Identifier: bluegrayorcivilw00whit (find matches)
Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
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Publisher: (S.l. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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u 221 222 GENERAL HOOD IS RECKLESS.
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it prudent to attemptto reach Nashville.Quickly he retired toFranklin, where hesucceeded in gettingacross the river,throwing up earth-works, and placinghis artillery. Thescene was a stirringone. General Hoodforced his men upagainst the strongbreastworks with arecklessness that wasappalling. Theywere doomed, for theterrific onslaught ofmusketry and artil-lery cut them downso fast that theywere piled up inheaps, dying anddead, the entirelength of the line.The struggle at the breastworks was so fierce that it became ahot, mad encounter between the two armies, who fought literally,hand to hand, while their fire flashed in each others faces.Officers dismounted, and fought beside their men. The contestbecame so close that the standards of both armies were uponthe earthworks at the same time. A ditch ran outside the works, which was filled with theConfederates, who could not cross it under such a blinding fire.Here they met their heaviest losses. The smoke from the Na-tional side was so dens

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