Identifier: redeemingrepubli00incoff (find matches)
Title: Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Subjects: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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er, we are marching on to battle ! Cheer, boys, cheer, for our sweethearts and our wives !Cheer, boys, cheer, well nobly do our duty,And give to the South our hearts, our arms, our lives. Our cartridges were almost gone, and Lieut. Joe Carney, Joe Sewell,and Billy Carr volunteered to go and bring a box of a thousand cartridges.They got out of the back window, and through that hail of iron and leadmade their way back with the box of cartridges. Our ammunition beingrenewed, the fight raged on. Capt. Joe P. Lee touched me on the shoul-der and said, Sam, please let me have your gun for one shot. He raisedit to his shoulder and pulled down on a fine-dressed cavalry officer, and Isaw that Yankee tumble. He handed it back to me to reload. Abouttwelve oclock, midnight, the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee,commanded by Colonel McGevney, came to our relief. The firing had ceased, and we abandoned the octagon house. Ourdead and wounded were there—thirty of them—in strange contrast with
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FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ALLATOONA. 225 the furniture of the house, fine chairs, sofas, settees, pianos, and Brusselscarpeting being made the death-bed of brave and noble boys, all saturatedwith blood; fine lace and damask curtains all blackened by the smoke ofbattle ; fine bureaus and looking-glasses and furniture being riddled by therude missiles of war; beautiful pictures in gilt frames, and a library of val-uable books, all shot and torn by musket and cannon balls. Such is war. ()It is twenty-five miles due south from Resaca to Kingston, where therailroad turns east towards the little village of Cassville, the place selectedby Johnston where he would fight a great battle. His engineers reportedto him that that was a very strong position. He issued anorder to his army, informing his soldiers that he should re-treat no farther, and that they would have an opportunity to fight a deci-sive battle. The Union scouts obtained a copy of the order, which theybrought to Sherman. General Thomas h

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