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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 8 (search)

er line of works along the stone wall at the base of Marye's Hill. In the mean time the storming parties had rushed forward to the crest and carried the works in rear of the rifle-pits, capturing the guns and many hundred prisoners. A large portion of the Eighteenth Mississippi Regiment and a part of the Twenty-first were taken prisoners, and a company of the Washington Artillery, with its guns, were captured.—Report of General Early, p. 34. The Sixth Maine, of the light brigade under Colonel Burnham, was the first to plant its colors on the works. The assault was executed with great gallantry, under a very severe fire that cost Sedgwick a thousand men; and the Confederates made a savage hand-to-hand fight on the crest and over the guns. As, simultaneous with these events, Howe's division on the left carried the crest below Fredericksburg, capturing a number of prisoners and five guns, the whole ridge was now in Sedgwick's possession. Early's troops retreated southward over the

William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)

Brigadier-General J. H. Ward. Second Brigade, Brigadier-General A. Hays. Fourth Division, Brigadier-General J. B. Carr. First Brigade, Brigadier-General G. Mott. Second Brigade, Colonel W. R. Brewster. Inspector-General and Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Morgan Chief of Artillery, Colonel J. C. Tidball. Sixth Corps. First Division, Brigadier-General H. G. Wright. First Brigade, Brigadier-General A. T. A. Torbert. Second Brigade, Colonel E. Upton. Third Brigade, Colonel H. Burnham. Fourth Brigade, Brigadier-General A. Shaler. Second Division, Brigadier-General G. W. Getty. First Brigade, Brigadier-General F. Wheaton. Second Brigade, Colonel L. A. Grant. Third Brigade, Brigadier-General T. H. Neill. Fourth Brigade, Brigadier-General A. L. Eustis. Third Division, Brigadier-General H. Prince. First Brigade, Brigadier-General W. H. Morris. Second Brigade, Brigadier-General D. A. Russell. Inspector-General and Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-Colonel M T. McMahon

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