. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BETHEL CHURCH—WAITING FOR ORDERS The couriers lounging around the church door will soon be galloping away with orders; for it is the 23d of May, and, the afternoonbefore. Burnside. with his Ninth Corps, arrived and took up his headquarters here, within ten miles of the North Anna. In the sidlingmovement, as the Confederate soldiers called it, begim by Grant on May 19th, the corps of Hancock and Warren were pressing forwardto Guineys Station through a strange country, over roads unknown to them, while the corps of Burnside and Wrigh
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BETHEL CHURCH—WAITING FOR ORDERS The couriers lounging around the church door will soon be galloping away with orders; for it is the 23d of May, and, the afternoonbefore. Burnside. with his Ninth Corps, arrived and took up his headquarters here, within ten miles of the North Anna. In the sidlingmovement, as the Confederate soldiers called it, begim by Grant on May 19th, the corps of Hancock and Warren were pressing forwardto Guineys Station through a strange country, over roads unknown to them, while the corps of Burnside and Wright were still demon-strating against the Confederates at Spotsylvania. Here was an opportunity for Lee to take the initiative, and with his whole forceeither attack Wright and Burnside, or, pushing forward by the Telegraph Road, strike Hancock alone, or at most Hancock and Lee. fearing perhaps to risk a general contest, remained strictly on the defensive, moving his troops out along the Telegraph Roadto make sure of keeping between his adversary
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