Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . folk railroad, pro-tecting also the left flank of the main column: Hincks to moveand occupy a position next to Kautz, bringing him on the leftof the infantry line: Brooks First Division to follow Hincks,and Martindales (Second) Division to hold the right, occupy-ing the river road at Petersburg and striking the intrenchmentsat and near the City Point railroad, between that point and theAppomatox river. Marching for some distance upon the road by the flank, theSe
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . folk railroad, pro-tecting also the left flank of the main column: Hincks to moveand occupy a position next to Kautz, bringing him on the leftof the infantry line: Brooks First Division to follow Hincks,and Martindales (Second) Division to hold the right, occupy-ing the river road at Petersburg and striking the intrenchmentsat and near the City Point railroad, between that point and theAppomatox river. Marching for some distance upon the road by the flank, theSecond Division deployed about daylight and advanced in lineof battle, the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts having the right ofthe line. It was at five oclock in the morning, while marchingover a slight elevation through a field, that the Division wassaluted by the first shot from the enemys pickets. This firstshot wounded a man of Company G. The line continuedto move forward slowly, receiving an occasional shot fromthe enemy, until half-past six oclock, when the Twenty-fifthMassachusetts came to a dense thicket of small trees covering. Major Mekkitx B. Bessey.
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