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action advance afterward Alabama arms army Army of Tennessee artillery attack Baton Rouge battalion battle of Chickamauga battle of Hartsville battle of Shiloh Bowling Green Bragg Breckinridge Breckinridge's division Brigadier-General Buckner Burnsville camp Captain cavalry charge Chattanooga Chickamauga Cobb's Battery Colonel Hunt Comite River command conduct Confederate Corinth corps defense duty encamped enemy enemy's engaged eral Federal field fire flank force forward Fourth Kentucky front gallant gallantry guns halted Hanson Hardee Hardee's Hartsville HEAD-QUARTERS Helm hill honor horse hundred yards infantry John Johnston Kentuckians Kentucky Brigade killed Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General line of battle Major Major-General mand ment miles military Mississippi morning moved movement Murfreesboro Nashville night Ninth Kentucky Regiment occupied officers organization party pickets position Preston rear received river road Second Kentucky sent Shiloh Sixth skirmishers soldiers soon South staff Tennessee tion took Trabue tucky Vicksburg
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Page 462 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 507 - Johnson, Provisional Governor of Kentucky, who went into action with the Kentucky troops, and continually inspired them by his words and example. Having His horse shot under him on Sunday, he entered the ranks of a Kentucky regiment on Monday, and fell mortally wounded toward the close of the day.
Page 42 - The Legislature adjourned on the 24th — the Senate having just resolved that " Kentucky will not sever connection with the National Government, nor take up arms for either belligerent party ; but arm herself for the preservation of peace within her borders;" and tendering their services as mediators to effect a just and honorable peace.
Page 144 - GENERAL : In compliance with your request, I have the honor to submit the...
Page 333 - Esq., a committee of five was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting.
Page 38 - Kentucky should promptly unsheath her sword in behalf of what will then have become a common cause. Such an event, if it should occur — of which we confess there does not appear to us to be a rational probability — could have but one meaning, a meaning which a people jealous of their liberty would be keen to detect, and which a people worthy of liberty would be prompt and fearless to resist. When Kentucky detects this meaning in the action of the government, she ought, without counting the cost,...
Page 187 - Steele of the Fourth Kentucky to drive back the enemy's skirmishers, we were enabled to see that he was occupying with infantry and artillery the crest of a gentle slope on the east bank of the river. The course of the crest formed a little less than a right angle with Hanson's line, from which the center of the position I was afterward ordered to attack was distant about sixteen hundred yards.
Page 189 - ... after a brief but bloody conflict, routed both the opposing lines, took 400 prisoners and several flags, and drove their artillery and the great body of their infantry across the river. Many were killed at the water's edge. Their artillery took time by the forelock in crossing the stream. A few of our men in their ardor actually crossed over before they could be prevented, most of whom subsequently, moving up under the west bank, recrossed at a ford three-quarters of a mile above.
Page 49 - ... sustained by various tribes, which, indeed, all dwelt on English ground, but which regarded each other with aversion such as has scarcely ever existed between communities separated by physical barriers ; for even the mutual animosity of countries at war with each other is languid when compared with the animosity of nations which, morally separated, are yet locally intermingled.
Page 507 - ... of so large a number of those who were killed or disabled, including the commander of the forces, whose high qualities will be greatly missed in the momentous campaign impending. I deeply regret to record also the death of the Hon. George W.