Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Tuesday [May] 19 [1863]

Heavy skirmishing on the
left of centre, on Graveyard
road -- brisk artillery fire
kept up by enemy all
day -- assaults made on
Smith's right and Forney's
left -- repulsed with severe
loss -- Sharpshooters
& arty open on Jackson and
Baldwin's Ferry roads.

Major General John Horace Forney (1829-1902)

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