. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . April1865 ki^^^asfc. THE LANDMARK t)l THK LAST STAND The Union army, after llie fall of Petersburg, followed the streaming Confederates, retreating westward, and came upon a part ofGordons troops near High Bridge over tlie Appomattox, where the South Side Railroad crosses the river on piers (JO feet high. Han-cocks (Second) Corps arrived on tlie south bank just after the Confederates had blown up the redoubt that formed the bridge head,and set fire to the bridge itself. The bridge was saved with the loss of four spans
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . April1865 ki^^^asfc. THE LANDMARK t)l THK LAST STAND The Union army, after llie fall of Petersburg, followed the streaming Confederates, retreating westward, and came upon a part ofGordons troops near High Bridge over tlie Appomattox, where the South Side Railroad crosses the river on piers (JO feet high. Han-cocks (Second) Corps arrived on tlie south bank just after the Confederates had blown up the redoubt that formed the bridge head,and set fire to the bridge itself. The bridge was saved with the loss of four spans at the north end, by Colonel Livermore, whose partyput out the fire wliile Confederate skirmishers were fighting under tlieir feet. A wagon bridge beside it was saved by the men of Bar-lows division. >Lihones division of the Confederate army wa-s flrawn up on a hill, north of the river behind redoubts, but whenUnion troops appeared in force the Confederates again retreated westward along the river.
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