. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . wayRiver on pontoons near Freemans Bridge and pushed on as far asSussex Court House where they bivouacked for the night. Atdaylight on the 8th, they moved on south and soon turned in awesterly direction. Reaching the Weldon Railroad at JarrattsStation, they burned the station andthe bridge north across the SIEGE OF PETERSBURG—1864. 283 Nottaway without opposition, destroying the railroad Edwards was made Field Officer of the Divisionand posted pickets to p
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . wayRiver on pontoons near Freemans Bridge and pushed on as far asSussex Court House where they bivouacked for the night. Atdaylight on the 8th, they moved on south and soon turned in awesterly direction. Reaching the Weldon Railroad at JarrattsStation, they burned the station andthe bridge north across the SIEGE OF PETERSBURG—1864. 283 Nottaway without opposition, destroying the railroad Edwards was made Field Officer of the Divisionand posted pickets to protect the men while destroying the the 9th they moved further south tearing up and destroying therailroad as they advanced, for a distance of twenty miles, as far asHicksford on Meherrin River. The railroad was completely rails were heated by being placed on top of heaps of burning tiesand fence rails, and then twisted around trees and rendered and bridges were burned, and every unoccupied dwellingalong the line of march was laid in ashes as the column SOLDIERS DESTROYING THE WKLDON RAILROAD. This raid seemed to be the most vindictive that the army had everengaged in. Some of our stragglers had been murdered by guerrillasand their bodies savagely mutilated, which so enraged our troops thatvengeance was wreaked upon everything that would benefit the destruction of the railroad was a military necessity, as the enemyused it to transport their supplies; but the destruction of the housesof peaceable women and children, though venomous in their Unionhatred, cannot be justified. We are glad to record that theTwenty-fourth Michigan and the Iron Brigade had no share in thevandalism. The country passed over had been pretty badly used bythe enemy themselves and most of the dwellers had gone furthersouth away from the track of war. 284 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. On Saturday December 10, about daylight, the colum
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