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A. P. Hill advance Alabama Army of Tennessee artillery Assistant Adjutant-General Atlanta attack battalion batteries Beauregard Bragg brave brigade Brigadier-General camp campaign Captain captured cavalry charge Cleburne Colonel column command Confederate corps Cravens house creek crossed D. H. Hill directed dispatch driven duty enemy enemy's engaged fall back Federal fight fire flag flank force Fort Gregg front gallant gallantly Georgia Gettysburg Gregg guns halted Hardee Hardee's headquarters heavy Hill's honor Hood horse hour hundred yards infantry Jackson Jonesboro July killed Lee's Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General line of battle Longstreet Lookout loss Major Major-General Manassas ment miles Mississippi Mississippi regiment morning mountain movement night North Carolina o'clock P. M. occupied official report ordered Pender picket Polk position prisoners railroad reached rear received regiment retire retreat Richmond ridge river road rode says sent Sherman skirmishers soldier soon Stuart Tennessee tion troops woods wounded
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Page 102 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light. What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight. O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 278 - Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing — a private or two now and then Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost — only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac...
Page 278 - Far away in the cot on the mountain. His musket falls slack; his face, dark and grim, Grows gentle with memories tender, As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep, For their mother; may Heaven defend her!
Page 472 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 180 - The field to be white, the length double the width of the flag, with the union (now used as the...
Page 281 - In reviewing the achievements of the army during the present campaign, the Commanding General cannot withhold the expression of his admiration of the indomitable courage it has displayed in battle, and its cheerful endurance of privation and hardship on the march.
Page 535 - Gene'ral Pender has since died. This lamented officer has borne a distinguished part in every engagement of this army, and was wounded on several occasions while leading his command with conspicuous gallantry and ability.
Page 479 - Breckinridge, commanding the reserve, the country is greatly indebted for the zeal, intelligence, and energy, with which all orders were executed ; for the foresight and military ability they displayed in the absence of instructions in the many exigencies of the battle on a field so densely wooded and broken, and for their fearless deportment as they repeatedly led their commands personally to the onset upon their powerful adversary. It was under these circumstances that General Bragg had two horses...
Page 278 - ... vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken ; Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, He dashes off tears that are welling, And gathers his gun closer up to its place, As if to keep down the heart-swelling.