This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and when the animal sank to the earth, the aid jumped over the horse's head, and he and I ran on together. In another moment a cannon ball came along and killed the aid. I was still on the run! How little the historians give us of battle experiences. How little the historians tell us of actual conditions, of advantages ...
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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 (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and when the animal sank to the earth, the aid jumped over the horse's head, and he and I ran on together. In another moment a cannon ball came along and killed the aid. I was still on the run! How little the historians give us of battle experiences. How little the historians tell us of actual conditions, of advantages, and disadvantages, of the hopes of alluring columns, or the disappointments that sometimes come to breed defeat. History tells us, that Hooker blundered at Chancellorsville, and there met with disaster. Ask the private soldier, or the eighth corporal, and he will tell you, that on Sunday morning, after our men had been driven back with heavy loss, to the rear of our batteries, and when Confederate success on that bloody forenoon was at its flood tide, he will tell you that the right moment had come for Hooker to hurl his heroic first corps, that had not yet fired a gun, upon the bleeding and crippled corps of Jackson, that had spent its force. Stonewall Jackson had violated the rules of modern warfare, by separating himself from Lee. Our sixth corps confronted the enemy at Fredericksburg, and Lee could not succor Jackson. Jackson's tactics would naturally be more disastrous to himself, than to Hooker. General Custer afterwards used the same tactics in his last battle with the Indians, and lost. The moment had now come, when we expected Hooker to strike a decisive blow, but for once he was silent. I was on the run with some others, but in a few moments we saw a sight that made us stop, and cheer. It was our first corps with its colors flying, and its divisions of veterans in close column, and just as heroic as they afterwards were, when they stood almost alone the first day at Gettysburg. But the first corps at Chancellorsville was not ordere...
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