. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . aking troops therefrom forsupport elsewhere, escape by his right flank may be on March 25th, he makes an attack on FortSteadman and surrounding works, breaking through our lineat the place once held by our regiment, But his movement, The End of the War. 417 it first successful, ends in a complete failure with a loss offour thousand men on his side to two thousand on General Grant is as impatient to begin thecampaign as General Lee
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . aking troops therefrom forsupport elsewhere, escape by his right flank may be on March 25th, he makes an attack on FortSteadman and surrounding works, breaking through our lineat the place once held by our regiment, But his movement, The End of the War. 417 it first successful, ends in a complete failure with a loss offour thousand men on his side to two thousand on General Grant is as impatient to begin thecampaign as General Lee is to get away, but he must awaitthe arrival of General Sheridan, who has been sent on anexpedition to the north of Richmond. To establish a base of supplies for Sheridans cavalry upontheir return, our brigade is sent to White House we are joined by his troops on March 18th, and afterwaiting nearly a week for the recruiting of the horses, westart for our old position in front of Richmond by way ofHarrisons Landing. Our first days march «is made in com-pany with one brigade of the cavalry to Chickahominy, where. CAPTAIN WALTER P, LONG. LIEUTENANT COURTLAND G. STANTON. we encamped for the night. Next day we are joined by therest of the army, and passing by Charles City Court House,where we find the ruins of a few burned buildings, we reachHarrisons Landing about sundown. Next morning we fell into line about six oclock, and afterwaiting three hours for the cavalry to get under way, wecross the James on a pontoon bridge, and reaching our oldplace, go into camp nearly two miles from pur former campand one mile from Deep Bottom near Battery Number Nine. 418 Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Here we relieved the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth NewYork Regiment, which, with other troops, hastened forward tojoin in a general movement toward the left, while our division,together with one division of colored troops, under commandof General Weitzel, remains in front
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