Letter

Ligut ARTILLERY, FOURTH CORPS, July 12, 1862

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Date

July 12, 1862

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Letter

July 12, 1862.

The success of this surprise is due not so much to the plan as to its cool, deliberate execution, Lieutenant Munk himself, with primer in206 THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN, VA. [Cuar. XXII.

serted and lanyard in hand, awaited the coming of the enemy, delivering the first fire in the nick of time. To the subsequent quick loading and firing by the cannoneers may be attributed the great amount of destruction. The whole affair was over in less than five minutes. One section of rifled artillery could not have done better.

Very respectfully, suid Ak Seren

Major, Commanding.
No. 85.
Report of Lieut. Martin Reichenbacher, Battery OC, First Pennsylwania
Light Artillery, of the destruction of Turkey Bridge.
Ligut ARTILLERY, FOURTH CORPS,
July 11, 1862.
Str: I respectfully submit the report of the destruction of Turkey
Bridge on the 2d day of July, 1862:

Editor's Notes

From: Peninsula Campaign, Pt. 1. Summary: Lieutenant Martin Reichenbacher reports the successful and swift destruction of Turkey Bridge on July 2, 1862, crediting the artillery's precise and deliberate execution during the Peninsular Campaign.

Topics

1862 Civil War Field Reports Military Correspondence Military Operations

Sources

The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 11, Part 1 View original source ↗