. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ;■■■;: |gH$. BREASTWORKS OF HANCOCKS CORPS ON THE BROCK ROAD — MORNING OF MAT A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. and heavy assaults were made upon the line of Earlys division. So persist-ent were these attacks on the front of Pegrams brigade, that other troopswere brought up to its support, but the men rejected the offer of assistance. Late in the day General Ewell ordered a movement against the Federalright wing, similar to that by which Longstreet had doubled up Hancocksleft in t
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ;■■■;: |gH$. BREASTWORKS OF HANCOCKS CORPS ON THE BROCK ROAD — MORNING OF MAT A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. and heavy assaults were made upon the line of Earlys division. So persist-ent were these attacks on the front of Pegrams brigade, that other troopswere brought up to its support, but the men rejected the offer of assistance. Late in the day General Ewell ordered a movement against the Federalright wing, similar to that by which Longstreet had doubled up Hancocksleft in the morning. Two brigades, under General John B. Gordon, movedout of their works at sunset, and lapping the right of Sedgwicks corps [theSixth] made a sudden and determined attack upon it. |) Taken by surprise,the Federals were driven from a large portion of their works with the loss ofsix hundred prisoners,—among them Generals Seymour and Shaler. Nightclosed the contest, and with it the battle of the Wilderness. When Lees army appeared on the flank of the Federal line of marchon the 5th of May, General Grant had at on
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