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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Incidents of the skirmish at Totopotomoy Creek, Hanover county, Virginia, May 30, 1864. (search)
Incidents of the skirmish at Totopotomoy Creek, Hanover county, Virginia, May 30, 1864. By T. C. Morton, late Captain Company F, Twenty-sixth Virginia Battalion of Infantry. It was about dark, on the 30th of May, 1864, that the Twenty-sixth Virginia battalion, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel George M. Edgar, to which my company (F) belonged, was drawn up in line on a hill in a cultivated cornfield, above a small creek called Totopotomoy, and not far from Atlee's station on the railroad between Hanover Junction and Richmond, Virginia. Our command was attached to Breckenridge's division, and we had a battery in line on our right, commanded by Major (now Judge) William Mc-Laughlin. Soon after getting in position, orders came for us to throw up breastworks in our front. There were few, if any, spades or shovels, but the men realizing the necessity for the order, as a heavy force was immediately in our front, split their canteens, making scoops of them, and, together with their bay
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Thirty-eighth Virginia (Steuart's brigade) at battle of five Forks. (search)
The Thirty-eighth Virginia (Steuart's brigade) at battle of five Forks. By Colonel George K. Griggs. The regiment with the division was relieved from the trenches on the night of the 4th of March, 1865, and proceeded on cars to Farmville, Virginia, on the 10th to intercept the forces under General Phil. Sheridan, of the United States army. The regiment remained in the vicinity of Farmville until the 13th, when it left for Richmond. Arriving on the 14th, it proceeded to Atlee's station, and continued to follow after Sheridan until he crossed to the south of James river, when, on the 26th of March, the regiment proceeded to Battery 45, south of Petersburg, and threw up fortifications, but left on the 30th to meet Sheridan again, who was approaching from Dinwiddie Courthouse, acting as rear-guard for the division. It continued to skirmish with the enemy during the day, and bivouacked at night at Five Forks. The division moved on the 30th at 8 A. M., and engaged the enemy ab