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... attack and counter - attack were of the handsomest kind . By five o'clock the enemy was completely repulsed , and fell back with heavy loss in killed and wounded . During this attack Dow's battery , Sixth Maine , rendered effective ...
... attack and counter - attack were of the handsomest kind . By five o'clock the enemy was completely repulsed , and fell back with heavy loss in killed and wounded . During this attack Dow's battery , Sixth Maine , rendered effective ...
Page 132
... attack . It was only by surprise at some exposed point that he could afford to attack . Hancock's force , including Potter's division , did not probably exceed 24,000 officers and enlisted men of infantry . Leaving 7,000 to hold the ...
... attack . It was only by surprise at some exposed point that he could afford to attack . Hancock's force , including Potter's division , did not probably exceed 24,000 officers and enlisted men of infantry . Leaving 7,000 to hold the ...
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... attack was covered thickly with slashed timber , making it difficult to get up Ledlie's division to follow up Potter's success . Potter , however , pushed forward until he found the enemy in a new intrenched position on the west slope ...
... attack was covered thickly with slashed timber , making it difficult to get up Ledlie's division to follow up Potter's success . Potter , however , pushed forward until he found the enemy in a new intrenched position on the west slope ...
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advance afternoon Appomattox Army of Northern arrived artillery assault attack Ayres Battery Beauregard Bermuda Hundred Birney Birney's Boydton Boydton road Brig.-Gen brigade Brigadier-General Brock road Burnside Butler Capt captured Carolina Catharpin cavalry Church Cold Harbor Colonel column command Confederate Crawford Creek crossing despatch directed enemy enemy's intrenchments enlisted eral Ewell Ewell's Fifth Corps fire Fitz Lee Five Forks force ford Fredericksburg front Gibbon Gregg Griffin guns half-past Hancock Hatcher's Run Heth's Hill's corps infantry James killed and wounded Lee's left flank loss Lynchburg Mahone's Major-General Meade miles morning Mott's move movement night Ninth Corps o'clock officers open ground ordered Petersburg picket Pickett's plank road position Potomac present for duty Reams's Station rear regiments Richmond right flank river says Second Brigade Second Corps sent Shady Grove Sheridan Sixth Corps skirmishers Smith south side South Side Railroad Spottsylvania Court House troops vicinity Warren White Oak road woods