. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . ridan re-appeared with his slashing troopers, who had been raiding fort\) weeks in the rear of Lees army, and had kept the rebelcavalry so busy as to prevent them from molesting our owntrains and communications. He had killed the famous cavalier,General J. K. B. Stuart, had given Wade Hampton a severedrubbing and released three hundred of our soldiers on theway to Libby Prison, and had actually penetrated the outerdefenses of Richmond itself, capturing a section
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . ridan re-appeared with his slashing troopers, who had been raiding fort\) weeks in the rear of Lees army, and had kept the rebelcavalry so busy as to prevent them from molesting our owntrains and communications. He had killed the famous cavalier,General J. K. B. Stuart, had given Wade Hampton a severedrubbing and released three hundred of our soldiers on theway to Libby Prison, and had actually penetrated the outerdefenses of Richmond itself, capturing a section of artilleryand a hundred of the Home Guard. His round bullet headand his swarthy red face were a welcome sight to the Lieu-tenant-General, who at once dispatched him to hold thecrossing of the Pamunkey and to reconnoitre beyond as far asCold Harbor. This duty he fulfilled in gallant style, drivingback the foe, and by noon of Friday, the 27th, he had seizedthe ferry at Hanover and thrown across a pontoon ferry is only fifteen miles from Richmond, and thebooming of cannon began to be distinctly heard at the rebel. CAPTAIN JAMES H. LATHAM. CAPTAIN NATHAN A. DELDEN. SERGEANT ALBERT LEEDS. SERGEANT EDWARD G. CHILDS. The Battle of Cold Harbor. 227 capital. Grant, having broken up the railroad behind himtoward Washington, established a new base of supplies at theWhite House, on the river Pamunkey, from whence therewas easy navigation to Chesapeake Bay and to Fort change of base gave the rebels great concern, althoughthey affected to laugh at Grant for coming once more into thecamp of McClellan. But the fact was patent and undeniablethat, in spite of all their losses and over or past every obsta-cle, the Federals were creeping steadily down toward their goal,and that there was plenty of fight left in them yet. A longdistance from their old basis, they had now established newones, and there remained but one more river for them to crossbefore the spires of Richmo
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