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The Second Battle of Bull Run; As Connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. a Paper Read Before the Society of Ex-Army and Navy Officers of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882

The Second Battle of Bull Run; As Connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. a Paper Read Before the Society of Ex-Army and Navy Officers of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882

Jacob Dolson Cox
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... tinued for an hour or two, to which the enemy's artillery replied "At half-past four or five P. M., the three brigades were moved across to the right of the turnpike, a mile or more, to the Manassas Gap Railroad. While here musketry was heard to our left, on the turnpike. This firing continued with more or less vivacity till sundown. Now the command was ordered back to the turnpike, and forward on this to the support of General Hood, who had become engaged with the enemy and had driven him back some distance, inflicting severe loss upon him, being checked in his successes by the darkness of the night." Major S. H. Hairston, . Official Report. Gainesville, August 29, 1862, 8 P. M. "To Colonel Chilton, Assistant Adjutant-General: "In ob?dience to General Lee's order I started this morning at eight o'clock with one hundred and fifty cavalry to go to Warrenton, 'to find out if any of the enemy's forces were still in the vicinity of that place.' I went from Thoroughfare to the right on a by-road, which took me into the Winchester road two miles below Warrenton, and came up to the rear of the town. I inquired of the citizens and persons I met on the way, but could not hear that any of their forces were in the vicinity of that place. They informed me that the last left yesterday in the direction of Gainesville and Warrenton Junction." 7. ORAL TESTIMONY. PASSAGES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT. EXTRACTS. W. L. B. Wheeler . Record, Vol. 3, pp. 1109-11. Q. Did Bethlehem church have a spire on it on the 29th of August, 1862? A. It never has had since I have known it. Q. How long have you known it? A. I suppose I have known it since I was eight years old. I went to school there in 1834 Q. Relative to Bethlehem church, when did the walls fall in of...
Language
English
Pages
70
Format
Paperback
Publisher
General Books
Release
February 05, 2012
ISBN
1151332089
ISBN 13
9781151332080

The Second Battle of Bull Run; As Connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. a Paper Read Before the Society of Ex-Army and Navy Officers of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882

Jacob Dolson Cox
0/5 ( ratings)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... tinued for an hour or two, to which the enemy's artillery replied "At half-past four or five P. M., the three brigades were moved across to the right of the turnpike, a mile or more, to the Manassas Gap Railroad. While here musketry was heard to our left, on the turnpike. This firing continued with more or less vivacity till sundown. Now the command was ordered back to the turnpike, and forward on this to the support of General Hood, who had become engaged with the enemy and had driven him back some distance, inflicting severe loss upon him, being checked in his successes by the darkness of the night." Major S. H. Hairston, . Official Report. Gainesville, August 29, 1862, 8 P. M. "To Colonel Chilton, Assistant Adjutant-General: "In ob?dience to General Lee's order I started this morning at eight o'clock with one hundred and fifty cavalry to go to Warrenton, 'to find out if any of the enemy's forces were still in the vicinity of that place.' I went from Thoroughfare to the right on a by-road, which took me into the Winchester road two miles below Warrenton, and came up to the rear of the town. I inquired of the citizens and persons I met on the way, but could not hear that any of their forces were in the vicinity of that place. They informed me that the last left yesterday in the direction of Gainesville and Warrenton Junction." 7. ORAL TESTIMONY. PASSAGES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT. EXTRACTS. W. L. B. Wheeler . Record, Vol. 3, pp. 1109-11. Q. Did Bethlehem church have a spire on it on the 29th of August, 1862? A. It never has had since I have known it. Q. How long have you known it? A. I suppose I have known it since I was eight years old. I went to school there in 1834 Q. Relative to Bethlehem church, when did the walls fall in of...
Language
English
Pages
70
Format
Paperback
Publisher
General Books
Release
February 05, 2012
ISBN
1151332089
ISBN 13
9781151332080

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