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Title: Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Osborn, Hartwell
Subjects: United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 55th (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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scampering wildly in all directions, and a battery of artillery whichhad attempted to get into action on the right of the fine behind thebreastworks had been flanked out of position and was rushingmadly to the rear in an effort to reach a new point of vantage andto save its guns. It was here that I again ran across known com-rades—Colonel Lee, whose black horse I had seen galloping aboutbearing an empty saddle, the sight of which had sadly impressed *GreeIey, in his American Conflict, says: Driven back (the Eleventh Corps) in wildrout down the Chancellorsville road upon the position of General Schurz, it was found thathis division had alreadv retreated,—perhaps fled is the apterword,—and an attempt madeto rally and form here proved abortive. And Greeley might have added, truthfully, thatas a military man Schurz was one of the most conspicuous failures of the War of the Rebel-lion, and his appointment as Major-General in the Union Army a serious mistake ofLincolns administration.
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1863) RECOLLECTIONS OF CHANCELLORSVILLE 81 me with the thought that he must have been killed or wounded,and Sergeant (afterwards Lieutenant) A. B. Chase. All this time the enemy was continuously pushing his advantagewith accustomed energy, and persistently turning our right flank, in,as it proved to be, a vain effort to reach the road leading to UnitedStates Ford, and thus cut us off from our Hne of retreat. The openspace in which all this was occurring was perhaps half a mile inextent from east to west, and as I drifted across it to an adjoiningpiece of timber, with the now thoroughly demoralized and brokenremnants of Howards corps, I stopped a moment before enteringthe wood, impelled by curiosity to witness the efforts of some artillery-men to extricate a twelve-pounder brass howitzer which had becomestalled in a ditch they had attempted to cross. They had not timeto reheve it, and, cutting the traces, hurried away on the backs ofthe horses, leaving the gun as spoil for the enemy. W

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