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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley)	56	0	Browse	Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories	26	0	Browse	Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4.	16	0	Browse	Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865	12	0	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	11	7	Browse	Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman .	6	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	6	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died.	4	4	Browse	Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3.	4	0	Browse	Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler	2	0	Browse	Search
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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)

ler designed next day crossing Swift Creek and crowding the enemy into Petersburg; but that night he received from Washington such accounts of Lee's being in full retreat to Richmond, that he resolved to turn northward, in order to aid in the investment of the Confederate capital. Two days afterwards a general advance was made in the direction of Richmond. Whatever force of the enemy was encountered was pressed back until dark, when the Confederates took position on the left bank of Proctor's Creek. Next morning (13th) the enemy withdrew from the creek to an intrenched line in the rear. This line, if adequately held, would have been difficult to carry by assault; but General Gillmore succeeded in turning it, and held its extreme right. The possession of this line, however, only revealed the enemy holding an interior line of works, with a bastion salient on an eminence completely commanding the position gained. The flanks fell back on the Confederates' left to the James River a

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