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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Operations before Petersburg , May 6 -11 , 1864 . (search)
Operations before Petersburg, May 6-11, 1864.
Report of General Johnson Hagood.
headquarters Hagood's South Carolina brigade, near Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, May 13, 1864. Captain Foote, A. A. G.:
Captain,—have the honor to report the operations of my brigade in front of Petersburg.
On the 6th instant the Twenty-first regiment and three companies of the Twenty-fifth under Major Glover, the whole under Colonel Graham, of the Twenty-first, arrived at Port Walthal Junction, upon which the enemy were then advancing, and in a very short time were engaged.
Colonel Graham formed his line east of the railroad, at a distance of some three hundred yards and parallel to it. His position was well chosen in a sunken road, with his left resting upon a ravine and his right upon a wood.
He succeeded in repulsing a considerably larger force than his own, accompanied by two pieces of artillery.
From information received from prisoners the enemy were supposed to have been Hickman's
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Operations from the 6th to the 11th of May , 1864 —Report of General B. R. Johnson . (search)