Baker was killed in the afternoon, Union resistance crumbled. Evans used the Federal delay to organize his men, and when Col. Senator, decided to reinforce Devens, but with only four small boats available to transport men, Union reinforcements arrived slowly. Charles Devens was sent across the river to attack the camp, and after realizing that the supposed “camp” was nothing but a line of trees, his men encountered a company of Mississippi infantry and a skirmish began. Chase Philbrick, mistook a line of trees for a line of tents, and reported that he had stumbled across an unguarded Confederate camp. In the darkness the party’s inexperienced leader, Capt. Charles Stone to send a scouting party across the Potomac River to identify the positions of Confederate Col. On the evening of October 20, 1861, Union army commander George B. Saved Land Browse Interactive Map View active campaigns.Speak Out to Protect Wyse Fork Battlefield.Help Save 52 Hallowed Acres at Three Virginia Battlefields.Help Preserve 177 Acres at Buffington Island.Help Protect 52 Threatened Acres in Virginia, Georgia and Mississippi.Phase Three of Gaines’ Mill-Cold Harbor Saved Forever Campaign.Send Students on School Field Trips to Battlefields – Your Gift Tripled!.Preserve 128 Sacred Acres at Antietam and Shepherdstown.Virtual Tours View All See Antietam now!.National Teacher Institute July 21 - 24, 2022 Learn More.USS Constitution In 4 Minutes Watch Video.African Americans During the Revolutionary War.The First American President: Setting the Precedent.
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