. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . •iCviCW OP REViewS Co THE STONE WALL AT FREDERICKSBURG Behind the deadly stone wall of Maryes Heights after Sedg^vieks men had s\vei)t across il in the uallantcharge of May 3, 1863. This was one of the strongest natural positions stormed during the war. In frontof this wall the previous year, nearly 0,000 of men had fallen, ant! it was not carried, .\gain inthe Chancellorsville campaign Sedgwicks Sixth Corps was ordered to it. It was delcndcd the s
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . •iCviCW OP REViewS Co THE STONE WALL AT FREDERICKSBURG Behind the deadly stone wall of Maryes Heights after Sedg^vieks men had s\vei)t across il in the uallantcharge of May 3, 1863. This was one of the strongest natural positions stormed during the war. In frontof this wall the previous year, nearly 0,000 of men had fallen, ant! it was not carried, .\gain inthe Chancellorsville campaign Sedgwicks Sixth Corps was ordered to it. It was delcndcd the secondtime with the same death-dealing stubbornness but with less than a fourth of the former luimbers—9,000Confederates against 20,000 Federals. At eleven oclock in the morning the line of battle, under ColonelHiram Burnham, moved out over the awful field of the year before, supported to right and left by flankingcolumns. I^p to within twenty-five yards of the wall they pressed, when again the flame of musketry firebelched forth, laying low in six minutes per cent, of the Fifth Wisconsin and the Sixth Maine. Thea
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