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He spoke of his men being out of rations, which, he said, were being issued then, and that they were very much fatigued. I told him that I should go on without waiting for him, and that he must follow as soon as possible, and do the... |
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Examination by the COURT:
Question. Was the order of the 29th of August, issued by General Pope to General Porter, to attack the enemy on their right and rear, a practicable order or not, in your opinion?
Answer. I can hardly state ... |
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August, by which you were enabled to form any reliable opinion as to the position and strength of the enemy?
Answer. Only by throwing skirmishers to the front a considerable distance, and also to the left.
Question. How long ... |
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Question. What was said at that time in reference to General Porter?
Answer. I cannot state definitely what was said; but I know that on the morning of the 27th of August, at Warrenton Junction, near General Heintzelman's headquarte... |
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there about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 27th of August. We estimated the distance to be from 18 to 19 miles.
Question. What was the condition of the troops under your command on the evening of the 27th, with respect to fa... |
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Question. Please state your grounds for that conclusion.
Answer. I think if we had started just at daylight that morning, we would have arrived at Bristoe Station, if the road had been clear, even sooner than we did by starting at 3... |
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Answer. I led off my column. We ran up into some little thick pine bushes. We halted there. The next order I got was to move back again. Some one reported that we could not get through. I made no reconnaissance whatever myself.
Ques... |
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Question. You do not recollect seeing any message from General Porter delivered on that day?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. Do I understand you to say that General McDowell was not on the field until after sunset on the 29th?
Ans... |
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The following communication from the Secretary of War was then read:
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., January 5, 1863.
Major-General HUNTER,
President, &c., &c.:
GENERAL: The state of the service imperatively demands that... |
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Question. Do you recollect at what hour you first met General Pope that evening on the battle-field, or near the battle-field?
Answer. I cannot tell the hour.
Question. Have you any recollection of a messenger from General Po... |
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Question. Have you any recollection of having dismounted when you got to the neighborhood of Bethlehem church, after you left General Porter, and if there was any officer with you at that time near a fence?
Answer. I recollect disti... |
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(Accused, Exhibit I.)
UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, From Bealeton, via Washington.
(Received August 26, 1862.)
General BURNSIDE:
Sykes is within 3 miles of this, in camp, and will be up to-morrow to relieve Kearny. Reading the d... |
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(Accused, Exhibit M.)
2 P. M.
Generals MORELL and SYKES:
Push a scout to Rappahannock Station, and find out if Pope has the pickets near there, and gain information of Pope or the enemy. Pope attacked the enemy yesterday near S... |
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Question. You mean done anything by daylight?
Answer. Yes, sir; by daylight that day - to have done anything that day.
Question. Did the battle cease immediately after daylight?
Answer. Yes, sir; the battle ceased about dark.
The ex... |
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the Napoleonic maxim quoted in the argument for the defense. The discretion it allows to a subordinate, separated from his superior officer, is understood to relate to the means, and not the and, of an order. When the accused determ... |
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And he left him, at about 12 o'clock, with the belief and understanding that he would put in his force at that point. Why this expectation was doomed to disappointment may possible be gathered from the following extract from Ge... |
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presence of the enemies of his country. General McDowell, as a soldier and a commander, deposed that it was the duty of the accused to have attacked the enemy on the 29th, and it would seem this duty was so manifest and so clearly t... |
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WINCHESTER, March 24, 1862.
(Received 9.42 a.m.)
General S. WILLIAMS:
We are re-enforced by two brigades this morning. It is yet uncertain whether the enemy is re-enforced or can be held to a fight. I have requested General ... |
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Should it prove that the North Fork from Rude's Hill to Timberville and Turley Town is somewhat defensible, a depot with covering defenses and a bridge-head may be needful. It is, however, my opinion that before this question f... |
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HEADQUARTERS MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT, April 13, 1862.
Brigadier General R. C. SCHENCK, Cumberland:
General Milroy's pickets were attacked yesterday by a force of about 1,000 infantry, two companies of cavalry, and two pieces of art... |
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Abstract from Return of the Mountain Department, Major General John C. Fremont commanding, for April, 1862.
Present for duty.
Command. Officers Men. Aggrega-te Aggrega-te
present present
and
absent
District of the 360 8,134 10,327 12,... |
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WHEELING, May 1, 1862.
Honorable E. M. STANTON:
The plan of operations which the President approved is now being carried into effect. Obstacles of weather, floods, and deficient transportation are being overcome, and all movements mad... |
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HEADQUARTERS SHIELDS' DIVISION,
May 5, 1862.
