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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
e first attack was repulsed, but a second one carried the trenches, capturing a large part of the Eighteenth Mississippi and part of the Twenty-first, besides a company of the Washington artillery with its guns. Early, hastening up with his division, checked the progress of the enemy. The next morning General Early attacked Sedgwick in the rear, while McLaws and Anderson attacked in front. Early's attack began before that of McLaws and Anderson. As the brigades of Hoke and Hays crossed Hazel run to move toward the right, Gordon's brigade advanced toward Lee's and Marye's hills, followed by Smith and Barksdale. Col. C. A. Evans, of the Thirty-first Georgia, was in the lead in this attack of Gordon's brigade, recapturing Marye's hill and holding it, and subsequently, aided by the rest of the division, Gordon compelled the enemy to give up the only advantage he had gained in the three days batties. The loss of the brigade in killed and wounded was 161, including among the wounded
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of Fredericksburg.—From the morning of the 20th of April to the 6th of May, 1863. (search)
of Leak county, and established it from the gas-house up Hazel Run to the railroad, with videttes along the railroad toward him at Marye's Hill. I informed him of the situation at Hazel Run, and my instructions to pickets, which were approved, and I returned to the city to superintend the picket line at Hazel Run, where there was a desultory firing kept up from both side same time a line of the enemy's infantry charged across Hazel Run upon Company E and Company G. Our brave boys gallantly sone from the city on the plank road, and up the valley of Hazel Run. The Twenty-first regiment and Miller's gun repulsed the on Willis's Hill, drove back the column that advanced up Hazel Run. The centre column that advanced from the valley, directmovement of the enemy, advancing over Marye's Hill and on Hazel Run, made me despair of reaching the brigade. My only hope will. I saw that it was possible for my regiment to cross Hazel Run above Marye's Hill and rejoin the brigade, which move was
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VI:—Virginia. (search)
, and on the opposite side. A stream called Hazel Run borders the plain to the south. More to then with the Rappahannock finally emptied into Hazel Run. It was an obstacle that could be surmountear part of it, ascends, on the other side of Hazel Run, a high hillock which marks the commencement. The railroad, after successively crossing Hazel Run and Deep Run at some hundred metres above thill; Wilcox's (the Ninth) was on the left of Hazel Run, resting on the banks of Deep Run, along theposition on the heights between Deep Run and Hazel Run, in the place of Pickett, who was stationeddivisions of Sturgis and Getty extended from Hazel Run to Deep Run, while that of Burns was on the left, Sturgis and Getty, each on one side of Hazel Run, kept up a lively fire of musketry with Picko support Hancock's efforts; Getty, crossing Hazel Run with two brigades, tried in vain to make a dhe left. There were no Union troops between Hazel Run and Deep Run, except on the very banks of th[2 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
commanding Banks' Ford at the north, which it approaches within a distance of a little over one mile, and the valley of Hazel Run at the south—that same stream which flows at the foot of Marye's Hill, and which played so important a part at the batt, he confined himself to the task of watching Lee's Hill and the neighboring positions situated along the right bank of Hazel Run, and of exchanging cannon-shots from a distance with Pendleton's batteries, which occupied them. On the right, Gibboay embankments. The main Federal column becomes divided in scaling the slopes of Lee's Hill: a portion of it, crossing Hazel Run, takes Marye's Hill in the rear, and reaches its summit at the same time as Burnham; the rest, joining the three regimea direct line northward, was taking position along the southern declivity of a hill which separates the two branches of Hazel Run, the three other brigades, with that of Barksdale, were crossing this water-course lower down, reaching the foot of the
ed by the skin of their teeth.--What an eclipse their capture would have caused! For months they have poured a flood of light, a sort of aurora borealis of intelligence, foreign, military, and domestic, to illuminate and redden the darkness and dullness of the Richmond papers. The Yankees attacked Marye's Hill early Sunday morning, and were repulsed. About 11 A. M. they reconstructed their shattered columns and advanced from the plankroad and from Fredericksburg, and obliquely along Hazel Run, without firing a gun, and took Marye's Hill. Two or one of Barksdale's Mississippi regiments and 16 guns of the Washington Artillery could not withstand the overwhelming attack on both flanks and in front. The enemy got six guns, and turned them on our retreating troops. It is reported that a flag of truce was granted after the first repulse of the enemy, by which they learned the small force defending the heights. Nearly all the 13th Mississippi are prisoners, including Col. Griffs, r