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Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
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THE STOXE WALL AT FREDERICKSBURG Behind the deadly stone wall of Maryes Heights after Sedgwicks men had swept across it in the gallantcharge of May 3, 1863. This was one of the strongest natural positions stormed during the war. In frontof this wall the previous year, nearly 6,000 of Burnsides men had fallen, and it was not carried. Again inthe Chancellorsville campaign Sedgwicks Sixth Corps was ordered to assault it. It was defended the secondtime with the same death-dealing stubbornness but with less than a fourth of the former numbers—9,000Confederates against 20,000 Federals. At eleven oclock in the morning the line of battle, under ColonelHiram Burnham, moved out over the awful field of the year before, supported to right and left by flankingcolumns. Up to within twenty-five yards of the wall they pressed, when again the flame of musketry firebelched forth, laying low in six minutes 36.5 per cent, of the Fifth Wisconsin and the Sixth Maine. Theassailants wavered and rallied, an

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