 | 1869 - 468 strani
...the enemy's musketry and artillery, furious as it was before, now became still hotter. The stone-wall was a sheet of flame that enveloped the head and flanks...the column. Officers and men were falling rapidly: imd the head of the column was at length brought to a stand, when close up to the wall. Up to this... | |
 | 1869 - 448 strani
...muscetry and artillery, furious as it was before, now jecame still hotter. The stone-wall was a sheet if flame that enveloped the head and flanks of the column. Officers and men were falling rapidly: and the lead of the column was at length brought to a itand, when close up to the wall. Up to this time, not... | |
 | United States. War Dept - 1902 - 1308 strani
...doing so. The effect upon my command was what I apprehended — the line was somewhat disordered, and, in part, forced to form into a column, but still advanced...became still hotter. The stone wall was a sheet of Same, that enveloped the head and flanks of the column. Officers and men were falling rapidly, and... | |
 | Francis Winthrop Palfrey - 1881 - 272 strani
...to form into a column, but still advanced rapidly. The fire of the enemy's musketry and artillery, furious as it was before, now became still hotter....to the wall. Up to this time, not a shot had been fired by the column, but now some firing began. It lasted but a minute, when, in spite of all our efforts,... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1882 - 466 strani
...to form into a column, but still advanced rapidly. The fire of the enemy's musketry and artillery, furious as it was before, now became still hotter....up to the wall. Up to this time not a shot had been fired by the column, but now some firing began. It lasted but a minute, when, in spite of all our efforts,... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1882 - 476 strani
...to form into a column, but still advanced rapidly. The fire of the enemy's musketry and artillery, furious as it was before, now became still hotter....that enveloped the head and flanks of the column. Off1cers and men were falling rapidly i and the head of the column was at length brought to a stand... | |
 | Joseph Ripley Chandler Ward - 1883 - 448 strani
...to form into a column, but still advanced rapidly. The fire of the enemy's musketry and artillery, furious as it was before, now became still hotter....column was at length brought to a stand when close to the wall. Up to this time not a shot had been fired by the column, but now some firing began. It... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1886 - 810 strani
...the divisions that had made the previous assaults, but because, in General Humphreys' own words ; " the stone wall was a sheet of flame that enveloped the head and flanks of the column." Dense as was the line, four ranks deep, behind that wall, when Hancock's last attempt was made, it... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 598 strani
...over the ground under the heaviest fire of the day. " The stone wall," says Humphreys in his report, "was a sheet of flame that enveloped the head and...up to the wall. Up to this time not a shot had been fired by the column, but now some firing began ; it lasted but a minute, when in spite of all our efforts... | |
 | James Longstreet - 1895 - 808 strani
...of the city before he could get them again in ranks. His account of the last effort is interesting: "The stone wall was a sheet of flame that enveloped...up to the wall. Up to this time not a shot had been fired by the column, but now some firing began. It lasted but a minute, when, in spite of all our efforts,... | |
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The stone wall was a sheet of flame that enveloped the head and flanks of the column. Officers and men were falling rapidly, and the head of the column was at length brought to a stand when close up to the wall. Up to this time not a shot had been fired... 
