My Dear Sir,--During the night of the 23d, and morning of the 24th of May, 1864,
Hancock's Second corps, Army of the Potomac, was crossing the trestle bridge over the
North Anna at
Chesterfield, and during that time, more especially after dawn, whenever any considerable number of troops appeared on the bridge, they were the object of immediate attention from a Confederate battery a few hundred yards up the river, in position on the right bank.
At times the fire of
three Union batteries was concentrated upon it, at a distance, I should judge, of not more than six hundred yards, but it, nevertheless, held its ground, being well protected by earthworks.
There must have been several hundred rounds of ammunition expended upon it. It was in a portion of the
Confederate line then held by
Longstreet's corps, at that time commanded by the late
General R. H. Anderson.
The object of this communication,
Mr. Editor, is to ask its insertion in your valuable Historical Magazine, in the hope that it will meet the eye of some one who can tell me the name of the battery, the kind and
