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Crittenden (search for this): article 1
full of accounts of the battles of Wednesday and Thursday, which are of very little interest to the Confederate reader as they are a batch of lies, with hardly a show of truth to relieve their monotony. of Wednesday's fight the correspondent says: While the rest of the army moved in force upon the enemy's line our corps holding the right, was to make a demonstration upon the enemy's left. The troops were disposed in line of battle, with Potter's division holding the extremes right, Crittenden's division the centre, and Wileax's division the left, in contiguity with the right of Warfen's corps. Each division constituted by f a column of attack, with the intention of assaulting the one my's line at three different points. The regiments of each division were ed in same cases three, and in others four, regiments forming the front lines. The artillery was entrenched behind works hastily constructed of timber from the neighboring woods covered with earth. As the infantr
G. W. Thomas (search for this): article 1
guns opened to cover the movement, and in a moment the whole line of our front was musical with the roar of our Parrotts and brass pieces. The rebel line was distinctly in view, and sheltered by woods which rendered our fire considerably uncertain as to results. However, our gunners blazed away with the utmost ardor, and tornadoes at shall and shrapnel tore through the opposite woods. Ræners's battery opened the ball between 4 and 5 o'clock A M, with sir 10 inches arrows, supported by Thomas's 2d Maine battery the 11th Mass, and two pieces of the 7th Maine of the right The rebels were not show independent from their side, and the interchange of cannon shots soon became quite lively. The advance was made through a severe fire from the enemy's artillery Our line, however, continued in progress to the shatters, and there remained until later in the day, when it was ordered back to the original position, no advantage being gained on either side, and affairs remaining at nightfa
Guiney (search for this): article 1
pied by Lee is a vast entrenched camp. Its natural strength has been increased by the creation of fortifications, which were built long ago in anticipation of their need. Lee manifests no disposition to come out of these defences. Every opportunity has been afforded for him to do so, and the change in the position of our forces has been made with a view to compel him to accept battle beyond his fortifications. Yesterday Gen Torbett, with a division of our cavalry, took possession of Guiney's station, on the Fredericksburg railroad, in the rear of Lee's army, and destroyed all the buildings and supplies found there. A chaplain came in yesterday from the hospital of the second corps on the Wildnerness battle field, and reported that over 400 wounded belonging to that corps are still in hospital there, and that they were entirely out of provisions and medical supplies. Representations of the facts were made to the commander, and to day it is reported that they will be broug
Murphy (search for this): article 1
erally shot to pieces. The rebels generally threw shrapnel or spherical case, with a few solid shot.--Are they short of other kinds of artillery ammunition? Gen Grant was making an attempt to turn Lee's left flank, which was quite weak yesterday; but Lee, suspecting the manæuvre, had strengthened his left during the night, and we found them strongly posted this morning. The Corcoran Legion, which joined us yesterday, probably suffered as severely as any corps in the engagement Col Murphy, commanding it, was wounded, and has had his arm amputated The charge upon the first line of rebel works was an exciting scene. With loud and defiant ye is the done mass of our men pushed forward towards the enemy's works, utterly regardless of the showers of deadly missiles waited in their midst, while the musketry of the rebels behind their embankments was almost as unbroken as the root of a square drum The most of the troops engaged conducted them selves with commend bravery; a
Heckman (search for this): article 1
y, except where here and there lay a weary soldier, slumbering on his moist and earthy pillow. The assault of the enemy on our right was made with cavalry, artillery, and infantry. At this point it becomes necessary to convey some idea of how our troops were posted on the extreme right. Next the Cames river were two squadrons of colored cavalry, then came the Ninth New Jersey infantry, then the Twenty-third Massachsells, then the Twenty-fifth and Twenty seventh Massachusetts, all of Heckman's brigade, of Weltred's division, of Smith's corps. Gilmore's corps held the left and the left centre. Our line of battle was the fortifications, except on the extreme right, for they did not extend down to the river. A narrow belt of limber screened our reserves from the view of the rebels on the right. The rebels stole between our skirmishers around our right flank, and actually into the of the Ninth New Jeremy.--When they were first discovered by that regiment in its rear they halter
