. The mountain campaigns in Georgia : or, War scenes on the W. & A . ed -his colors eight or ten feet in front of his regiment,and was instantly shot dead ; a soldier sprang forward to his place, and fell also, as he graspedthe color-staff; a second and third followed successively, and each received death as speedily ashis predecessors; a fourth, however, seized and bore back the object of soldierly devotion.^(Narrative, pages 330, 331.) On the morning of the 28th, the Confederates, having formed the idea that thegreater portion of the Federal army had been withdrawn towards the position in fr
. The mountain campaigns in Georgia : or, War scenes on the W. & A . ed -his colors eight or ten feet in front of his regiment,and was instantly shot dead ; a soldier sprang forward to his place, and fell also, as he graspedthe color-staff; a second and third followed successively, and each received death as speedily ashis predecessors; a fourth, however, seized and bore back the object of soldierly devotion.^(Narrative, pages 330, 331.) On the morning of the 28th, the Confederates, having formed the idea that thegreater portion of the Federal army had been withdrawn towards the position in front ofthe Confederate right, determined to seize the works opposite their left, and thus turnShermans right; but, after meeting hot resistance from artillery and infantry, wererepulsed with a loss of several hundred men. This assault (by Bates division of Hardees corps) was made upon Logans corps,consisting of Harrows, Smiths and Osterhauss divisions. Three guns of the First Iowabattery, which had been run out near the skirmish line, were captured by the Confeder-.
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