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The Magnificent and Deadly Charge* ( pnn the Confederate Ilatterieis M'here Single Tteginient* Loftt Hundred* In a Few Min* ute* .% Chapter of I nwritten Ili*tory.
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the anniversary days of the bloody assaults on the fc. Con federate works at Petersburg which pre- . ceded the (lege. With the slaughter of the Wilderness. Spottsylvania and Cold Hur l>or rs-curing dur-
ing the previous five weeks to think alsiut, tiie country had no need of a further sensation, and those assaults live only in the memory of survivors and in the dry statisticsof official reports. Thearmy correspondents. whose sensational accounts furnish the chief source of inspiration for the popular histories of those times, were still busypicking over the debris of the Wilderness fields, and besides a battle charge that didn't kill 10,000 men in a few minutes was too insignificant for a '‘special from the front. " And yet the assault* of the Ninth and Second corps during thoBe three days cost more Union lives than did Burnside's famous attack on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg. The killed and wound ed In the two corps during those assaults would have made a column as large a« that which actually took part in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, and the troops who made them were not fresh, like those of Pickett at Gettysburg and of Hancock and French at Marye’s Heights. They were the very men who had borne the brunt of the fearful assaults '‘all along the line” at the Wilderness, Bpottsylvania and Cold Harbor. One of Hancock's regiments, which lost 300 killed and wounded in one dash at Petersburg June 16, hud lost 200 killed and 800 wounded in the grand assault at Cold Harbor on
June 1.
Theintrcnchments at Petersburg, where Grant first sent his troops against them, consisted of ordinary fieldworks—breastworks for infantry and lunettes or small redoubts for artillery. At the most exposed places there were t*vo and even three lines, the second lino commanding the first or outer line, and the third commanding the second and first. They were fully 10 miles in length and extended from tiie hank of the Appomattox below tho city to the hank altove, and. with the water barrier formed by the river, completely encircled the position. The heaviest works were those adjoining the river on the east and south, and in that locality the ground was the most favorable for defense. It was cut lengthwise by numerous ravines, between which were stretches of open plain, with frequent elevated knolls or ridges, from whence the batteries could sweep the plains and enfilade the ravines with shell and canister. On the arrival of the army Grant threw tiie full weight of the Ninth and Second corps, supported by the Fifth, against this formidable position, hoping probably to break through tho defenses and capture Petersburg before Lee's soldiers could march from Richmond to strengthen tho garrison. The first at tack by these columns was made on the 16th, but on tho previous day General \V. F. Smith, with the Eighteenth corps, had gallantly enrried a point of supremo advantage at about the center of this strong east and south section of the lines referred to. In order to save his men from tiie slaughter of charging solid columns against fortified batteries, Smith formed a long line of infantry in light marching order and sent them to take the works at a bound. In this way five batteries and 1 V» miles of intrenchments, with 16 cannon, fell In his hands, with a comparatively slight loss. Hancock's corps was at that time marching to tiie scone to support Smith, hut owing to an order based on an error at army headquarters his column was misdirected and didn't get up until nightfall. Burnside also reached there during the night with his Ninth corps, and the united forces took up the attack next day. Meanwhile tiie other side had been busy in getting re-enforcement* to the garrison. N umcricully Burnside and Hancock had the preponderance, hut a* one man liehind good earthworks is the equal of five assailants outside the odds were in favor of tho Confederates. Hancock put tiie divisions of Harlow and Birncy to the assault at 6 o’chx-k In the evening after several is,id attempts by detached brigades during the day. Harlow led a charge with cap in hand, swinging it to encourage ids men. The Irish brigade took part under Harlow, and its commander, Colonel Patrick Kelley, was killed in front of a Confederate
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GENERAL FRANCIS L. HARLOW, redoubt. Another of Barlow's brigade commanders, Colonel James A. Beaver, was severely wounded. In the column two colonels and 15 officers of the line were killed. Tho result was the capture of three of the enemy's small redoubts. During the day Burnside’s corps marched to its position on t he left of Hancock, and the assaults were taken up early on the 17th All of these troops were the worse for a long roundabout march front the field of Cold Hurl sir to Petersburg. Some of them had traveled SlO miles in throe days. During the night the divisions of Potter, Wilcox and Ledlie of tho Ninth corps made their way through tiie timbered region bordering the Norfolk railroad to a point on the left of Hancock within KHl yards of the enemy’s liatterles. At that distance tho rattle of a canteen or a command spoken aloud would reveal the enterprise and draw the enemy’s fire, and strict silence was observed by men and officers. The orders for the assault were to advance stealthily and take the works by the bayonet without firing a shot. The long line of bluecoat* rested in a ravine to await the first streak of dawn.