John Tyler (search for this): article 1
Between four and five o'clock this afternoon desultory firing was heard on the Fredericksburg read, about a mile in Tyler's rear. it was ascertained that the enemy had to lowed clash in the rear of our corps, and had actually thrown Rodes's division, of Ewell's corps, into Tyler's rear, and were emerging from the woods into the wagon road Long trains, loaded with ordained and commissary stores, had been passing all day, but fortunately none were within reach at the moment. Agap in a tr into camp at full speed, and the remainder turned hastily in the road and drove curiously to the rear out of reach. Tyler's division was precipitated on the rebel column as imperiously as the nature of the ground permitted, and after a sharp snot been ascertained, but this regiment appears to have suffered most. A part of Hancock's corps was marched back to Tyler's support just at dark; but the rebels were not found in force. It was probably a dash of theirs to annoy us by cutting
Drake (search for this): article 1
nemy thundered away at our lines with the greatest, fusty their hugs shells berated among our men, wounding many. The Union line was doubled up. One of Belger's catssens exploded. We lost a sun, Battery E, of the 3d New York, lost one of their twenty pounders by the destruction of their houses, and the and den approach of the enemy upon them through the fog. One line was viridin to the dreadful pressure, when to ! the battle is renewed with increased intensely on the extreme right. Col. Drake's brigade has arrived, and the 112th New York is chastising the enemy and coming to the rescue of Hookman. Most of Burke's artillery was now ordered to the rear, and was parked beyond Palmers creek, about a mile and a quarter off. Artillery could not be need, so dease was the fog, and this fact is the explanation of the disposition of our cannon. There was a full in the strife now. Our troops had changed their positions rendering the advantages hitherto derived by the enemy from the
Belger (search for this): article 1
two batteries of flying artillery bushed forward, passed our pickets, succeeded in capturing those on our right, and assaulted its front with great desperation, while the 2d South Carolina cavalry attacked his flank with a charge. But owing to the log and the positions of our pickets, our artillery could not be used, while that of the enemy thundered away at our lines with the greatest, fusty their hugs shells berated among our men, wounding many. The Union line was doubled up. One of Belger's catssens exploded. We lost a sun, Battery E, of the 3d New York, lost one of their twenty pounders by the destruction of their houses, and the and den approach of the enemy upon them through the fog. One line was viridin to the dreadful pressure, when to ! the battle is renewed with increased intensely on the extreme right. Col. Drake's brigade has arrived, and the 112th New York is chastising the enemy and coming to the rescue of Hookman. Most of Burke's artillery was now ordered
E. H. Smith (search for this): article 1
oldier, slumbering on his moist and earthy pillow. The assault of the enemy on our right was made with cavalry, artillery, and infantry. At this point it becomes necessary to convey some idea of how our troops were posted on the extreme right. Next the Cames river were two squadrons of colored cavalry, then came the Ninth New Jersey infantry, then the Twenty-third Massachsells, then the Twenty-fifth and Twenty seventh Massachusetts, all of Heckman's brigade, of Weltred's division, of Smith's corps. Gilmore's corps held the left and the left centre. Our line of battle was the fortifications, except on the extreme right, for they did not extend down to the river. A narrow belt of limber screened our reserves from the view of the rebels on the right. The rebels stole between our skirmishers around our right flank, and actually into the of the Ninth New Jeremy.--When they were first discovered by that regiment in its rear they haltered them to be some of our own troops. One o
Benjamin Butler (search for this): article 1
ated or believed necessary, but they are here now, and will soon have an opportunity of retrieving their tardiness by acts of gallantry. Bukler's Reverse on the Southside — his falling back. The Herald contains a smoothed over account of Butler's defeat by Beauregard on Monday week We make the following extracts: Ominous silence had prevailed since two A M. It was now after four. The misty atmosphere gave a kind of terror to almost every object, and loomed up in unnatural proportitals this by their companions, but shells soon began to drop into some of these, and our most advanced hospitals were abandoned, but not until the wounded were removed. In the evening the order to fall back to a new position was given by Gen. Butler, and his column is now in an attitude to defy the whole power of Lee's army if it should he drive upon him. While the battle was going on, which I have above described, an attack was made on our rear guard in the direction of Petersburg.
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