Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., chapter 6.34, Then the news passed swiftly down the lines,

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Electrical torpedoes as a system of defence.

Memorandum of information as to battles, &c., in the year 1864 , called for by the Honorable Secretary of War .

Correspondence between Colonel S. Bassett French and General Wade Hampton .

Patriotic letters of Confederate leaders.

Editorial paragraphs.

General J. E. B. Stuart 's report of operations after Gettysburg .

Resources of the Confederacy in February , 1865 .

General George H. Steuart 's brigade at the battle of Gettysburg .

Detailed Minutiae of soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia .

Editorial paragraphs.

General B. E. Rodes ' report of the battle of Chancellorsville .

Recollections of the Elkhorn campaign.

Editorial paragraphs.

A foreign view of the civil War in America .

General A. P. Hill 's report of battle of Gettysburg .

Letter from General A. L. Long .

Operations of Confederate States Navy in defence of New Orleans.

Editorial paragraphs.

Campaign from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor .

Confidence of the Army of Northern Virginia .

Assail Richmond from the South .

The Army of the Potomac was put in motion for the James .

Seize Petersburg by a coup-de-main,

First assault on Petersburg .

The old defences of Petersburg

The prize was now within his grasp

Second day's assaults.

Third day's assaults.

Gracie 's Alabamians to the rescue.

The beleaguered town, girdled with steel and fire,

Burnside 's captured dispatch.

Assaults of the fourth day.

General Lee rode upon the field.

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Extension of the Federal left.

Action of twenty-second of June .

First battle of Reams' station .

Fitz. Lee , in hot pursuit,

And the camp-wits had gained another joke--

The Crater fight.

And blow up the hostile salient.

The busy hammering of the Confederates overhead,

His habitual reliance on sheer weight of numbers,

Meade issued his orders of battle.

Ferrero 's Negro division should lead the attack,

Then the news passed swiftly down the lines,

The east was streaked with gray,

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Pleasants has done his work with terrible completeness,

Now a storm of fire

John Haskell , of South Carolina ,

Their guns alone barred the road to Petersburg ;

Groping in the dark,

Now was the crisis of the day,

Mahone 's men already standing to their arms;

A forest of glittering bayonets,

Then one volley crashed from the whole line,

The battle of Reams' Station ,

The battle of Hatcher's Run ,

The trials of the winter

The brief campaign of 1865 .

On that night Petersburg was evacuated.

William Johnson Pegram ,

Editorial paragraphs.

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Then the news passed swiftly down the lines,

and the dark columns, standing in serried masses, awaited in dread suspense the signal — knowing that death awaited many on yonder crest, yet not animated by the stern joy of coming fight, nor yet resolved that though Death stalked forth with horrid mien from the dreadful breach, it should be but to greet Victory.

Minute followed minute of anxious waiting — a trial to even the most determined veterans — and now

Richmond, VA. 1876.

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