. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . Sixth Corps, in the gloom of the damp,chilly night, silently left its winter quarters and filed out to anallotted position within about two hundred yards of the mouthsof the enemys cannon, there to await the discharge of a gunfrom Fort Fisher, the signal for storming the works. Therewere no light hearts in the corps that night, but there werefew faint ones. The soldiers of the corps knew the str
. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . Sixth Corps, in the gloom of the damp,chilly night, silently left its winter quarters and filed out to anallotted position within about two hundred yards of the mouthsof the enemys cannon, there to await the discharge of a gunfrom Fort Fisher, the signal for storming the works. Therewere no light hearts in the corps that night, but there werefew faint ones. The soldiers of the corps knew the strengthand character of the works to be assailed. They had watchedtheir completion; they knew of the existence of the abattis andthe deep ditches to be passed, as well as the high ramparts tobe scaled. The night added to the solemnity of the prepara-tion for the bloody work. The Second Division was formed on the right, the ThirdDivision on the left, each in two lines of battle, about twohundred feet apart. The First Division (Wheatons) was inechelon by brigades, in support on Gettys right.^ The corpswas formed on ground lower than that on which the enemys War Records, vol. xlvi., Part I., p.
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