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children going to the front. Rally and fol- low those children!’” Union Major Lang conceded, “I never witnessed a more gallant a ...
Into the Cauldron On the last day of December 1862, Confederate forces under General Braxton Bragg launched a surprise attack on ...
Union commander William Rosecrans gestures toward the onrushing Confederates during the height of the Battle of Stones River. It ...
suit of Confederate forces into eastern Ten- nessee, Buell obstinately refused, opting for a move toward Nashville in defiance o ...
sparred and skirmished, a major con- frontation in the vicinity of Murfreesboro became all but inevitable. By the evening of Dec ...
earned his general’s stars in short order. Wielding a keen intellect, Cleburne had likewise proved himself a fierce fighter who ...
veered off to the west, hot on the heels of fleeing Yankees. The three brigades main- tained good order but were badly out of po ...
commander, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, didn’t help matters. A barrel- chested bull of a man, Cheatham was a tough figh ...
Colonel Arthur Manigault. The South Car- olinian led his troops into the same firestorm that had chewed up Loomis. Advancing wit ...
every Rebel in sight, bewildered Confeder- ate officers dickered over the identity of the gunners and what to do about them. As ...
rain, paired with the inevitable fog of war, ensured that the Confederate thrust for the Nashville Pike would result in uncoordi ...
graduated in the West Point Class of 1855 and cut his teeth fighting Comanche on the southern plains. Badly wounded during a fig ...
little more in their 11th-hour assaults than to add to the carpet of dead and dying men in front of the Round Forest. Rosecrans ...
A slight knee wound brought the New Jersey boy to a Washington military hospital, but “his mind had suffered more than his body, ...
sessed of a homesickness—a desire to be sent home on furlough or discharged, that amounted almost to a mania.” One Union surgeon ...
been but little or no sickness, and but two or three deaths.” Similarly, Surgeon John L. Taylor noted that “kind and sympathizin ...
on the picket line, active movements in the face of an enemy, forced marches, and ardu- ous and exciting fighting and marching. ...
crashing to the ground. No sooner had they regained their footing than another bench, this one reserved for the ladies in atten- ...
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