Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unforeseen event happened, two Confederate raids cut Grant's communications and destroyed many of his supplies. He was compelled to fall back and leave Pemberton free to reinforce the city. Meanwhile, Sherman, with whom no line of communication was kept up, had sailed down the river and made an attack which was repulsed. Then General McClernand arrived from Washington with orders to command in any attack against the city. He was shortly followed by Grant in person, with more troops, and this general assumed the lead. Several plans of approach were undertaken, but each in turn failed, chiefly on account...
...peculiar connotation which is given to it by the Advertiser writer. We do not believe, however, that under a categorical examination he would still hold that his description of the evil covers all cases and is a satisfactory basis of argument. Professionalism is too formless a dragon to attack with any hope of victory. Excess and occasional brutality in college sports are specific charges offering chance for specific reform...
...abolish all regular training and organized efforts to play a "scientific" game; return to the rules and customs of the simple sports of early boyhood. It is on this point only that debate is to come, then we have an issue clearly defined, and we do not hesitate to attack such a position as the above as plainly untenable. We have not many hopes of convincing those members of the faculty who hold to such a belief after having soberly considered the arguments on both sides already brought forward, so utterly alien must be their point of view to that...
...army had now taken position in a wide semi-circle outside of this ridge, stationed largely on a parallel ridge called Seminary Ridge. His army was impatient, and Lee determined to attack. Longstreet drove in an advanced angle of the Federal line near Round Top, and almost gained that important hillock. On the other end of the line Ewell and Johnson made an attack near Culps, and at evening the latter general was on that eminence. A portion of the Federal line near the centre had also been broken through for a time. This condition of affairs much encouraged...
...time faced each other at close quarters. After a hard struggle Johnson was driven back and the right of the line restored. But the afternoon was to see the great work of the day, the final attempt of Lee to break Meade's army. The place selected for an attack was the centre of the line. After a fire of artillery, to demoralize the Federal troops, the Confederates advanced. 14,000 men, led by Pickett, Wilcox and Pettigrew, rushed forward. They got separated, and not supporting each other, all were captured or compelled to retreat. This last attack had failed...