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the progress of the battle. On arriving on the Missouri shore I found our troops retreating in some disorder up the river, the enemy having driven them back. I asked an officer the cause of this, and he replied that the men were out ... |
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that the united forces of both Government are pledged to the maintenance of the peace of the State, and the defense of the rights and property of all persons, without distinction of party. This pledge, which both parties are fully autho... |
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are at Ironton, or in the vicinity, and the remainder of the regiment will proceed there as soon as it is fully organized. General McClellan has also placed the remainder of General Pope's brigade at the disposal of Genera... |
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CAIRO, July 26, 1861.
Colonel HARDING, Jr., Assistant Adjutant-General:
Five steamers were to leave Memphis last night to take troops from Randolph to New Madrid. Union City troops are under orders to cross Mississippi. If they fail to ... |
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STATION GREENFIELD, MO., July 27, 1861.
Brigadier-General LYON, Commanding, Springfield, Mo.:
DEAR GENERAL: Another scout has returned from the southwest, and reports that bodies of the Confederate troops are in the vicinity of Carthage... |
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souri, the blame does not rest here; all requisitions have been promptly met here, and the officers have been instructed to spare no effort and means of their department is aiding to the extent of their power General Lyon's... |
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ders it equally imperative to call the army to good order and rigorous discipline.
They are reminded that the power to inflict the extraordinary severities of the now governing law is rigidly confined to few, who are to be... |
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SAINT LOUIS, MO., September 14, 1861.
Colonel P. E. BLAND, Ironton, Mo.:
If you have no confirmation of the advance of an enemy, so that your regiment can with safety be withdrawn from the point, you will immediately, upon... |
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September 27, at 5 o'clock a. m., and will reach Kansas City Sunday, 29th.
I will leave at Fort Scott Major Judson's command of about 800 men, about 100 men at Fort Lincoln, and an irregular force which I have had organize... |
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that the Government pay for what had been furnished to the troops in the field. It is suggested that an officer of ordnance be sent to Indianapolis to inspect the arsenal and ascertain the amount expended in the manufactur... |
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on Sunday, and had not been in since. The other says he left yesterday. Our men agree in saying that several thousand were advancing on Charleston, but a neighbor, who left an h our or more after them, says but 700 had arrived in t... |
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days General Pearce and myself received a latter from General Price, written by Brigadier-General Parsons, from near the Osage River, to the effect that he was trying to form a junction with the other brigadier-generals, S... |
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through the bushes at this end of the causeway, they proceeded across the causeway until they were approaching the farther end. They were ordered to haled by a voice behind the bushes. At the second command he stepped out and fired. The... |
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it was but a few minutes until the firing ceased along our whole line. In about an hour afterward most of our troops were withdrawn from the field, and I was directed by you to close in toward the road on my right and remain in a sta... |
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my appeals and gathered large squads of men. Seeing the revel cavalry forming in line in the field on the left of the woods which they had taken possession of, and having little confidence in the men, I set them to cheering, when the enemy,... |
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During the engagement all the men behaved remarkably well.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN B. HYDE,
Lieutenant, Commanding Battery E, Massachusetts Artillery.
Captain WEEDEN,
Chief of Artillery, General Morell's Divisio... |
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and adjutant-general of General Morell, and he showed me the position which the orders indicated. General Griffin was already there with part of his brigade. I passed Butterfield's brigade on the road. My lines were all formed and I had sen... |
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Sergeant Carr, of Company E, fell at the head of his company, which he commanded this day. Over one-half of the rank and file fell manfully battling for their country's rights.
To attempt to particularize where all showed so much gallantry... |
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rectly over the Eighty-third Pennsylvania. The engagement was spirited and lasted some forty minutes, when the enemy retired behind the hills with great loss.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the enemy came on again and was again repulsed with... |
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ground easily swept in its whole length by both our artillery and musketry.
The battle, which had opened on the extreme left about 11 o'clock in the morning, had slowly rolled along our front and reached our position about 1 o'clock, when W... |
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of Company H; Color Sergt. John H. Berrian, of company D; Color Corpl. George L. Guthrie, of Company D; Color Corpl. Leon Olivia, of Company B (killed); Orderly Sergt. Patrick Gilligan, of Company A; Private James E. Macbeth, of Company H; ... |
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musketry and at a practicable distance for support of any part of the field.
