 | Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...Corps' front and its batteries, when suddenly a terrific fire from every available gun on Cemetery Ridgt burst upon them. Their graceful lines underwent an...guns and knapsacks were tossed in the air, and the moan from the battlefield was heard amid the storm of battle. ' ' One half of the 14,000 perished in... | |
 | Franklin Sawyer - Ohio - 1881 - 272 pages
...graceful lines of the rebels underwent an instantaneous transformation. They were at once enveloped in a dense cloud of smoke and dust. Arms, heads, blankets, guns and knapsacks were thrown and tossed into the clear air. Their track, as they advanced, was strewn with dead and wounded.... | |
 | Fitzhugh Lee - Biography & Autobiography - 1894 - 468 pages
...interval. The front of the column was nearly up the slope and within a few yards of the Second Corps's front and its batteries, when suddenly a terrific...guns, and knapsacks were tossed in the air, and the moan from 'the battlefield was heard amid the storm of battle." Sheets of missiles flew through what... | |
 | Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 352 pages
...terrific fire from every available gun on Cemetery Ridge burst upon them. Their graceful lines under? went an instantaneous transformation in a dense cloud of...guns and knapsacks were tossed in the air, and the moan from the battlefield was heard amid the storm of battle. ' ' One half of the 14,000 perished in... | |
 | 1897 - 632 pages
...taken prisoner. To the left, the four brigades under Pettigrew and Trimble moved up gallantly, until "suddenly a terrific fire from every available gun...guns, and knapsacks were tossed in the air, and , the moan from the field was heard amid the storm of battle." It was the death-cry of the lost cause. The... | |
 | William Dudley Foulke - Men - 1910 - 270 pages
...sheet of leaden hail, mowing them down as grass by a scythe. Their graceful lines were enveloped in a cloud of smoke and dust; "arms, heads, blankets, guns and knapsacks were tossed into the air. Their track was strewn with dead and wounded; a moan went up from the field, distinctly... | |
 | William Dudley Foulke - United States - 1911 - 306 pages
...sheet of leaden hail, mowing them down as grass by a scythe. Their graceful lines were enveloped in a cloud of smoke and dust; "arms, heads, blankets, guns and knapsacks were tossed into the air. Their track was strewn with dead and wounded; a moan went up from the field, distinctly... | |
 | John Codman Ropes - United States - 1913 - 326 pages
...«44R.,647. «3B. &L., 365. '3B.&L.,375,385,386. • Walker, 294. from Cemetery Hill to the Round Tops.1 Their graceful lines underwent an instantaneous transformation...guns, and knapsacks were tossed in the air, and the moan from the battle-field was heard amid the storm of battle. 2 Both flanks of the advancing line... | |
 | John Francis O'Ryan, William Dandridge Alexander Anderson - Military art and science - 1914 - 400 pages
...of the Union line, from Cemetery Hill on the north and the Round Tops on the south. Livermore says : "Their graceful lines underwent an instantaneous transformation...guns and knapsacks were tossed in the air, and the moan from the battlefield was heard amid the storm of the battle. Both flanks of the advancing line... | |
 | Willis John Abbot - United States - 1916 - 384 pages
...graceful lines of the rebels underwent an instantaneous transformation. They were at once enveloped in a dense cloud of smoke and dust. Arms, heads, blankets, guns and knapsacks were thrown and tossed into the clear air. Their track as they advanced was strewn with dead and wounded.... | |
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Corps's front and its batteries, when suddenly a terrific fire from every available gun on Cemetery' Ridge burst upon them. Their graceful lines underwent an instantaneous transformation in a dense cloud of smoke and dust ; arms, heads, blankets, guns,... 
