Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . rsey had clinched with the enemy at the junction of theroads at the foot of the hill, and he had been momentarily stopped.[E. T. Witherby.] Amorys Brigade was quite warmly engaged. The fight wasshort but severe. Colonel Gray of the Ninety-sixth New YorkVolunteers fell dead on the Kinston bridge as his soldiersclosed upon it with the bayonet. The earthworks on the otherside of the river were emptied, and the rebels, confused andbroken, fled through Kinston, and t
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . rsey had clinched with the enemy at the junction of theroads at the foot of the hill, and he had been momentarily stopped.[E. T. Witherby.] Amorys Brigade was quite warmly engaged. The fight wasshort but severe. Colonel Gray of the Ninety-sixth New YorkVolunteers fell dead on the Kinston bridge as his soldiersclosed upon it with the bayonet. The earthworks on the otherside of the river were emptied, and the rebels, confused andbroken, fled through Kinston, and that place was captured. General Evans, the Confederate commander retired histroops a distance of two miles, where he again formed lineof battle. Foster sent a flag and asked Evaus if he wouldsurrender, but the latter answering nay, Foster shelled himwith twenty-pounder Parrots, and then Evans retired this action, the Forty-fifth Massachusetts lost heavily, havingfifteen men killed and forty-three wounded. Although a newregiment, in this severe trial of fortitude, the soldiers behavedwith great steadiness and
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