. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ding division — Franklins — disembarked near West Point andtook up a suitable position to hold its own and cover the landing of reinforce-ments. This division was attacked not long after it landed, but easilyrepulsed the enemy. Meanwhile the enemys rear-guard held the Williamsburg lines against ouradvance, except where Hancock broke through, until the night of the 5th,when they retired [see map, p. 188]. The army was now divided: a part at the mouth of the Pamunkey, a partat Willi
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ding division — Franklins — disembarked near West Point andtook up a suitable position to hold its own and cover the landing of reinforce-ments. This division was attacked not long after it landed, but easilyrepulsed the enemy. Meanwhile the enemys rear-guard held the Williamsburg lines against ouradvance, except where Hancock broke through, until the night of the 5th,when they retired [see map, p. 188]. The army was now divided: a part at the mouth of the Pamunkey, a partat Williamsburg, and a part at Yorktown prepared to ascend the York problem was to reunite them without giving the enemy the opportunityof striking either fraction with his whole force. This was accomplished onthe 10th, when all the divisions were in communication, and the movement ofconcentration continued as rapidly as circumstances permitted, so that on the15th the headquarters and the divisions of Franklin, Porter, Sykes, and Smithreached Cumberland Landing; Couch and Casey being near New Kent Court.
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