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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 5: (search)
apoplexy. He had but recently been placed on the retired list. A part of the troops were located in our immediate neighborhood, a part on commanding ground to the north, while yet others occupied the lofty ridge of the Heights that rose above us several hundred feet towards the south, which, though often enveloped in clouds, was strongly fortified and well provided with troops. Along the crest of these mountains, which are the continuation of the Blue Ridge into Maryland, Kershaw's and Barksdale's brigades, of Stonewall Jackson's command, marched the year before and captured the place, having forced their way through what was thought to be an impassable forest. The bones of the Rebels slain in the attack on the outer work were plainly visible, protruding from the shallow graves in which they had been hastily buried by friend or foe. The morning after we reached the Heights, the clouds, which had been discharging their watery contents upon us with unpleasant constancy since ou