Thursday, July 31, 1862
The Confederates had positioned an arsenal of artillery opposite the James River, and began shelling the Union camp at Harrison's Landing at one o'clock in the morning. Union artillery successfully repulsed the Confederate barrage before dawn.1
References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 139.
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