My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field

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Charles Carleton Coffin. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field

My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field

Table of Contents

LIST OF DIAGRAMS

MILITARY TERMS

MY DAYS AND NIGHTS

ON THE BATTLE-FIELD

INTRODUCTORY

TO THE YOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER I

HOW THE REBELLION CAME ABOUT

CHAPTER II

THE GATHERING OF A GREAT ARMY

CHAPTER III

THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN

CHAPTER IV

THE CAPTURE OF FORT HENRY

CHAPTER V

THE CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

CHAPTER VI

THE SURRENDER

CHAPTER VII

THE ARMY AT PITTSBURG LANDING

CHAPTER VIII

THE BATTLE

From Daybreak till Ten o’clock

From Ten o’clock till Four

Sunday Evening

Monday

CHAPTER IX

EVACUATION OF COLUMBUS

CHAPTER X

OPERATIONS AT NEW MADRID

CHAPTER XI

OPERATIONS AT ISLAND NUMBER TEN

CHAPTER XII

FROM FORT PILLOW TO MEMPHIS

CHAPTER XIII

THE NAVAL FIGHT AT MEMPHIS

THE END

FOOTNOTES:

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Charles Carleton Coffin

Published by Good Press, 2019

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In those old times pirates sailed the seas, plundering and destroying ships. They swarmed around the West India Islands, and sold their spoils to the people of Charleston, South Carolina. There, for several years, the freebooters refitted their ships, and had a hearty welcome. But the King’s ships of war broke up the business, and commerce again had peaceful possession of the ocean.

These things gave direction to the stream, influencing the development and growth of the colonies, which became States in the Union, and which seceded in 1861.

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