Charles H Weygant
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 160
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...and 20th Indiana of our brigade, supported by De Trobriand's five regiments (the 3d and 5th Michigan, 110th Pennsylvania, 40th New York, and 17th Maine) moving in battle line, had plunged into the stream, waded across under a galling fire, and with a determined charge carried the rifle pits on the southern shore, capturing the force posted behind them; and were now advancing across the plain against these new comers. As soon as the Confederate commander comprehended the situation of affairs at the ford, he halted his column and began to deploy in a battle line that faced his advancing foes; but in doing so exposed a flank to our guns which sent shell after shell raking down his half formed lines, and soon a deadly fire from our skirmishers struck them in front.--At this juncture a Confederate battery opened from a distant wood on De Trobriand's supporting line.--Faster, and yet faster, the shell hurled from our battery fell among them, and-on, on, pushed our skirmishers--look! look! the Confederates are giving ground. Hear that charging shout from De Trobriand's men and see them run? What a line they keep. Good! good! there go the sharpshooters--they don't intend to let the third brigade run over them and get that Confederate flag.--" Give them two more shots, and then "cease firing," shouts the commander of our battery, and lo! another shell explodes right among our brave foes, which seems to be that last straw which breaks the earners back. They can endure no more. Their never completed, and now terribly shattered line breaks in fragments; and while the bulk of the survivors, officers and privates, flee every man for himself toward the woods from whence they came, many throw themselves on the ground which is already thickly strewn with...