My line of battle was formed in the following order from right to left: On the extreme right were seven companies of the Second Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, Lie... |
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About sunset I was ordered to the right, and I can bear testimony that the ground held by the center of your division when the battle opened was held by your troops in the face of a large force of the enemy long after dark.
I have t... |
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I make no account of the artillery of Brigadier-General Whiting's division, for though this command was at the time part of your force it had but recently joined, and I was unacquainted with any of the officers of his batteries, of which lat... |
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[Inclosure Numbers 1.]*
JUNE 28, 1862.
Major-General MAGRUDER:
SIR: My line is formed to the left and somewhat to the front of General Cobb. The enemy seem to be in large force in front of my right, and are or have moved a little to their ri... |
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have heard from other sources. I would be glad to have you communicate the same to Washington. I have crossed the Chickahominy at Bottom's Bridge. Am making four bridges there, and constructing a rough tete-de-pont. Shall do the same... |
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left at Bethel, and Winston's regiment left at Harwood's Mill. The line of Warwick is being fortified rapidly by a large number of negroes.
The Virginia is expected out in a day or two. Her first object, it seems to me, ought to be c... |
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General McDowell here stated that he did not want the record of yesterday interfered with. The record had been read and approved.
The witness continued:
I spoke about Gainesville when I really meant Buckland Mills---
General ... |
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General McDowell stated he had no more questions to ask on the Cross-examination.
By the COURT. Have you information of any matter or thing not within your personal knowledge, and not testified to by you, tending to show misbehavior or want of p... |
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general order received that morning to move my division toward Manassas, but the details of the order have escaped my memory. As I remember the order was verbal.
Question by the COURT. On your route that day did you meet General McDowell; and, if... |
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Question by the COURT. At what time during the night of the 28th did King's division start for the point it reached during the night and at what time did it halt?
Answer. I think the moving commenced between 11 and 12 o'clock. We halted some time... |
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In no case will this allowance be exceeded, but always proportionably reduced according to the number of officers and men actually present. All surplus wagons will be turned over to the chief quartermaster, to be organized, und... |
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Question by General McDOWELL. What did General McDowell say or do to General Milroy?
Answer. He did not make any reply to General Milroy which could have been heard by General Milroy. General McDowell appeared perfectly willing to re-enforce Gene... |
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APPENDIX.
A.
GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. General 'S OFFICE,
Numbers 107.
Washington, August 15, 1862.
I. Officers of the Regular Army will, as a general rule, receive leaves of absence to accept the rank of colonel in volunteer regiments, bu... |
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public press to disseminate, and a portion of the people to accept, for a time at least, as true such absurd and unjustifiable rumors against general officers, who are thereby disarmed of power and influence essential to the co... |
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there a short stand. Again the enemy unmasked two brass pieces, which at last drove us by their vigorous fire back; but I caused the captured gun to be tipped over, so that the enemy, in regaining it, could not drag it away.
The Fifth Oh... |
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Numbers 12. Reports of Colonel Nathan Kimball, Fourteenth Indiana Infantry, commanding First Brigade.*
HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, SHIELD'S DIVISION,
Camp near Strasburg, Va., March 26, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to submit t... |
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Remaining in this position one and a half hours, the enemy were discovered moving in force to our right flank. Almost immediately thereafter the collision occurred between the enemy's infantry forces and that portion of our own troops occ... |
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in the early part of the day with a large force of the enemy's advance guard.
At this point Company B was deployed as skirmishers on our right, and remained in that position until just before crossing the last ridge, when it ... |
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Numbers 2. Report of Colonel George H. Gordon, Second Massachusetts Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, First Division.
HDQRS. THIRD Brigadier, FIRST DIV., FIFTH ARMY CORPS,
Edenburg, Va., April 3, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to report ... |
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APRIL 16-17, 1862. - Skirmish at Columbia Furnace; occupation of Mount Jackson and New Market, and skirmish at Rude's Hill, Va.
REPORTS, ETC.*
Numbers 1. - Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, U. S. Army.
