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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence of batteries Gregg and Whitworth, and the Evacuation of Petersburg. (search)
ended Battery Gregg, but falls into one not found in Cooke; the other, Fort Alexander, meaning Whitworth, found no such defenders and readily fell. Battery Whitworth was held by just as true, brave, Inasmuch as I was present at the time, and gave the order to occupy both batteries, Gregg and Whitworth, and made such other disposition of the small number of men at my disposal as was believed woueld seven or eight hundred yards beyond the creek. It had been posted so as to have Gregg and Whitworth in the same line, and shots that passed over the former could and did strike the latter, four ond Old Town creek was in the meantime directing a brisk and well-directed fire upon Gregg and Whitworth. The enemy's front line coming withina good range, the musketry from the two little garrisons courage our men, greatly diminished in numbers. The enemy drew nearer, but close in front of Whitworth were the cabins of a brigade that had passed the winter there. Our men set these on fire, an