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The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864; A Monograph

The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864; A Monograph

Cox, Jacob D.

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ISBN10: 1150292164
ISBN13: 9781150292163
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1897 Excerpt: ...the works without officers, and with no light save the lurid glare of the enemy's artillery, which seemed to scar the eyeballs. This portion of the works was held against every attack of the enemy to regain them. The thicket had been cut down as if by a mowing machine, and the ground was all in deep furrows. About nine o'clock the firing gradually dwindled into a slight skirmish. Those who were able walked or crawled back from under the works. Sergeant Major Cunningham, of the same regiment (a near kinsman of the captain), has also left a truthful picture of this doomed and dwindling remnant, when, as he says, there was not an efficient man left between this group and the turnpike, and among themselves hardly enough to hand up guns to the short and thin line firing from the outside of the parapet.2 It was evident that we could not hold out much longer, and it was thought that none of us would be left alive. It seemed expedient that we should either surrender or try and get away, when the General (Strahl) was asked, and he responded, 'Keep firing, ' and just as the man to my right was shot and fell against me with terrible and loud groans, General Strahl was shot. He threw up his hands, falling on his face, and we thought him dead; but in asking the dying man, who still rested against my shoulder, how he was wounded, our General, not dead, and thinking my question was to him, raised up, saying he was shot in the head, and called for Colonel Stafford to turn over his command. He crawled over the dead, the ditch being three deep, about twenty feet to where Colonel Stafford was. His staff officers started to carry him to the rear, but he received another shot, and directly a third, which killed him instantly.... Captain W. E. Cunningham had lost an e...

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