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Updated: May 2, 2025
This artillery-duel continues about one hour; and then seems to cease by mutual consent, about dusk after 415 shots have been fired on the Union side, and have been responded to by an equal number from the Rebel batteries, "gun for gun" the total loss in the engagement, on the Union side, being 83, to a total loss among the Enemy, of Thursday night, Richardson retires his brigade upon Centreville, in order to secure rations and water for his hungry and thirsty troops, as no water has yet been found in the vicinity of the Union batteries aforesaid.
Owing to the fact that this battle was so largely an artillery-duel, as has before been remarked, the opportunities for the display or observation of personal bravery were comparatively limited, and mostly confined to a short period towards the close of the battle.
This artillery-duel continues about one hour; and then seems to cease by mutual consent, about dusk after 415 shots have been fired on the Union side, and have been responded to by an equal number from the Rebel batteries, "gun for gun" the total loss in the engagement, on the Union side, being 83, to a total loss among the Enemy, of Thursday night, Richardson retires his brigade upon Centreville, in order to secure rations and water for his hungry and thirsty troops, as no water has yet been found in the vicinity of the Union batteries aforesaid.
A terrific artillery-duel proper was now commenced, and kept up for more than an hour, the Confederates showing no disposition to renew the attack, and the Federal forces contented to hold them at bay under circumstances in which the balance of damage by artillery must be so largely in their own favor.
"Their artillery-fire," he says, "was the most terrific cannonade I ever witnessed, and the most prolonged.... It was a most terrific and appalling cannonade one possibly hardly ever paralleled." While this artillery-duel was in progress, the charging column was being formed on the west of Seminary Ridge, opposite the Federal centre on Cemetery Hill.
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