Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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paid no attention to SHILOH. the cravings of hunger and the urgings towardsmaterial comforts, but lay down on the groundand bivouacked where they had stood when theorder to cease fighting reached them. All the dark, stormy night it rained a chilling 213 Tennessee, kept up a deafening bombardmentof the Confederate quarters throughout thewhole of the night, the shells shrieking andcrashing among the trees, hurling great limbs,and even whole tree-tops, to the ground, and
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UP THE BANK TIIEV STRUGGLED AND SCRAMBLED (/>. 212). rain. A cold wind moaned through the trees,and so exhausted were the unwounded that thewounded lay in the main rmattended. (jranthimself lay with no other covering than theclothes he wore, his head to the stump of atree, and passed the night as best he could. Toadd to the horrors of the night, the two gun-boats, riding safely upon the bosom of the finally setting fire to the leaves tiiat were onthe ground and the underbrush, until the badlywounded were burned where they la). It was indeed a night of horror, of suffering,and ot despair. But worst of all for the South, in the middleof the night Buell arrived, and had the field ofbattle explained to him ; and when the morning 214 BATTLKS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY dawned, his army—22,coo men—fresh and eagerto fight, marched upon the scene, together withGeneral Wallaces 5,000 reserve. When Beau-regard arose to continue the battle, he foundhimself hopelessly outnumbered, and, fight

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