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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 190 (search)
e having time to cook breakfast, were sent by General A. P. Hovey to the field to report to General G. F. McGinnis. On an order from him we stacked arms in shelter of a hill, and awaited the advance. About eight o'clock A. M., I received General McGinnis's order to form line on the right of the Twenty-ninth Wisconsin infantry, and advance as support two hundred yards in the rear of the line formed by the Twenty-fourth, Forty-sixth, and Thirty-fourth Indiana regiments. A deep ravine, choked t an attack being made by the enemy in force. This was about half-past 11 o'clock A. M. Having moved, we remained in defence of that ridge till about five o'clock P. M., resisting (luring that time several attacks. I was then ordered by General McGinnis to move forward and support an attack being made by General A. J. Smith's division. I at once moved down in the bottom some two hundred yards to the front and awaited a chance to get in, there being here but one road, and it filled with tro