. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . ar the point, we deserieil iii the distance the dome of the roar dying away in the distance. Theeffeet of this mans Capitol. We would be there at least in time to defend presence upon the Army of the Potomac —in sunshine it! Darkness eaiue upon us and still we marched. As the or rain, in darkness or in daylight, in victory or defeat night wore on, we found at each halt that it was more —was electrical, and too wonderful to make it worth
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . ar the point, we deserieil iii the distance the dome of the roar dying away in the distance. Theeffeet of this mans Capitol. We would be there at least in time to defend presence upon the Army of the Potomac —in sunshine it! Darkness eaiue upon us and still we marched. As the or rain, in darkness or in daylight, in victory or defeat night wore on, we found at each halt that it was more —was electrical, and too wonderful to make it worth and more difficult to arouse the men from the sleep into while attempting to give a reason for it. Just two weeks Which they would fall apparently as soon as they touched from this time this defeated army, under the leadership the ground. During one of these halts, while Colonel of McClellan. won the battles of South Mountain and Buchanan, the brigade commander, was resting a little Antietam, having marched ten days out of the two off the road, some distance in advance of the head of weeks in order to do it. THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 49. Washington, August 31st, 1862. 11 a. Dear General: You have done nobly. Dont yield another inch if you can avoid reserves are being sent forward. ... I am doing all I can for you and your noblearmy. God bless you and it. . H. W. Halleck, General-in-chief. The enemys cavalry appeared in front of Cub Run that morning, but madeno attempt to attack. Our cavalry, under Buford and Bayard, was com-pletely broken down, and both of theseofficers reported to me that not fivehorses to the company could be forcedinto a trot. No horses whatever hadreached us for remounts since the be-ginning; of operations. It was imprac-ticable, therefore, to use the cavalry as cavalry to cover oiu- front with pick- )g ets or to make reconnoissances of theenemys front. This paper would be incomplete in-deed did it fail to contain some short,if entirel
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