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White family papers, July 1861-March 1865
1863-01-23-Page 02
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with Davis on the extreme right. From here the whole army moved in order to the attack. The rebel skirmishers were driven in and about 2 oclock P.M. the fight grew general on the right. Each Division was formed in two columns -- one about one hundred y'ds behind the other -- our brigade being on the extreme right of the first column We drove the Reb. skirmishers through a thick underbrush of cedar "double-quick". Just as we emerged from the bushes following up the rebels a battery (before unseen) opened a severe fire on us which very suddenly checked us. Col. Alexander viewed around and ordered a charge on the battery, saying -- "Boys thats our Battery!!" But it wasn't. The men dressed up and went at it double-quick the moment the charge was ordered, receiving its double-shoted contents at every step. When we got within about one hundred yards of the battery the canoneers abandoned their pieces and fell below the crest of the hill where we could neither see nor shoot them. Then the men seemed encouraged -- thought "Boys, that's our battery" sure enough. Now we got within about fifty yards of the battery when the rebel
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with Davis on the extreme right. From here the whole army moved in order to the attack. The rebel skirmishers were driven in and about 2 oclock P.M. the fight grew general on the right. Each Division was formed in two columns -- one about one hundred y'ds behind the other -- our brigade being on the extreme right of the first column We drove the Reb. skirmishers through a thick underbrush of cedar "double-quick". Just as we emerged from the bushes following up the rebels a battery (before unseen) opened a severe fire on us which very suddenly checked us. Col. Alexander viewed around and ordered a charge on the battery, saying -- "Boys thats our Battery!!" But it wasn't. The men dressed up and went at it double-quick the moment the charge was ordered, receiving its double-shoted contents at every step. When we got within about one hundred yards of the battery the canoneers abandoned their pieces and fell below the crest of the hill where we could neither see nor shoot them. Then the men seemed encouraged -- thought "Boys, that's our battery" sure enough. Now we got within about fifty yards of the battery when the rebel
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