 | Loomis T. Palmer - Generals - 1885 - 740 pages
...despair. In numbers engaged, no such contest ever took place on this continent. In importance of result, but few such have taken place in the history of the world." Three years after, General Sherman, in a speech delivered at St. Louis, on the lyth of July, 1865,... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - Generals - 1885 - 788 pages
...despair. In numbers engaged, no such contest ever took place on this continent. In Importance of result, but few such have taken place in the history of the world." Three years after, General Sherman, in a speech delivered at St. Louis, on the I9th of July, 1865,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1886 - 528 pages
...despair. In numbers engaged, no such contest ever took place on this continent. In importance of result, but few such have taken place in the history of the world." General Grant would have moved immediately upon the rebel works at Corinth, while Beauregard's force... | |
 | Augustus Washington Alexander - Biography & Autobiography - 1887 - 280 pages
...despair. In numbers engaged no such contest ever took place on this continent. In importance of result, but few such have taken place in the history of the...commanding to make special notice of the brave wounded and of those killed upon the field. "Whilst they leave friends and relations to mourn their loss, they... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1889 - 456 pages
...despair. In numbers engaged, no such contest ever took place on this continent. In importance of result, but few such have taken place in the history of the world." General Grant would have moved immediately upon the rebel works at Corinth, while Beauregard's force... | |
 | Indiana. Shiloh National Park Commission - Indiana - 1904 - 324 pages
...the Battle GENERAL ORDERS, No. 34. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, PITTSBURG, April 8, 1802. The General Commanding congratulates the troops who...friends and relatives to mourn their loss, they have won я nation's gratitude and undying laurels not to be forgotten by future generations, who will enjoy... | |
 | John Trotwood Moore, Austin Powers Foster - Tennessee - 1923 - 1010 pages
...during the war, and but few in the East equaled it for hard, determined fighting." And again he said: "No such contest ever took place on this continent in importance of results; but few have taken place in the history of the world." Tennessee was represented on all parts of the field... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1058 pages
...[Снлр. XXII nent ; in importance of résulte, but lew such have taken place in the history of tbe world. Whilst congratulating the brave and gallant...general commanding to make special notice of the brave wonnded and those killed upon the field. Whilst they leave friends and relatives to mourn their loss,... | |
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... position, repulsed and routed a numerically superior force of the enemy, composed of the flower of the Southern army, commanded by their ablest generals, and fought by them with all the desperation of despair. In numbers engaged no such contest ever... 
