. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ommand of Fitzhugh Lee, and the next day was driven back southward to within half a mileof Dinwiddie Court House. In this engagement, W. H. F. Lee was sent along a wooded road leading south from FiveForks west of (hamberlain Bed, a creek running into Stony Creek near Dinwiddie Court House. After failing at onecrossing, he succeeded in reaching the east bank at Danses Crossing. All of Sheridans cavalry corps then fell back onDinwiddie Court House. Of this attack the single wheel of a caisson is the silent reminder. That night Sherid
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ommand of Fitzhugh Lee, and the next day was driven back southward to within half a mileof Dinwiddie Court House. In this engagement, W. H. F. Lee was sent along a wooded road leading south from FiveForks west of (hamberlain Bed, a creek running into Stony Creek near Dinwiddie Court House. After failing at onecrossing, he succeeded in reaching the east bank at Danses Crossing. All of Sheridans cavalry corps then fell back onDinwiddie Court House. Of this attack the single wheel of a caisson is the silent reminder. That night Sheridan wasreenforced by the Fifth Corps: the next day, April 1 st. he carried the Confederate position at Five Forks, and took nearlyfive thousand prisoners. The next morning, April 2d, the Petersburg entrenchments were carried by storm. The dayafter, the whole Confederate army was hastening westward. Seven days after this engagement came Appomat-tox. Lees valiant hosts were indeed scattered, returning to their homes in a land that was once more united. [J—10]. THE CONQUERED BANNER—WAVING FREE IN 61 The first Confederate flag made in Augusta, Georgia, swells in the May breeze of 1861. It has two red bars,with a white in the middle, and a union of blue with seven stars. The men who so proudly stand beforeit near the armory at Macon are the Clinch Rifles, forming Company A of the Fifth Georgia Infantry. Theorganization was completed on the next day—May 11th. It first went to Pensacola. From after the battleof Shiloh to July, 1864, it served in the Army of Tennessee, when it was sent to the Georgia coast, laterserving under General Joseph E. Johnston in the final campaign in the Carolinas. It was conspicuousat Chickamauga, where its colonel commanded a brigade. His account of the action on September 20,1863, is well worth quoting: The brigade, with the battery in the center, moved forward in splendid styleabout 100 yards, when the enemy opened a galling fire from the front and l
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