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Guntown (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.67
who has kept the colors of his regiment flying upon the parapet of Wagner during the entire conflict, is seen creeping along on one knee, still holding up the flag, and only yielding his sacred trust upon finding an officer of his regiment. As he enters the field hospital, where his wounded comrades are being brought in, they cheer him and the colors. Though nearly exhausted with the loss of blood, he says, Boys, the old flag never touched the ground. In the disastrous fight near Guntown, Mississippi, when the irresolution and mismanagement of the Union commander, a mismanagement generally attributed to intoxication, resulted in one of the most disgraceful defeats an i retreats in the annals of the war, it was the half drilled colored troops, most of them under fire for the first time, who, when the white troops were completely demoralized and panic-stricken by the failure of their commander, fought with the utmost desperation, and kept back the rebels until their white comrades
May 22nd, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 3.68
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 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 incident appertaining to the assault on Vicksburg, on the 22d of May, 1863. His brigade formed a part of the charging column that day, and as it advanced toward the rebel breastworks a storm of grape and canister swept through it from an enfilading battery, killing or wounding many 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 shouted, Forward, men! We must and will go into that fort. Who will follow me? Inspirited by this action, the column r
T. E. G. Ransom (search for this): chapter 3.68
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
Sabine Pass (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.68
nd watched the movement, himself the most exposed 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 to 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 movement was accomplished. At the battle of Sabine crossroads, where, as usual, he was always in the thickest of the fight, inspiriting his men by his presence, he was severely wounded in the left knee. On the day following the battle four surgeons examined the wound at Pleasant Hill, and were divided in their opinion-two being in favor of amputation while the other two deemed it unnecessary. The general, who was an interested listener to the conversation, raised himself on his couch and said: Well, gentlemen, as the house is equally divid
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