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.... 435 The Contrabands in the War ........................ ............ 444 A Good Use of Roman Candles .......................... 454 part IV. deeds of heroic courage and self-sacrifice. The Fight with the Albemarle . .. ...... ......... ........ 459 The Destruction of the Albemarle . ...... ...................... 469 Hetty McEwen. An Incident of the Occupation of Nashville...... 473 General Sumner at Fair-Oaks ........................... ........ 477 Old Bradley, the Tennessee Blacksmith ....................... 480 Driving Home the Cows.. ..................................... 492 The Loyalty of a Charleston Woman ........................... 494 Colonel Innis, or Vwe Don't surrender much ................ 497 The Ballad of Ishmael Day ................................. 499 Old Burns, the Hero of Gettysburg.......... ................... 501 Conduct of the Colored Troops .................................. 505 General Ransom, in the Assault on Vicksburg.................... 511
.... 435 The Contrabands in the War ........................ ............ 444 A Good Use of Roman Candles .......................... 454 part IV. deeds of heroic courage and self-sacrifice. The Fight with the Albemarle . .. ...... ......... ........ 459 The Destruction of the Albemarle . ...... ...................... 469 Hetty McEwen. An Incident of the Occupation of Nashville...... 473 General Sumner at Fair-Oaks ........................... ........ 477 Old Bradley, the Tennessee Blacksmith ....................... 480 Driving Home the Cows.. ..................................... 492 The Loyalty of a Charleston Woman ........................... 494 Colonel Innis, or Vwe Don't surrender much ................ 497 The Ballad of Ishmael Day ................................. 499 Old Burns, the Hero of Gettysburg.......... ................... 501 Conduct of the Colored Troops .................................. 505 General Ransom, in the Assault on Vicksburg.................... 511
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, General Ransom, in the assault on Vicksburg. (search)
General Ransom, in the assault on Vicksburg. The army has lost no braver or nobler officer, in all that constitutes soldierly character and ability, than General T. E. G. Ransom. Like the FrencGeneral T. E. G. Ransom. Like the French Chevalier Bayard, he was alike sans peur et sans reproche, without fear and without reproach. Numerous instances are recorded of his calm and magnificent courage; one of the most remarkable is an officers, and for an instant checking the whole movement. Perceiving that the men wavered, General Ransom seized the colors of a regiment, and rushing to the front, waved them over his head, and sho man of the whole brigade. A captain of the Seventy-second Illinois, who had been intimate with Ransom before the war, crawled on his hands and knees to the foot of the stump, and begged the general leave a position of so much danger. Turning his flashing eyes upon the captain for an instant, Ransom said, with an emphasis that commanded obedience, Silence! and remained where he was until the m