The Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Army Corps, Army of the Potomac : an authentic record of the regiment from its organization to its muster out ...

              THIRTY-SIXTH WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 105
of forty rifled siege guns, 4|-inch ordnance, or 30-pound Parrotts,
ten 10-inch mortars, thirty 8-inch mortars, twenty Coehorn mortars, with a reserve of six 100-pottnder Parrotts.
"On the 9th of July an order Avas issued by General Meade
directing the operations of the Army of the Potomac against the
entrenched position of the enemy defending Petersburg, to be connected by regular approaches on the front opposed to General
Burnside's and General Warren's corps, and detailed instructions
were issued by him for the conduct of those operations. On the
25th of July General Grant determined to send the Second Corps
and two divisions of cavalry secretly to the north bank of the
James by the pontoon bridges at Deep Bottom (Jones' Neck, Bermuda Hundred), the cavalry to make a dash on Richmond if the
chances seemed faA'orable for it, but if not, to destroy the two
railroads from the vicinity of Richmond as far as the Anna River
(which was indeed the chief object of the operations) ; Kautz's
diA'ision AA'as to join Sheridan at Deep Bottom. The Second Corps,
moving up to Chapin's Bluff, was to support the cavalry if it got
into Richmond, but at any rate to preA7ent the enemy's troops from
being sent across at that point to interfere with the cavalry. This
moA'ement General Grant thought might cause such a reduction
in the strength of the force holding the Petersburg lines as to give