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Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ound themselves 212 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY within range ot the guns aboard the boats onthe Tennessee River, and shells from the gun-boats began to play havoc in the Confederatelines. But this could not be helped. It wasthe price of success. The afternoon was ad-vancing, and Beauregard hastened to the taskof the turning of the left before darkness shouldmake further fighting impossible. Across theground that divided Federal from Confederateran a deep scar, and on the shoulder ot theopposite bank of this Grant had thrown up reporting the state of things after the first daysfight, said : At six oclock p.m. we were in possession ofall his encampments between Owl (a tributaryof Snake Creek) and Lick Creeks but one,nearly all his field artillery, about thirty flags,colours, and standards, over three thousandprisoners, including a division commander(General Prentiss) and several brigade com-manders, thousands of small-arms, an immensesupply of subsistence, forage, and munition! cf
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SIIILOH BATTLE-FlEt.n : JCENE WHERE GENLRAL JOHNSTON FELL. some hasty breastworks. When the Southern-ers dashed into this gully, shot and shell fromthe gunboats on the river shrieked up thelength of it, and an appalling rifle-fire camedown the slope and into the mass of men thatstruggled forward to take the breastwork. Th-aFederals were at their last resource. It thebreastwork should be taken, and their leftturned, it meant the end of all things to them.The Confederates, too, were in desperation, fornight was falling upon the land, and victory stillunwon. Into the valley they poured, and upthe bank they struggled and scrambled, butscarcely one of them reached the top. Shotand shell and bayonet-thrust soon filled thevalley with Southern dead and wounded ; andwhile the fight still continued, darkness fell, andput an end to the days struggle. Beauregard, war, and a large amount of means of transpor-tation—all the substantial fruits of a completevictor)—such, indeed, as rarely have fo

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