June 18th. [Second assault on Petersburg.] Started on a charge about 5 A.M. Got one line of their breast-works. Moved forward to about 500 yds. of their next and threw up rifle-pits. In the afternoon a charge was ordered; but “no go.”
Leverett Bradley: A Soldier-Boy’s Letters
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