Numbers 2. - Abstract f... |
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BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, SPOTTSYLVANIA CO.,
Telegraph Road, 14 miles from Fredericksburg, April 20, 1862.
GENERAL: I have accurate information of the force of the enemy at Fredericksburg - 5,000, eight pieces of artillery. Repor... |
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MAY 6, 1862-Skirmish near Harrisonburg, Va.
Report of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, U. S. Army, and congratulations from Secretary of War.
NEW MARKET, May 7, 1862.
The Fifth New York Cavalry had a sharp skirmish with Ashb... |
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This regiment fell back as far the base of Cloyd's Mountain, 10 miles from Dublin Deport, Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. When this occurred I was at the White Springs, preparing to withdraw the forces on the James River and... |
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General H. Marshall was reported to be advancing from Tazewell Court-house with 2,500 men. I immediately dispatched an order to Colonel Moor to leave half a regiment at French's and march rapidly with the remainder of his fo... |
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precautions commander of advance guard; also Captain Reiching, of the Twenty-eighth, on the first day, and Captain West, of the Thirty-fourth, as commanders of the rear guard.
The detachment remained one hour on the ground till the ar... |
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Numbers 1. Reports of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Shenandoah, of operations May 14-June 16, and including instructions from the President and Secretary of War.
STRASBURG, May 14,... |
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No advance has been made by the enemy's pickets to-day. Information direct from Martinsburg to-day assures me that he is withdrawing. I shall put all my available forces on the move in the morning. Regiments all greatly disab... |
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A third time cut off, with nothing but misfortune staring us in the face, though we had spared no human effort to come to your aid, I was at last compelled to provide for our own personal safety; so, placing in the wagons 23 men ... |
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gallantry displayed by Colonel Cluseret on this and frequent former occasions during the pursuit in which we have been engaged deserve high praise.
Respectfully,
J. C. FREMONT,
Major-General, Commanding.
Honorable E. M. STANTO... |
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necessitates that they have some days' rest and good and sufficient food. The demand made upon them in the pursuit of Jackson has exhausted them for the present, and they should be supported by fresh troops. At any hour they may b... |
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conduct of First Sergt. C. F. Merkle, Corpl. Francis Dalton, Musician Delmege, and Private John Martin. Where so many deserve to be mentioned it is difficult to discriminate. Two rifled Parrott guns and two caissons were also l... |
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reports of the several regiments accompanying this paper. The loss of the enemy must have been very heavy; the grape and canister from our batteries and the fire of our musketry moved them down like grass before a well-served s... |
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growth. I reported this fact to Captain O'Brien, assistant adjutant-general, when he directed that I should send one section of my battery to the support of the left. I did so, under the command of Lieutenant McKendree, who r... |
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to submit the following report of the part taken by the Twenty-third Regiment Virginia Volunteers in the late battle of May 25 at Winchester:
Early on the morning of that day orders were received to advance from our position ... |
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[Inclosure Numbers 2.]
Casualties in Third Division, action of June 8, near Cross Keys.
Killed Wounded
Command Officers Enlisted Officers Enlisted
men men
Division staff ......... ......... 1 ........
Second Brigade
Field a... |
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ment through the woods to our right, I deemed it best to withdraws to the woods and await the coming of other troops. I did so, and encountered General Trimble's brigade advancing on our left. General Trimble informed me that... |
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JUNE 22-30, 1862.-Scout from Strasburg to Moorefield, New Creek, and Winchester, Va.
Report of Captain Charles Farnsworth, First Connecticut Cavalry.
CAMP NEAR MIDDLETOWN, VA.,
June 30, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to report that i... |
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THE
WAR OF THE REBELLION:
A COMPILATION OF THE
OFFICIAL RECORDS
OF THE
UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES.
PREPARED, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR
BY
Lieutenant Colonel ROBERT N. SCOTT, Third U. S. Artillery,
AND
PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVE... |
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Numbers 14. [From the War Department, August 18.] UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH.
