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Excerpt from Incidents of Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill Battles By the twenty-third Of May, the First Minnesota Regi ment was encamped at Goodly Hole Creek, and during the week was engaged in cutting down trees, and building a bridge across the Chickahominy. It was called Grapevine Bridge, because grapevines had been used as binding cords in the absence Of ropes. There were constant rains, and on Friday night, the thirtieth Of May, the windows of the clouds were wide open, and torrents of water poured out. Lightnings, like zigzag arrows of fire, darted to the earth, followed by long rolls Of thunder. The superstitious might have supposed that there was war in Heaven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.