The best officers and men are liable, by their greater gallantry, to be first disabled; and, of those that are left, the best become demoralized by the failures, and the loss of good leaders; so that, very soon, the men will no longer charge entrenchments and will only go forward when driven by their officers. Page 325 - He is a very homely man, with a regular nest of wrinkles in his face, which play and twist as he eagerly talks on each subject; but his expression is pleasant and kindly. Page 238 - He is a light-haired, blue-eyed man, with a countenance as if all the world were an empty show. He stoops a good deal, when riding has the stirrups so long that the tips of his toes can just touch them, and, as he wears no boots, the bottoms of his pantaloons are always torn and ragged. He goes poking about in the most dangerous places, looking for the position of the enemy, and always with an air of entire indifference. His conversation is curt and not garnished with polite turnings. " What's that... Page 83 - He neither puts it on behind his ears, nor draws it over his eyes; much less does he cock it on one side, but sets it straight and very hard on his head. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarMeade's Pursuit of Lee, The Virginia Campaigns of the SummerSands A Robnick, USMC LTCOL - 1988 The Battle Of Sailor’s Creek: A Study In LeadershipCLOYD ALLEN SMITH JR - 2005 The Saddest Affair: A Case Study Of The Investigations Into The ...Thomas Miller, James Oberly, Kevin Weaver The Saddest Affair: A Case Study Of The Investigations Into The ...Thomas Miller, James Oberly, Kevin Weaver Bibliographic information
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