. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . h Lee. and the next day was driven back southward to within half a mileof Dinwiddle Court House In thi^ engagement. YV. II. F. Lee was sent along a wooded road leading south from liveForks west of ( Chamberlain Bed, a creek running into Stony < reek near Dinwiddie < Court House. After failing at onecrossing, he succeeded in reaching the east hank at Danses * Crossing. All of Sheridans cavalry corps then fell back onDinwiddie < ourt House. Of this attack the s
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . h Lee. and the next day was driven back southward to within half a mileof Dinwiddle Court House In thi^ engagement. YV. II. F. Lee was sent along a wooded road leading south from liveForks west of ( Chamberlain Bed, a creek running into Stony < reek near Dinwiddie < Court House. After failing at onecrossing, he succeeded in reaching the east hank at Danses * Crossing. All of Sheridans cavalry corps then fell back onDinwiddie < ourt House. Of this attack the single wheel of a caisson is the silent reminder, That night Sheridan wasreinforced by the Fifth (Corps; the next day. April 1st. he carried the (Confederate position at Five Forks, and took nearlylive thousand prisoners The next morning, April 2d, the Petersburg entrenchments were earned by storm. The dayafter, the whole Confederate army was hastening westward. Seven days after this engagement came Appomat-tox. Lees valiant hosts were indeed scattered, returning to their homes in a land that was once more united. IJ—16]. THE CONQUERED BANNER—WAVING FREE IN 61The first Confederate flag made in Augusta, Georgia, swells in the May breeze of 1861. It has two red bars,with a white in the middle, and a union of blue with seven stars. The men who so proudly stand beforeit near the armory al Macon are the Clinch Rifles, forming Company A of the Fifth Georgia Infantry. Theorganization was completed on the next day—May 11th. It first went to Pensacola. From after the battleof Shiloh to .Inly. 1S(H, it Mixed in the Army of Tennessee, when it was sent to the Georgia coast, laterserving under General Joseph E. Johnston in the final campaign in the Carolinas. It was conspicuousat Chickamauga, where its colonel commanded a brigade. His account of the action on September1S(>:;, is well worth quoting: The brigade, with the battery in the center, moved forward in splendid siabout loo ya
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