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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 10 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 7 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 4 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 4 Browse Search
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a volley; then began fighting in their usual manner, first giving a yell and volley, then loading and firing at will for a few minutes, and then ceasing an equal time; then giving another yell and volley, and so on, pouring a murderous fire into our little band for the space of half an hour. The whole woods swarmed with them. They had no artillery and no cavalry. Our Rhode Islanders, except the officers, deserted their guns; but Col. Baker, Lieut. Col. Wistar, Colonel Coggswell, and Adjutant Harvey manned the battery and fired the guns themselves, aided by company G, 1st California, led by the gallant Capt. Beiral. We kept up both a musketry and cannon fire as well as we could, but half the time we could not see the enemy, and his cowardly discharges were thinning our ranks; still most of the men stood firm, and acted bravely. The enemy's volleys and yells increased in loudness, and it was evident that reinforcements were pouring in to his aid. At 5½ P. M. we held a council
a volley; then began fighting in their usual manner, first giving a yell and volley, then loading and firing at will for a few minutes, and then ceasing an equal time; then giving another yell and volley, and so on, pouring a murderous fire into our little band for the space of half an hour. The whole woods swarmed with them. They had no artillery and no cavalry. Our Rhode Islanders, except the officers, deserted their guns; but Col. Baker, Lieut. Col. Wistar, Colonel Coggswell, and Adjutant Harvey manned the battery and fired the guns themselves, aided by company G, 1st California, led by the gallant Capt. Beiral. We kept up both a musketry and cannon fire as well as we could, but half the time we could not see the enemy, and his cowardly discharges were thinning our ranks; still most of the men stood firm, and acted bravely. The enemy's volleys and yells increased in loudness, and it was evident that reinforcements were pouring in to his aid. At 5½ P. M. we held a council