The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers: Or A Three Years' Campaign Through Missour, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, with a Description of the Country, Towns, Skirmishes and Battles...hall & Hutchinson, printers, 1865 - 243 pages |
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Page 70
... shot down at their guns , and death was sweeping the ranks . Most of these young patriots , had recently came from their peaceful homes , and had never before heard the spiteful whistle of a hostile bullet . It is not strange that a ...
... shot down at their guns , and death was sweeping the ranks . Most of these young patriots , had recently came from their peaceful homes , and had never before heard the spiteful whistle of a hostile bullet . It is not strange that a ...
Page 71
... shot and shell from Captain Totten's battery , and soon became general . In vain did the rebel host endeavor to drive Lyon from his well chosen position . On the right , on the left , and in front , they assailed him , in charge ...
... shot and shell from Captain Totten's battery , and soon became general . In vain did the rebel host endeavor to drive Lyon from his well chosen position . On the right , on the left , and in front , they assailed him , in charge ...
Page 72
... shot under him ; three times he had been wounded , and , though faint from the loss of blood , he refused to retire even to have his wounds dressed ; in vain did his offi- cers beseech him to avoid so much exposure . It was one of those ...
... shot under him ; three times he had been wounded , and , though faint from the loss of blood , he refused to retire even to have his wounds dressed ; in vain did his offi- cers beseech him to avoid so much exposure . It was one of those ...
Page 75
... shot fell short , and a shell exploded over the heads of our men sta- tioned on the opposite hill , doing no damage . Captain Hardin , of the Ninth Iowa Battery , answered the enemy's fire from the opposite bluff , throwing three ...
... shot fell short , and a shell exploded over the heads of our men sta- tioned on the opposite hill , doing no damage . Captain Hardin , of the Ninth Iowa Battery , answered the enemy's fire from the opposite bluff , throwing three ...
Page 77
... shot down . He fell with the horse , dismounted , and leaped upon another horse in the melee , and rushed forward on the enemy with re- newed vigor . Like Edwards , he had no business in the fight , but nothing could keep him from ...
... shot down . He fell with the horse , dismounted , and leaped upon another horse in the melee , and rushed forward on the enemy with re- newed vigor . Like Edwards , he had no business in the fight , but nothing could keep him from ...
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