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John G. B. Adams, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Chapter 11 : battles at Totopotomoy Creek and cold Harbor. (search)
Chapter 11: battles at Totopotomoy Creek and cold Harbor.
From the 21st to the 24th of May we were engaged in skirmishing, picket fighting, with now and then a charge.
On the morning of the 24th we crossed the North Anna River, and about noon advanced in line, our regiment being on the left of Smith's division.
Finding the rebels strongly intrenched on the edge of the woods, we charged across an open field and drove them out. It was one of the bravest acts of the war, but it counted for nothing.
As soon as we captured the works we sent word back that we must be reinforced or we could not hold them; but no one in the rear seemed to be in a hurry.
We could hear the rebels reorganizing their men, and knew that we should be unable to resist the charge, as we were only a skirmish line.
I lay on the works by the side of Captain Hincks.
Both of us had muskets, and resolved to make the best fight possible.
The rebels came in over the works at our left, at the same time advancing i