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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
General Butler, and sent in the advance. They pushed rapidly forward, drove in the Confederate pickets, and proceeded to assail a redoubt on Spring Hill. This was a strong work, with a tangled marsh, and a brook fringed with trees, that traversed it on the front; and it was further defended by abatis. These obstacles were little hinderance to the eager troops. They swept across the marsh and the stream, scaled the height, carried the work at the point of the bayonet, and thus secured Sept. 29, 1864. the key-point to the Confederate defenses in that quarter. Because of its importance it was desperately defended; and it was won by the black warriors at a fearful cost. Two hundred of that storming party fell dead before reaching the works, and not less than one thousand, or one-third their number, were lost to the army by death, wounds, or captivity. For their gallantry on that occasion, General Butler, at the close of the war, presented a silver medal to the most meritorious actor