A day or two after, while we were on a forced march to intercept a party of rebels, the effect of the wound on my brother's brain manifested itself in a terrible hallucination.
Hearing that the rebels were threatening Carlisle, we were sent thither on a forced march of sixteen miles.
It was, therefore, necessary to save the supply by a forced march of seven days, in which period we were to accomplish the distance, and to reach Abou Hammed, on the southern bend of the welcome Nile.
The men who had made a forced march to Gettysburg were awake to the exigency of the hour, and made a quick march back to Frederick, and over the mountains to Boonsboro'.
Having accomplished the object of the expedition, without any loss, Gregg returns and rejoins Stoneman at Thompson's Cross-Roads the 5th of May having made a forced march of seventy miles, and doing great damage.
Meade joined him on the morning of the 5th, while Ord, by a forced march, reached Burkesville, south of Sheridan.
As soon as the news reached headquarters, a force was speedily organized, and started on a forced march.
Making a forced march, the author and Long followed on the same trail, and soon came to a house, holloed, and a lady coming out, we inquired how far the command was ahead.
We were ordered on a forced march in the direction of Utony, for the purpose of cutting off Price's retreat.
The commandant at once ordered a company of cavalry and one of infantry to proceed to Plum Creek on a forced march--taking a howitzer with them--to endeavor to recapture the cattle from the Indians.
Marion, in a few days after, returned to South Carolina by a forced march.
After a forced march of four days he arrived at White's bridge; but there was no enemy near Georgetown.
Rey was brought up by a forced march to Castelnuovo, where Victor joined him, and ahead of them both Massena was hurried on to Rivoli.
Thence on the 6th of May Bonaparte, with a picked body of troops, set out for a forced march on Piacenza, and that night the advanced guard was 30 m.
We moved from Gloucester Point early in the morning, and made a forced march to the Piankatank River.
By means of a forced march of forty miles through the night, at the gray dawn of the morning we descended upon Beaver Dam dépôt, on the Virginia Central, like so many ravenous wolves upon a broken fold.
They advanced by a forced march to reconnoitre as far as Brandy Station, where they met the enemy in force and engaged him in a sharp contest.
Add to these items the well-filled haversack and battered tin quart cup, (for on a forced march of two or three days Captain Ray would have no pack mules,) and the personal equipment of his men was complete.
Only fifty were to go, the best half hundred in the sorrel troop, for it was to be a forced march.
The allies, by a forced march, succeeded in passing the French lines at Pont-a-Verdun without opposition, and invested Douay.
The Commanding General hopes that his troops will step out like men, and make a forced march to save the country.
It was essential, then, that this important pass should be secured, and Jackson's men were called on for a forced march.
He was warned that there would be no necessity for a forced march; he was to encamp at cross-roads, and he was to rest on Sunday.
I may here say that my experience is that the soldiers who could best look after their stomachs were also those who could make the best use of the bayonet, and who were the least likely to fall behind in a forced march.
I may here remark that my experience is that, after a forced march, it would be far more beneficial to the men if the general commanding were to serve out an extra ration of tea or coffee with a pound of bread or biscuit instead of extra grog.
At the same time the cavalry started in pursuit of Banks, the infantry began a forced march to Shreveport to meet Price and Steele.
We traveled all day on a forced march, and when within a short distance of Lexington were fired upon from both sides of the road from behind corn shocks.
We made a forced march of one hundred and fifty miles to Shreveport, and then hurried down Red River to Sabine Cross Roads.
Hearing this, Alexander led his cavalry and the lightest of his light infantry to Tarsus with a forced march; consequently Arsames, hearing of his start, fled with speed from Tarsus to King Darius without inflicting any injury upon the city.
He then made a forced marchto the defiles, where the Uxians resolved to meet him in mass in order to receive the prescribed toll.
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