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Title: Vermont in the Civil War (Volume 1): a history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, G. G. (George Grenville), 1826-1907
Subjects: Vermont. Militia
Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Free Press Association
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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by the enemy, and the brigade waitedon the bank till ten oclock A. M., when word came that itshelp was not needed, and it marched back to camp, leavingthe Sixth regiment to guard the bridge. An hour later theregiments were called into line without arms, to hear thenews of the repulse of the enemy, which was announced bythe colonels and received by the men with rousing cheers.Accounts from the other side show that there was no cheer-ing in Richmond that day ; and that as the extent of theConfederate losses became known a feeling of apprehensiondeepened almost into panic that night in the Confederatecapital. The pause of fighting following the battle of Fair Oaks,was improved by McClellan to push his lines still nearer toRichmond. As part of this movement, Franklins corpscrossed the river and was posted on the right of the Unionlines, leaving only Porters corps on the left bank. Moving with the Sixth corps, Smiths division packedknapsacks at three oclock on the morning of June 5th, and
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THE FIRST BRIGADE. 281 marching down the river four miles, crossed at Sumners upperbridge, known as the Grapevine Bridge, and moved up onthe right bank to a hill near Goldings house, about a milenorth of Fair Oaks, and half a mile south of the river. Herethe Vermont brigade remained for nineteen days. It was itsnearest approach to Richmond in a body, though a numberof its members entered the city later, without arms, at vari-ous times during the war. The situation was an exciting;one, and the duty severe. Stray shots and shells froin theConfederate batteries on the hills in front often fell near thecamps; and the opposing hues were so near that one daytwo men were wounded while buying things at a sutlerscart, in the camp of the Fifth Yermont, by a Confederatesharpshooter perched in a tree top.1 There was a good dealof digging going on, much of it at night, in the constructionof breastworks and redoubts, of which the Yermonters hadall they wanted. The picket duty was severe; and the ap

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