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Title: History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 87th (1861-1865)
Publisher: York, Pa., Press of the York daily
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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theleast time our line could have, to close the space between us,during which we would be exposed to every species of fire. Idecided not to attack, and so informed General Meade. Theoperations of the day were suspended. General Sedgwick who on the morning of the 30th was com-manding two corps says: At 2 a. m. of the morning, havingbeen placed in command of the 5th and 6th Corps, I movedabout two miles to the right. It was the intention of the generalcommanding to make a sudden and determined attack upon theenemys left under a concentrated fire from our batteries. Themovement of our troops had been carefully concealed from theenemy and at the appointed time 8 a. m. I opened fire from sixbatteries, and prepared to move promptly upon the enemys po-sition at 9 a. m., the hour fixed for the assault. The enemy re-plied promptly from several batteries. At 8:15 I received theorder of the commanding general to suspend my attack untilfurther orders. The batteries ceased firing upon both sides,
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— 105 — and the enemy prepared to make alterations. During the dayI was ordered back. General Lees forces were beyond Mine Run, on the crest ofa hill, the slopes of which had lately been covered with a pineforest. This had been cut down and formed into an almost im-passable abatis. His position was a very strong natural forti-fication, and sufficient time had elapsed for him to make his linealmost impregnable. A ravine lay between the opposing ar-mies. Through this ravine Mine Run flowed. It was a nar-row stream, now deep and on account of the intense cold waspartly frozen over. The run had precipitous banks with boggyapproaches, throughout the entire length of the ravine. Sometime during the morning of the 30th General Sedgwicktook a gun, and in the dress of a private soldier walked out tothe Federal pickets. He made a careful observation of theConfederate lines and fortifications. Upon his return made avery unfavorable report of the situation. Meade held a con-ference with his c

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