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Plank (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
approaches to the right flank of the position, while two of Maurin's guns on the left swept the Plank-road from the city to a brick tan-yard which bordered it and the canal. This road and the Telegceived an enfilade fire from Lee's hill and a severe direct fire from the high hills between the Plank-road and Hazel run, where Rhett's rifle battery was already in position and fortified, while a st flank also failed then, and it was at last carried by an assaulting column moving north of the Plank-road. I am very far from wishing to imply that even such an attack, or indeed any other, could honfederate line and about opposite its centre. As it had crossed the canal on the Telegraph and Plank road bridges, Swinton's Army of the Potomac. opposite the Confederate left-flank, the Federaled to the bottom, perfectly riddled by the storm of balls directed at him. On the left of the Plank-road, where there was but little fire from sharpshooters, Major Latrobe, of General Longstreet's
Fort Hamilton (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
l's and Early's divisions, the former from Port Royal, and the latter from Skenker's mill. On the evening of the 12th, General Burnside had ordered that the attack should be made in force by Franklin's grand division on the Confederate right at Hamilton's crossing, and General Lee seems to have anticipated such action, as he concentrated in that immediate vicinity the whole of Jackson's corps. On the morning of the 13th, however, as Franklin was preparing to put his whole force in the blow he was about to strike, the orders were modified by rather vague directions from Burnside to send One division, at least, to seize, if possible, the heights near Hamilton's crossing, taking care to support it well and keep its line of retreat open, and to hold the rest of his command in position for a rapid movement down the Richmond road. Swinton. Army of the Potomac, p. 245. General Sumner, who had previously been ordered to await the success of Franklin's attack, before moving upon the positi
Lee's Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
ver, even if the crest south of Marye's had been carried, any further advance would have received an enfilade fire from Lee's hill and a severe direct fire from the high hills between the Plank-road and Hazel run, where Rhett's rifle battery was alreshelter of the slope. General McLaws now relieved the remainder of Kershaw's brigade from their position in front of Lee's Hill, and dispatched three regiments to General Kershaw, and posted the fourth, the Third South Carolina battalion, Lieutenaorps from below the mouth of Hazel Run. Their advance exposed their left flanks to a raking fire from the artillery on Lee's Hill, which, with good ammunition, ought to have routed them without the aid of infantry. As it was, some single shots weret of the unfinished Orange Railroad was several times raked through by the thirty-pound Parrott which enfiladed it from Lee's Hill while filled with troops. This gun exploded during the afternoon at the thirty-ninth discharge, but fortunately did
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
difficult to conceive why he made no effort to relieve the wretched sufferers. A flag of truce would have at once procured their delivery on his picket line, or the privilege of sending his litter-bearers and surgeons for them, but it was never sent — perhaps because the fact of his having to resort to this means of getting his wounded would have implied less success than he was disposed to claim. One noble act of humanity to the abandoned and dying, however, was performed by a brave South Carolina Sergeant, whose name I regret not to be able to record, and who was afterwards killed at Chickamauga, for it is more worthy of commemoration than the bravest deed in the heat of action. Touched by their sad cries, the Sergeant begged permission from General Kershaw to show a white handkerchief and go out on the field with some canteens of water and at least relieve the thirst of a few. This, General Kershaw was compelled to refuse, lest it should be interpreted as a flag of truce. The
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
difficulties the enemy would have met even at this point, but simply to criticise very briefly what should perhaps be called his choice of evils. The topography of the situation was well known to him, for a large Federal force had occupied Fredericksburg for many weeks in the summer previous, and his balloons now enabled him to discover every disposition for defence. The attack was preceded by an increase of the artillery fire which had been directed upon the Confederate position during thplan and prepare an assault with his whole corps upon the Federal left, but his initial step developed such strength in the enemy's position that it was at once abandoned. The canal, the city and the raking batteries about Falmouth and below Fredericksburg rendered an advance by Longstreet even more difficult. The Sabbath was accordingly passed by each army in simply inviting an assault from its adversary. The Confederate artillery were ordered to reserve their ammunition entirely for the ene
Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
