. History of Durell's Battery in the Civil War (Independent Battery D, Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery.) A narrative of the campaigns and battles of Berks and Bucks counties' artillerists in the War of the Rebellion .. . of the bridge, and the 2nd Marylandand the 6lh New Hampshire charged at double-c[uick with fixed bayonets ; butthe concentrated fire of the enemy upon ihem forced them to fall back. Afterrepeated efforts these regiments were withdrawn. Burnside, nettled at the failure of this attempt, and the conseciuent delayof his columns, and knowing full well in w lioni he could trust, or
. History of Durell's Battery in the Civil War (Independent Battery D, Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery.) A narrative of the campaigns and battles of Berks and Bucks counties' artillerists in the War of the Rebellion .. . of the bridge, and the 2nd Marylandand the 6lh New Hampshire charged at double-c[uick with fixed bayonets ; butthe concentrated fire of the enemy upon ihem forced them to fall back. Afterrepeated efforts these regiments were withdrawn. Burnside, nettled at the failure of this attempt, and the conseciuent delayof his columns, and knowing full well in w lioni he could trust, ordered forwardthe 51st. Ccneral Ferrero dashing uj) to the rigiment, said: Ceneral Burn-side orders the 51SI Pennsylvania to storm the bridge. Colonel Hartranft,avoiding the road by the river bank, led his men in the rear of the heights over-looking the river, until he arrived opposite the bridge, when he moved slowlydown the slope for the crossing. The instant his men came into the openground in the valley they received a withering fire from the enemys well-postedinfantry, and many fell. A fence skirting the road proved a serious impedi-ment, and in crossing it the men were particularly exposed. Here fell Captains.
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