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Title: Annals of the Army of the Cumberland : comprising biographies, descriptions of departments, accounts of expeditions, skirmishes, and battles ; also its police record of spies, smugglers, and prominent rebel emissaries ... and official reports of the battle of Stone River and of the Chickamauga Campaign
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Fitch, John, of Alton (Ill.)
Subjects: United States. Army of the Cumberland Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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superior rebel force near Union-ville, Tennessee, They killed several, and captured fifty-two prisoners.Eight of the rebel dead were found with their heads split open by the sabre.The rebels fled,—their flight, and in fact their fight, being much impededby their haste to cast off the blue Federal overcoats with which many wereclothed. This was after the issue of the order of General Ilosecrans de-claring that all enemies dressed in our uniform should when taken prisonersbe treated as spies. Dar!—The Federal engineers at Nashville resolved upon demolishingtlie old Blind Asylum building, in the suburbs of that city, it obstruct-ing their works. The walls were massive, and were mined to be blown upwith gunpowder. Several holes were dug at various points, the powderplaced, fuses prepared, &c., and a negro laborer was stationed over each,with a light, to touch them all at the same instant, upon a given eignaLSambo was very nervous, wondering, and excited,—too much so to succeed.
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V T- INCIDENTS AND REMINISCENCES. 651 At the signal moment each dashed his light upon the place and broke forshelter like a quarter-horse. One or two of them had courage to waitand see the fuse begin to burn. Dar! dar \ shouted they, and away theytravelled. The explosion was not at all simultaneous, and the walls werebreached only in spots. Two or three times was the attempt repeated, withsimilar results, occasioning much merriment. Not a single American ofAfrican descent could be induced to stay until the fuses Averc surely fired. Dar! dar! was the fearful announcement; and the engineers were forcedto assume the task. In justice to Sambo, we should state, however, that avery brief acquaintance with prepared saltpetre disarms him of his fears. The Soldiers Oath.—At Louisville, Major William H. Sidell, mustering-in oiEcer, had just administered the usual army oath to some new recruits,when a secesh lady (may we call her Mrs. Johnson ?) remarked to him,with a smiling air, but consider

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