 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 598 halaman
...line of skirmishers against any assaulting colnmn ; and, wherever resistance was made, the enemy fled in disorder, after suffering heavy loss. Those who...of our artillery, they soon availed themselves of onr panic, and, turning our gnn« opon us, enfiladed our lines, both right and left, rendering them... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 halaman
...line of skirmishers against any assaulting column ; and, wherever resistance was made, the enemy fled ] I now ask you, " Ilaving secured much of our artillery, they soon availed themselves of our panic, and, turning our... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 804 halaman
...line of skirmishers against any assaulting column ; and, wherever resistance was made, the enemy fled in disorder, after suffering heavy loss. Those who...our panic, and, turning our guns upon us, enfiladed our lines, both right and left, rendering them entirely untenable. Had all parts of the line been maintained... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 836 halaman
...line of skirmishers against any assaulting column ; and, wherever resistance was made, the enemy fled in disorder, after suffering heavy loss. Those who...our panic, and, turning our guns upon us, enfiladed our lines, both right and left, rendering them entirely untenable. Had all parts of the line been maintained... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 halaman
...line of skirmishers against any assaulting column ; and, wherever resistance was made, the enemy fled in disorder, after suffering heavy loss. Those who...exhaustion from the great physical exertion in climbing, ^wlrich rendered them powerless; and the slightest effort would have destroyed them. " Having secured... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1867 - 848 halaman
...line of skirmishers against any assaulting column ; and, wherever resistance was made, the enemy fled in disorder, after suffering heavy loss. Those who...ridge, did so in a condition of exhaustion from the groat physical exertion in climbing, which rendered them powerless ; and the slightest effort would... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - 1868 - 644 halaman
...excuse can possibly bo given for the shameful conduct of our troops. * * * * Those [Union soldiers] who reached the ridge did so in a condition of exhaustion,...and the slightest effort would have destroyed them." — Bragg'y Official Report. " After several unsuccessful assaults on our lines to-day, the enemy carried... | |
 | Adam Badeau - 1868 - 792 halaman
...skirmishers ought to have maintained against any assaulting column." Those who reached the crest were in a condition of exhaustion from the great physical exertion in climbing, which alone ought to have rendered * Sheridan lost, in this charge, eleven hundred and seventy-nine men,... | |
 | 1873 - 806 halaman
...and broke the confederate line, when, says Bragg, " the enemy, having secured much of our artillery, soon availed themselves of our panic, and, turning our guns upon us, enfiladed our lines both right and left, rendering them wholly untenable. Fortunately it was now near nightfall,... | |
 | Adam Badeau - 1881 - 760 halaman
...line of skirmishers against any assaulting column ; and wherever resistance was made, the enemy fled in disorder after suffering heavy loss. Those who...turning our guns upon us, enfiladed the lines both right and left, rendering them entirely untenable. Had all parts of the line been maintained with equal... | |
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No satisfactory excuse can possibly be given for the shameful conduct of our troops on the left in allowing their line to be penetrated. The position was one which ought to have been held by a line of skirmishers against any assaulting column, and wherever... 
