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Title: New Jersey and the rebellion : a history of the service of the troops and people of New Jersey in aid of the Union cause
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Foster, John Young
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Publisher: Newark, N. J. : M. R. Dennis
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ach Spottsylvania CourtHouse in time to hold the roads which concentrated there—whichwas his real object in the advance—the possession of this pointbeing considered of the greatest importance to a successful issue ofthis part of the campaign. At eight or nine oclock on themorning of May 8th, a small body of Union cavalry were inpossession of the Court House, but at ten oclock, a. m., when thehead of the Fifth Corps emerged from the woods and crossed theopen space near Alsops, they wrere greeted with a furious dischargeof musketry from ike troops of Longstreet, whose column hadentered Spottsylvania Court House, driven out the cavalry andnow came pouring into the place regiment after regiment. It wasa critical moment when the Fifth Corps received the first dischargefrom rebel infantry. As yet only the head of Longstreets forcehad reached the Court House, though every moment swelled thenumber of his forces. The veterans of the Fifth, surprised at the 396 NEW JERSEY AND THE REBELLION.
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FROM THE RAPIDAN TO RICHMOND. THE FIFTEENTH REGIMENT. 397 sudden onset, were thrown into confusion, and the advance waschecked until a stronger and more orderly assault might bedelivered. This was attempted, a charge was made, and someadvantage gained; but the delay of half an hour lost us Spottsyl-vania Court House, and was followed by the bloodiest contests inwhich the Army of the Potomac ever engaged. During the following day, the 8th, the Fifteenth was not engaged,but at six oclock in the evening, the order came for the brigade toadvance—the Fifteenth to charge the works on the right flank andthe other regiments on the front. The Fifteenth at once movedgallantly forward, charging at double-quick, but without firing a gun—the enemy also reserving his fire. Soon, the assailants, reaching amarsh, were exposed to an enfilading fire, which swept their ranks inthree directions, but though whole companies seemed to melt away,the gallant Jerseymen plunged straight forward through the

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