The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . the South-ern forces from occupying the house as a forti-fication. The Union troops made an effort to flank theConfederate forces by coming up the rise just onthe other side of the Miller residence, crossingthe creek, and ascending the bluff. However,they were checked in this movement, which re-sulted in much bitter fighting on the bluff and inWades Creek that flows under this declivity. Norwere the Union troops ever able to get throughthe Confederate line, though they made anotheratte
The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . the South-ern forces from occupying the house as a forti-fication. The Union troops made an effort to flank theConfederate forces by coming up the rise just onthe other side of the Miller residence, crossingthe creek, and ascending the bluff. However,they were checked in this movement, which re-sulted in much bitter fighting on the bluff and inWades Creek that flows under this declivity. Norwere the Union troops ever able to get throughthe Confederate line, though they made anotherattempt to reach the Anthonys Creek Road bygoing through the woods on the crest of the hillabove the cleared land. At this place developeda sharpshooters fight, and again the Union forceswere driven back. Along the road and in the bot-tom of the creek there was desperate fighting. The Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, undercommand of Col. J. M. Schoonmaker and CaptainBird, charged through the bottom up to the lineof the fortification, and a desperate hand-to-handcombat took place between the opposing forces,. ti. Battle of White Sulphur Springs 269 —the Confederates, with musket and bayonet, re-sisting the attack, and the Union soldiers, withsaber, attempting to break the Confederate old soldier, a veteran of twenty-seven battles,informed the writer that this charge of the bar-ricade was one of the most desperate combats thathe witnessed during the whole war. The fightwas kept up during the entire day. All the bat-teries were at short range and were firing roundshot, grape, and canister. As the writer pens these lines he has on histable a solid shot fired at Derricks battalion, whichcame up on the afternoon of the first day tostrengthen the Confederate line where it was indanger of being outflanked on the crest of the battle during this day, considering the num-ber of soldiers engaged, was one of the most des-perate fights of the war. The Fourteenth Penn-sylvania
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