. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . if 1^>^^§WMU\^MW^3S^^^^^^^. HOSPITAL AT ClTY POINT. A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH. THE RECAPTURE OF FORT STEDMAN. J BY JOHN F. HARTBANFT, BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. V. OF the Union intrenchinents in front of Petersburg, Fort Stedman, withBatteries X and IX on its right and Batteries XII and XI and FortHaskell on its left, covered Meades Station on the United States MilitaryRailroad, the supply route of the Army of the Potomac. [See map, p. 538.]Meades Station was the depot of the Nint
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . if 1^>^^§WMU\^MW^3S^^^^^^^. HOSPITAL AT ClTY POINT. A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH. THE RECAPTURE OF FORT STEDMAN. J BY JOHN F. HARTBANFT, BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. V. OF the Union intrenchinents in front of Petersburg, Fort Stedman, withBatteries X and IX on its right and Batteries XII and XI and FortHaskell on its left, covered Meades Station on the United States MilitaryRailroad, the supply route of the Army of the Potomac. [See map, p. 538.]Meades Station was the depot of the Ninth Army Corps. This part ofthe line—about a mile in length—was garrisoned principally by the ThirdBrigade of the First Division of the Ninth Corps, commanded by ColonelN. B. McLaughlen. The First Division, commanded by General Willcox, was intrusted withthe defense of the whole line from the Appomattox to somewhat beyondFort Morton, and the Second Division (Potters) continued the defense ofthe line about to Fort Alexander Hays. The Third Division, under my com-mand, was in reserve to these two divisions. The division covered fourmiles,
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