...blinding hail. This storm raged with unrelenting violence for threo hours. I passed long wagon-trains ms to me idle for a moment to believe. But the bodies...yards of the muzzles of Col. Walton's puns are the be partridge-eggs, until it lay on the ground two inches deep. "Some 300 men died during that awful rotrcat,...

...blinding hail. This storm raged with unrelenting violence for three hours. I passed long wagon-trains filled with wounded and dying soldiers, without even...driving sleet and hail, which fell in stones as large as partridge-eggs, until it lay on the ground two inches deep. " Some 300 men died during that awful retreat,...

...hail. This storm raged with unrelenting violence for three hours. I passed long wagon-trains fifled with wounded and dying soldiers, without even a blanket...driving sleet and hail, which fell in stones as large as partridge-eggs, until it lay on the ground two inches deep. "Some 300 men died during that awful retreat,...

...which was raging. A cold drizzling rain commenced about nightfall, and soon came harder and faster. It turned to pitiless blinding hail. This storm raged...eggs, until it lay on the ground two inches deep. "Three hundred men died during this awful retreat. Their bodies were thrown out to make room for others,...

...which was raging. A cold drizzling rain commenced about nightfall, and soon came harder and faster. It turned to pitiless blinding hail. This storm raged...eggs, until it lay on the ground two inches deep. "Three hundred men died during this awful retreat. Their bodies were thrown out to make room for others,...

...terrible night, says : " And to add to the horrors of the scene, the elements of heaven marshalled their forces — a fitting accompaniment of the tempest...partridge eggs until it lay on the ground two inches deep."49 In the list of military conflicts followed by rain, is also to be placed the BATTLE OF BULL...

...hanging down, or other fearful wounds which were enough to destroy life I passed long wagon-trains, filled with wounded and dying soldiers, without even...driving sleet and hail, which fell in stones as large as partridge-eggs, until it lay on the ground iwo inches deep. Somfe three hundred men died dnring that...

...requires the loss of your last man." " An eyo-witness wrote: — "I passed long wagon-trains tilled with wounded and dying soldiers, without even a blanket to shield them from the driving sleet and hail." Beauregard reported his loss at 1,728 killed, 8,012 wounded, and 957 missing — total, 10.697 Grant...

...requires the loss of your last man." 1 An eye-witness wrote: — "I passed long wagon-trains tilled with wounded and dying soldiers, without even a blanket to shield them from tho driving sleet and hail." Beauregard reported his loss at 1,728 killed, 8,012 wounded, and 967 missing...

...terrible night, says : " And to add to the horrors of the scene, the elements of heaven marshalled their forces — a fitting accompaniment of the tempest...without even a blanket to shield them from the driving <i Log of the " Benton." *- See appended Letters, Nos. 3, 14, 16 and 28. sleet and hail, which fell...