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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 13 of With fire and sword, With Fire and Sword BY MAJOR S. H. M. BYERS OF GENERAL SHERMAN S STAFF Author of Sherman s March to the Sea, Iowa in War Times, Twenty Years in Europe, and…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 14 of With fire and sword, Copyright, 1911, by THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY /x (Tf 6 ©ci.a:jo;j555
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 15 of With fire and sword, CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I 11 My enlistment in the Union Army The Bush- whackers of Missouri The Quantrells and the James Brothers Cutting a man s head off My first adventure in…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 16 of With fire and sword, 6 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER V 49 The laughable campaign of the war An army float- ing among the tree tops of the Yazoo Pass. CHAPTER VI 54 Grant s new plan at…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 17 of With fire and sword, CONTENTS 7 PAGE CHAPTER IX 102 Sherman s army floats across the Tennessee River at midnight ^Washington at the Delaware nothing compared to this We assault Missionary Ridge An awful battle My…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 18 of With fire and sword, 8 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER XIV 174 The army in the Carolinas General Sherman sends for me Gives me a place on his staff Experiences at army headquarters Sherman s life on the…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 19 of With fire and sword, PREFACE In war some persons seek adventures others have them in spite of themselves. It happened that the writer of tliis hook belonged to a regiment that seemed t6 be always in…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 20 of With fire and sword, 10 PEEFACE escaping from prison he was for a time on General Sherman s staff and was selected to run down the Cape Fear River and carry the great news of Sher-…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 21 of With fire and sword, With Fire and Sword CHAPTER I My enlistment in the Union Army The Bushwhackers of Missouri The Quantrells and the James Brothers Cutting a man s head off My first adventure in…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 22 of With fire and sword, 12 WITH FIKE AND SWOED then someone called out, Myers to the platform Myers Myers Myers echoed a hundred other voices. Mr. Myers never stirred, as he was no public speaker. I…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 23 of With fire and sword, WITH FIRE AND SWORD 13 a plantation in Mississippi, and there with my own eves had seen the horrors of slavery. I had seen human beings flogged men and women bleeding from…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 24 of With fire and sword, 14 WITH FIRE AND SWORD Worthington, was a military martinet from some soldier school in Kentucky. His sympathies were with his native South. Why he was leading a North- ern regiment was…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 25 of With fire and sword, WITH FIRE AND SWORD 15 the roadside. We marched half the nights and all the days and just as we got close enough to fight, the Washington politicians caused Fremont to be…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 26 of With fire and sword, 16 WITH EIRE AND SWORD ful punishinent, and horrible incidents became the order of the day and night. I recall now how a prize was once offered by one of our commanders…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 27 of With fire and sword, WITH FIRE A^B SWOED 17 and a furlough seemed probable enough. The two men and the one woman sat in front of the fireplace talking for an hour. The corporal, with the…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 28 of With fire and sword, 18 WITH FIRE AND SWOED a corporal, lielping iu a siriall way to keep the great railroad free from marauders and in possession of the Union army. I don t know how…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 29 of With fire and sword, WITH FIRE AND SWORD 19 I was hardly installed in my new post when to my surprise I was ordered by the colonel to take a good horse and ride twelve miles…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 30 of With fire and sword, 20 WITH FIRE AND SWORD I, too, galloped faster, the distance between us re- maining abont the same. Each of us now had a pistol in his hand, but it looked as…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 31 of With fire and sword, WITH FIRE AND SWORD 21 to terms, however. There followed a little fare- well scene between him and his wife, who poured bottles of wrath on the heads of the bluecoats/ and…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 32 of With fire and sword, CHAPTER II We leave Missouri and go South The prisoners of Donel- son The taking of New Madrid Kindly bury this unfortunate officer Quaker guns at Shiloh The kill- ing of the…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 33 of With fire and sword, WITH FIRE AND SWORD 23 rages, and murders by QuantrelFs guerrillas in Mis- souri than in tbe bloodiest battles of the four years conflict. !N ow for months my regiment, with others,…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 34 of With fire and sword, 24 WITH FIEE AND SWOED St. Louis. A long, cold, miserable march it was too, hurrying in the daytime and freezing in our bivouacs in the snow and woods at night. Many…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 35 of With fire and sword, WITH FIRE AND SWOKD 26 took our brigade of infantry down through a corn- field to assault a gunboat that lay in a creek close by. The Rebel commander had expected us,…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 36 of With fire and sword, 26 WITH FIRE AND SWOED Our command was now hurried to the Shiloh battlefield, of course too late to be of any use. But we took part in the long, wonderful, and…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 37 of With fire and sword, WITH FIRE AND SWORD 2Y claimed the sentinel, and he then told of his experi- ences of the night. He was arrested, tried, and acquitted. Yet there were many among ns who…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 38 of With fire and sword, 28 WITH FIRE AND SWOED thies, one of the bravest, best, and most loved com- manders of our army. Later Mattbies was made a general, and at tbe close of the war…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 39 of With fire and sword, CHAPTER III luka, the fiercest battle of the war, 217 men out of 482 of my regiment are shot The awful Rebel charge at Corinth Moonlight on the battlefield Bushels of arms…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911
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Image 40 of With fire and sword, 30 WITH FIRE AND SWORD and attack from one side, General Grant, with Ord*a troops, would attack from another side. How eagerly the regiment made the forward march on that beauti- ful…
- Contributor: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
- Date: 1911