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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Diary of Major R. C. M. Page Chief of Confederate States artillery , Department of Southwest Virginia and East TennesseeOctober , 1864 May , 1865
now abandoned.
This line was at first a simple trench with the parapet on the further side, and though it was afterwards amplified it retained the general character of a trench and was known as The Trenches, in distinction from the portion of the original lines retained by us. The last were artillery redoubts connected by infantry breastworks.
The trenches opposed Grant's front of attack; the remaining portion of the enceinte was not assailed until, perhaps, the closing day of the siege in 1865.
At I:30 A. M. on the 18th, Hagood's brigade moved back on the new line to the position assigned it. His left was again on the Appomattox, thence running southward nearly at right angles to the river, his line crossed the City Point road and extended to the eminence known as Hare's Hill, where Colquitt prolonged the general line.
The New Market race course was in front of the right of the brigade, and the approach to its position was generally level.
By daylight the Confederates were qui
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hagood Petersburg, Virginia , 1864