flank-attack

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The roads became heavy, and a contemplated movement a sudden flank-attack was necessarily abandoned. There was a severe skirmish on the 14th, constant picket-firing on the 15th, and on the 16th another engagement all along the line, not fought with the fierceness of that of the 12th, but lasting through the forenoon, and resulting in the taking of a line of rifle-pits from the enemy.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864