. The story of the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1864 [electronic resource] . rebel , Lee, not knowing the condition of affairs, didnot mass his army for the attack to the best , instead of pressing on to the rear of the SecondCorps, turned off towards Greenwich. Hills corps, mean-while, was advancing toward the point where the Orange andAlexandria Railroad crosses Broad Run. Heth s divisionof this corps mistook the rear of the withdrawing FifthCorps for the rear of Meades army, and was preparing tofollow and attack it
. The story of the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1864 [electronic resource] . rebel , Lee, not knowing the condition of affairs, didnot mass his army for the attack to the best , instead of pressing on to the rear of the SecondCorps, turned off towards Greenwich. Hills corps, mean-while, was advancing toward the point where the Orange andAlexandria Railroad crosses Broad Run. Heth s divisionof this corps mistook the rear of the withdrawing FifthCorps for the rear of Meades army, and was preparing tofollow and attack it when General Webb with his division of THE DISPOSITIONS FOR BATTLE. ^97 the Second Corps came up. The men were all worn outwith loss of sleep and long marches and heavy burdens, butthey moved at double-quick toward the crossing of BroadRun in the face of greatly superior forces of the won the race and held the crossing. General Warren,arriving on the battle-field, saw at once with the quickdecision of military genius the great advantage for defenseoffered by the railroad embankment with its two cuts, one. The first brigade of Webbs division was nearest Broad Run. To the left was thethird brigade of that division. Then came Hays division, 20 298 BR1STOE STATION. on each side of the stream. He made dispositions of troopsas follows: Webb was on the right, Hays was in the center,and Caldwell on the left. Browns battery was on the rightof Webb and across the stream. The other batteries wereon the hill and a little in the rear of the infantry. Greggscavalry was on the left near Kettle Run. As the rebels charged toward the railroad, they were firstmet by the fire of Webbs division. The work of our artilleryin this engagement was most remarkable. Although therebels gained some temporary foothold at two points of theembankment, they were soon driven off, and the advance ofour lines resulted in the capture of several hundred prisonersand some guns. Yet the Second Corps with i
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