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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 22 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 2 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Shiloh reviewed. (search)
Dept. of the Mississippi. Revised and Amended by Gen. D. C. Buell. The Hornets' Nest--Prentiss's troops and Hickenlooper's Battery repulsing Hardee's troops. pposite extreme to sup- Gibson's Brigade charging Hurlbut's troops in the Hornets' Nest. from the Cyclorama of Shiloh at Chicago. By permission. port Stuart; and but sheltering woods in front and rear. The Confederates gave the name of Hornets' Nest to the thicket part of it on Sunday, and it was in the open ground on the ertillery and Nelson's and Crittenden's divisions on the left, and In the Hornets' Nest--W. H. L. Wallace's line. This cut and the one on the next page form one piginal Thorn map. At the angle between Sherman and McClernand is a In the Hornets' Nest--W. H. L. Wallace's line. From the Cyclorama of Shiloh at Chicago. By permnand's camp and released his headquarters from the grasp of the enemy. The Hornets' Nest was in front of Crittenden's left brigade, and the peach orchard and the gr
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
en from behind bales of hay and other defenses, as they advanced; and after a series of desperate charges they were compelled to fall back. Vicinity of the Hornets' Nest. from photographs taken in 1885. the stump in the field on the right is said to mark the spot where General Albert Sidney Johnston was killed. The point of woods beyond the field is supposed to be the place which the Confederates called the Hornets' Nest. the peach orchard was a little to the left of the field in the middle ground, and behind the house (in the lower picture) which is across the road from the field in which General Johnston was killed.-editors. supported by the arriith Prentiss's fragments, in a position so impregnable, and thronged with such fierce defenders, that it won from the Confederates the memorable title of the . Hornets' Nest. [see pages 504-5, 510, and 588.] here, behind a dense thicket on the crest of a hill, was posted a strong force of as hardy troops as ever fought, almost per
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
nd to aid the onset. At all points from the right to the left, the opposing forces had been stoutly engaged on ground in rear of the line of McClernand's encampment since 9 A. M., when W. H. L. Wallace had carried forward his division into action; a division that, trained by so thorough a soldier as General C. F. Smith, had done most soldierly work at Donelson, and which Wallace now handled with marked vigor. Its influence seemed to stiffen the Federal Wood and underbrush called the Hornets' Nest. from a photograph taken in 1885. center and left center. Stuart, commanding one of Sherman's brigades strongly posted on the extreme Federal left, also, had made so obstinate a stand that he was not forced from the position until three times his numbers, of Withers's division, diverted from the main current of the attack, were brought to bear against him. For some time General Johnston was with that division, but he shifted to Breckinridge's division about 11 A. M., and remained close
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh. (search)
ad retired but a very short distance from their original position. General Breckinridge deployed Bowen's and Statham's brigades, moved them forward, and soon engaged the Federal forces. I bade the General good-day and good luck, and once more rode down the line of battle until I found General Bragg. With him I remained, excepting when carrying orders and making reconnoissances, until the close of the first day's fight. I witnessed the various bloody and unsuccessful attacks on the Hornets' Nest. During one of the dreadful repulses of our forces, General Bragg directed me to ride forward to the central regiment of a brigade of troops that was recoiling across an open field, to take its colors and carry them forward. The flag must not go back again, he said. Obeying the order, I dashed through the line of battle, seized the colors from the color-bearer, and said to him, General Bragg says these colors must not go to the rear. While I was talking to him the color-sergeant was