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" Keep to your sabres, men, keep to your sabres!" for the lessons they had learned at Brandy Station and at Aldie had been severe. There the cry had been: "Put up your sabres! Draw your pistols and fight like gentlemen!" But the sabre was never a favorite... "
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography - Page 21
1911
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History of the First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry: From Its ...

William Penn Lloyd - History - 1864 - 218 pages
...charge, a bold and audacious rebel rode forward from their ranks and called out, " Put up your sabres, put up your sabres, draw your pistols and fight like gentlemen ;" but the mechanics, farmers and laborers of Pennsylvania placed too great confidence in their tried blades and...
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The Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants North and South

Bookbinding - 1879 - 810 pages
...sabres!" for the lessons they had learned at Brandy Station and at Aldic had been severe. There the cry had been : " Put up your sabres ! Draw your pistols...demon. The columns of the Confederates blended, but the perfect alignment was maintained. Chester put charge after charge of canister into their midst,...
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The First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg: An Address Delivered Before the ...

Chapman Biddle - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1880 - 56 pages
...sabres !' for the lessons they had learned at Brandy Station and at Aldie had been severe. There the cry had been, ' Put up your sabres ! Draw your pistols...past, the warnings of the present were not heeded by all."2 . . . "The successful re1 Three Months in the Southern States, by Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle,...
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Reynolds Memorial: Addresses Delivered Before the Historical Society of ...

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Generals - 1880 - 112 pages
...sabres !' for the lessons they had learned at Brandy Station and at Aldie had been severe. There the cry had been, ' Put up your sabres ! Draw your pistols...past, the warnings of the present were not heeded by all."2 . . . "The successful re1 Three Months in the Southern States, by Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle,...
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The Great Invasion of 1863: Or, General Lee in Pennsylvania. Embracing an ...

Jacob Hoke - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1887 - 644 pages
...sabres! ' for the lessons they had learned at Brandy Station and at Aldie had been severe. There the cry had been: 'Put up your sabres! Draw your pistols...gentlemen!' But the sabre was never a favorite weapon with Confederate cavalry, and now, in spite of the lessons of the past, the warnings of the present were...
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The Great Invasion of 1863 ...: A Statement of the General Sickles ...

Jacob Hoke - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1887 - 644 pages
...sabres! ' for the lessons they had learned at Brandy Station and at Aldie had been severe. There the cry had been : ' Put up your sabres ! Draw your pistols...! ' But the sabre was never a favorite weapon with Confederate cavalry, and now, in spite of the lessons of the past, the warnings of the present were...
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg: Ceremonies at the Dedication of the ..., Volume 2

Pennsylvania. Gettysburg battle-field commission - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1893 - 698 pages
...and dashing Confederate officer rode forward from the ranks and called out : " Put up your sabres ; put up your sabres, draw your pistols and fight like gentlemen." But the clash and ring and sturdy strokes of our long glittering sabres answered him, and soon broke and scattered...
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg: Ceremonies at the Dedication of the ..., Volume 2

Pennsylvania. Gettysburg Battle-field Commission - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1893 - 664 pages
...official records in the War Department. t According to the writer's diary this was about 3 o'clock. •every man yelling like a demon. The columns of the Confederates blended, but the perfect alignment was maintained. Chester pat charge after charge of double canister into their...
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History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth ..., Volume 3, Part 4

United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865) - Pennsylvania - 1905 - 740 pages
...lessons they had learned at Kelly's Ford, at Brandy Station, and at Aldie had been severe. There the cry had been, "Put up your sabres ! Draw your pistols...demon. The columns of the Confederates blended, but the alignment was maintained. Chester put charge after charge of double canister into their midst,...
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Pennsylvania: A History, Volume 3

George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 664 pages
...sunlight — the spectacle called forth a murmur of admiration. It was, indeed, a memorable one. ... As the charge was ordered the speed increased, every...horse on the jump, every man yelling like a demon" (pages 22-23). The brunt of the fighting was borne by the 3d Pennsylvania and the 1st New Jersey regiments....
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