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The Daily Dispatch: June 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
ixty-second New York were hurried across, and a brigade of Kearney's Division.--Birney's brigade — then on the railroad, was ordered to push ahead and get into action brave men stood there for their country, and kept their places. Where was Birney? Birney's brigade, of Kearney's division, when Birney advanced, had been orBirney's brigade, of Kearney's division, when Birney advanced, had been ordered to advance by the railroad in full time to have reached this point of our hardest fight. Had he reached it, his fresh troops, poured in after the hard fight alBirney advanced, had been ordered to advance by the railroad in full time to have reached this point of our hardest fight. Had he reached it, his fresh troops, poured in after the hard fight already made, must have turned the tide, and the enemy would have been routed then. But he did not reach it. He halted. Patterson's brigade, ordered in to Birney's leBirney's left, went through the swampy woods and almost impassable thicket, and pushed on still, while Birney, with a fair, dry road, and the fight not a mile away, halted and sBirney, with a fair, dry road, and the fight not a mile away, halted and sat down. Our men ordered back — they keep in good order. It is not certain that our men would not still have held the point, but now they were ordered to fal