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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gordon Fort Stedman , [from the New Orleans Picayune , October 25 , 1903
Gordon's assault on Fort Stedman, [from the New Orleans Picayune, October 25, 1903.]
March 25th, 1865—a brilliant achievement. By General James A. Walker.
Fort Stedman was a Federal redoubt, and occupied a spot near what was once the residence of Mr. Otway P. Hare, a man widely known in Eastern Virginia in antebellum days.
Its site was locally known as Hare's Hill.
I was then in command of a division in the corps commanded by General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, and my division occupied that portion of the trenches around Petersburg from the Appomattox river on the left, and extended, on the right, to a point beyond Hare's Hill.
The enemy's lines in our front extended to the Appomattox river, thence down the river on its south bank, crossing the stream several miles lower down, and stretching out to and across the James river; thus leaving the Richmond and Petersburg railroad in possession of the Confederates.
The hostile lines were very near each other at sever
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)