. Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . the works so far perfected as to be invul-nerable. Had the attack been made the 17th his surmisewould have proved correct, but Genl Lee, with his entirearmy, arrived early the morning of the 18th. The Unionarmy assailed the enemy along the entire front, with a lossof ten thousand killed and wounded, but without any advan-tage save on our immediate front. Intrenchments and sys-tematic approaches were now the only expedients. Havingplaced himself on the south
. Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . the works so far perfected as to be invul-nerable. Had the attack been made the 17th his surmisewould have proved correct, but Genl Lee, with his entirearmy, arrived early the morning of the 18th. The Unionarmy assailed the enemy along the entire front, with a lossof ten thousand killed and wounded, but without any advan-tage save on our immediate front. Intrenchments and sys-tematic approaches were now the only expedients. Havingplaced himself on the south of Richmond, the objectivepoint, neither change of base nor flank movement could nowavail, except so far as Genl Grant might attempt to cut thesouth side railroads, over which the enemy secured this end future movements were directed. The morning of the 19th Sergt. E. L. Peck presentedGenl Stannard with a list of casualties in the Twenty-Seventh Mass. the day previous, when the general, notic-ing the sergeants modest uniform, inquired, «« How is this?Where are your officers? A look into the hospitals would Men of Co F. p-*££S
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