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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard 's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Campaign against Steele in April , 1864 . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Third battery of Maryland Artillery . (search)
Sketch of Third battery of Maryland Artillery. By Captain William L. Ritter.
Paper no. 5.
On the 7th of May the battery was ordered to the front on the line in Crow's Valley, and when, on the 8th, the enemy moved up as if to attack the Confederate works, they were received with so vigorous a fire that they rapidly withdrew.
But two men of the Third Maryland were wounded: Privates N. M. Beverly and J. G. Martin.
Again, on the 9th the enemy charged our works, but were repulsed with no loss to the battery.
For three days there was only picket-firing along the whole line.
The battle at Resaca.
On the night of the 12th the corps fell back to Resaca.
Two days later the battery took position on the front, two miles from Resaca, to the left of the Dalton road, and about a hundred yards to the right of an obtuse angle in the line, which was occupied by Dent's Alabama battery.
The latter held the summit of a ridge, the prolongation of which, in front, it was expected to co