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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
irst heavy blow at about ten o'clock, but bore the brunt of the battle that ensued. Brisk skirmishing had begun sometime before with the advance cavalry, under Captain Foster It speedily developed into a severe though short struggle. The Confederates were mostly concealed in the woods, but their fire was soon drawn by Logan's Second brigade, Composed of the Twentieth, Sixty-eighth and Seventy-eighth Ohio, and Thirteenth Illinois. which advanced toward their covering. Soon afterward De Golyer's (Eighth Michigan) battery was ordered forward to assist in dislodging the foe, when for the first time the latter opened their batteries. Finding it impossible to silence the Michigan guns, the Confederates dashed forward to capture them, when they were repulsed with heavy loss by two shells that burst among their advancing troops. They fled beyond the creek and rallied. McPherson now ordered an advance upon the new position of the Confederates. The movement was led by General Denn