[Pg 62] Getting Sedgwick, with 30,one hundred thousand boys, took Marye’s Heights at the step one o’clock associated with big date, losing throughout the step 1,100 guys, and you will instantaneously Standard Brooks’ division (10,000) marched from Plank Street, in which for each successive crest, Wilcox’s Alabamians, which have a beneficial Virginia battery pack away from a few firearms (4,100 in every) debated just how.
Here at Salem Chapel the battle began whenever Sedgwick’s advance shield, beating its ways all day against a handful of Confederates, fundamentally molded later from the mid-day of Can get step three, prepared to throw their column in a grand violence against the few Confederates condition sullenly on the pine ridge and that crosses the brand new Plank Road on best angles regarding the where Salem Church stands.
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