. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. isG2.] Ungenerous and Unchivalrous Terms. 231. 232 Wonder of the Confederate Troops. L18^- The rebels, in faded gray, stood mournfully beside theirgreat piles of muskets and shot-guns, wondering at theNorthern horde.: Many, from the mountains of Tennes-see and Kentucky, were Union men at heart. Their garbwas motley. Some had blankets wrapped around them;others, old pieces of carpet, quilts, and buffalo arms consisted of single and double barreled shot-guns, old Kentucky rifles, and flint-lock muskets, with her
. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. isG2.] Ungenerous and Unchivalrous Terms. 231. 232 Wonder of the Confederate Troops. L18^- The rebels, in faded gray, stood mournfully beside theirgreat piles of muskets and shot-guns, wondering at theNorthern horde.: Many, from the mountains of Tennes-see and Kentucky, were Union men at heart. Their garbwas motley. Some had blankets wrapped around them;others, old pieces of carpet, quilts, and buffalo arms consisted of single and double barreled shot-guns, old Kentucky rifles, and flint-lock muskets, with hereand there a modern piece. All the lighting had been in the woods. There were someleaves still on the trees, and the confederates in gray wereso near the color of the landscape that it was difficultto detect them. Our men came unsuspectingly right uponthem, to meet deadly reception from their double-barreledshot-guns, the most effective weapons in a close contest. The rebel water-battery was very strong, but the fortitself was a wilderness of zigzags and abatis spreading overa large area, formidable to the eye but
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