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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9Y5_a-determination-that-knew-no-such-word-as-fail_Petersburg-VA.html
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,…
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The Union high command began making preparations to attack the Confederate lines on the Boisseau Plantation shortly after the capture of the Rebels' picket line on March 25. Final orders arrived on the afternoon of April 1 for a dawn assault the f…
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In the hours, days, and years after the Breakthrough, many Union soldiers boasted that they or their regiment were the first troops to capture the Confederate works on the morning of April 2. Darkness, the chaos of the attack, and the wide Federal…
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The passage of the picket posts and abatis shattered regimental formations in the Vermont Brigade. The attack degenerated into a rush of disorganized men rather than an example of textbook tactics. Orderly Sergeant Thomas H. McCauley of the 2nd Ve…
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Major General Horatio G. Wright deployed the 14,000 attackers of his Sixth Corps in a wedge-shaped formation. Although the entire battle front extended for nearly a mile, the point of the wedge was here, manned by the Vermont Brigade commanded by …
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This battery, also known as Fort Baldwin, Alexander or Anderson was garrisoned by the 19th & 48th Mississippi Infantry of Brig. Genl. Nathaniel Harris's brigade. They were initially supported by guns of Louisiana's Washington Artillery but these w…
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Named for the Whitworth family of Mayfield, the farm on which it was built, this outpost (a quarter-mile east) and Fort Gregg, 400 yards to the south, were constructed to protect the western approaches to Petersburg during the 1864-1865 siege. On …
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The Battle of White Oak Road left the Federals in position to block Confederate reinforcements from reaching their comrades further west. Both the Battle of White Oak Road and the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House were preludes to the climactic Apri…