The rebel sharpshooters are on the lookout for a man careless enough to show himself.
It is fair to suppose that Union sharpshooters are just as vigilant as their opponents, and that Death visits, with no show of partiality, both blue and gray.
A grey battery opened on Berdan's sharpshooters strung in a line of trees below the great crown of guns.
The batteries above White Oak Swamp, the sharpshootersand skirmishers, the grey chafing cavalry, the grey masses of unemployed infantry, all held breath and listened.
The stone wall across the hollow blazed more fiercely; the sharpshooters diverted their attention from the men and horses higher upon the hill.
The blue battery and the blue sharpshooterspersisted in their hindering, and the grey battery continued to interfere with the blue.
They had a mile of open to cross, and the iron crown and the sharpshootersflamed against them.
The sharpshooters were behind them, blue moving points between the shocked corn.
The grey column, pushing across the Opequon, came into a zone of Federal skirmishers andsharpshooters ambushed behind stone fences.
There are probably sharpshooters in that wood across the stream," said Jackson.
Griffin and Ricketts answered, Jackson's sharpshooterstook a part, the uproar became frightful.
Fitz John Porter and the 5th Army Corps were across, somewhere between the river and Savage Station, leaving only, in the thick wood above the stream, a party of sharpshooters and a battery.
Rockbridge was suffering heavily, both from the opposing Parrotts and from sharpshooters behind the wall.
Hid among the rocks of Devil's Den, Confederate sharpshooters picked off officers and men occupying Little Round Top] Pickett's Charge.
Anxious to know what was in his front, Sickles sent the Berdan Sharpshooters and the 3rd Maine Infantry forward on a reconnaissance.
The sharpshooters were the first ashore, and they soon cleared a spot for the others.
A hasty meal was had, and then the column moved off, spreading out in fan shape as it advanced, the sharpshooters to the front and the rear, and a number of special scouts on the alert to give the first warning of danger.
Sharpshooters and even machine guns were posted on the trees, and they did terrible execution amongst our men, who were unable to see them.
On another house a big gun was placed in position, and some of our sharpshooters were told off to pick off the men working it.
Then he assigned sharpshooters to take care of the enemy on these roofs.
So well was this done that at least a dozen Mexican sharpshooters were killed within the next hour.
Hidden from the fire of the sharpshooters ahead, the sailors were out of immediate danger.
Some of our sharpshooters must still be posted on roofs," Dave whispered over his shoulder to Riley.
The other sharpshootershad been previously killed by the musketry from the Victory's deck.
The Redoubtable's mizzen-top was full of sharpshooters when the two ships fell alongside of each other, but only two were left there when Nelson was shot and dropped on his left side on the deck a foot or two from Captain Hardy.
Four guns were turned and swept the orchard with shell, but the wary sharpshooters darted to another point, and again came the hail of bullets.
The batteries of this army were engaged in a heavy duel with the Southern batteries in front, and the sharpshooters in the woods and bushes kept up a continuous combat that crackled like the flames of a forest fire.
Look how their sharpshooters are swarming in the woods and fields yonder.
Toward the last his lines were swept by a fire from a battery on James Island and by a cross fire of infantry and sharpshooters from a point in Fort Wagner itself.
A compact line of sharpshooters at the front was followed at a distance of one hundred meters by densely packed masses of company and battalion columns.
The sharpshooters of the Imperial Guard had formed an entire company of volunteers, who, led by officers, were always sent to perform particularly dangerous and difficult tasks.
Some of the rebel sharpshooters stationed themselves in trees, the better to see our skirmishers and pick them off.
There were a few boats tied up at the landing, which our sharpshooters soon drove from there, and they all escaped.
After marching in silence for some distance, the sharpshootersopened a destructive fire on us from behind trees.
But desultory firing was kept up by the rebel sharpshooters concealed in the timber and behind rocks on the summit of the mountain.
Gillmore: Is the fire of the ironclads effectual in silencing the sharpshooters at Fort Wagner?
His sharpshooters from the road commanded the cannoneers on the hill, and a desperate effort was made to drive them off the road.
The losses of the Fourth, Fifth and Palmetto sharpshooters at Gaines' Mill are reported as 173.
The gallant Haskell threw his sharpshooters against the Federal skirmishers, captured the road and drove his opponents up the slope and under their guns.
Longstreet specially mentions Anderson, Jenkins and Captain Kilpatrick of the Palmetto sharpshooters in his report, for distinguished conduct.
Allston's sharpshooters and part of Company I, Eleventh volunteers, covering the movement.
