...advance on my lines," Jackson said, "the enemy had thrown over in his boats a considerable force to the other side of the river. These having landed were...discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements ingloriously fled, drawing after them by their example the remainder...

...conveyed by the officers who commanded on the right bank, General Jackson declared of these Kentuckians : "What is strange and difficult to account for, at the very moment when the entire discomfiture of the enemy was looked for with a confidence amounting to certainty, the Kentucky...

...over in his boats a considerable force to the other side of the river. These having landed were hardly enough to advance against the works of General Morgan...difficult to account for, at the very moment when their discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky re-inforcements,...

...Simultaneously with his advance, upon my lines, he had thrown over in his boats a considerable force to the other side of the river. These having landed were...discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the...

...advance on my lines," Jackson said, "the enemy had thrown over in his boats a considerable force to the other side of the river. These having landed were...discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements ingloriously fled, drawing after them by their example the remainder...

...General Morgan's command." To which General Jackson's more polished, but not less pointed, censure added, "At the very moment when their entire discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, on whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled,...