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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Incidents of the skirmish at Totopotomoy Creek , Hanover county , Virginia , May 30 , 1864
Incidents of the skirmish at Totopotomoy Creek, Hanover county, Virginia, May 30, 1864. By T. C. Morton, late Captain Company F, Twenty-sixth Virginia Battalion of Infantry.
It was about dark, on the 30th of May, 1864, that the Twenty-sixth Virginia battalion, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel George M. Edgar, to which my company (F) belonged, was drawn up in line on a hill in a cultivated cornfield, above a small creek called Totopotomoy, and not far from Atlee's station on the railroad between Hanover Junction and Richmond, Virginia.
Our command was attached to Breckenridge's division, and we had a battery in line on our right, commanded by Major (now Judge) William Mc-Laughlin.
Soon after getting in position, orders came for us to throw up breastworks in our front.
There were few, if any, spades or shovels, but the men realizing the necessity for the order, as a heavy force was immediately in our front, split their canteens, making scoops of them, and, together with their bay
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