hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion. You can also browse the collection for June 20th, 1864 AD or search for June 20th, 1864 AD in all documents.
Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 13
Chapter 13:
June 12-20, 1864.
By the left flank
Wilcox's Landing
across the James
on towards Petersburg
why Petersburg was not taken
what Hancock says
to the front
we fire the First shells into the Cockade City
the Fortieth Massachusetts infantry
again forward
two moves more to the front line
relieved by Colored troops of the Ninth Corps.
Rumors of another move were now currently reported, and although men were busy constructing a line of breastworks in the rear, we had long since discovered that such an indication was no augury on which to base calculations for a continued stay.
It was on the Sabbath, June 12th, that our caissons were moved from the cross-roads, two miles further to the rear.
This. surely looked ominous; but rumor, to our minds, was resolved into certainty when, late in the afternoon, all the bands struck up lively airs, playing until dark.
That means a move, was the remark on all sides, for we had noted this coincidence on other occasi