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H. G. Wright (search for this): chapter 137
lled and new lines were formed, to which was added that of the Sixth corps; General Wright's division, if I remember correctly, forming on the right, and the remaininart of the previous night Hancock's corps advanced, connecting on the left with Wright's division of the Sixth corps, which connected in turn with Warren, pushing hisas advanced and strengthened, from time to time, without a general battle. General Wright's division of the Sixth corps, posted Sunday on Warren's right, was now movrom the right and sent out on the left of the Sixth corps (now commanded by General Wright) to take and hold a strong position thus weakened. Fighting began in the ebattles up to that night, had lost over five thousand killed arid wounded. General Wright s old division, now commanded by General Russell, had lost nearly one thouswn from the right, joined Ewell and threw his divisions into the struggle. General Wright moved up from the right, supporting Hancock, to meet the surge. Longstreet
E. Upton (search for this): chapter 137
brilliant thing. About three hundred yards in front, the enemy occupied a work very strongly constructed, as high as a man's head, and loop-holed at the top. The party organized to attack this work was disposed by General Russell and led by Colonel Upton. It consisted of a portion of the First division, the Vermont brigade of the Second division, and some picked troops of General Neill's command, who were massed, on the eve of the attack, to the left and front of three batteries — Cowan's, Mhost of flying rebels. Twelve guns also came into our possession. This, if I am correct, was the only material success accomplished in the attack of Tuesday evening. What Burnside did on the left I have not heard. The position thus gained by Upton not being supported, and being too far in advance of the general line to be occupied with safety, had to be abandoned. The guns were spiked as they stood. It is said that some soldiers of the Vermont brigade--one of the finest in the army — act
W. H. Morris (search for this): chapter 137
without a general battle. General Wright's division of the Sixth corps, posted Sunday on Warren's right, was now moved round to join the Sixth, which thus, for almost the first time in all the engagements, held an unbroken line. The day was hot; the enemy's sharpshooters were busy. Perched in forest trees, above the heads and out of sight of our skirmishers, they played a serious havoc along our lines. No officer who showed himself was safe from the bullets of these assassins. General W. H. Morris, of the Sixth corps, another general officer, and numerous officers of the staff and line, were wounded or killed early in the day. Not even some great battles had done us more damage in commanders; yet only a slothful boom of guns, and a hollow, irregular clatter along the infantry line, were heard until the close of day, when a sharp little engagement occurred, resulting in the farther advance of our right and right-centre. About the middle of the day General John Sedgwick, who,
May 10th (search for this): chapter 137
been saddened by the death of many comrades, did you ever weep for a comrade like this? Are your deeds so high, your banners so glorious, now that he who directed them is fallen? Are your lost ones so low, now that he slumbers among them? Oh, well may you speak soft, lips that have shouted defiance; well may you toll slowly, guns that have rung conquest at his will I He sleeps; let the battle sleep for a time. He honored the battle; let the battle do him this honor! The battle of Tuesday, May 10. Hancock had so pushed out his right that on the morning of this day one division, under Barlow, had crossed the Po, and was disposed almost at right angles with the general line, practically turning the enemy's flank. This position, had the river not intervened, would have been a very advantageous one, but the river weakened it. General Burnside on the left, had pushed out beyond the line of the Sixth corps, with which he was supposed to connect. It was afterward discovered by our
May 12th (search for this): chapter 137
ick fought, they got severely punished. But we were the invaders, and we it was who had advanced. Although they had often forced us from advanced positions, they had never driven us from those we first occupied. We had taken the most prisoners; we had gained the most ground. It was shown that we were strong enough to gradually force the enemy backward, by hard fighting, step by step. But this had been done at terrible cost, and at terrible cost must still continue. The battle of Thursday, May 12. Wednesday was a day of skirmishing; of minor engagements; of changes of position on both sides. In the afternoon it was discovered that the enemy had retired from our right in front of Hancock, and was shifting his lines to the left. An effort made at evening to blind us to this fact by pushing a strong column of troops, which were afterward marched back behind a wood in the rear, around toward our right, across an open space, did not deceive our commanders. Our lines were also s
May 8th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 137
Doc. 59. battles of Spottsylvania, Va: battle of Sunday, May 8, 1864. Our cavalry penetrated to Spottsylvania Court-house early in the forenoon, finding the enemy's dismounted cavalry there, and engaging them. Word was sent back to General Warren that none of the enemy's infantry were in front; that the path was clear. General Warren was then on the road below Piney Branch Church. He pushed on vigorously. It is said that he neglected to throw out skirmishers a sufficient distance. When Griffin's division, in the advance, emerged from a dense forest, and entered a field beyond, it came suddenly upon a column of Longstreet's command, which had been pushed in two or three miles this side of Spottsylvania Court-house, and became hotly engaged, almost without warning. Bartlett's brigade suffered fearfully. The whole division, including that of Robinson, which went in immediately on the left, received, in addition to the musketry fire in front, a storm of grape and shell from fr
May 9th (search for this): chapter 137
perhaps, had the one who thus accepted this trust unclasped the case before the hand from which he took it had grown quite cold and motionless. Else, having looked, he might have whispered into the dull ear of the dying lieutenant promise of a surer and speedier meeting with the girl he loved than he could have had but for this day's dark fate. For it happened that he, the living, knew that she, too, had died, and awaited somewhere the coming of what had just departed. Operations of Monday, May 9. In the early part of the previous night Hancock's corps advanced, connecting on the left with Wright's division of the Sixth corps, which connected in turn with Warren, pushing his right across Po creek and seizing the Block House road, running from Parker's store to Spottsylvania Court-house. Hill's corps were discovered marching south, so that on Monday morning the entire army of Lee was again in our front. The artillery began at early dawn, and kept up a lazy firing, occasiona
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