. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . as hastening withhis regiments over the bottomless roads of the came most opportunely, and took the places of Hookerstired and hungry men, who retreated in good order, leavingon the tree-strewn field seventeen hundred of their comrades,who had gone down before the Confederate fire. On the York River side there liad been no fighting duringthe early ])art of the day. But about noon. General Hancock, the Sui)erb, took his men near the rivers bank and occu-
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . as hastening withhis regiments over the bottomless roads of the came most opportunely, and took the places of Hookerstired and hungry men, who retreated in good order, leavingon the tree-strewn field seventeen hundred of their comrades,who had gone down before the Confederate fire. On the York River side there liad been no fighting duringthe early ])art of the day. But about noon. General Hancock, the Sui)erb, took his men near the rivers bank and occu-pied two Confederate redoubts. Planting his batteries inthese new jiositions, he began throwing shells into Fort JNIa-gruder. This new move of the Federals at once attracted tlieattention of the Confederates, and General Jubal A. Early,^vitll the Fifth and Twenty-third North Carolina and theTwenty-fourth and Thirty-eiglith Virginia regiments, wassent to intercept Hancocks movements. At the bank of asmall stream, the Carolina regiments under General D. halted to form in line. The intrepid Early did not wait. May1862.
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