. Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ... . DESPERATE SKIRMISH AT OLD CHURCH, NEAR TUNSTALLS STATION, VA, BETWEEN A SQUADRON OF THE FIFTH UNITED STATESCAVALRY AND STUARTS CONFEDERATE CAVALRY, JUNE 13th, 1862-DEATH OF THE CONFEDERATE CAPTAIN LATANE. The Confederate cavalry raid was first to Old Church, where they had a skirmish with a squadron of the Fifth United States Cavalry, who gallantlycut their way thro^hThegiiltly superior numbers of the enemy, killing a Confederate captain. The Confederates theu proceeded to GarhckVLandmgo the^Pamunkey River, and only four miles from t
. Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ... . DESPERATE SKIRMISH AT OLD CHURCH, NEAR TUNSTALLS STATION, VA, BETWEEN A SQUADRON OF THE FIFTH UNITED STATESCAVALRY AND STUARTS CONFEDERATE CAVALRY, JUNE 13th, 1862-DEATH OF THE CONFEDERATE CAPTAIN LATANE. The Confederate cavalry raid was first to Old Church, where they had a skirmish with a squadron of the Fifth United States Cavalry, who gallantlycut their way thro^hThegiiltly superior numbers of the enemy, killing a Confederate captain. The Confederates theu proceeded to GarhckVLandmgo the^Pamunkey River, and only four miles from the White House; thence to Tunstalls Station ; thence to Baltimore Crossroads, near New KentCourthouse, on their way to Richmond, which they reached by crossing the Chickahominy, between Bottoms Bndge and James BATTLE OF SHILOH, OR PITTSBURG LANDING-LEFT WTNG-THE WOODS ON FIRE DURING THE ENGAGEMENT OF SUNDAY, APRIL 6th, 1862—FORTY-FOURTH INDIANA VOLUNTEERS ENGAGED. The right wing of General Hurlbuts division stopped the advance of the Confederates by a determined defense along a side road leading throughthe woods on the right of the field. The Twenty-fifth and Seventeenth Kentucky and Forty-fourth and Thirty-first Indiana Regiments were some means the dry leaves and thick underbrush which covered this locality took fire, filling the woods with volumes of smoke, and only discoveringthe position of the opposing forces to each other by the unceasing rattle of musketry and the whizzing of the bullets.
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