A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868
CHAPTER XXVI.—FORTIFICATIONS.—DUTCH GAP.—FAIR OAKS.
Ride with Major K——.—Forts and Earthworks.—Winter Quarters of the Army of the James.—Affair at Laurel Hill.—At New-Market Heights.—Gallop across the Country.—Butler’s Canal.—Origin of the Name “Dutch Gap.”—Cox’s House.—Out on the Nine-Mile Road.—Fair Oaks Station.—Seven Pines.—Charge of Sickles’s Brigade.—Savage’s Station.—Two Sundays. 198