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Excerpt from A Field With the Eleventh Army Corps at Chancellorsville: A Paper Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States, October 7, 1895
The bonfires and torches, ablaze on the right bank of the river, now revealed a scene Of weird and overpow ering grandeur. The storm-riven mill, clinging to a rug ged elevation to the west, and ?anked by the black piers and charred ribs Of the dismantled bridge, rising in col umnar desolation - all the more desolate in the streaky glare - seemed in unequal conflict with the swollen, rock tossed river in front, which, eddying and seething in whirl pool currents, and multiplying the glare Of the beacons into innumerable corruscations, on the crests Of their roll ing and wallowing rage, dashed into the roaring night be low. Everything combined to harass the advance! TO essay the now heaving and writhing ford were fated mad ness! The stoutest pontoons would sway and crunch like cockle-shells amidst the wrestling whirlpools NO infantry would dare the frenzied stream! The artillery must lead the van! But, before, under the sharp commands Of the pilot scouts. On the farther shore. The tortuous thread Of the buried ford had been tentatively assured, one caisson was swept into the black and horrible gulf beyond.
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The bonfires and torches, ablaze on the right bank of the river, now revealed a scene Of weird and overpow ering grandeur. The storm-riven mill, clinging to a rug ged elevation to the west, and ?anked by the black piers and charred ribs Of the dismantled bridge, rising in col umnar desolation - all the more desolate in the streaky glare - seemed in unequal conflict with the swollen, rock tossed river in front, which, eddying and seething in whirl pool currents, and multiplying the glare Of the beacons into innumerable corruscations, on the crests Of their roll ing and wallowing rage, dashed into the roaring night be low. Everything combined to harass the advance! TO essay the now heaving and writhing ford were fated mad ness! The stoutest pontoons would sway and crunch like cockle-shells amidst the wrestling whirlpools NO infantry would dare the frenzied stream! The artillery must lead the van! But, before, under the sharp commands Of the pilot scouts. On the farther shore. The tortuous thread Of the buried ford had been tentatively assured, one caisson was swept into the black and horrible gulf beyond.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Owen Rice
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780332849416
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 42
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ISBN - 9781333934576
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm
Page Count - 44
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