At a signal the men sprang to their feet and moved forward without stopping to align the ranks. The Confederates lay in a dead sleep, unprepared for a defense. Only one sentinel appeared on post, and he ran away after firing his rifle at tho approaching column. The entire lino of intrenchments and batteries was swept clean of troops, cannon and equipments. At sundown the same day Ledlie’s division carried a portion of the enemy's Intrenchments in front of Wilcox by leaping over them just when the Confederates were off guard preparing their suppers. Tills also waa a clean sweep, but the stroke was not well supported, and ■mny of the regiments found themselves inside of tiie enemy's lines without an ounce of ammunition to defend themselves. Some of the excitable ones, elated over the victory, shouted to Hancock's men on their flank to the effect that tho works had lieen carried, adding, ' Send over some cartridges." This message reached the ears of the Confederates, and at dark they turned the tables by leaping the works on their side and overwhelming part of Burnside's line in the grand rush. Throughout tjint night alternate sections of the same line were held by the blue and the gray. The ground captured by Burnside on the 17th was in front of Cemetery Hill and the slope where, later, the famous mine was e ./slod H.^coek had carried
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COLONEL SAVAGE SHOT WHILE CHEERING BIS MEN the ground along Prince George's Courthouse road, confronting Hare's Hill, the estate of a noted F. F. V., which afterward became tiie site of the Union Fort Stedman. The owner was Colonel Ottway P. Hare of the? Confederate army. He was of a sporting family, and a famous race track had long been^ maintained on the ground carried by Hancock on the
17th. In dulen tinies thd track Ifaa been one of the most noted in .the south and counted Randolph of KotMokc among its patrons. Hare's house was burned on tho 17th. It was in the fighting on Hare s groundthat the regiment already referred to—the Eighth New York heavy artillery—met with a loss of 3U0 killed and wounded This regiment went into the grand charge at Cold Harbor on June 1 1,WH) strong. It lost there Colonel Peter A. Porter and 303 men killed and 300 wounded. In onecharge at Hare's Hill Colonel Willard W Bates was killed and 307 men and officers killed and wounded. Major Hl.ikc was mortally wounded. Hancock resumed the assaults on Hare's Hill on the leth, and tho position foil nfu r some of the most desperate fighting on record. Gib’oon’s division, which had suf fered less than the others, was chosen to storm Hare's Hill and the impregnable works beyond it, which during the night had bet n filled with Iav's veterans from ilie north of the James. The order to Gibbon was to push his columns forward pnciscly at noon and not fire a shot until the Confederate intrenchments were reached The charge was repulsed and was renewed again at 2 o'clock. In this attack the Thirty-sixth Wisconsin wa« the heaviest loser in tho division. At the signal to march Colonel John A. Savage, Jr., stepped In front of the colors and shouted: "Three chivrs for the honor of Wisoon. in! Forward, my brave men!” He leaped over tiie inttenehments in front and was i:: stonily stretched low with a mortal wound. The killed and wounded in tho regiment numbered 115. The Thirty-sixth had also suffered heavily at Cold Haris/!-, where its first colonel, Frank A. Haskell, j was killed. After tiie repulse of this attack occurred j the terrible disaster to the First Maineheavy artillery. Tiie division of Mott i (Birncy's) was ordered to try where Gib1 bon had failed, and the First Maine, a fine j large regiment numbering flOO muskets, ' was placed in the front of the leading col- ! unin. Having witnessed the slaughter on this field during the day, the men knew what to expect and bade one another good - J by ns they faced the terrible ordeal. Is-d i by three battlcflngs, they advanced over a ■ slight crest, and in less than 10 minutes | 832 of them lay dead or mangled on the j sward. The killed and mortally wounded I nunilicred 210, the highest loss numerical ly suffered by any regiment during tiie ] war. Just one month previous the First i Maine had received its baptism of fire at | Spottsylvania, losing 147 killed and 32U ! wounded. This slaughter ended the assaults fora time, and siege operations lusting 10 I months were commenced. After the re \ pulse of Mott's line, the following remark | able message was sent from army head I quarters,to tlyt commander of the Second
corps ' .‘-orry to near you could not carry the works. 1 suppose you cannot make any more macks, and I feel satisfied that all has been dene that can lie done." The losses in these three days of assault fell principally upon 15 regiments of the Ninth corps and 12 of the Second. In the assault of the 15th 10 regiments of the Eighteenth corps eaeli met with a loss in killed and wounded exceeding 50. Four regiments of the l ifth corps also lost heavily in those Petersburg assaults They were the Third and Fourth Delaware, Twenty first Pennsylvania cavalry (dismounted) and tho Seventh \\ isconsin. Had it not been for circumstance*, which change the face of everything, the ground where 10,000 brave men went down beforu Confederate bullets would rank with the slopes of Marye’s Heights and the ridge at Gettysburg ns soil consecrated by past deeds of martial valor. George L. Kilmer.
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Part One Contains the following Full and Double Page Illustrations: i. Abraham Lincoln. J 12. Camp Corcoran on Arlington Heights, Ya,, near Wash- ?- The Sixth Regiment Volunteers leaving Jersey Depot to 1 ington the Sixty-ninth Regiment, New ^ ork, S. M..
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defend Washington, D. C., April 18th. 1861.
digging trenches and erecting breastworks.
