. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . atteries,took the forts in front of our old station. And our other careful diarist,Comrade Clark, recorded his impression as follows- This has been aglorious day for our army fighting around Petersburg and away to the and the 5th Corps have been steadily advancing, driving the rebelsbefore them. The enemy is driven across the Appomattox River; we havecaptured ten thousand prisoners. The engineers have just
. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . atteries,took the forts in front of our old station. And our other careful diarist,Comrade Clark, recorded his impression as follows- This has been aglorious day for our army fighting around Petersburg and away to the and the 5th Corps have been steadily advancing, driving the rebelsbefore them. The enemy is driven across the Appomattox River; we havecaptured ten thousand prisoners. The engineers have just come into thisfort to build a road from the sally-port to the front for the passage of troopsand artillery. We may soon make an advance from this direction. Ourforce holding the lines is small, yet we closely watch the enemy. It appearsas if the armies of the rebellion could not be held together much longer. General Lee, the brave-hearted son of Virginia who had followed hisState in secession, though, as he wrote, it nearly broke his heart, sawthat Petersburg and Richmond must fall. If ever a military commander MA ■■^ Ml ; Am J ■ ■■■.: i, ! n \i ■: ii^ if. FIRST IJGIir BATTERY, iSCl-lSCr, OoO had a difficult task to perform, it was the lot of (General Lee. On the after-noon of April 2d he wrote to the Confederate vSecretary oi War: I see no prospect of doing more than holding cnir ])osition here untilnight. I am not certain that I can do even that. If I can I shall withdrawto-night north of the Appomattox, and, if possible, it will be better to with-draw the whole line to-night from James River. The brigades in HatchersRun are cut off from us; enemy have broken through our lines and inter-cepted between us and them, and there is no bridge over which they cancross the Appomattox this side of Goodes or Beavers, which are not veryfar from the Danville Railroad. I advise that all preparations be made forleaving Richmond to-night. Then he wrote to President Jefferson
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