General POPE:
I fully approve your movement. I hope to push a part of Burnside's forces to near Barnett's Ford by to-morrow night, to assist ... |
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advance approached the Court-House it was supposed to have come from the direction of Warrenton, crossing the Rappahannock at Raccoon Ford and making a detour to the left to take Robertson in rear. General Gibbon, satisfied... |
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force, strongly posted in the woods about 2,000 yards in front of us. Here they skirmished until about noon, the enemy occasionally firing upon them by companies. Whenever this occurred I would send a few shells among them, causing their sudde... |
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them that noble and accomplished officer and patriot General C. S. Winder.
I am, most respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. E. LEE,
General.
No. 29. Report of Colonel S. Crutchfield, C. S. Army, Chief of Artillery.
HEADQUARTE... |
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Numbers 63. Report of Colonel Henry Forno, Fifth Louisiana Infantry, commanding Hays' (or First Louisiana) Brigade.
HEADQUARTERS HAYS' BRIGADE,
August 18, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to report the part taken by Hays' brigade, now under my com... |
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Bridge, on the road to Gainesville, with directions to take possession of the bridge, and thereby open the road to Gainesville. The brigade of Brigadier-General Milroy advanced rapidly toward the bridge, and drove the enemy, who wa... |
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to the extreme left. The infantry brigade of General Steinwehr, commanded by Colonel Koltes, was then sent forward to the assistance of Generals Schenck and Schurz, and one regiment was detailed for the protection of a battery post... |
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enemy forced us, after a hard contest, to fall back on another hill in our rear, where we came in position again and remained till nearly dark, and after exhausting our ammunition we fell back toward Centreville, where we arrived ne... |
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Fifty-fourth Regiment New York State Volunteers was drawn up in line of battle at 6 o'clock a.m. at Manassas, and ordered for reserve by General Schurz. At 8 o'clock, by his orders, was sent to the woods to drive out the enemy,... |
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the Waterloo road, was moved across to the Sulphur Springs road to make the attack you had ordered.
In the course of the morning I received your telegram of 5 o'clock a.m.,* and as I was on my way to Sulphur Springs to direct the at... |
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Fayetteville, and part addressed to General Banks, calling for information from his corps. Here he is again mistaken. I wrote him no such letter nor such as he describes to General Banks. I did not myself know where his bridge ... |
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pers. He readily consented, and finally succeeded in bringing back a force gathered by great e exertion, but too late for action.
I desire to particularly notice the conduct of Captain Dunham assistant adjutant-general First New Je... |
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houses and fences previously occupied by him were seized and held by my light troops (Third Infantry).
Thus far we had seen none of the enemy's infantry, none of the cavalry, and only the muzzles of his cannon over the crest... |
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ment arrived on the old battle-field of Bull Run at about 7 o'clock a. m. A short time after the brigade was formed in line of battle in front of the Dogan house, and the regiment order forward as skirmishers, with orders to... |
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field officer; Captain F. A. Davies, Sixteenth Infantry, commanding Company D, Third Infantry; Acting Assistant Surgeon Hall, Second Lieutenant Frederick Devoe, adjutant of the regiment; First Lieutenant A. Sheridan, commanding Comp... |
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proper front; then toward the left of the position occupied by the Federal forces. My arrival was most opportune. Not a regiment or brigade of the immense reserve held on that field was in effective proximity to repel the advance o... |
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active operations on the James were no longer contemplated, and that the most effectual way to relieve Richmond from any danger of attack from that quarter would be to re-enforce General Jackson and advance upon General Pope.
A... |
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was severely wounded at the close of the engagement. Brigadier General C. M. Wilcox, at Manassas Plains on August 29 and 30; afterward absent, sick. Brigadier-General [Richard B.] Garnett, at Boonsborough and Sharpsburg. Brigadier-G... |
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rise and take the battery. They rose at the word, and quickly advanced up the hill and beyond the crest and some of them almost up to the guns. While, however, we had been resting at the foot of the hill the enemy had not been ... |
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well. For the time they were engaged and the small number present their loss was heavy, being in the aggregate 104 killed and wounded, including some valuable officers. Among the killed were Lieutenant W. C. Leppard, of the Thirteen... |
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the corps I submit the following report of the operations of this division since the movement from the neighborhood of Gordonsville northward in the month of August last until it reached Bunker Hill in September:
This report,... |
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to send a messenger, with the certainty of his being captured if it was the enemy. A young man from the Forty-fourth Virginia Regiment, who volunteered for the purpose, was sent, and he soon returned with the information that... |
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ment I heard a very considerable musketry fire, but as the woods were very thick and it was raining hard at the time, I could see a very short distance, and took it for granted that the firing proceeded from the troops in front of m... |
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Seventh Regiment Virginia Cavalry, our men following beyond Lewis' Ford as far as the Centreville and Warrenton turnpike, when darkness put and end to the pursuit.