The Seventh Regiment, New York, S. M., passing down ,3. Battle of Great Bethel, between the Federal troops | Cortlandt street, on their way to Pennsylvama depot. under Gen . p lercCi and the Confederate troops under Col. en route for Washington, D. C. , T 0 , 1
n , Magruder, June 1, 1861. The German Regiment, Stubbs Volunteers, Col. John
E. Benedix commanding, receiving the American Hag in >4- Gen. Schench, with four companies of the First Ohioj front of the city hall, New 'l ork. Regiment, surprised and lired into by a Confederate Troops drilling in the grounds on the north side of the masked battery near \ ienna, Va., June 17, 1861.
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Capitol, Washington. D. C.
Lieutenant-General Winfred Scott.
Colonel Ephraim E. Ellsworth.
The murder of Col. Ellsworth at the Marshall House, Alexandria, Va.
15. 1 he Battle of Bull Run, between the Federal Army commanded by Maj. Gen. McDowell, and the Conlederate Army, under Liens. Johnson and Beauregard, on July 21, 1861
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16. 1 he charge of the first Iowa Regiment, under Gen. Lyon, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield. J
Mo., Aug. 10, 1861.
Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S. C., 1861. Castle Pickney, Charleston Harbor, S. C. 1861.
11. Lieutenant Tompkins at the head of the B. Company, 1 17. Passage down the Ohio River of Gen NeGey's Pennsyi U. S. Dragoons, charginginto the town of Fairfax Court- vania Brigade ( 7 ;th. 78th and 79 th' Regiments, Penn, house in the face of the 1,500 Confederate troops, June, %- 1 x . / , , j lg6l 0 1 J \ olunteers) en route for the seat of War in Kentucky-
Part Two contains the following Full and Double Page Illustrations of Our Great Rebellion:
I. I'ortrait of General Sherman. •2. United State* Cavalry scouting in the neighborhood of Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia. ;t. Movement of tiie troops from Collin* Line Dork, Canal street. New York. 4. United States Arsenal fit Charleston, S. C., seized by State author.lies, December 28th, 1860. 5. Portrait of Major Robert Anderson. (i. Portrait of Brigadier General Beauregard. 7. Scene of the Floating Battery, Cliarlenton Harbor, during I of Ft. Sumter. 8. Battle of Rich Mountain. Beverly Pike, Va., July 12th. II, Battle of Corriek’s Ford, Va.. July Utth, 18(11. 10. The engagement at Bealinirton, Va., between Ohio and Indiana Regiments and a detachment of Georgia troops.
II. Re-cue of Ma jor Reynold’s Batallion of Marines from the foundering Steam' ’•Governor” oil’Cape llatterds, Nov. 2nd, isiil. t,ut;Uror Lnited States Steamer “Niagara,” Noveinb«' 11. General McGowan addressing the Tliirty-lifth Abbeville S.C.) Volunteer--m Iront of Charleston hotel. 11. Group of Ellsworth's Chicago Zouave cadets. iwittr.'.iWiiTaissa"’* "" rkm '" m i "" 16. Reiurn of Federal foraging parties into camp near Annadale Chapel, Va. '• eiv‘!.. !lt | t! “ m th .‘'. ,mtt ''ri' :s i ‘ t t,lu entrance of Acquin creek to Potoni' mm i, by the l mted States vessels “Pawnee” ” Yankee" “Thomas Freeborn Aimaeosta aii<l ■‘Ke^olutc* 1 June 1st, 1801.
Part Three contains the following full and double page illustrations of our Great Rebellion:
Portrait of General McClellan. Burning of tiie United States Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Va., April ISth, 1861.
3. The “Billy”) Wilson Zouaves, at Tammany hall, taking the oath of fidelity to the fiag and swearing to “go through Baltimore or die,” April 21. 4. The fight at Philippi, Va., June 8, 1861; Tin- I idled States troops under Col. Dainont, and tiie Confederates under Colonel Portersfield. 3. The first charge of Freemont’s bodyguard led by Maj. Zagony, at Spring-
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Portrait of Major General Don Carlos Buel; MajorGeneral Irwin McDowell; Brigadier General W. S. Roseerans; Brigadier General J. S. Negley.
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Fort Pickens, Pensacola Bay. Fla., and spiking the guns of Ft. Moultrie by Major Anderson before its evacuation.
8 ~°- of Bull Run, Va., July 21st, isiil. Biw'rsi'S'f ■ “ " r «"m»<swi,.i«,u.» moh!r <1 M h {"' K y" po " • t,,c ^' 0,, fetlerales by General Fremont’s body " ,Uer Ma ' or / «Konyt, near Springfield, Mo., on Oct. 25tli, 1861. ‘h''o Volunteers, crossing the Tray Kun Vi on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Latile of Bellmont, Mo., opposite Columbus, Ky., November 7, 1861. IL Landing ot the I id ted State Troops at Ft. Walker after tiie Bombardn l:, ‘ ington r ''Ki» , <*nts embarking at Providence for New York and inin^ Mu~tciing of the "Contrabands" at Fortress Monroe.