. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . g rain, they marched without a murmur. At midnightthey came into position in the woods between the houses of Brown andLandron, throwing themselves on the ground just in rear of the picketline. No word was spoken. There had been no rattling of canteens, noclanking of swords. In silence, like spectres, they had marched throughthe mire and gloom of the night, and now they were waiting for thedawn. With their compasses the engineers during the day had taken fromLandrons the position of the breastworks, and
. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . g rain, they marched without a murmur. At midnightthey came into position in the woods between the houses of Brown andLandron, throwing themselves on the ground just in rear of the picketline. No word was spoken. There had been no rattling of canteens, noclanking of swords. In silence, like spectres, they had marched throughthe mire and gloom of the night, and now they were waiting for thedawn. With their compasses the engineers during the day had taken fromLandrons the position of the breastworks, and now they set them, exam-ining them by striking a match to get the right direction. 116 REDEEMING THE REPUBLIC. Birneys division was on the right. The men must cross a marsh, creep through a dense thicket of young pines, growing where the plough once turned its furrows, where slaves had once hoed tobacco-May 12, 1864. . . n n ,land worn-out tor cultivation and turned to wood. Barlows division was on the left, with a clear field before him. Gib-bons division and Motts were in THE FIELD OP THE BLOODY ANGLE. The Confederate breastworks are dimly seen along the edge of the woods at the right. They were heldby Gen. Edward Johnsons division. The Secoud Corps of the Union army, under Hancock, chargedfrom the woods at the left. The Sixth Corps came to the assistance of the Second across the fore-ground. Uptons troops were to the right, upon ground not included in the view. The division commanders have timed their watches. Day is fog hangs low. It is a half-mile to the Confederate intrenchments. Barlow has four brigades—Brookss, with the Second Delaware, Sixty-fourth and Sixty-sixth .New York, Fifty-third, One Hundred and Forty-fifth, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania; Miless—the Twen-ty-sixth Michigan, Sixty-first New York, Eighty-first, One Hundred andFortieth, One Hundred and Eighty-third Pennsylvania: these in the frontline, with Smythes and Browns
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