. The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson . lied their deadlywork. It was a fight in which
. The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson . lied their deadlywork. It was a fight in which therewas no desire for quarter—no wish tosave or be saved. Two great com-manders Mere pitted against each other;and the men were animated by thespirit of their chiefs. In his extremity,Hooker called on Doubleday for aid;and a brigade under Hartsuff was for-warded at the double-quick. This bri-gade was terribly punished in pushingits way across the cornfield. It offereda gallant resistance; but it could notturn the tide of battle. In the briefstruggle of half an hour Hartsuff fell,severely wounded. The opposing forceswere literally torn to shreds. In hisofficial report of this fierce Jackson says: The both sides was terrific. At anearly hour. General Starke, command-ing the Stonewall division, was killed ;Colonel Douglas, commanding Law-tons brigade, was also killed. Gen-eral Lawton, commanding division, andColonel Walker, commanding brigade,were severely wounded. More thanhalf the brigades of Lawton and Hays. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY THE AIR ALIVE WITH BULLETS. 321 were either killed or wounded, andmore than a third of Trimbles. Allthe regimental commanders in thosebiigades, except two, were either killedor wounded. Thinned in their ranks,and their ammunition exhausted, itwas necessary to withdraw the shatteredregiments to the rear, when Hoods di-vision, of Longstreets command, tooktheir place. Hookers corps had simi-larly suffered. Indeed, Gene
Size: 1148px × 2177px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidpictorialhis, bookyear1881
