. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . BATTERY GOING INTO ACTION. General Early was assigned to that position with f\ve brigades. He was attacked by about one-fourth the number of ^McLaws assailants, the position was carried and Early driven off in confusion, losing, besides large number as PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INp-ANTRY. !)1. prisoners, many pieces of artillery. His special assignment was to defend the plank road against the enemys march to attack General Lees rear. Instead, he retreated by the Te
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . BATTERY GOING INTO ACTION. General Early was assigned to that position with f\ve brigades. He was attacked by about one-fourth the number of ^McLaws assailants, the position was carried and Early driven off in confusion, losing, besides large number as PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INp-ANTRY. !)1. prisoners, many pieces of artillery. His special assignment was to defend the plank road against the enemys march to attack General Lees rear. Instead, he retreated by the Telegraph Road, leaving the plank road free for the enemv. After driving Early oflf, the enemy marched by the plank road and Early marched back to his late position atMaryes Hill. So General Lee was obliged to take McLaws and Anderson from his battle at Chancellorsville to drive back the force threatening his rear. Following are a few ex-tracts from the report of MajorGeneral John Sedgwick, com-manding the Sixth Corps,as to Maryes and SalemHeights. * * * Twostorming columns wereformed composed as follows :Right column, commandedby Colonel George C. Spear, who fell while gallantly lead-ing it; the Sixty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, Major Daw-son, and Forty-third New York, Colonel Baker. Thiscolumn was supported by the Sixty-seventh New York(First Long Island), Colonel Cross, and the Eighty-secondPennsylvania Volunt
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