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Title: The great Civil War : a history of the late rebellion, with biographical sketches of leading statesmen also distinguished naval and military commanders, etc.
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Tomes, Robert, 1817-1882 Smith, Benjamin G
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Publisher: New York : Virtue and Yorston
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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RETREAT FROM BALLS BLUFF. 583 leys from Harrisons Island, but throw-ing a plunging fire upon the retiringloyalists, and aiming ruthlessly at thehundreds trying to swim the rapid riverchannel. Why should I describe thatfinal scene ?—the tumult and agony ofthat headlong descent, the clamor andcrowd along the shore, the rush into onewretched skiff, already over-laden withwounded men, which forced it beneaththe surface and brought the horror ofdeath by water upon men who hadalready so fairly faced the battle-field.I recoil from thinking of those who,struck down by the fire from above,slipped in their own blood upon theclayey river bank ; of those who wastedtoo feeble strength in swimming halfway across the cruel stream ; of theshouts for help where no help came.But I record with satisfaction the de-termination of Beiral and his few asso-cates, who dragged their cannon to theedge of the hill, rolling it over and be-yond the enemys reach. And whatmore gallant than the stubborn refusalof t

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