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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 48 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 12 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 23 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 18 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 15 1 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 5 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 5 1 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
y, except where here and there lay a weary soldier, slumbering on his moist and earthy pillow. The assault of the enemy on our right was made with cavalry, artillery, and infantry. At this point it becomes necessary to convey some idea of how our troops were posted on the extreme right. Next the Cames river were two squadrons of colored cavalry, then came the Ninth New Jersey infantry, then the Twenty-third Massachsells, then the Twenty-fifth and Twenty seventh Massachusetts, all of Heckman's brigade, of Weltred's division, of Smith's corps. Gilmore's corps held the left and the left centre. Our line of battle was the fortifications, except on the extreme right, for they did not extend down to the river. A narrow belt of limber screened our reserves from the view of the rebels on the right. The rebels stole between our skirmishers around our right flank, and actually into the of the Ninth New Jeremy.--When they were first discovered by that regiment in its rear they halter