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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The defence of Fort Gregg. (search)
ned upon both sides. The enemy pressing me heavily and out-reaching me on my flanks, I fell back upon Fort Gregg and Whitworth, the Twelfth and Sixteenth under Colonel Duncan, being ordered to Fort Gregg, and to hold it at all hazards. The Ninforward to assault us in both works. He assaulted in columns of brigades, completely enveloping Gregg, and approaching Whitworth only in front. Gregg repulsed assault after assault; the two remnants of regiments, which had won glorious honor on sos, stood there side by side together, holding the last regularly fortified lines around Petersburg. While Gregg and Whitworth were holding out, Longstreet was hastening with Field's division, from the north side of the James, to form an inner lies immediately around Petersburg, a part of Ord's command under Gibbon began an assault directed against Fort Gregg and Whitworth, two strong enclosed works, the most salient and commanding south of Petersburg. The former of these redoubts was mann