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Dabney (search for this): article 1
en discountenanced by officers, and properly so; for picket duty is dangerous enough in it self, and does not call for or need (save by orders) any of these dashing feats commendable and common on the battle field. But not only in the infantry arm of the service have our men proved themselves superior to the foe — the artillery have amused themselves greatly, and practiced with much accuracy and effect upon the numerous breast, field, and born works thrown up on the Federal front. Since Capt. Dabney's efforts on Friday last, with heavy pieces, which caused a indecorous stampede from Federate artillery and infantry camps it was surmised that their obnoxious presence would no longer disgrace the lovely face of the landscape on the north bank of the Chickahominy yet, numerous and impudent as ever, they again appeared in working parties on Saturday and Monday, presenting fair scope and practice for some artillerists, who, moving deliberately to the front, near Garnett's farm, shelled the
Garnett (search for this): article 1
al front. Since Capt. Dabney's efforts on Friday last, with heavy pieces, which caused a indecorous stampede from Federate artillery and infantry camps it was surmised that their obnoxious presence would no longer disgrace the lovely face of the landscape on the north bank of the Chickahominy yet, numerous and impudent as ever, they again appeared in working parties on Saturday and Monday, presenting fair scope and practice for some artillerists, who, moving deliberately to the front, near Garnett's farm, shelled the enemy from their excavations, and expedited their departure from the knolls and woods with much effect. Shell from our pieces could be plainly seen bursting among the enemy, and although they bravely withstood our for some short time, expecting the arrival of U. S. artillery, no relief came, and they laudably imitated the race of their friends on Friday last. The artillery of the enemy, though admirably worked and served when not face to face with ours is handled with
Yorktown Lines (search for this): article 1
he enemy is worthy of comment and punishment. If the topography of the place is not known to officers encamped within gunshot, for weeks together, and useless mortality ensue from want of this requisite information, how can it be expected that these came officers will successfully handle or manœuvre forces — If only companies — on these same grounds, should exigencies require it at any moment of night or day ? It is time such negligence should cease. Our loss was more than necessary at Yorktown Lines, from this same cause.--Lives are too precious to be uselessly sacrificed in this manner, and any mal-administration of officers should be severely punished. Indications of activity and liveliness prevail in all our camps — bustle, good humor, and buoyancy it seen in every action, and marked on every feature — orderlies dash to and fro: solemn and dusty Colonels, and others, are all found at their posts, and while all is industry beyond the city, what a reproach is this to the tin
Chickahominy (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 1
ave our men proved themselves superior to the foe — the artillery have amused themselves greatly, and practiced with much accuracy and effect upon the numerous breast, field, and born works thrown up on the Federal front. Since Capt. Dabney's efforts on Friday last, with heavy pieces, which caused a indecorous stampede from Federate artillery and infantry camps it was surmised that their obnoxious presence would no longer disgrace the lovely face of the landscape on the north bank of the Chickahominy yet, numerous and impudent as ever, they again appeared in working parties on Saturday and Monday, presenting fair scope and practice for some artillerists, who, moving deliberately to the front, near Garnett's farm, shelled the enemy from their excavations, and expedited their departure from the knolls and woods with much effect. Shell from our pieces could be plainly seen bursting among the enemy, and although they bravely withstood our for some short time, expecting the arrival of U.
