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Sergeant John E. Buffington
6th Maryland Infantry, 2nd Brigade,3rd Division (Seymour), Sixth Corps
Resident: Carroll County, Maryland
Enlisted: August 1862
Sergeant John Ezra Buffington, with five other men of his regiment, stormed the…
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At various intervals along their lines, Confederate defenders constructed gun emplacements, called redans, such as the one in front of you. Each redan would hold as few as one or as many as six cannons. Virtually every square inch of ground in fro…
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On the evening of April 1, 1865, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant issued orders for a massive attack against the Confederate lines defending Petersburg. Grant scheduled the assault for the following morning.
In the pre-dawn darkness of April…
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The Confederate troops who defended this portion of the works belonged to Brigadier General James H. Lane's North Carolina Brigade. These Tarheels assumed responsibility here on March 30 after McGowan's Brigade moved several miles west to plug a g…
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Lieutenant Colonel George B. Damon
10th Vermont Infantry, 1st Brigade,3rd Division (Seymour), Sixth Corps
Resident: Newbury, Vermont
Enlisted: August 1862
Colonel Damon's regiment, the 10th Vermont Infantry, struck the Confederate tren…
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Near here, the 6th Maryland Infantry (Union) made their penetration of the Confederate fortifications. Major Clifton K. Prentiss, a 29-year-old from Baltimore, helped lead his unit in the Breakthrough only to fall wounded with a rifle ball in his …
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Lieutenant Colonel Ronald A. Kennedy
5th Vermont Infantry, 2nd Brigade,2nd Division (Getty), Sixth Corps
Resident: Concord, Vermont
Enlisted: June 18, 1861
Kennedy and his men passed this very spot during their attack on April 2, 1865.…
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1st Lieutenant Octavius Augustus Wiggins
Company E, 37th North CarolinaInfantry, Lane's Brigade,Wilcox's Division, Third Corps
Resident: Halifax County, North Carolina
Enlisted: June 1862
Wiggins was wounded near here during the Breakt…
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1st Lieutenant Evander McNair RobesonCompany K, 18th North CarolinaInfantry, Lane's Brigade,Wilcox's Division, Third Corps
Resident: Bladen County, North Carolina
Enlisted: April 1861
A comrade of Robeson's wrote about the battle on Apri…
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As the Vermonters pushed closer to the Confederate fortifications, they encountered the multiple rows of obstructions specifically designed to pin down an attacking force. Here, the Confederates extracted a terrible toll on the desperate Federals,…