The Battle of Shiloh and the Organizations EngagedU.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 122 pages |
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... Sunday morning three companies of the Twenty - fifth Missouri , under Major Powell of that regiment , to again reconnoiter well to the front . Major Powell marched to the right and front , passing between the Rhea and Seay fields , and ...
... Sunday morning three companies of the Twenty - fifth Missouri , under Major Powell of that regiment , to again reconnoiter well to the front . Major Powell marched to the right and front , passing between the Rhea and Seay fields , and ...
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... Sunday . Trabue and Rus- sell , with some other detachments , renewed the attack , and at 4.30 p . m . succeeded in driving McClernand and Veatch back to the Ham- burg road , then wheeled to the right against the exposed flank of ...
... Sunday . Trabue and Rus- sell , with some other detachments , renewed the attack , and at 4.30 p . m . succeeded in driving McClernand and Veatch back to the Ham- burg road , then wheeled to the right against the exposed flank of ...
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... Sunday is shown by the losses sustained by some of the organizations engaged . The Ninth Illinois lost 366 out of 617. The Sixth Mississippi lost 300 out of 425. Cleburne's brigade lost 1,013 out of 2,700 , and the brigade was otherwise ...
... Sunday is shown by the losses sustained by some of the organizations engaged . The Ninth Illinois lost 366 out of 617. The Sixth Mississippi lost 300 out of 425. Cleburne's brigade lost 1,013 out of 2,700 , and the brigade was otherwise ...
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... Sunday night . Of these exceptions a Union battery near the Landing was protected by a few sacks of corn piled up in front of the guns ; some Confederate regiment arranged the fallen timber in front of Marsh's brigade camp into a sort ...
... Sunday night . Of these exceptions a Union battery near the Landing was protected by a few sacks of corn piled up in front of the guns ; some Confederate regiment arranged the fallen timber in front of Marsh's brigade camp into a sort ...
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... Sunday . The 20,000 fresh troops in the Union Army made the contest an unequal one , and though stubbornly contested for a time , at about 2 o'clock General Beauregard ordered the withdrawal of his army . To secure the withdrawal he ...
... Sunday . The 20,000 fresh troops in the Union Army made the contest an unequal one , and though stubbornly contested for a time , at about 2 o'clock General Beauregard ordered the withdrawal of his army . To secure the withdrawal he ...
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BATTLE OF SHILOH & THE ORGANIZ United States Shiloh National Military,David W. (David Wilson) B. 1841 Reed No preview available - 2016 |
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1st Illinois 1st Missouri advance aid-de-camp Alabama April Arkansas Army Artillery assistant adjutant attack Bark road Battalion battery became engaged Bragg Breckinridge Brig brigade formed Capt captured Cavalry Chalmers Colonel command Confederate Dill Branch Duncan Field Eastern Corinth road encamped fell back Fifth front guns Hamburg road Hardee Hardee's Hurlbut's Illinois Illinois Cavalry Indiana infantry Iowa John Johnston joined Kentucky killed left flank left to right Lick Creek Lieut Light Artillery line of battle Louisiana manding McClernand's Mississippi Missouri Monday moved o'clock Officers Ohio order from left Owl Creek Peach Orchard Pittsburg Landing Pittsburg road Polk Polk's position Prentiss present for duty Purdy road rear reenforce regiments retired Rhea House Ruggles Ruggles's Second Brigade Shaver's brigade Sherman's Shiloh Branch Shiloh Church Sixth Division Smith Stewart Sunday morning Tennessee River Third Brigade Trabue troops Union Union Army volunteer aid Wallace Waterhouse's battery William Wood's brigade wounded
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Page 18 - Infernal gates poured forth a murderous storm of shot and shell and musketry fire which no living thiug could quell or even withstand. Brigade after brigade was led against it, but valor was of no avail. Hindman's brilliant brigades, which had swept everything before them from the field, were shivered into fragments and paralyzed for the remainder of the day.
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Page 2 - That before any such lines are permanently designated the position of the lines and the proposed methods of marking them by monuments, tablets, or otherwise shall be submitted to the Secretary of War, and shall first receive the written approval of the Secretary, which approval shall be based upon formal written reports, which must be made to him in each case by the commissioners of the park.
Page 2 - ... shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic? tree or trees growing or being upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, or shall remove or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter or any part thereof constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the lands or approaches to the park...
Page 2 - That it shall be the duty of the commissioners named in the preceding section, under the direction of the Secretary of War ,to superintend the opening of such roads as may be necessary to the purposes of the park, and the repair of the roads of the same, and to ascertain and definitely mark the lines of battle of all troops engaged in the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga so far as the same shall fall within the lines of the park as defined in the previous sections of this act, and...
Page 1 - Tennessee; thence southwardly in a straight line to the intersection of an east and west line drawn from the point where the road to Hamburg, Tennessee, crosses Lick Creek, near the mouth of the latter ; thence eastward along the said east and west line to the point where the Hamburg road crosses Lick Creek ; thence along the channel of Lick Creek to the Tennessee River ; thence along low-water mark of the Tennessee River to the point of beginning, containing three thousand acres, more or less, and...
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Page 1 - State of Tennessee, is hereby declared to be a national military park, whenever title to the same shall have been acquired by the United States and the usual jurisdiction over the lands and roads of the same shall have been granted to the United States by the...