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Page 79
... fire that forced them to fall back at once with severe loss . They reformed and again attacked , press- ing forward close up to our line , but were again met by so deadly a fire that they again fell back with heavy loss . Dur- ing this ...
... fire that forced them to fall back at once with severe loss . They reformed and again attacked , press- ing forward close up to our line , but were again met by so deadly a fire that they again fell back with heavy loss . Dur- ing this ...
Page 99
... fire in getting to the trenches . The right of his brigade extended some distance up the left or west side of the angle , and was enfiladed from the point of the angle and the apex of the salient . We held the apex of the salient and ...
... fire in getting to the trenches . The right of his brigade extended some distance up the left or west side of the angle , and was enfiladed from the point of the angle and the apex of the salient . We held the apex of the salient and ...
Page 186
... fire - a cross - fire , however , from which we have seen the Sixth Corps was also suffering . General Martindale was ordered to keep his column covered as much as possible , and to move only when General Brooks moved . General ...
... fire - a cross - fire , however , from which we have seen the Sixth Corps was also suffering . General Martindale was ordered to keep his column covered as much as possible , and to move only when General Brooks moved . General ...
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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