 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1865 - 454 pages
...lost. The railroad bridges too had been destroyed to a point south of Ringgold, and on all the roads from Cleveland to Knoxville. To these insurmountable...precarious points too deep for artillery, and the well known danger of - sudden rises by which all communication would be cut, a contingency which did... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 782 pages
...was utterly impossible for want of transportation. Nearly half our army consisted of reinforcements just before the battle, without a wagon or an artillery...sudden rises, by which all communication would be cut off, a contingency which did actually happen a few days after the visionary scheme was proposed. But... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 758 pages
...Ringgold, and on all the road from Cleveland to Knoxville. To these insurmountable din!- . culties were added the entire absence of means to cross the...sudden rises, by which all communication would be cut off, a contingency which did actually happen a few days after the visionary scheme was proposed. But... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 1314 pages
...lost. The railroad bridges too had been destroyed to a point south of Ringgold, and on all the roads from Cleveland to Knoxville. To these insurmountable...few precarious points too deep for artillery, and tho well known danger of sudden rises by which all communication would be cut, a contingency which... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1867 - 776 pages
...was utterly impossible for want of transportation. Nearly half our army consisted of reinforcements just before the battle, without a wagon or an artillery...sudden rises, by which all communication would be cut off, a contingency which did actually happen a few days after the visionary scheme was proposed. But... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 868 pages
...had been lost. The railroad bridges, too, had been destroyed to a point south of Ringgold, and, in all, the road from Cleveland to Knoxville. To these...danger of sudden rises, by which all communication woidd be cut, a contingency which did actually happen a few days after the visionary scheme was proposed.... | |
 | Frank H. Alfriend - 1868 - 666 pages
...Nashville. The pregnant criticism of General Bragg quickly disposes of the suggestion. Said he : " The suggestion of a .movement by our right, immediately...sudden rises, by which all communication would be cut off, a contingency which did actually happen a few days after the visionary scheme was abandoned."... | |
 | Frank H. Alfriend - 1868 - 674 pages
...Nashville. The pregnant criticism of General Bragg quickly disposes of the suggestion. Said he : " The suggestion of a movement by our right, immediately...sudden rises, by which all communication would be cut off, a contingency which did actually happen a few days after the visionary scheme was abandoned."... | |
 | Frank H. Alfriend - 1868 - 670 pages
...was utterly impossible for want of transportation. Nearly half our army consisted of recnforcements just before the battle, without a wagon or an artillery...sudden rises, by which all communication would be cut off, a contingency which did actually happen a few days after the visionary ^cheme was abandoned."... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1868 - 804 pages
...had been destroyed to a point south of Ringgold, and on all the road from Cleveland to Knox ville. To these insurmountable difficulties were added the...sudden rises, by which all communication would be cut off, a contingency which did actually happen a few days after the visionary scheme was proposed. But... | |
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Nearly half our army consisted of reinforcements just before the battle, without a wagon or an artillery horse, and nearly, if not quite, a third of the artillery horses on the field had been lost. The railroad bridges, too, had been destroyed to a point... 
