Identifier: bulletshellwaras00will (find matches)
Title: Bullet and shell. War as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, George Forrester, 1837-1920 Wilmer, Richard Hooker, 1918-, former owner
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Publisher: New York, Fords, Howard, & Hulbert
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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e morrow. All was silent about me, only the hoarse chal-lenge of some sentinel breaking the silence. The moon washidden by a heavy bank of clouds ; and, in the trenches behindour line of forts, five thousand men lay asleep on their arms.Suddenly a gun was fired from the Confederate redoubt near-est the river, and then another and another followed suit. Ina few minutes the batteries opened a furious fusillade, and theair was full of flying shells. It was a magnificent scene ; and Iforgot my danger in watching the flashes of the guns and theflight of the shells as they rose in front, and fell in the rear,their blazing fuses betraying their passage. Hour after hourthis fierce, unexpected cannonade continued, until at lengththe mortar-shells began tumbling into our parallels. CaptainHarding stood near me as one fell. Heavens! But this is getting to be a hot place, Wilmot.Tell the men to shelter themselves in the traverses. No use, sir. They are all too much excited to lie still, Ireplied.
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TUEOWING AWAY THE SCABBARD. 73 I dont wonder at it: I feel that way myself. I wish wehad orders to reply. Faith, an wed make the divils own row together, saidDennis, who was, as usual, ready to take part in any conversa-tion near him. But we never used the guns we had labored so long to getinto position; for, as the day broke, two or three negroes camealong the river-path, and announced that Yorktown had beenevacuated. This changed the whole condition of affairs, for thearmy was at once set in motion. Before noon, long columns ofinfantry were pushing forward, being far in the advance bynightfall. The unhealthy water and the unusual fatigue had at lengthits effect, for that night I was stricken down with fever. Iremember being lifted into an ambulance, and the awful jolt-ing of the vehicle over the rough road, until insensibility dead-ened my pain. It was with astonishment, therefore, that Ifound myself, on waking, lying on a rude stretcher in the dark.Trying to discover my whereabouts

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