. History of Durell's Battery in the Civil War (Independent Battery D, Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery.) A narrative of the campaigns and battles of Berks and Bucks counties' artillerists in the War of the Rebellion .. . s were driven from theirstrong position and soon disappeared in the woods beyond. Herethe dead and wounded of both sides almost covered the roadway,and at some points were lying over each other. Just across the road from the batterys position stood a moun-tain cabin, which was found to be occupied by an elderly womanand her daughter, who had taken refuge in the cellar when th
. History of Durell's Battery in the Civil War (Independent Battery D, Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery.) A narrative of the campaigns and battles of Berks and Bucks counties' artillerists in the War of the Rebellion .. . s were driven from theirstrong position and soon disappeared in the woods beyond. Herethe dead and wounded of both sides almost covered the roadway,and at some points were lying over each other. Just across the road from the batterys position stood a moun-tain cabin, which was found to be occupied by an elderly womanand her daughter, who had taken refuge in the cellar when thebattle opened. Several cannon balls had penetrated the roof ofthe house, and the exposed sides of the building were thickly dottedwith the marks of the heavy musketry. Some of the Union soldiersdiscovered the women in the course of their investigations of thecabin, still under cover of the cellar wall, and almost distractedwith fear. The soldiers assured them that the danger was past,when they timidly came forth from the cellar. Firing along the picket line was still kept up, which occasion-ally swelled to almost the importance of an engagement and thenagain subsided, (ieneral Jesse L. Reno, commanding the Second. MAJOR-GENERAL JESSE L. RENO The Maryland Campaign—South Mountain. 75 Division of the Ninth Corps, had gone far in advance to make apersonal reconnoissance, when he was shot, and carried back throughthe line of his troops about dusk in an ambulance, mortally died that night. He was a Pennsylvanian, fearless, able andbeloved by his men. The command of the division fell to CeneralSturgis. Soon after the darkness of night had set in, the Confederatesmade another assault upon Coxs Division, which held the left ofthe Union line, and a fierce battle raged for half an hour, when itended by the repulse of the enemy. The battery was, in this action,exposed to a heavy musketry fire, and participated in the engage-ment by opening upon the woods in front and left wit
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