A True Story of the Civil War (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A True Story of the Civil War On the morning of September 13, 1864, Getty's Division moved out towards the Opequan for a reconnoissance. The Vermont Brigade had the advance, the Third and Fourth being deployed in front as skirmishers. Sheridan and Wright accompanied the column. At ten o'clock the skirmishers reached the creek and crossed it at once, meeting the rebel pickets, however, but a short distance up the hill beyond. Capt. Cowen's Battery, going into position on an elevation on the hither side of the little stream, opened fire, the General hoping thus to discover the position of the enemy's camps in the vicinity, their strength, and other information of that nature. The battery could be plainly seen from the opposite side, the skirmishers who had crossed were showing an occasional puff of smoke from their rifles, while the rest of the Division were massed in a wood, a quarter of a mile behind the artillery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.