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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion 1 1 Browse Search
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ts. Whatever might befall individuals, we were to stand fast, ready for any order. The advance to the Rapidan was to be made in two columns. The right column, consisting of the Fifth and Sixth corps, was to cross at Germania Ford, Also called Germanna, this being the original name. So named from a colony of Germans that came over during the reign of Queen Anne. They settled here and were employed in working the mines of the neighborhood. Near here, too, stood the residence of Col. Spottswood, Governor of Virginia, early in the last century, after whom Spottsylvania County was named, the sylvania being the Latinized meaning of woods. and the Second at Ely's, six miles farther down. Grant's plan Grant and his Campaigns. Copper. was to cross the river below Lee's army and by a sudden movement turn his right flank, then, by fierce battles, beat and destroy his army. That this plan was not altogether unreasonable, appears from the disparity in the strength of the two armie