. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . advance; it passed a swamp andcame out into a field, when suddenly from right to left there burstforth a deadly fusillade. Quickly the Union troops came into positionand opened fire. In a very few minutes the battle was fiercely was brave fighting. The Union troops were veterans who hadbeen in the terrible storm of Wagner. (See Marching to Victory, chap,xvi.) The Confederates, behind their breastworks, and screened by thethickets, had greatly the advantage; but for three hours the contest w
. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . advance; it passed a swamp andcame out into a field, when suddenly from right to left there burstforth a deadly fusillade. Quickly the Union troops came into positionand opened fire. In a very few minutes the battle was fiercely was brave fighting. The Union troops were veterans who hadbeen in the terrible storm of Wagner. (See Marching to Victory, chap,xvi.) The Confederates, behind their breastworks, and screened by thethickets, had greatly the advantage; but for three hours the contest wenton, till the ammunition of Union and Confederate alike was nearly ex-hausted. Under the fierce fire it is not strange that the Union soldiersgave way, but they were rallied by their officers. The Confederates bided their time, the sharp-shooters picking off theUnion officers, shooting the horses of the artillery—so many of them thatwhen the Union troops retreated they were obliged to leave five cannonon the field. The battle ended with the coming on of night. The Union troops, dis-. ^OPENING OF THE YEAR 1864. 25 comfited, having lost more than fifteen hundred men in killed, wounded,and prisoners, without provisions, began their weary march towards Jack-sonville. Thus, through disobedience of orders by General Seymour, theattempt to re-establish a loyal government in Florida had ended in dis-aster. The time had not come for the restoration of the authority of theUnited States in that State. In the old tobacco warehouse known as Libby Prison, in Richmond,and on Belle Isle, on James River, were several thousand Union of the officers of the Army of the Potomac believed that a largebody of cavalry, moving swiftly, might make its way into Richmondand release them. General Meade consented that the attempt might bemade, and it was intrusted to General Kilpatrick, who selected GeneralGreggs and General Merritts divisions, and who intended first to getbetween General
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