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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), Heroism of the Third Iowa regiment at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing . (search)
Heroism of the Third Iowa regiment at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing.
Major Jones, the correspondent of the West-Union Pioneer, writes to that paper a graphic account of that portion of the great fight at Pittsburgh Landing in which he participated.
He says the Third formed in line at the Landing without orders, in just fifteen minutes from the firing of the first gun, and soon were off on the double-quick for the fight.
Coming up within sixty rods of the enemy, they opened fire, but the distance was too great for execution, and the enemy being in heavy force, they fell back to a less exposed position, behind a rail-fence, where they awaited the coming of the rebels.
The force opposed to them was the Pensacola brigade, the flower of Beauregard's army.
As was expected, this large body charged upon the Third, and of this charge we will let the Major's graphic pen relate:
But we were beginning to get sleepy and wishing for a change of programme, when we discovered the e
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 80 (search)
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the men of the West. by Richard Coe. Men of the West, with stalwart arms, And souls to nature true, Have won the victories of the day, That ring the wide world through; That on the page of history, In deeds of valor done, Will e'en outvie the daring high Of honored Wellington. Fort Donelson was nobly earned, Pea Ridge was won full well; Of Pittsburgh Landing time would fail The glorious things to tell. These are the battles, not of boys, But men of iron will, Who swore to die or plant on high The Union banner still. And then the men who led them on To triumph in these days, For them, a people's gratitude, A nation's loudest praise! Halleck and Buell, Grant and Smith, Curtis and Sigel, all Whose battle-cry is, “Do or die!” Before your feet we fall! And oh!
the One who spared their lives Amid the leaden hail, If we forget to honor him, We in our duty fail. 'Twas his right arm that led them on Through carnage and through death, His sleepless eye that, from on high, Beheld the