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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Attack on Fort Gilmer, September 29th, 1864. (search)
accurate; but my statements can be verified by Major W. J. Dance, Powhatan Courthouse, Virginia; Lieutenant Wm.zers, Lieutenant Carter; the Powhatan artillery, Captain Dance, and the Salem artillery, Captain Griffin. Thesly half a mile, were stationed Hardaway's batteries, Dance's being the nearest to Fort Harrison, Griffin's nextommenced by the Yankees making a furious charge upon Dance's battery, and they came in such numbers and so rapidly that they got within forty yards of Dance's guns before our fire told upon them. Here it was that the Tennthe attack first began, and by the time they reached Dance's guns the Yankees were almost there, but the coloneI could remember his name), for I was told by one of Dance's men that he had never seen a man so entirely free do not now remember the loss in this charge, but Captain Dance and a good many of his men were wounded, and sev. Almost immediately after the enemy retired from Dance's front, an attack was made upon another part of the