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Chapter 19:
Lee's retreat and surrender.
March 20 to April 9, 1865.
- The last left flank
-- at Burgess' Tavern again
-- five Forks
-- Petersburg is taken
-- Atkinson's grave
-- marching in the Rebel rear
-- what they left behind
-- Sailor's Creek
-- graves that did not hold defunct Rebels
-- high bridge
-- Farmville
-- fall of General Smythe
-- our last stand and last shots
-- rumors
-- why are we going so slowly?
-- Skeptics
-- General Meade to the front
-- suspense
-- General Meade returns—‘Lee has surrendered’
-- how the Army felt.
The Battery remained in this camp [says Capt. Adams] until the morning of March 29th, when, under orders, I reported to Gen. Hays,1 commanding Second Division, Second Corps, with the Tenth Massachusetts Battery and Battery ‘B,’ First Rhode Island Light Artillery, both batteries having been placed under my command for the spring campaign, by order of Brevet Lieut. Col. Hazard, Chief of artillery of the Second Corps.
Adjutant General's Report.
Massachusetts, 1865, p. 748.
In conformity with instructions issued from
Gen. Grant's headquarters on the 24th, and thence promulgated, the Second Corps moved at 6 A. M. on the 29th, ‘crossed
Hatcher's Run, and took position covering the
Vaughan Road, with its right resting within supporting distance of the Twenty-fourth Corps, which had taken the place of the Second ’
