Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . CHAPTER XVI — HEROISM — RESCUE OF DALY—OFFICERS WOUNDEDCAPTAIN ONEILL—KILLED WOUNDED AND CAPTURED. Igj^ONG before daylight of June 3rd, [1864] General Smith and his staff were mounted and prepared for the greatCSs^l) events of the day that was soon to dawn. Aboutfive oclock, the opening guns booming along from the leftof Hancocks Corps, indicated that the moment for battlehad come. Men sprang to their feet, tightly grasping theirmuskets — officers gave their ord
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . CHAPTER XVI — HEROISM — RESCUE OF DALY—OFFICERS WOUNDEDCAPTAIN ONEILL—KILLED WOUNDED AND CAPTURED. Igj^ONG before daylight of June 3rd, [1864] General Smith and his staff were mounted and prepared for the greatCSs^l) events of the day that was soon to dawn. Aboutfive oclock, the opening guns booming along from the leftof Hancocks Corps, indicated that the moment for battlehad come. Men sprang to their feet, tightly grasping theirmuskets — officers gave their orders in whispers—the move-ment of infantry commenced, while cannon roared about moved the divisions. With loud cheers they rushedon and saw lines of impregnable works — cannon to the left ofthem, to their right and in their front, and over the earthworks,men standing ready to receive them with the bayonet. As theyadvanced, they saw dead men behind them, dead men to theright and left—wounded men creeping to the rear or trying tofind shelter from other wounds. The loud-mouthed cannonroared, musketry in
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