. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . orse-back at this point the enemys officers could now plainly be seen urging theirmen through Fort Stedman, and endeavoring to deploy them in the prevent or delay this would justify another attack, although the positionof the enemy on the left, whose flag could be seen in the continuation of theold works on the other side of the road, not seventy yards away, and thesupporting fire of the captured works on the front and right, plainly showedat what cost it must be made. It
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . orse-back at this point the enemys officers could now plainly be seen urging theirmen through Fort Stedman, and endeavoring to deploy them in the prevent or delay this would justify another attack, although the positionof the enemy on the left, whose flag could be seen in the continuation of theold works on the other side of the road, not seventy yards away, and thesupporting fire of the captured works on the front and right, plainly showedat what cost it must be made. It wasbetter to attack than be attacked. The200th was again led forward and re-sponded gallantly. In the face of a gall-ing fire in front and flanks it succeededin reaching a fairly defensible position,and for a few moments the troops strug-gled tenaciously to hold it. Fighting un-der the eye of the general, every officerand man stood up nobly, and for twentyminutes struggled desperately to holdtheir own in the face of supporting bat-teries within a hundred yards and supe-rior forces pressing on all sides. JSSmk. This was the heaviest fighting of the BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN F. A PHOTOGRAPH. day, and under a tremendous fire of small-arms and artillery the loss in twentyminutes was over one hundred killed and wounded. The regiment finallystaggered and receded. But when its desperate grasp on the position wasbroken it fell back without confusion and rallied and re-formed at the callof its officers and myself in the old works from which it had advanced. While the enemy was shaking off these fierce assaults, the 209th had beenable to push its way to a good position, its left resting on the old works towhich the 200th had fallen back, with the right of which it now connectedand its right toward Battery IX, with which it was connected by the 2d and17th Michigan Volunteers, two small regiments of the First Division, whichalso had thus had time to come up and complete the
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