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184 Series III Volume V- Serial 126 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports

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guns for the special purpose of firing at this tower. But one shot of all fired at it struck it, and that only splintered one of the posts without damaging the tower itself.

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August.-On the 3rd of August a pontoon bridge 560 feet long was built on the Appomattox River at Broadway Landing for the passage of the Second Army Corps.


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