. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . guns played upon them with grape and canister so destruc-tively, that their progress was arrested, and huge gaps were ploughedthrough their serried masses. It was not until the ammunition of these the right of the AVilliamsburg Richmond stage road, and extended across therail track for some distance I iiu second brigade, imder command of General of the eighty-Han Pennsylvania, Colonel T. B. H. IIowcU ; one liundrcd andfirst Pennsylvania. Colonel S. H. Wilson ; one hundred a
. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . guns played upon them with grape and canister so destruc-tively, that their progress was arrested, and huge gaps were ploughedthrough their serried masses. It was not until the ammunition of these the right of the AVilliamsburg Richmond stage road, and extended across therail track for some distance I iiu second brigade, imder command of General of the eighty-Han Pennsylvania, Colonel T. B. H. IIowcU ; one liundrcd andfirst Pennsylvania. Colonel S. H. Wilson ; one hundred and third Pennsylvania,Colonel M. 11. ; ninety-sixth New York. Colonel J. Fairman, occupied thecentre and iruarded the turnpike. The third brigade, N. Palmer command-ing, consisting of the cijhty-lirst New York, Lieutenant-Colonel I)c Forest; fifty-fifthNew York, Colonel T. S. Belknap ; ninety-second New York, lyioutonant-ColonelAnderson; ninety-eighth New York, Lieutcnant^Colonel Durkee, were on tlie left ofthe road, and connected with the pickets of General Couchs VARRt*- ROUT OP CASEYS DIVISION. 259 guns was exliansted, and the wagons being still beyond the Chickahominy,it was impossible to bring forward a fresh supply, that the enemy wereable to surmount and overcome the obstruction. A closer combat then ensued. In vain did General Casey, with thecoolness and valor of a veteran, ride along his shattered lines and en-deavor to steady them, staggered and wavering as they were, from thefury of the assault made upon them by vastly superior numbers. Heordered a bayonet charge to be made, which was executed with as muchforce and effect as the strength and spirit of the men permitted. Butfresh and heavy masses of Rebels still rolled forward from their rear, tothe front, so that the Federal troops were at length overpowered. Theythen retreated within their first line of defence. Here Bates battery ofsix pieces was posted in a redoubt on the left, and Fit
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