. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. 1861-1865 . llvsllTAI. SIEWARD, JULIAN N. GEORGE T. MEECii. PRIVATE HKMJAK N. HENRY T. Battle of Fort Harrison. 291 and waited for the pontonniers to lay their floating bridgeacross the James. At three in the morning the cohimnpassed over, the Second Brii^ade, General Burnham in thevan; the Third Brigade. Colonel Roberts, containing ourregiment, coming in the center, and the First Brigade, ColonelA. F. Stevens, bringing up the rear. On reaching the oppo-site ban
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. 1861-1865 . llvsllTAI. SIEWARD, JULIAN N. GEORGE T. MEECii. PRIVATE HKMJAK N. HENRY T. Battle of Fort Harrison. 291 and waited for the pontonniers to lay their floating bridgeacross the James. At three in the morning the cohimnpassed over, the Second Brii^ade, General Burnham in thevan; the Third Brigade. Colonel Roberts, containing ourregiment, coming in the center, and the First Brigade, ColonelA. F. Stevens, bringing up the rear. On reaching the oppo-site bank, the head of the column was turned to the leftand guided along the Varina road towards Richmond. TheTenth New Hampshire and One Hundred and EighteenthNew York, having recently exchanged their muskets forSpencer repeating rifles, were now thrown forward imderColonel Donahue as flankers and skirmishers, and we beganto beat the bush toward the rebel works at Chapins Farm. About daybreak, the sharp crack of a rifle stirred the airwith its tell-tale story, and we knew that we had struck thepickets of our
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