Hart's guns replied vigorously to those of the Federals, the sharpshooters became warmly engaged, and soon the whole brigade was in action, the fight being pressed by infantry on the enemy's side.
Dahlgren: My approaches are suspended on account of the sharpshooters on Fort Wagner.
Perrin was in position in front of Cemetery hill on the 2d, the Federal sharpshooters in his front on the Emmitsburg road.
During the skirmishing which followed, a dash of the enemy at the horse artillery was gallantly met and repulsed by 150 sharpshooters under Capt.
Then Skobeleff called on hissharpshooters to drive home the onset.
They refused to do so, and the wrangle was still at its height when Gustave Flourens and his Belleville sharpshooters reached the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville.
Once more the bullets of the sharpshooters whistled overhead; and the Arabs appearing in considerable force on the left flank, the column was halted on the summit of a low knoll, and orders were issued for the construction of a zareba.
The vicious bang of rifles, fired at comparatively close range, told of innumerable sharpshooters lurking around in the grass and shrubs.
A half-dozen Southern sharpshooters rose suddenly out of the thickets, and one of them dared to lay his hands on the reins of the general's horse.
It would mean nothing now," he said, and rode on with his men, knowing that the watchful Southern sharpshooters were on their flanks.
General Early picked two sharpshooters and sent them with another copy of the dispatch.
Harry knew that the Northern sharpshooters had discovered all they wanted, and were now returning to their leaders.
A hundred yards or two farther and we'll be in the territory of the enemy's sharpshooters instead of our own.
Evidently the sharpshooters who lay in the thickets on the Union side of the creek were of the first quality.
Harry understood thoroughly, as Ewell had said, that the sharpshootersof the enemy were merely feeling for them.
A strong force of Confederate sharpshooters was stationed along either bank, and a number of fire-rafts were ready to be lighted and sent down against the Union fleet.
The Rebel sharpshooterswho were lying in rifle-pits along the bank commenced a deadly fire.
He also threw a company ofsharpshooters into a school-house near the church.
Archer was nearly a mile west of the furnace when the sharpshooters reached the road, where they suddenly fell upon the Twenty-Third Georgia.
The Rebel sharpshooters were lying along the Emmettsburg road, pouring in a deadly fire, under cover of which a large body of Rebels was advancing to take possession of the pieces.
The Rebel sharpshooters are watching the movement from their hiding-places.
While this was going on, a body of Rebel sharpshooters crept up by the hedges and commenced firing; but two companies of marksmen were sent out by General Jackson's brigade, which drove them back.
Berdan's sharpshooters were thrown out in advance as skirmishers, and the infantry with artillery followed; but the artillery was compelled to halt till a bridge could be constructed across a small creek.
On Tuesday the Rebel sharpshooters were in front of Fort Stevens; they picked off some of the gunners, but a charge by a brigade dislodged them.
The broken masses of rock furnish a cover behind which sharpshooters may hide themselves while they fire on the enemy.
Orders were given to the sharpshooters in ambush to pour their fire more hotly on every crevice of the rocks above, so as to engage as much as possible the attention of the garrison.
General Jackson then said, "Let us go up this hill, and be careful not to expose yourself, for the Federal sharpshooters are not far off.
We had some crack sharpshooters or snipers in trees and also on top of ruins, but took care never to have them near our observation posts lest they should draw fire.
The picked snipers or sharpshooters could be placed in points of vantage to pick off any of the enemy who exposed themselves and a score of them in each company would get very few shots in a day.
The sharpshooters dropped their guns and looked on with bated breath.
The major sent for some hatchets, and then informed Goergei, who instantly dispatched a cloud of sharpshooters to distract the enemy's attention.
Up in the pass our light guns had been partly silenced; but the sharpshooters were busy firing as fast as they could load, and so making the Austrians believe that another assault was to be delivered.
From their entrenchment at the brickfields, rather more than fifteen hundred yards from the town, Boer sharpshooters have been sniping the town with comparative impunity.
He would have been a certain mark for one of the sharpshooters of the enemy.
The sharpshooters in the tops of both vessels were firing into the black masses of men, and every shot told.
He saw that the sharpshooters in his tops were doing terrific execution on the decks of his adversary, and at last he saw the imposing figure of Captain Burdon twist around for a second and then sink down to the deck.
Instead of this he bound it up with his handkerchief, and remained at his post, his epaulettes a fair mark for the sharpshooters in the tops of the enemy.
Extra muskets were carried up into his top for the use of the jackies and marines when they should come into close quarters, for then the fire of sharpshooters would be almost as valuable as the shots of the great guns.
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