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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 70 4 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 40 4 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 29 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 28 2 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 25 3 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 22 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 19 9 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 18 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 16 0 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 16 0 Browse Search
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estimated by prisoners and citizens of Williamsburg at from two to three thousand, while our loss in killed and wounded will probably not exceed ten or twelve hundred. Our troops fought with great bravery, charging repeatedly with the bayonet, and driving the enemy in confusion at every charge. While these events were transpiring upon the left, Gen. Hancock, with his splendid brigade, was making havoc with the enemy upon the right. They were deployed under the immediate supervision of General Keyes, upon a road which led to the extreme right of the enemy, where they came in eight of the outer works. Two of these were taken without opposition. As the brigade filed to the left of the first of these forts they came to an open field, when Gen. Hancock brought them into line of battle in an incredibly short space of time, and in the most splendid style. Before them, at the distance of nearly a mile, was the second work, designed to protect the left of Fort Page. This, upon inves