. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . PATHIOT PUB CO TIU, TIllU(i:-l()r(illT (iUOCM) The tiilii IhVoiiiI llif lovclod fence is covered w itii Ijiitli Federaland Confederate dead. Over this open space swept Sedgwicksdivision of Sumners Second Corps, after passing throiigli the Eastand entering the West Woods. This is near where the Confederate(ieneral Ewells division, reenforced by McLaws and Walker,fell upon Sedgwicks left flank and rear. Nearly two thousandFederal soldiers were struck down, the division
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . PATHIOT PUB CO TIU, TIllU(i:-l()r(illT (iUOCM) The tiilii IhVoiiiI llif lovclod fence is covered w itii Ijiitli Federaland Confederate dead. Over this open space swept Sedgwicksdivision of Sumners Second Corps, after passing throiigli the Eastand entering the West Woods. This is near where the Confederate(ieneral Ewells division, reenforced by McLaws and Walker,fell upon Sedgwicks left flank and rear. Nearly two thousandFederal soldiers were struck down, the division losing during theday more than forty per cent, of its entire number. One regi-ment lost sixty percent.—thehighest regimental loss sus-tained. Later the right of theConfederate line crossed theturnpike at the Uunker church(about half a mile to the leftof the picture) and made upon Greene, but theywere repulsed with greatslaughter. General D. , of Jacksons division,had been wounded. The braveStarke n ho succeeded him ; and Lawton, who fol-lowed Starke, had .V flaming mansion was the guidi>n for the extreme left of Greenesdivision when (early in the morning) he had moved forward alongthe ridge leading to the East Woods. This dwelling belonged toa planter by the name of Mumnui. It stood in the very centerof the Federal advance, and also at the extreme left of D. H. Hillsline. The house had been fired by the Confederates, who fearedthat its thick walls might become a vantage-point for the Federalinfantry. It burned throughout the battle, the flames subsiding only in the afternoon. Beforeit. just across the road, a bat-tery of the First Rhode IslandLight Artillery had placed itsgims. Twice were they charged,but each time they were re-pulsed. From Muramas houseit was less than half a mileacross the open field to theDunker church. The fence-rails in the upper picture werethose of the field enclosingMummas land, and the heroicdead pict
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