Mechanicville (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): article 1
arrival of U. S. artillery, no relief came, and they laudably imitated the race of their friends on Friday last. The artillery of the enemy, though admirably worked and served when not face to face with ours is handled with uncommon willness and imprecision when any of our batteries appear to dispute the ground. Hence little damage is usually done, and the cost or results is merely a useless expenditure of powder. Brisk artillery fire was maintained by the foe upon our outposts on the Mechanicville road yesterday, but, although the range of some half dozen shells was determined with great mathematical nicety, a few fell harmlessly, unexploded, while the fragment of another slightly wounded a negro employed upon some one of our works. Two shells damaged one of our breast works slightly, but more than this no damage was done in this quarter. Dense columns of smoke were ascending over the enemy's position yesterday — various reasons when assigned for this unusual spectacle, but
Dante (search for this): article 1
turday night, been picked out from a clay-pit in a brick-yard on the south side of Main street, in the Eastern District--the guard, with unpardonable lack of courtesy to the sex, mistaking her at first for a hog, but attempting to rouse her with the exclamation--"Sue" and a touch of his foot, he was made aware that it was a rational and reflective being, by being desired to "go to h--," and offered certain humorous advice respecting his conduct in that region, so well described by Milton and Dante. The guard, beginning to suspect that it was a lady, and not a porker, who addressed him, assisted her to rise, and conveyed her to a place very similar in some respects to that whither she had just before wished to send him Mrs. McNell, at the request of the Assistant Prevent Marshal gave a very lucid and circumstantial account of her last night's mishap — which account we are compelled to abbreviate and change some what in phraseology. She was bringing over a batch of clothes from the ea
Jack (search for this): article 1
Jack with a lantern. --We do not subscribe to the assertion of Dr. Samuel Johnson, that "the man who killed fat beeves should be fat himself," but we do hold to the partially analogous doctrine that the lady who washes clothes should herself be clean — yet the appearance of Mrs. Nelly McNell, laundress by profession, who came before the Assistant Provost Marshal on Sunday morning, was strikingly at variance with this maxim,--for Nelly was "one cake of mud " from the peak of her bonnet to the sole of her slipper. Mrs. McNell had, in the hours of repose on Saturday night, been picked out from a clay-pit in a brick-yard on the south side of Main street, in the Eastern District--the guard, with unpardonable lack of courtesy to the sex, mistaking her at first for a hog, but attempting to rouse her with the exclamation--"Sue" and a touch of his foot, he was made aware that it was a rational and reflective being, by being desired to "go to h--," and offered certain humorous advice resp
Nelly (search for this): article 1
octrine that the lady who washes clothes should herself be clean — yet the appearance of Mrs. Nelly McNell, laundress by profession, who came before the Assistant Provost Marshal on Sunday morning, was strikingly at variance with this maxim,--for Nelly was "one cake of mud " from the peak of her bonnet to the sole of her slipper. Mrs. McNell had, in the hours of repose on Saturday night, been picked out from a clay-pit in a brick-yard on the south side of Main street, in the Eastern District--the guard was "because she had a consist that he was the devil, believing that she was haunted entirely by spirits of avail, and she thought it no more than decent to tell the ould boy to go the place where he belonged" It seemed likely that Nelly had been misled by a Jack with a lantern — at least the Assistant Provost Marshal, with amiable sympathy for her weakness, was disposed to put this construction on the matter. She was therefore discharged, without verbal rebuke or pecuniary pena
Milton (search for this): article 1
epose on Saturday night, been picked out from a clay-pit in a brick-yard on the south side of Main street, in the Eastern District--the guard, with unpardonable lack of courtesy to the sex, mistaking her at first for a hog, but attempting to rouse her with the exclamation--"Sue" and a touch of his foot, he was made aware that it was a rational and reflective being, by being desired to "go to h--," and offered certain humorous advice respecting his conduct in that region, so well described by Milton and Dante. The guard, beginning to suspect that it was a lady, and not a porker, who addressed him, assisted her to rise, and conveyed her to a place very similar in some respects to that whither she had just before wished to send him Mrs. McNell, at the request of the Assistant Prevent Marshal gave a very lucid and circumstantial account of her last night's mishap — which account we are compelled to abbreviate and change some what in phraseology. She was bringing over a batch of clothes f
Samuel Johnson (search for this): article 1
Jack with a lantern. --We do not subscribe to the assertion of Dr. Samuel Johnson, that "the man who killed fat beeves should be fat himself," but we do hold to the partially analogous doctrine that the lady who washes clothes should herself be clean — yet the appearance of Mrs. Nelly McNell, laundress by profession, who came before the Assistant Provost Marshal on Sunday morning, was strikingly at variance with this maxim,--for Nelly was "one cake of mud " from the peak of her bonnet to the sole of her slipper. Mrs. McNell had, in the hours of repose on Saturday night, been picked out from a clay-pit in a brick-yard on the south side of Main street, in the Eastern District--the guard, with unpardonable lack of courtesy to the sex, mistaking her at first for a hog, but attempting to rouse her with the exclamation--"Sue" and a touch of his foot, he was made aware that it was a rational and reflective being, by being desired to "go to h--," and offered certain humorous advice resp
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