. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . «™l ^KK^GHKMii SMlIx. A BOMB-SHELL IN AN ARTILLERY CAMP-FIRE-AN INCIDENT OF COLD HARBOR. FROM A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. THE EIGHTEENTH CORPS AT COLD HARBOR. BY WILLIAM FARKAR SMITH, BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. A. ON the 27th of May an order came from Washington to me near Ber-muda Hundred to concentrate sixteen thousand men under my com-mand ready for removal by water to a point opposite White House onthe Pamunkey, there to protect a corps of bridge-builders. On the 28th I receiv
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . «™l ^KK^GHKMii SMlIx. A BOMB-SHELL IN AN ARTILLERY CAMP-FIRE-AN INCIDENT OF COLD HARBOR. FROM A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. THE EIGHTEENTH CORPS AT COLD HARBOR. BY WILLIAM FARKAR SMITH, BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. A. ON the 27th of May an order came from Washington to me near Ber-muda Hundred to concentrate sixteen thousand men under my com-mand ready for removal by water to a point opposite White House onthe Pamunkey, there to protect a corps of bridge-builders. On the 28th I received the following order: Headquarters, in the Field, May 28th, 18(i4. Major-General Smith, Commanding Eighteenth Corps: The transportation for your column having arrived, although not in my judgment sufficient,yet in consequence of imperative orders from General Grant your column will move to hisassistance. You will use the utmost expedition in embarking and getting on. If you desireany cavalry to accompany you, please designate what regiments or battalions. I grieve muchthat this weakness of the Army of the Potomac has called the
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