Pennsylvania at Chickamauga and Chattanooga: Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Monuments Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Mark the Positions of the Pennsylvania Commands Engaged in the BattlesW. S. Ray, state printer, 1897 - 499 pages |
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... flank , and Hooker was struggling with his left flank , a portion of the Army of the Cumber- land , under General Thomas , charged his centre and drove him from the front and sum- mit of Missionary Ridge at the point of the bayonet ...
... flank , and Hooker was struggling with his left flank , a portion of the Army of the Cumber- land , under General Thomas , charged his centre and drove him from the front and sum- mit of Missionary Ridge at the point of the bayonet ...
Page 11
... flank to flank of the opposing army , and the whole thing a blazing volcano , showering shot and shell on the advancing line . Under these conditions , it did not take the fifteen brigades of thinking , observant men and officers long ...
... flank to flank of the opposing army , and the whole thing a blazing volcano , showering shot and shell on the advancing line . Under these conditions , it did not take the fifteen brigades of thinking , observant men and officers long ...
Page 44
... flank , where he fought hard to turn it but failed . General Hooker had crossed from Lookout and enveloped Bragg's left flank at Rossville Gap , but failed to turn it . We were , in the closing hours of the day , without results ...
... flank , where he fought hard to turn it but failed . General Hooker had crossed from Lookout and enveloped Bragg's left flank at Rossville Gap , but failed to turn it . We were , in the closing hours of the day , without results ...
Page 73
... flank it on the right and to plant batteries to take the position , at the same time attacking it in front . At this juncture Companies I and K , Captains Ackley and McAloon , were at the extreme front , supporting Battery B , Second ...
... flank it on the right and to plant batteries to take the position , at the same time attacking it in front . At this juncture Companies I and K , Captains Ackley and McAloon , were at the extreme front , supporting Battery B , Second ...
Page 75
... flank of the First and Third Divisions of the Corps , and attacked in overwhelming numbers under Stonewall Jack- son , driving them in the direction of Colonel Buschbeck's Brigade , now numbering but fifteen hundred muskets ...
... flank of the First and Third Divisions of the Corps , and attacked in overwhelming numbers under Stonewall Jack- son , driving them in the direction of Colonel Buschbeck's Brigade , now numbering but fifteen hundred muskets ...
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1st Sergt advance Allegheny army artillery attack Battery battle of Chickamauga battlefield Bragg Brigade camp campaign Capt Captain captured Cavalry Charles Chattanooga column command comrades Confederate Crawford Co Creek crossed Cumberland dedication of monument Division duty enemy enemy's engaged field fighting fire flank force front Geary Geary's George George W guns Henry Hill honor Hooker hundred and eleventh Illinois Indiana James John Joseph Kentucky killed Knap's Lancaster Lieut Lieut.-Col Lieutenant Colonel Lookout Mountain Major ment miles Missionary Ridge morning moved Murfreesboro Nashville National Negley night Ninth Cavalry officers Ohio ordered Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Volunteers Phila picket Pittsburgh position Potomac prisoners Private railroad rear rebel regiment infantry retreat River road Rosecrans Rossville Second Brigade Seventy-eighth Seventy-ninth Seventy-seventh skirmishers soldiers Tenn Tennessee Tennessee River Third Brigade Thomas to-day troops Twelfth Corps Twenty-ninth Union Union army Valley veterans Wauhatchie William wounded
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Page 398 - ... any part thereof constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the lands or approaches to the park, any person so offending and found guilty thereof before any justice of the peace of the county in which the offense may be committed...