. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . als McDow-ell and Heintzelman, who reconnoi-tered the position held by the enemysleft on the evening of the 29th, alsoconfirmed this statement. They re-ported to me the evacuation of thesepositions by the enemy, and thatthere was every indication of theirretreat in the direction of the morning of the 30th, as may beeasily believed, our tioops, who hadbeen marching and fighting almostcontinuously for many days, weregreatly exhausted. They had hadlittle to eat for two
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . als McDow-ell and Heintzelman, who reconnoi-tered the position held by the enemysleft on the evening of the 29th, alsoconfirmed this statement. They re-ported to me the evacuation of thesepositions by the enemy, and thatthere was every indication of theirretreat in the direction of the morning of the 30th, as may beeasily believed, our tioops, who hadbeen marching and fighting almostcontinuously for many days, weregreatly exhausted. They had hadlittle to eat for two days, and artillery and cavalry horses had been in harnessand under the saddle for ten days, and had been almost out of forage for thelast two days. It may be readily imagined how little these troops, after suchsevere labors and hardships, were in condition for further active marching andfighting. On the 28th I had telegraphed General Halleck our condition, andhad begged of him to have rations and forage sent forward to us from Alex-andria with all speed; but about daylight on the 30th I received a note from. MONUMENT TO THE UNION SOLDIERS WHO FELL AT GROVETON AUGUST 28, 29, AND 30, 1802. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN SOON AFTER THE MONUMENT WAS ERECTED IN 1865. This view is taken from the edge of the railway cut,looking toward the Union lines. The shaft is of brownsandstone, and in design and material is like the monu-ment erected on the Henry hill at the same time. Theshot and shell that were fixed with mortar to the baseand to the top of the shaft, and every vestige of theinclosing fence, have been carried off by May, 1884, the monument was partly hidden by thefour evergreens which were planted at the field behind the railway cut and behind theembankment, east of the cut, was even then strewnwith the tins of cartridge-boxes, rusty camp utensils,and bits of broken aceouterments.—Editors. ■fe According to General Longstreets and otherConfederate rep
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