. The history of the Civil War in the United States : its cause, origin, progress and conclusion ; containing full, impartial and graphic descriptions of the various military and naval engagements, with the heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals, touching scenes and incidents in the camp, the cabin, the field and the hospital ; and biographical sketches of its heroes . deral 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
. The history of the Civil War in the United States : its cause, origin, progress and conclusion ; containing full, impartial and graphic descriptions of the various military and naval engagements, with the heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals, touching scenes and incidents in the camp, the cabin, the field and the hospital ; and biographical sketches of its heroes . deral 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 Williamsburg and Richmond stage road, and extended across therail track for some distance. The second brigade, under command of General Wessels,consisting of the eighty-fifth Pennsylvania, Colonel T. B. H. Howell; one hundred andfirst Pennsylvania, Colonel S. H. Wilson ; one hundred and third Pennsylvania,Colonel M. H. Lehman; ninety-sixth York, Colonel J. Fairman, occupied thecentre and guarded the turnpike. The third brigade, General J. N. Palmer command-ing, consisting of the ei^^hty-first New York, Lieutenant-Colonel De Forest; fifty-fifthNew York, Colonel T. S. Belknap ; ninety-second New York, Lieutenant-ColonelAnderson; ninety-eighth New York, Lieutenant-Colonel Durkee, were on (he left ofthe road, and connected with th-; pickets of General Couchs >^ PiOUT OF CASEYS DIVISION. 259 guns was exhausted, 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
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