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English: Gallant charge of the Seventeenth, Forty-Eighth and Forty-Ninth Regiments of Illinois Volunteers, led by Colonel Morrison on the outworks of Fort Donelson, February 13th, 1862.

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Title: Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ...
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
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Publisher: New York : Mrs. F. Leslie
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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GALLANT CHARGE OF THE SEVENTEENTH, FORTY-EIGHTH AND FORTY-NINTH REGIMENTS OF ILLINOIS first charge on the Confederate works of Fort Donelson was made Thursday afternoon. The surroundings of this intrenchment were of the worst ta spectral look, from the few dead leaves which hung to their brandies. Bevond this was a very steep hillside, on which the intrenchment was formed, seventeenth, forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Regiments rushed headlong on the foe; but the nature of the ground was too much for them, and after a gallaigood order, after losing forty men killed and two hundred wounded.
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fNTEERS, LED BY COLONEL MORRISON, ON THE OUTWORKS OF PORT DONELSON, FEBRUARY 13th, 1862 was full of underbrush and oak scrub. These is was defended by a long line of rifle pits. About two oclock in the afternoon General McClernand gave the order to charge, and at the word the desperate conflict, in which many fell without seeing their foe. Colonel Morrison, who had led them like a hero, ordered them to retire. This was done in

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