 Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded on all sides by a dense forest filled with a tangled undergrowth, in the midst of which breastworks of logs had been constructed, with trees felled in front so as to form an almost...  American Campaigns, by Mathew Forney Steele - Stran 338avtor: United States. Military Information Division. War Department - 1909Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1866 - 602 strani
...but he found Hooker in a position of such strength that he hesitated. Lee says: — " The enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded on all sides by a dense forest, filled with tangled undergrowth, in the midst of which breastworks of logs had been constructed, with trees felled... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 868 strani
...pursued by our troops, until they arrived within about one mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded...had | been constructed, with trees felled in front «o as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his... | |
 | John William Jones - 1879 - 402 strani
...mile of Chancellorsville, and close up to the enemy's entrenchments. Here, as he says, the enemy had "assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded on all sides by a dense forest, filled with tangled undergrowth, in the midst of which breastworks of logs had been constructed with trees felled... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1889 - 1294 strani
...pursued by our troops until they arrived within about 1 mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded...His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be approached from the front, and commanded the adjacent woods. The left of his... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1882 - 280 strani
...could have been found. Both Lee and Stuart regarded it as well chosen. Lee says: " Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded...constructed, with trees felled in front, so as to form an impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be approached... | |
 | Armistead Lindsay Long, Marcus Joseph Wright - 1886 - 760 strani
...pursued by our troops until they arrived within about one mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded...His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be approached from the front, and commanded the adjacent woods. The left of his... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - 1890 - 554 strani
...pursued by our troops until they arrived within about one mile of Chancellorsville. Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded...His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be approached from the front, and commanded the adjacent woods. The left of his... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 554 strani
...and Lenders." Vol. III., p. IN. Report Committee on Conduct of the War, 1865. Part I., p. 64. ural strength, surrounded on all sides by a dense forest,...His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be approached from the front and commanded theadjacent woods." — General Lee,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 548 strani
...Battles and I.ender3." Vol. III., p. 169. Report Committee on Conduct of the War, 1s66. Part I., PM ural strength, surrounded on all sides by a dense forest,...almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the fewnarrow roads by which his position could be approached from the front and commanded the adjacent... | |
 | Mary Anna Jackson - 1891 - 526 strani
...which they fell hack to Chancellorsvillc, where, according to the report of General Lee, they " had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded...front, so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. Their artillery swept the few narrow roads by which the position could be approached 'from the front,... | |
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