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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 6 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 4 2 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 4 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 2 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
been brought up; his soldiers were all Kentuckians, and the desire to snatch this town from the Federals would have made them go beyond the orders of their chief. However that may be, they advance boldly upon the counterscarp of the fort. But Hicks has had time to post his men on the parapets, and a heavy discharge of musketry assails the Southerners, who experience heavy losses. While they strive in vain to surmount the obstacle, two Federal gunboats, the Peosta and the Pawpaw, which Captain Shirk, on returning from Tennessee the day before, has very fortunately left in front of the city, open fire on the assailants, which their balls strike on the flank. Thompson is killed by one of these projectiles. His soldiers are obliged to take refuge in the houses commanding the fort, and from the tops of which they continue the fight with the defenders. At the news of this bloody defeat Forrest rushes forward: a glance suffices to show him the uselessness of another attack. He will