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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 136 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 52 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 44 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 28 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 22 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 20 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 20 0 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 II. 14 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 14 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Boastful Base. (search)
celebrated in the South by any public demonstration, nor did any of our victories call forth any such childish exhibitions. Our people have felt and acted with the sobriety, and simplicity, of men engaged in a great work. The Yankee success at Donelson capped the climax of their madness. Such extravagance as they exhibited in their self-glorification was never before perpetrated by a people in their senses. For the hundredth tine they were sure that the war had come to an end, and that the whole South was in their clutches. The plain old saw, not to hurrah till you are out of the woods, is unworthy their consideration. What great results have followed the fall of Donelson? It has had no other effect than to awake the South from its lethargy, to redouble its energies, and intensify its determination to die in the last ditch rather than surrender its independence. The battle of Shiloh has since shown them that the work, not of conquering the South, but of taking the cities of the
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
ral Buel having arrived the ball was opened at day light by Wilson's division on the left and Major-General Wallace's division on the right Gen. Nelson's force opened a most galling fire on the rebels, and advanced rapidly as the fell back. The fire soon became general along the whole line, and began to tell with terrible effect on the rebels. Gens. McClernand, Sherman, and Huriburt's men, though chiefly jaded from the previous day's fighting, still maintained their honors won at Donelson; but the resistance of the rebels was terrible, and worthy a better cause. Their resistance, however, was not enough for our undaunted bravery and the dreadful desolation produced by our artillery, which was sweeping them away like chaff; and knowing that defeat there would be the death blow to their hopes, their Generals still urged them on in the face of destruction, hoping by flanking us to turn the tide of battle. Their success was for a time cheering, as they began to gain ground