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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 23: battle of Fredericksburg (continued). (search)
position. General Ransom advanced the other regiments of his brigade to the crest of the hill. At the suggestion of General Lee the brigades of Jenkins and Kemper of Pickett's division were called up and assigned, the former to General McLaws and the latter to General Ransom. A supply of ammunition was sent down to the troops in the road in time to meet the next attack, by Sturgis's division of the Ninth Corps, which made the usual brave fight, and encountered the same damaging results. Getty's division of the Ninth Corps came to his support on the left, but did not engage fiercely, losing less than eight hundred men. Carroll's brigade of Whipple's division, Third Corps, came in on Sturgis's left, but only to brace that part of the fight. As the troops hurried forward from the streets of the city for the Telegraph road, they came at once under the fire of the long-range guns on Lee's Hill. The thirty-pound Parrotts were particularly effective in having the range and dropping
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 38: battle of the Wilderness. (search)
the corps made ready for battle. The Sixth, except Getty's division, was ordered to make connection on the rihe Fifth by wood roads, and prepare for the battle. Getty's division was ordered to the Plank road at the Broc they were near the Brock road crossing, occupied by Getty's division of the Sixth Corps. General Getty wasGeneral Getty was in time to drive back a few of our men who had reached the Brock road in observation, and Hancock's corps joins, and Barlow's-along the Brock road, on the left of Getty's. His artillery was massed on his left, near Barlowrossroads, General Meade ordered them into action. Getty's division, supported by the Second Corps, was to drs orders for the advance on the Plank road. At 4.15 Getty's division advanced, and met the divisions of Heth alowed, Birney's and Mott's divisions were engaged on Getty's left, and later the brigades of Carroll and Owen, xter's brigade of the Fifth Corps were put in to aid Getty's right. The combination forced Heth and Wilcox bac