Identifier: redeemingrepubli00incoff (find matches)
Title: Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Subjects: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Petersburg to Norfolk, but could not drive the Confederates from an ex-

FROM COLD HARBOR TO PETERSBURG. 333

cavation in which they were sheltered. Not till the sun was going down
were the different divisions in position. We are to think of a great uproar
of artillery, more than one hundred and fifty cannon on both sides sending
solid shot and shell into the opposing ranks. Down in the ravine, through
which winds Harrison's Creek, were the men in blue, struggling amid fallen
trees to make their way up to the Confederate lines. By the railroad, can-
non were flaming in the faces of the men of the Ninth Corps, who worked
their way to within one hundred yards of the Confederate intrenchments.
Very gallant was the charge of Griffin's division close by the house of Mr.
Avery, near which General Warren established his headquarters.
I climbed to the roof of the building, through which Confederate
shells had crashed. " Do not let them see you use your glass," was the
injunction of General Warren, who was sitting on the step of the portico.
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GENERALS HUNT AND DUANE.

334 REDEEMING THE REPUBLIC.

At my feet were the Union soldiers reclining on the ground; eastward,
screened from the Confederates by woods, were the wagons of the Fifth
Corps; westward, across the storm-swept plain, were the Confederate in-
trenchments, bristling with cannon and battle-flags waving above them;
beyond were the spires of the city and the winding Appomattox.
The Union troops did not retreat, but held the ground already won,
went to work with shovels, and when once more the daylight appeared in
the east, they were behind a line of works which they would
June 19, 1864
hold from that hour to the close of the mighty struggle, ten
months later, when the Confederacy would disappear like a bubble in a
swirling stream.
During the three days' struggle for the possession of Petersburg, near-
ly eleven thousand Union soldiers had been killed, wounded, or taken
prisoner. It will never be known how many went down upon the Con-
federate side; but as Beauregard's troops were sheltered behind intrench-

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