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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 3 3 Browse Search
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General Hovey's division having thrown out a strong skirmish line, advanced over the open space that lay between them and the enemy. The first brigade under General McGuiness, consisting of the Eleventh, Thirty-fourth, Twenty-fourth, and Forty-sixth Indiana and Twenty-ninth Wisconsin, took the right, and the Second brigade, under us the situation of their lines. Thinking the rebels would emerge from the woods to drive our men from the crest of a hill upon which they had to advance, General McGuiness gave orders to his brigade commanders: If they come out to keep you from that hill, fix bayonets and send them back with a charge. The soldiers expressed gr brigade of General Hovey's division, and were inflicting serious punishment with it. Having stationed it upon a very formidable point on a commanding ridge, General McGuiness ordered it charged. The Eleventh Indiana and Twenty-ninth Wisconsin being in front, had the hazardous task assigned them. They marched cautiously up a high