Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) (1890) (14762369242)

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Title: Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863)

Year: 1890 (1890s)

Authors: Abbot, Willis J(ohn), 1863-1934. (from old catalog)

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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & co

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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mes rushing down Hanoverstreet leading out of Fredericksburg, and crossing the canal by twobridges spreads out like a fan over the plateau. Hancock and Frenchrally their men and join in the second assault. General Couch, someof whose troops are with Hancock, goes with General Howard to thetop of a church steeple to overlook the field. It is the story ofthe first charge repeated. The Confederate artillery mows the gallantfellows down by scores, and w^hen the survivors get within point-blank range of the stone wall, up rise Cobbs men and shoot themdown by hundreds. Oh, great God! cries Howard from his k)ftyobservatory, see how our men, our poor fellows are falling. General Couch thus describes the scene he saw from the steeple:I remember that the whole plain was covered with men, prostrateand dropping, the live men running here and there, and in front clos-ing upon each other, and the wounded coming back. The> commandsseemed to be mixed up. I had never before seen fighting like that.

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THE STONE WALL AT FREDERICKSBU RG. BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. 153 nothing approaching it in terrible uproar and destruction. There wasno cheering on the part of the men, but a stubborn determination toobey orders and do their duty I dont think there was much feel-ing of success. As they charged the artillery fire would break theirformation and they would get mixed; then they would close up, goforward, receive the withering infantry fire, and those who were ablewould run to the houses and fight as best they could; and then thenext brigade coming up in succession would do its duty and meltlike snow coming down upon the warm ground. Prominent in this second charge are the green baimers that tellof the presence of Meaghers Irish brigade, and particularly savage isthe fire they draw from the Confederates, who had tested the valorof the Irishmen before. The red trousers of the zouaves, too, catchthe eyes of the artillerymen, and that picturesque body of men sud-denly find themselves gett

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