It was hard indeed to lie and watch their comrades below being picked off, one after another, by these abominable sharpshooters, without a chance of hitting back.

It enabled the Vermont and New Hampshire militia to throw obstacles in the march of Burgoyne, who became entangled in the forests of northern New York, with his flank and rear exposed to the sharpshooters of the enemy, fully alive to the dangers which menaced them.

Their far sharpshooters try our stuff;

Notwithstanding the continual activity of the hidden sharpshooters the American garrison turned out and fought the fire.

Native sharpshooters were concealed behind corner buildings.

Ferragut, always running, remained behind the negro sharpshooters, the stevedores, the harbor guard, the seamen that were hastening from all sides crowding in the alleyways between the boxes and bundles....

Soon after forming his command into line, and when they had advanced only a few yards, he was singled out by a rebel sharpshooter and instantly killedthe only man in the.

There was, however, one spot left unguarded, and through it Cupid, a veteran sharpshooter, sent a dart.