Pictorial history of the war for the Union, volume 2 (of 2) : $b A complete and reliable history of the war from its commencement to its close ... together with a complete chronological analysis of the warStephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
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Pictorial history of the war for the Union, volume 2 (of 2) : $b A complete and reliable history of the war from its commencement to its close ... together with a complete chronological analysis of the war
Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
The ground over which Generals Richardson’s and French’s divisions were
fighting was very irregular, intersected by numerous ravines, hills
covered with growing corn, inclosed by stone walls, behind which the
enemy could advance unobserved upon any exposed point of our lines,
Taking advantage of this, the enemy attempted to gain the right of
Richardson’s position in a corn-field near Roulette’s house, where the
division had become separated from that of General French’s. A change of
front by the Fifty-second New York and Second Delaware volunteers, of
Colonel Brooks’s brigade, under Colonel Frank, and the attack made by
the Fifty-third Pennsylvania volunteers, sent further to the right by
Colonel Brooks to close this gap in the line, and the movement of the
One Hundred and Thirty-second Pennsylvania and Seventh Virginia
volunteers of General French’s division before referred to, drove the
enemy from the corn-field and restored the line.
The brigade of General Caldwell, with determined gallantry, pushed the
enemy back opposite the left and centre of this division, but sheltered
in the sunken road, they still held our forces on the right of Caldwell
in check. Colonel Barlow, commanding the Sixty-first and Sixty-fourth
New York regiments of Caldwell’s brigade, seeing a favorable
opportunity, advanced the regiments on the left, taking the line in the
sunken road in flank, and compelled them to surrender, capturing over
three hundred prisoners and three stands of colors.
The whole of the brigade, with the Fifty-seventh and Sixty-sixth New
York regiments of Colonel Brooks’s brigade, who had moved these
regiments into the first line, now advanced with gallantry, driving the
enemy before them in confusion into the corn-field beyond the sunken
road. The left of the division was now well advanced, when the enemy,
concealed by an intervening ridge, endeavored to turn its left and rear.
[Illustration: UNION HEROES GRAHAM. WARD. MEAGHER. RICKETTS. KEITH.]
Colonel Cross, Fifth New Hampshire, by a change of front to the left and
rear, brought his regiment facing the advancing line. Here a spirited
contest arose to gain a commanding height, the two opposing forces
moving parallel to each other, giving and receiving fire. The Fifth
gaining the advantage, faced to the right and delivered its volley. The
enemy staggered, but rallied and advanced desperately at a charge. Being
reinforced by the Eighty-first Pennsylvania, these regiments met the
advance by a counter charge. The enemy fled, leaving many killed,
wounded, and prisoners, and the colors of the Fourth North Carolina, in
the victors’ hands.
Another column of the enemy, advancing under shelter of a stone wall and
corn-field, pressed down on the right of the division; but Colonel
Barlow again advanced the Sixty-first and Sixty-fourth New York against
these troops, and with the attack of Kimball’s brigade on the right,
drove them from this position.
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