 | William Swinton - 1867 - 580 страница
...that drove it into and out from Atlanta. Thus, that first prolonged and terrible measure of strength between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, which began with the Peninsular campaign, was not ended there betwixt the York and the James, but very... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 674 страница
...MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA. May, men. '1863. LTHOUGH the Rappahannock was again flowing full and turbulent between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, and Hooker was in full communication with ample supplies, his forces were in a perilous situation.... | |
 | 1879 - 810 страница
...period of about six weeks, the Army of the Potomac lost not less than seventy thousand men. In the battles between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, in no case was a direct assault upon an intrenched position successful. There is evidence that the... | |
 | F.Warne - 1886 - 992 страница
...КЕТ-CAPOTE AND RAW-HIDE MOCCASINS. IN the early fall of 1862, a distance of not more than thirty miles lay between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. A state of uncertainty had existed for several weeks succeeding the battle of Sharpsburg, but the movements... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - 1887 - 644 страница
...their opinion that an assault would have resulted disastrously to the Federal army. This view st.ems to be supported by the fact that in the great battles...the Army of Northern Virginia, an assault by either upou a strongly fortified position held by its opponent, was almost without exception a failure. This... | |
 | Henry Meyer - 1890 - 142 страница
...enlisted in Company "A" 148th Regt., PV, August, 1862, and participated in a number of the sanguinary battles between the army of the Potomac and the army of Northern Virginia. Always at his post, never shirking any duty, however disagreeable or dangerous ; kind and generous... | |
 | Augustus C. Buell - 1890 - 414 страница
...slugging match pure and simple — which in fact it was — to a greater extent than any other battle between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. The percentage of killed to wounded was also larger than in any other general engagement, being for... | |
 | Leander Winslow Cogswell - 1891 - 850 страница
...onward to catch a glimpse of the fast rolling river which had for many months been the dividing line between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. We had no idea whatever where we were going, only that we were bound for the Rapidan. PART VIII. CROSSING... | |
 | Edwin Eustace Bryant - 1891 - 556 страница
...desperate charges, and the men of the western armies looked on aghast when they saw how battles were fought between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. The menwere somewhat horrified at seeing some of the army surgeons gathering up skulls by the bagfull... | |
 | 1895 - 838 страница
...Chamberlain, the Twentieth Maine were the heroes of Little Round Top in the terrible three days' struggle between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, — which was the great pivotal battle of the war. In 1865, at Appomatox, the division commanded by... | |
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This view seems to be supported by the fact that in the great battles between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, an assault by either upon a strongly fortified position held by its opponent, was almost without exception a failure. 
