. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . m not afraid to die. I dontknow how the valley will look when I get into it, but it is all brightnow. He broke into singing: Soon with angels Ill be marching,With bright laurels on my brow;I have for my country fallen,Who will care for mother now? It was a song often sung by the soldiers. Death stole on. Sunday morningdawned, and just as the sun was rising he passed into the light of eternalday. Had he lived a century, he could not have completed life more fully.(9)Several attempts were made by a brigad
. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . m not afraid to die. I dontknow how the valley will look when I get into it, but it is all brightnow. He broke into singing: Soon with angels Ill be marching,With bright laurels on my brow;I have for my country fallen,Who will care for mother now? It was a song often sung by the soldiers. Death stole on. Sunday morningdawned, and just as the sun was rising he passed into the light of eternalday. Had he lived a century, he could not have completed life more fully.(9)Several attempts were made by a brigade of the Second Corps to carrythe position on the evening of the 16th, without success, and night cameon with the Union troops in the ravine. They were relieved by Pottersdivision of the Ninth Corps. The men packed their tin plates and cupsin their haversacks, that there might not be any rattling. No one were two brigades—Griffins and Curtins—twelve regiments. Theymade their way into the ravine, and were only fifty-seven paces from the FROM COLD HARBOR TO PETERSBURG. 327. ASSAULT OF POTTER S DI-VISION, NINTH CORPS. Confederate breastworks. They were to rush up the steep bank, crossthe narrow terrace, leap over the breastworks, and gather in the line of menin gray. Cannon would flame in their faces. There would be a blast ofleaden rain. It required nerve and hardihood to move at midnight silent-ly down the ravine, the rising moon throwing its light along the movingcolumn, to take their places, speaking no wordabove a whisper, to lie upon the ground till thefirst gleam of daylight appeared on the easternsky. Fifteen minutes past three was the timefixed. The officers had regulated their hands stole on to the appointed to the hour of midnight the cannonade rolledalong the line. After that hour both armies hadbeen resting. The men in the ravine rose anddressed their ranks, elbow touching elbow, andgrasped their muskets with nervous energy. There
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