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  • It was hardly in sight before Grimball had flung his rifle to his shoulder and fired.

    On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

  • Grimball saw this too, and in response to his rapid order, the 'Maid's' engines stopped, and four stalwart fellows ran to the dinghy which lay in chocks on her deck.

    On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

  • 'Rotten shot!' snapped Grimball, as the shell, sailing well over the mast top, plunged into the sea two hundred yards or more beyond.

    On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

  • 'Got that one, anyway,' they heard Grimball exclaim, as he dashed back to the bridge and rang the engine bell for full steam.

    On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

  • Grimball gently rebuked the girl for having disobeyed the camp rules in bringing jewelry to it and sent her away, bidding her speak to no one of her loss.

    Keineth Jane Abbott

  • Sharp now! 'bellowed Captain Grimball, and his men sprang to obey.

    On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

  • General Smith took charge of the operation, and in the afternoon of the same day sent forward Colonel Hagood with the First South Carolina and the Seventh Louisiana Battalion and two pieces of Preston's Field Battery on the road through the Grimball woods, by the Presbyterian Church.

    Memoirs of the War of Secession 1910

  • Colonel Way, Fifty-fourth Georgia, with about 800 infantry, was directed to follow en echellon on the Grimball side of the marsh, the advance of General Colquitt, and co-operate with him.

    Memoirs of the War of Secession 1910

  • Grimball, and others; also George Sinclair and Adolphe Marmelstein, officers of the Tuscaloosa, and others who were in Paris came down to join us, but the French authorities objected, and they were not allowed to do so.

    Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama", 1900

  • Grimball has sold his negroes 48 to Mr G. Trenholm for eight hundred & twenty round some were old & some inferior & some very small children.

    Margaret Ann Meta Morris Grimball. Diary, 1860-1866 1866

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