. From Manassas to Appomattox : memoirs of the Civil War in America . henthe three brigades crossed Rock Creek it was night. Theenemys line to be assaulted was occupied by Greenesbrigade of the Twelfth Corps. It was reinforced bythree regiments of Wadsworths division and three fromthe Eleventh Corps. After brave attack and defence,part of the line was carried, when the fight, after asevere fusillade between the infantry lines, quieted, andWalkers brigade returned to the division. Part of theenemys trenches, east of the point attacked (across aswale), vacated when the corps moved over to the le
. From Manassas to Appomattox : memoirs of the Civil War in America . henthe three brigades crossed Rock Creek it was night. Theenemys line to be assaulted was occupied by Greenesbrigade of the Twelfth Corps. It was reinforced bythree regiments of Wadsworths division and three fromthe Eleventh Corps. After brave attack and defence,part of the line was carried, when the fight, after asevere fusillade between the infantry lines, quieted, andWalkers brigade returned to the division. Part of theenemys trenches, east of the point attacked (across aswale), vacated when the corps moved over to the Johnson failed to occupy. Before this, General Rodes discovered that the enemy,in front of his division, was drawing off his artillery andinfantry to my battle of the right, and suggested toGeneral Early that the moment had come for the divi-sions to attack, and drew his forces from entanglementsabout the streets to be ready. After E. Johnsons fighton our extreme left, General Early ordered two brigadesunder General Harry T. Hays to attack. Hays had with. GETTYSBURG SECOND DAY. 375 liis Louisiana brigade Hokes North Carolina brigadeunder Colonel Avery. He made as gallant a fight aswas ever made. Mounting to the top of the hill, hecaptured a battery, and pushed on in brave order, takingsome prisoners and colors, until he discovered that his twobrigades were advancing in a night affair against a grandarmy, when he found that he was fortunate in havingnight to cover his weakness, and withdrew. The gallantColonel Avery, mortally wounded and dying, wrote on aslij) of paper, Tell father that I died ivith my face to theenemy. When Rodes was prepared. Hays had retired,and the former did not see that it was part of the orderfor general engagement to j^ut his division in night attackthat could not be supported. Thus the general engagement of the day was dwarfedinto the battle of the right at three oclock, that on theleft at eight by a single division, and that nearer thecentre
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