. Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union . The Wilderness, Va. 413 With their success on the right, the enemy sullenlj withdrew, dark-ness having already covered the field. The battle had been a series of fierce attacks by both combat-ants, on the right, left, and center, attended in almost every instancewith temporary success, but met at last with a decided wooded n
. Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union . The Wilderness, Va. 413 With their success on the right, the enemy sullenlj withdrew, dark-ness having already covered the field. The battle had been a series of fierce attacks by both combat-ants, on the right, left, and center, attended in almost every instancewith temporary success, but met at last with a decided wooded nature of the country, which can hardly be appreciatedby one unfamiliar with the battle-field, was peculiarly favorable tothe massing of the enemys force in perfect concealment and secre-cy. The same difficulties in the ground also prevented theircolumnsfrom being checked with artillery ; besides, their perfectfamiliarity with the region, it having been in the neighborhood oftheir camping-ground for many months, gave them a decided ad-vantage in their strategic maneuvering. The disaster to the extreme right of the sixth corps was of themost serious character, and such as more than once has lost a bat-tle. Had not the enemy been exhausted with their impet
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