. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . ing to the point of attack. Busch-becks brigade was fairly well intrenched, but the value of intrench-ments was not so fully recognized then as later in the war, and theprotection afforded by the works made was of the slightest. The reserve artillery of the corps, which consisted of the batteriesof DeBeck, Hill, and Jahn, was located en echelon to the right andrear of Von Gilsas brigade, on a knoll covered with small rifle pits were constructed near these guns, and Barlowsbrigade was posted there as a su
. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . ing to the point of attack. Busch-becks brigade was fairly well intrenched, but the value of intrench-ments was not so fully recognized then as later in the war, and theprotection afforded by the works made was of the slightest. The reserve artillery of the corps, which consisted of the batteriesof DeBeck, Hill, and Jahn, was located en echelon to the right andrear of Von Gilsas brigade, on a knoll covered with small rifle pits were constructed near these guns, and Barlowsbrigade was posted there as a support to the reserve artillery. Thisreserve was in a good natural position, and available to meet an attackeither from the west or north. The earthworks at this point werethrown up early in the afternoon of May 2, the work being doneunder the supervision of experienced artillery officers. In forming his Hne for a further advance upon the enemy, onMay I, General Hooker discovered that General Lee, upon learningof the successful flank march of the Union Army, had hastened from.
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