. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . als Torberts and Merritts divisions of cav-alry, under Sheridan, and the Sixth Corps led theadvance ; crossed the Pamunkey River at HanoverTown, after considerable fighting, and on the 2Sththe two divisions of cavalry had a severe but suc-cessful engagement with the enemy at HawessShop. On the 29th and 30th we advanced, withheavy skirmishing, to the Hanover Court House andCold Harbor road, and developed the enemysposition north of the Chickahominy. Late on theevening of the last d
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . als Torberts and Merritts divisions of cav-alry, under Sheridan, and the Sixth Corps led theadvance ; crossed the Pamunkey River at HanoverTown, after considerable fighting, and on the 2Sththe two divisions of cavalry had a severe but suc-cessful engagement with the enemy at HawessShop. On the 29th and 30th we advanced, withheavy skirmishing, to the Hanover Court House andCold Harbor road, and developed the enemysposition north of the Chickahominy. Late on theevening of the last day the enemy came out andattacked our left, but was repulsed with very con-siderable loss. An attack was immediately orderedby General Meade, along his whole line, whichresulted in driving the enemy from a part of hisintrenched skirmish line. On the 31st General Wilsons division of cavalrydestroyed the railroad bridges over the South AnnaRiver, after defeating the enemys cavalry. Gen-eral Sheridan, on the same day,reached Cold Harbor, and heldit until relieved by the SixthCorps and General Smiths com- &. THE WILDERNESS TAVERN. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1884. 148 GENERAL GRANT ON THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN.
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