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4th corps 79th Ind advance arms ARMY CORPS Artillery assault Atlanta campaign attack battle of Chickamauga battle of Nashville Bragg Bragg's army Brannan's breastworks BRIG.-GEN brigade Buell Bushrod Johnson camp captured cavalry cent Charles Cruft Chattanooga Civil Cleve's division columns command Confederacy Confederate army Crittenden Cumberland Davis enemy enlisted eral Federal army Federal troops field fighting fire force fought front Grant guns Halleck Hood Hooker Indiana John Johnson Kentucky killed Lincoln Longstreet Lookout Mountain Louisville MAJ.-GEN McClellan McCook ment miles military Missionary Ridge morning movement Murfreesboro Nashville nearly Negley's negroes night North numbers and losses numbers engaged officers Ohio Battery passed picket position Potomac rear reenforcements regiment retreat rifle-pits road Rosecrans Samuel Beatty sent Sheridan Sheridan's division Sherman skirmish slaves soldiers South Stanton Stone's River Thomas Thomas's tion to-day Total Union armies Union cause Wood Wood's division wounded
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Page 129 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 4 - Your dispatch is received. In answer I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States.
Page 35 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 262 - How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view, The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.
Page 44 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies...
Page 44 - I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies.
Page 31 - I have had no communication with General Grant for more than a week. He left his command without my authority and went to Nashville. His army seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Fort Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Run.
Page 272 - ... shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the court.
Page 239 - It seems as awful as a visible interposition of God. Neither Grant nor Thomas intended it. Their orders were to carry the rifle-pits along the base of the ridge and capture their occupants, but when this was accomplished the unaccountable spirit of the troops bore them bodily up those impracticable steeps, over the bristling rifle-pits on the crest and the thirty cannon enfilading every gully.
Page 217 - Chickamauga; his crossing to be protected by artillery from the heights on the north bank of the river (to be located by your chief of artillery), and to...