A number of the enemy's dead were left upon the field. Colonel Brodh... |
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S. Volunteers, Captain Donn Piatt, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers; Captain F. Ball, jr., aide-de-camp; Colonel J. Holt, Judge-Advocate-General, U. S. Army, judge-advocate.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
A... |
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Numbers 3. Return of casualties in the Fourth Brigade, Jackson's division, at the battles of August 28-30.
[Compiled from nominal lists of casualties, returns, &c.
Killed Wounded
Command Officers Enlisted Officers Enliste... |
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GENERAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Numbers 131.
Richmond, Va., October 3, 1863.
Difficulties in procuring the medals and badges of distinction having delayed their presentation by the President, as authorized by t... |
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Page 0 (Untitled)
Wilkinson's (J. C.) Infantry. See Mississippi Troops, 8th Regiment.
Williams' (Thomas D.) Infantry. See Illinois Troops, 25th Regiment.
Williams' (William C.) Infantry. See Indiana Troops, 44th Regiment.
Williamson's (J. A.) Mounted Rifles. See Arkansas Troop... |
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night of the 28th and 29th of August, for the reason that the information from the front, upon which the dispositions of the army were made, varied at different periods of the day and night, and it was not until toward dayli... |
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than that. I got on the battle-field near Bristoe Station, perhaps, at 5 o'clock. I did not ride directly to the field. I endeavored to bring up the stragglers. And I halted for a time where the first skirmish had taken plac... |
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the 29th and hour a half before. Will you look at this paper, marked "Accused, Exhibit 3," and say if that is the order referred to as having been previously sent?
The paper was read, as follows:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINI... |
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was directed, I should have known it, being myself on the field of battle and near to the front. I relation to the joint order to the 29th, I have General Porter's note to Generals McDowell and King, in which he himself states that... |
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Question. What distance from the battle field where the engagement was then pending?
Answer. When I received the order, I was to the right of the battle-field, and I suppose it was a distance of about 3 miles from General Po... |
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the enemy were nearly in his front. I supposed then about a mile from him. that was merely my impression from conversation I had with General Porter.
Question. Did you, or not, have another interview with General porter after that ... |
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Question. Would you say after sundown or before?
Answer. I do not remember.
Question. How far was it from General Porter, of from where you started from General Porter's location, to the place where you passed General McDowe... |
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Question. Do you know the location of the Warrenton and Gainesville turnpike, and did you know it at that time?
Answer. I did not.
Question. Do you know now?
Answer. No, sir; I have not looked at the map since then.
Question. Do yo... |
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Question. Had the battle commenced when you delivered that order?
Answer. No, sir; as far as the corps was concerned.
Question. I do not speak of General Porter's connection with the battle, but I speak of the engagement between th... |
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Question. Did you understand from the accused at the time that he was moving int he execution of orders from General Pope?
Answer. That is my impression, though I do not recollect any particular conversation.
Question. Did I... |
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Question. Have you any knowledge that the accused received the ammunition, and, if you have, at what time did he receive it?
Answer. I have no knowledge that he ever received it.
Question. Have you any knowledge that he did ... |
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I believe, who brought it down, to have it sent by mail to General Burnside at Falmouth, and I delivered the original to him.
Question. And, in consequence of that, the original was not retained by you?
Answer. No, sir; it was ... |
24c69c34a8a6101b97ba47b7bf1202ef | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/017/0970 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 017 Page 0970 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., AND MD. Chapter XXIV. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 017 Page 0970 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., AND MD. Chapter XXIV.
Question. At what hour on the morning of the 30th of August did you withdraw from your position, and under what order? Please also state what took place at the time you withdrew.
Answer. A short time before daylight, on the m... |
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