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VIEWS OF FOIST NEGLEY ON THE LEFT OF THE
UNION INTRENCHMENT8, NASHVILLE , BETWEEN THE FltANKLiNAND NOLENSVILLE TIKES. FROM PIIOTOGRAI'IIR.
The lower picture shows a casemate protected with railroad iron. The hills in thedistance were the Confederate center and left at the opening of the light.
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came the Fourth Corps, whose left, bending back toward the north, was hid'den behind Lawrens Hill. Already the skirmishers were engaged, the Confed'erates slowly falling back before the determined and steady pressure of Smithand Wood.
By the time that Wilson’s and Smith’s lines were fully extended and broughtup to within striking distance of the Confederate works, along the Hillsboro’Pike, it was noon. Post’s brigade of Wood’s old division (now commandedby General Sam Beatty), which lay at the foot of Montgomery Hill, fulldash and spirit, had since morning been regarding the works at the sum-mit with covetous eyes. At Post’s suggestion, it was determined to see whichparty wanted them most. Accordingly, a charge was ordered — and in !lmoment the brigade was swarming up the hillside, straight for the enemy’ 8advanced works. For almost the first time since the grand assault on Mis-sionary Ridge, a year before, here was an open field where everything couldhe seen. From General Thomas’s headquarters everybody looked on withbreathless suspense, as the blue line, broken and irregular, but with steadypersistence, made its way up the steep hillside against a fierce storm of mus-ketry and artillery. Most of the shots, however, passed over the men’s heads-