Greene County Soldiers in the Late War: Being a History of the Seventy-fourth O.V.I., with Sketches of the Twelfth, Ninety-Fourth, One Hundred and Tenth, Forty-Fourth, Tenth Ohio Battery, One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth, Fifty-Fourth, Seventeenth, Thirty-Fourth, One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth, Together with a List of Greene County's SoldiersChristian Publishing House, 1884 - 294 strani |
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advance Andrew April army arrived artillery Ass't Surgeon Atlanta August Battery Benjamin F boys brigade Camp Dennison Canaan captured cavalry Cedarville Charles Chattanooga Chorus-Ho Colonel Moody command Company comrades Corporal corps County Creek crossed Daniel David Davis division Drew rations Edward enemy enemy's engaged fell back field fight fire foraging front George George W Greene County guard halted Henry horses hospital hundred infantry Isaac Jacob James James H James McCann John W Jonesboro Joseph July June Lieut First Lieut Lieutenant marched Michael miles morning Mountain moved Murfreesboro Mustered Nashville Negley night o'clock October officers Ohio ordered passed picket prisoners Promoted to captain Railroad rain rear rebels regiment remained Resigned retreat road Robert Robert Cullen Rosencranz Samuel Second Lieut Serg't Sergeant Seventy-fourth Sheridan Sherman skirmishing Smith soldiers soon started Tennessee Thirty-fourth Thomas took troops Twelfth Virginia William William H Wilson woods Xenia
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Stran 259 - And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause...
Stran 259 - Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire.
Stran 260 - But there is a road from Winchester town, A good broad highway leading down; And there, through the flush of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night Was seen to pass as with eagle flight, As if he knew the terrible need: He stretched away with his utmost speed; Hills rose and fell, but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away.
Stran 47 - ... our right and the superior masses which were, in consequence, brought to bear upon the narrow front of Sheridan's and Negley's divisions and a part of Palmer's, coupled with the scarcity of ammunition, caused by the circuitous road which the train had taken and the inconvenience of getting it from a remote distance through the cedars.
Stran 43 - Railroad ; and to insure this work the road was guarded by a heavy force posted at Gallatin. The enormous superiority in numbers of the rebel cavalry kept our little cavalry force almost within the infantry lines, and gave the enemy control of the entire country around us.
Stran 44 - Nashville, had prepared his own winter quarters at Murfreesboro, with the hope of possibly making them at Nashville, and had sent a large cavalry force into West Tennessee to annoy Grant, and another large force into Kentucky to break up the railroad. In the absence of these forces, and with adequate supplies in Nashville, the movement was judged opportune for an advance on the rebels.
Stran 284 - O ne'er again with tripping feet he ran with the other boys, — His budding hopes were cast away as they were idle toys. But ever in our hearts he dwells, with a grace that never is old, For him the heart to duty wed can nevermore grow cold ! His heart the hero's heart we name, the loyal, true, and brave, The heart of the soldier hoar and gray, of the lad in his Southern...
Stran 29 - God for your success. Be cool. I need not ask you to be brave. Keep ranks. Do not throw away your fire. Fire slowly, deliberately — above all, fire low, and be always sure of your aim. Close readily in upon the enemy, and when you get within charging distance, rush upon him with the bayonet.
Stran 43 - November, a distance of one hundred and eighty-three miles from Louisville. At this distance from my base of supplies, the first thing to be done was to provide for the subsistence of the troops, and open the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Stran 282 - And so he fell in with the foremost ranks of brave old Company G, As we charged by the flank, with our colors ahead, and our columns closed up like a V, In the long swinging lines of that splendid advance, when the flags of our corps floated out Like the ribbons that dance in the jubilant lines of the march of a gala day rout. He charged with the ranks, though he carried no gun, for the Colonel had said him nay, And he breasted the blast of the bristling guns and the shock of the sickening fray ;...