OSBORNE'S

OUTCH GAP

Crineman’s BriGape. 489

down upon them from the walls above, the men swung around
to the right and tried to force the palisades. These were
loop-holed, and as the enemy inside would withdraw their
guns to reload, the Confederates outside would thrust their
guns in and in this way get an aim on the enemy. The gate
in the rear of the fort was now burst open and the men rush-
ing inside, the enemy surrendered. Historian Ludwig, of
the regiment, from whom the above account is chiefly taken,
(p. 400, Vol. 1 of this work) places the loss of the regiment at
154 in killed and wounded; about one-third of those engaged.

About 12 M., 3 May, 1864, General Clingman at Ivor Sta-
tion, received a telegram from General Pickett ordering him
to return immediately to Petersburg. The brigade reached
Petersburg the same night. Next morning, 5 May, General
Clingman with the Fifty-first Regiment, and Captain Owens’
Battery of artillery, marched out to meet the enemy who were
reported advancing from Bermuda Hundreds. About 5 p.
m. he was reinforced by part of Hagood’s Brigade, which
took position at Fort Walthall, on the railroad between Pe-
tersburg and Richmond. - Here a sharp engagement was had
with the enemy. During the night General Bushrod John-
son’s Brigade arrived, and next morning, 6 May, the enemy
attacked with heavy force and drove the Confederates from
their position protecting the railroad, and we retired to Swift
Creek, about three miles. On the 7th, General Clingman
was ordered to return to Petersburg to meet the advance of
the enemy approaching on the City Point road. On 9 May
General Clingman, with his own and Hoke’s Brigades and
Sturdivant’s artillery, made a reconnoissance on the City
Point road for about two and a half miles, at which point
they met the enemy’s picket lines and halted, and later re-
turned to our intrenchment. About 10 a. m. on the 10th
General Clingman was ordered to report with his brigade on
the Richmond Turnpike to General Hoke (Robert F.). Here
we joined General Hoke during the night, and became a part
of Hoke’s Division, from which Clingman’s Brigade was
never separated during the remainder of the war.

BATTLE OF DREWRY'S BLUFF.
Hoke’s Division now took position in the outer line of