From Spottsylvania to Wilmington, N. C

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Excerpt from From Spottsylvania to Wilmington, N. C: By Way of Andersonville and Florence On the 12th of May, 1864, occurred the battle of Spottsylvania, considered by some to be the hardest fought battle of the war. It would certainly rank among the first. At an early hour in the morning Hancock, with his superb Second Corps, broke through the centre of the rebel line, capturing a large number of prisoners. Our corps, the Sixth, was hurried up to the scene of fighting. Arriving on the ground, we were soon engaged. By nine o'clock or before, we had exhausted our ammunition, and were obliged to seek such shelter as we could get without returning the fire. A portion of our regiment were on a knoll much more exposed than the rest, so we went up to the captured rifle-pits which were two or three rods in advance of where we had been staying. This was a very unfortunate move. 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.