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The War with the South Volume 3; A History of the Late Rebellion. Robert Tomes

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Author: Robert Tomes
Number of Pages: 394 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781232333753
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...getting in the rear of the seventeenth corps, while other masses of troops were pushed against the hill held by General Leggett, whose division, as well as that of General Smith, was attacked in front and rear, and obliged to fire alternately from behind their own breast-works and an abandoned parapet of the enemy. General Leggett's troops held firmly a fortified angle at the top of the hill, against which the rebels threw their columns with desperate but fruitless energy. In the mean time General Smith, who had been compelled to draw back his more exposed lines, and in doing so to abandon two guns, took up a new line, whose right connected with General Leggett, his left drawn back and facing toward the southeast. The enemy could make no impression on this new formation of the corps, whose deadly fire compelled them to recoil again and again, mowing down whole ranks at a time and covering the ground and ditches with dead and wounded men. A portion of the force that had penetrated the gap before mentioned, renewed the attack on the right flank of the sixteenth corps, and captured on its first advance a six-gun battery which was moving unsupported along a narrow road through the woods. They were soon checked, however, by the divisions of Generals Sweeney and Fuller, and driven back with the loss of many prisoners. Several of General Sweeney's regiments had expended their ammunition, but charged with the bayonet, when the enemy broke and fled. At about half-past three the rebels desisted from their attack on the left flank, having sustained very heavy loss and gained no ground. In the mean time two divisions of Wheeler's cavalry, with a section of artillery, had taken a wide circuit to the eastward and fallen upon Decatur unopposed--as General Sherman had sent...

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