. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . d the other corps to advanceand feel the enemy in their respective forward, they captured and held theenemys strongly intrenched picket-line in front ofthe Second and Sixth corps, and 834 enemy made desperate attempts to retake thisline, but without success. . the service, and his corps was brought to the intrenchmentsnearest Petersburg, with its left on the Appomattox. Thepoint of attack was Fort Stediuan, where the opposinglines were only 150 yards a
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . d the other corps to advanceand feel the enemy in their respective forward, they captured and held theenemys strongly intrenched picket-line in front ofthe Second and Sixth corps, and 834 enemy made desperate attempts to retake thisline, but without success. . the service, and his corps was brought to the intrenchmentsnearest Petersburg, with its left on the Appomattox. Thepoint of attack was Fort Stediuan, where the opposinglines were only 150 yards apart, the pickets 50 yards Gordon was sanguine that this redoubt could betaken by a night assault, ami that through the breachthus made a sufficient force could be thrown to disorganizeand destroy Grants left wing before be could recover andconcentrate bis forces from the right. General Gordon saysthat General Lee placed at his disposal, in addition to hisown corps, a portion of A. P. Hills and a portion of Long-streets, and a detachment of cavalry, iu all about one-halfof the army. GORDONS ATTACK AT FORT STEDMAN. BY GEORGE L. KILMER, COMPANY I, 14TH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. ON the 25th of March, 1865, General 0. B. Will-coxs division, of the Ninth Corps, was formedon the Petersburg lines in the following order fromright to left [see map, p. 538] : Second Brigade(Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Ely), from the Appo-mattox to Battery IX, near the City Point Railroad ;Third Brigade ) (Colonel N. B. MeLaughlen), fromBattery IX to Fort Haskell; First Brigade (ColonelSamuel Harriman), from Fort Haskell to Fort Mor-ton, directly facing Cemetery Hill. Fort Mortonwas a bastioned work, high and Haskell, the next down the line, on lowerground and quite under the best guns that Lee had } The Third Brigade was formed on the lines as fol-lows: Eight companies of the 14th New York HeavyArtillery garrisoned Fort Stedman and Battery X, andguarded the trenches
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