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The speaker was Colonel Blythe, who, happily, although dismounted by the shot that wounded his horse, had so far escaped unhurt. "But this is no time for compliments; we must look to ourselves. The enemy is still in great strength. They are bringing up the reserves." Above the battery a second line of columns loomed large and menacing.
The column thus deployed on the right into line, bending back the enemy's right wing in the execution of the movement each step in the deployment gaining space for the next succeeding step. The line as now formed, from the Dubuque battery on the right to Sigel's left, formed a curve enclosing Van Dorn's army.
He talked of nothing but the battery flag and how, because I'd presented it, they would forever and ever and ever and ever " She waved her hands sarcastically. "Nan, behave. Come here." The pair took the sofa. "How did he look and act when he first came in? Before you froze him stiff?" "I didn't freeze him." The quiet, hurt denial was tremulous. "Wood doesn't freeze."
She walked up to it, and touched it with such an appearance of suspicion as if it had been an electrical battery, and then looked round at me with a look of such helpless ignorance that my soul was moved. "I never see one of them things before," said she. "Never saw a tin oven!" I exclaimed. "I thought you said you had cooked in two or three families."
But just now on the ridge behind us, a battery wheeled into position, and sent charge after charge of grape and canister whizzing across into the enemy's ranks. Still they did not give way, and the battle raged more fiercely than ever. I had fired not less than eighty rounds, and only a few cartridges remained. Others had nearly exhausted their ammunition.
“Then came a long silence; next another frightful upheaval, and following it a third, so quickly that the results of the work of the two mingled in mid-air. “Another still, and then two shots from a Spanish battery, that, after the noise of the dynamite, sounded like the crackle of firecrackers. “The Vesuvius had tested herself. She was found perfect as a destroyer.
By telephone they had advised his battery stationed a little further on; it would be necessary to go now in order to see him. So they again climbed up to the light through the mouth of the tunnel. The senator then drew himself up, majestically erect. "They are going to fire at us," said a voice in his interior, "The foe is going to reply."
Other foremen, in their buggies or buckboards, were at intervals along the line, like battery lieutenants. Annixter himself, on horseback, in boots and campaign hat, a cigar in his teeth, overlooked the scene. The division superintendent, on the opposite side of the line, galloped past to a position at the head. For a long moment there was a silence.
"Of course, if they get our range, really, and find out all about us, we'll have to move," said the officer in command. "That would be a bore, but it couldn't be helped. We're a fixed target, you see, as soon as they know just where we are, and they can turn loose a battery of heavy howitzers against us and clear us out of here in no time. But we're pretty quick movers when we have to move!
You find automatics cutting the finest gears by the score, while one man operates a whole battery; you see drills doing from fifteen to twenty operations on a piston or a flywheel; you see an almost human machine making seventeen holes at one time without observation or care. Through these machines run rivers of oil. From them streams a steady line of parts.
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