. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . limbed, or jumpedas best we could over our outer works double-quick, sweptup the slope, already the center of a tornado of shot and shell,through which, leading my command directly to the crater,and mounting the crest of the debris, saw-at once the utterhopelessness of passing the enemys lines through and overthe mass of soldiers in the yawning gulf. The 43d moved toour light around on the crest of the craters rim, till within afew yards of the enemys main line of intrenchments on
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . limbed, or jumpedas best we could over our outer works double-quick, sweptup the slope, already the center of a tornado of shot and shell,through which, leading my command directly to the crater,and mounting the crest of the debris, saw-at once the utterhopelessness of passing the enemys lines through and overthe mass of soldiers in the yawning gulf. The 43d moved toour light around on the crest of the craters rim, till within afew yards of the enemys main line of intrenchments on ourright, which was at that time fully manned by the rebelforces, who were concentrating upon us a deadly Are of mus-ketry, and flaunting their colors defiantly almost in ourvery faces. Still at the double-quick, changing direction. them safely. By direction of officers in the craterthe men began a deep trench toward our , by direction of General Burnside, hadbeen started from our lines to meet it. This wasthe situation when the enemy made their lastcharge on the crater. Its inmates had repelled. LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER A PHOTOGRAPH. three charges. They were weak, exhausted, andsuffering from want of water. They succumbed,and most of them fell into the hands of the this last scene in the battle the Confederate Gen-eral Bushrod R. Johnson says in his official report: Between 11 and 12 A. M., a second unsuccessful chargehaving been made by Wrights brigade of Mahones di-vision, I proceeded to concert a combined movement onboth flanks of the crater. ... A third charge a littlebefore 2 p. m. gave us entire possession of the crater andadjacent lines. This charge on the left [our right] audrear of the crater was made by Sanderss brigade of Ma-hones division, the 61st North Carolina of Hokes divi-sion, and the 17th South Carolina of this division. . .These movements were all conducted by General Ma-hone, while I took the 22d and 23d South Carolina int
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