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| | And Then A.P. Hill Came Up - Defense of Petersburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The passage of the river was effected during the same night, and early on the 15th, Smith advanced in three columns, Kautz with his horsemen covering his left. |
 | | This position, resolutely held for two hours, was finally carried by the infantry, yet Dearing, retiring slowly with unabashed front, hotly disputing every foot of the advance, so delayed the hostile columns that it was 11 o'clock A.M. before they came upon the heavy line of entrenchments covering the eastern approaches to the town. |
 | | On Sunday night, April 2d, the lines of Petersburg and Richmond were, as I have said, evacuated, and the Army of Northern Virginia passed out in retreat. |
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