. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. mmand; whereupon General Gib-born immediately relieved him. It was shown afterward, by a court ofinquiry, that his order relieving General Sully was a little previous,,and not exactly justified by the facts; but General Sully did not return; but was sent west to fight theIndians. But the spring had opened,and there was a stir undergroundand above it. As early as April28, we began to notice large bodiesof Union troops moving to out-right. They were the Fifth,Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps ofthe ar
. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. mmand; whereupon General Gib-born immediately relieved him. It was shown afterward, by a court ofinquiry, that his order relieving General Sully was a little previous,,and not exactly justified by the facts; but General Sully did not return; but was sent west to fight theIndians. But the spring had opened,and there was a stir undergroundand above it. As early as April28, we began to notice large bodiesof Union troops moving to out-right. They were the Fifth,Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps ofthe army, making the initialmoves for a position on the southside of the Rappahannock. TheFirst and Third Divisions of ourCorps, the Second, also disap-peared up the river; but theSecond Division, in which was theThirty-fourth, did not move untilthe night of May 2. All day onthe 1st the air was full of thethunder of artillery. It came fromthe direction of on the night of the 2d, theThirty-fourth, with the rest of thelieutenant john oathout—1863 Division, proceeded to the heights.
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