 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 Seiten
...pass, and twenty, and twenty-five, hoping vainly for something to turn up. Then I wrote to Pickett: " If you are coming at all you must come at once, or...eighteen guns are still firing from the cemetery itself." Five minutes after sending that message, the enemy's fire suddenly began to slacken, and the guns in... | |
 | Rev. J. WM. Jones - 1877 - 338 Seiten
...would soon pass, I wrote him a note to this effect: "If you are coming at all you must come immediately or I cannot give you proper support; but the enemy's fire has not slackened materially, and at least 18 guns are still firing from the Cemetery itself." This note (which, though... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - 1887 - 644 Seiten
...used against the point we intend attacking, let them open on the enemy at Rocky Hill (Round Top).' The cannonading which opened along both lines was...you are coming at all, you must come at once, or I can not give you proper support; but the enemy's fire has not slackened at all; at least eighteen guns... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - 1887 - 644 Seiten
...used against the point we intend attacking, let them open on the enemy at Rocky Hill (Round Top).' The cannonading which opened along both lines was...you are coming at all, you must come at once, or I can not give you proper support; but the enemy's fire has not slackened at all; at least eighteen guns... | |
 | Ezra de Freest Simons - 1888 - 430 Seiten
...again. A note comes from General Alexander to General Pickctt — who is near Longstreet, that reads as follows : " If you are coming at all you must come...eighteen guns are still firing from the Cemetery itself." The note is handed to General Longstreet. He describes what followed : " After I had read the note,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1888 - 526 Seiten
...before the Union artillery ceased: "If you are coming at all yon must come at once, or I cannot give yon proper support; but the enemy's fire has not slackened...guns are still firing from the cemetery itself,"(') read the note. Five minutes passed, and the brazen lips of all the Union cannon were silent, and the... | |
 | Fitzhugh Lee - 1894 - 466 Seiten
...to give the word." Then he wrote Pickett, who was in view and in rear of his observation point : " If you are coming at all you must come at once, or I can not give you proper support ; but the enemy's fire has not slackened." 20 Two minutes afterward... | |
 | James Longstreet - 1895 - 808 Seiten
...handed a slip of paper. After reading it he handed it to me. It read : " If you are coming at all, come at once, or I cannot give you proper support,...eighteen guns are still firing from the cemetery itself. "ALEXANDER." Pickett said, " General, shall I advance?" The effort to speak the order failed, and I... | |
 | 1897 - 632 Seiten
...to the fearful responsibility, and, just before the Federal guns subsided, sent word to Pickett : " If you are coming at all, you must come at once, or...support ; but the enemy's fire has not slackened." Pickett rode up to Longstreet, saluted, and said, " General, shall I go forward ? " The commander bowed... | |
 | Benjamin La Bree - 1898 - 580 Seiten
...and twenty, and twenty-five, hoping, vainly, for something to turn up. Then I wrote to Pickett : " If you are coming at all, you must come at once, or I can not give you proper support ; but the enemy's fire has not slackened at all ; at least eighteen... | |
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If you are coming at all, come at once, or I cannot give you proper support, but the enemy's fire has not slackened at all. At least eighteen guns are still firing from the cemetery itself, ALEXANDER. 
