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Title: History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beecher, Herbert W De Morgan, John, ed
Subjects: United States. Army. Connecticut Artillery Battery, 1st (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., Ltd
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d an armistice for afew hours in order to recover the wounded, but General Lee delayed it withvarious trivial excuses for nearly 48 hours, at the end of which time all buttwo of the wounded were dead. General Grant acknowledges in his Memoirs that the attack on Jime 3d,at Cold Harbor, was the most regrettable act he committed during the war;the officers knew that it was likely to be costly and useless though not oneof them protested but went to his death, winning glory and an immortalname. Among the wounded officers, Connecticut men found the name ofGeneral Tyler. General Grant kept his force close to the enemy as long as possible,to prevent the Confederates from detaching a force to act against Hunter inthe Shenandoah. He determined to move by the left flank, swing his armyacross the James and invest Richmond from the south. But to effect theresult it was necessary to capture Petersburg, for the south bank of theJames is lower than the city of Richmond. On the south side was included
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FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, ISGl—lSGo 481 in the main line of the defences of Richmond and, therefore, an attackin that direction was out of the question. A military commander never had a more difficult operation to performthan that which confronted Grant. He was in close proximity to the enemyand had to march fifty miles, cross two rivers and bring his vast army intoa new position. He made a cavalry demonstration on the James, above Richmond, todestroy Lees lines of supplies from the Shenandoah; he made a line ofintrenchments along the north bank of the Chickahominy, from his positionat Cold Harbor to the point where he intended to cross; ordered GeneralButler to send two vessels loaded with stone to be sunk in the James, as farup stream as possible, to prevent the enemys gunboats from attacking thearmy when crossing. The Army of the Potomac began its march on the evening of June 12th,and at noon on the following day a pontoon was thrown across at LongBridge, 15 miles below Cold Harbor. T

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