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On the morning of May 24, five Virginia regiments led by Colonel David A. Weisiger began building the trenches and continued working on them for the next two days. The regiments had been resting near Anderson’s Tavern on the Virginia Central Railroad when a reported Union advance, begun before noon by Warren’s Fifth Corps, led Lieutenant General A.P. Hill to move the rest of General Mahone’s division here to protect Ox Ford. Four cannon of Lieutenant R. Propser Landry’s Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Artillery strengthened the position. In May 1864, only an open field lay beyond this trench line. The works included different construction styles by each unit, with wide artillery pits and numerous traverses, or short trenches, extending back from the main trench to protect soldiers from flanking fire across the river.
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