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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 14 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 10 2 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1862., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 2 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 2 0 Browse Search
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f the 2d Delaware, Col. Bailey; 66th New York, Col. Pinckney, and the 52d New York, Col. Frank--the whole brigade commanded by Col. Zook, of the 57th New York.--Capt Pettit's battery, the 1st New York Artillery, and Owens's and Tompkins's two Rhode Island batteries followed. Capt. Pettit's battery Opens the Ball. Capt. PettCapt. Pettit's battery Opens the Ball. Capt. Pettit's battery was at once placed upon a high hill, with Zook's brigade directly in the rear, completely covered by the natural position of the hill. At about half past 3 the first gun was sighted and brought to bear upon the enemy, which at once brought on a rejoinder. The first shot from the rebels bursted directly over our battCapt. Pettit's battery was at once placed upon a high hill, with Zook's brigade directly in the rear, completely covered by the natural position of the hill. At about half past 3 the first gun was sighted and brought to bear upon the enemy, which at once brought on a rejoinder. The first shot from the rebels bursted directly over our battery. In its leading editorial the Inquirer says: Great credit is given to Burnside for his masterly evacuation of Warrenton, and removal of his troops southward and eastward on the high road to Richmond, strongly occupying Fredericksburg as a point of the new base. Nothing that can be now seen or foreseen seems abl