Following the Flag

lliamsburg, was at the White House on the Pamunkey, where a permanent depot was established. The

cDowell had been ordered to march from Fredericksburg to join him by the shortest route, but was also ordered to

s River as a line of operations, and forced me to establish our depots on the Pamunk

d frustrated the plan of the campaign, or whether, on the other hand, he had not chosen the route, by moving from Williamsburg on the 10th, and establishing his head-

burg. It is fringed with forests and bordered by marshy lands, which at high water become impassable swamps, but at

mps of the Pine-Tree State. The Rebel pickets saw them, set the bridge on fire, and fled. The Maine men gave them a volley, rushed fo

thern bank, while the other corps pushed up the no

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de of cavalry, and Martindale's, Butterfield's, McQuade's, and Warren's brigades of infantry, proceeded to drive the Rebels from the place, and make a junction with McDowell. At noon Ge

le. The sharpshooters were thrown forward as skirmishers. Benson's battery came into position in a fiel

of a locomotive, and saw a train of cars upon the Virginia Central road bringing reinforcements to the Rebels. Captain Griffin's batteries were brought up, and a vigorous fire opened upon the r

ent, fell back upon the reserve, which was coming into position in the rear, composed of the Seventeenth New York, Eighty-third Pennsylvania in the front line, and the Twelfth New York and Sixteenth Michigan in the second. They charged over the field, through the hollow, up the slope beyond, and came upon the Rebel batteries by the farm-house so rapidly, and with such force, that they captured a twelve-pound gun,

bels, who greatly outnumbered him, and who by a surprise hoped to rout and defeat him, and cut off General Porter from the main co

s, across the angle between the Hanover and Ashland roads, while the Eighty-third Pennsylvania and Sixteenth Michigan pushed down the railroad. The troops last named moved with great rapidity. They came suddenly upon the left flank o

ops, seven hundred and thirty prisoners sent to the rear, one twelve-pound howitzer, one caisson, a large number of small arms, an

h Carolina and Georgia troops, numbering about nine thousan

rvey of the Chickahominy and of the approaches to Richmond, and

els, and were set to work in the dark, miry swamps, working all day up to their waists in the muddy water. Disease in all its frightful

marshes. The nurses laid him on a cot, gave him cold water, bathed his hot brows. He had a likeness of his mother, who had gone into the better land, and of his sister, who wa

nsuming flame which, before sunrise, had devoured all his youn

ing up of intrenchments. Besides, there was the necessity of keeping close wat

eels, brought the mock cannon into position. One of them pretended to sponge it, another put in the cartridge, a third primed, a fourth sighted it, while a fifth stood ready to fire. The Rebels watched the opera