ntly charged this greatly superior force, and after a short but sharp action, in which some were even killed with the bayonet, Meade and Gibbons were utterly routed and Doubbleday was borne back under the protection of the batteries along the Bowling Green road. Four regiments of Atkinson's command These regiments were the Thirty-first Georgia, Colonel Evans, the Thirty-eighth Georgia, Captain McLeod; Sixtieth Georgia, Colonel Stiles, and Sixty-first Georgia, Colonel Lamar, and averaged 340 veteran comrades who were spectators of the charge. Without halting at the railroad cut, whence the enemy had retreated, they pushed boldly across the level plain and pursued him within three hundred yards of his guns, along the line of the Bowling Green road. During this advance, a force of the enemy opened an oblique fire upon it from the ravine of Deep Run, but the Fifty-fourth and a portion of the Fifty-seventh changed front to the left, and soon silenced them. The Fourth Alabama also a
Hazel Run (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
follows: He selected the long promontory since known as Marye's Hill as the point of his attack. It will be seen from the map that this is the extremity of a plateau, some forty feet high, which borders the canal and terminates in a bluff over Hazel run. The Telegraph road runs along the foot of the declivity, and is here sunken some four feet below the level of the bordering gardens and revetted with stone. The ground in front is cut up with fences, the canal, and a deep cut of the unfinish a direct fire from below Falmouth. Moreover, even if the crest south of Marye's had been carried, any further advance would have received an enfilade fire from Lee's hill and a severe direct fire from the high hills between the Plank-road and Hazel run, where Rhett's rifle battery was already in position and fortified, while a successful attack a few hundred yards north of this road could have been pushed with very little fire in the flank against wooded hills which gave no positions for arti
Telegraph (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
d terminates in a bluff over Hazel run. The Telegraph road runs along the foot of the declivity, aordered it and the canal. This road and the Telegraph road crossed the canal (which was about twenge gained. Four hundred yards north of the Telegraph road the opportunity afforded the enemy at tHe fell under a locust tree hanging over the Telegraph road from the yard of Stevens's house, a smanty-seventh North Carolina ran down into the Telegraph road. halted while one moved down into the Torce and take command of the position in the Telegraph road, and he now arrived with the Second Souoin the Twenty-seventh North Carolina in the Telegraph road. General Ransom also brought forward tall. There were now eleven regiments in the Telegraph road and the ditch on its left, numbering soeing moved to the crest of the hill over the Telegraph road. The three remaining guns of Maurin's ttacking force labored. The infantry in the Telegraph road fired during the 13th an average of fif[7 more...]
Jackson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
on the Confederate right at Hamilton's crossing, and General Lee seems to have anticipated such action, as he concentrated in that immediate vicinity the whole of Jackson's corps. On the morning of the 13th, however, as Franklin was preparing to put his whole force in the blow he was about to strike, the orders were modified by rawho had hitherto been able to assemble in the enemy's lines with impunity when out of musket range. In the afternoon of the 15th, a flag of truce was sent into Jackson's line by General Franklin or one of his corps commanders, asking permission to remove the wounded who had fallen on the 13th between lines. As there was no evid425  33502535 Washington Artillery Battalion 3123  12627 Alexander's Artillery Battalion 1 10   1111 Total182341021,42151201251,7711,896 The casualties in Jackson's corps were twenty-six officers killed and one hundred and ninety-five wounded; three hundred and eighteen men killed and twenty-three hundred and fifty wound
Hazel Run (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.79
Lee's Hill, and dispatched three regiments to General Kershaw, and posted the fourth, the Third South Carolina battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Rice, at the mill on Hazel Run, to protect the right flank of the position. General Jenkins also advanced, for the same purpose, a regiment down the right bank of Hazel Run, where Captain CutHazel Run, where Captain Cuthbert's company of the Second South Carolina had already been doing fine service all day, but with considerable loss. Meanwhile the enemy, with a pertinacy worthy of a better fate, brought forward Sturgis's and Getty's divisions of the Ninth corps from below the mouth of Hazel Run. Their advance exposed their left flanks to a rakHazel Run. Their advance exposed their left flanks to a raking fire from the artillery on Lee's Hill, which, with good ammunition, ought to have routed them without the aid of infantry. As it was, some single shots were made, which were even terrible to look at. Gaps were cut in their ranks visible at the distance of a mile, and a long cut of the unfinished Orange Railroad was several tim
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