Major-General McDOWELL,
Commanding Department of the Rappahannock:
Your flattering dispatch of the 2nd instant, containing instructions, &c., has been received. A dispatch fro... |
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thus restricted to in guarding the western portion is inadequate to render it secure against the hands of guerrillas daily threatening it. To prevent designs against the road by much-scattered command is compelled to perform... |
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is now guarding 30 miles of this road, performing duties so arduous that the health of them men is threatened. I would ask that, in consideration of the Twenty-eight Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers having guarded 26 miles of... |
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of which I find none here, and they cannot drag the guns and caissons much farther without it. They are nearly all of them undersized horses in the first place, and now overworked and starved down; and I respectfully submit that I be ... |
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MANASSAS, May 27, 1862.
Honorable E. M. STANTON, Washington:
Your telegram just received. I have already reported. The three brigades of Shields' division between this and Thoroughfare Gap will continue their march to-morrow ... |
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WASHINGTON, June 9, 1862-11.20 a. m.
Colonel E. SCHRIVER,
Chief of Staff, Front Royal:
Two messages will be coming to Front Royal in cipher, one for General Shields and one for General Fremont.
Have the operator make two copi... |
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HDQRS. MAJOR-GENERAL SIGEL'S ARMY CORPS,
Middletown, Va., July 2, 1862.
[Colonel RUGGLES:]
COLONEL: No news of great importance. A detachment sent by me from Strasburg toward Edenburg found a picket of 30 men at Woodstock and will proc... |
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suspect reserves of troops within call. The intimation was so strong that immediate and full instructions would come from Washington that it will not do move till that matter is settled. Meanwhile we shall get better informat... |
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you for active operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. These labors are nearly competed, and I am about to join you in the field.
Let us understand each other. I have co... |
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that goes on in his front. If the enemy should undertake to advance the probable point of our concentration will be Banks' position.
I do not credit the report that Jackson is at Louisa Court-House with such a force, but be ready to mo... |
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Ashby), with two or three regiments of cavalry, was at Orange; Ewell with a force of all arms 3 miles beyond, and others of Jackon's troops strung along toward Madison Court-House for several miles, variously estimated at 30,000 and 2... |
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scouts. The Rapidan should be occupied by our pickets constantly, Vigorous and hold reconnaissance by our cavalry in small parties, moving in different directions without cessation, will best serve to harass our foe and deve... |
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HEADQUARTERS ARMY,
Near Sperryville, August 1, 1862-6 p. m.
Major-General HALLECK, Commanding:
I have just arrived here (5 o'clock p. m.). No news of consequence from the front. I go to Sperryville to-morrow afternoon to ins... |
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for service. Have given orders for the amalgamation of the Virginia batteries, but cannot count on them being ready. The bridge over the Rappahannock at this place is not built, the wire rope being three days on the way from... |
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will probably be the by to-morrow night. Will I need more definite instructions?
A. E. BURNSIDE,
Major-General.
DIVISION HEADQUARTERS,
Fredericksburg, Va., August 4, 1862-1 p. m.
Colonel RUGGLES,
Chief of Staff, Washington:
I have mad... |
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WASHINGTON, D. C., August 12, 1862.
Major-General POPE,
Cedar Mountain, Va.:
It has just been suggested that, under existing circumstances, you should remove your rolling stock this side of the Rappahannock and keep the bridge strongly... |
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FIRST DIVISION.
(1.) Brigadier General ROBERT C. SCHENCK.*
(2.) Brigadier General JULIUS STAHEL.
First Brigade.
(1.) Brigadier General JULIUS STANEL.+
(2.) Colonel ADOLPHUS BUSCHBECK.
8th New York Infantry.
41st New York Infa... |
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ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
THIRD ARMY CORPS.
Major General SAMUEL P. HEINTZELMAN.
FIRST DIVISION.
(1.) Major General PHILIP KEARNY.*
(2.) Brigadier General DAVID B. BIRNEY.
First Brigade.
Brigadier General JOHN C. ROBINSON.
20th In... |
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HDQRS. FIRST AND SECOND DIVS., NINTH ARMY CORPS,
August 21, 1862.
Major-General POPE,
Commanding Army of Virginia:
GENERAL: I have just received a letter from General Burnside, stating that he would send troops to Barnett's F... |
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RAILROAD DEPOT,
Alexandria, August 23, 1862.
Honorable P. H. WATSON:
I am waiting in intense anxiety to know what has become of returned trains. I ordered some time ago a reconnoitering engine to go forward. No report as yet.... |
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received from Fort Leavenworth. By it you will perceive there is no intention to return the prisoners illegally captured in missouri and of which I wrote you several days since.
You will also observe that it is but a fair "inference" fr... |
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admiral opposite Bayou Sara, with the Hartford, the Albatross, and the ram Switzerland, all well; that the Yazoo expedition was reported as abandoned; that our troops had left the immediate vicinity of Vicksburg and gone to some poi... |
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declared his intention, if the firing on his vessels be repeated, to complete the destruction of the town to lay waste the whole neighboring coast, a threat which this committee believes he will most assuredly carry... |
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Reprinted 1985 by Historical Times, Inc.
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Morningside House
THE REPUBLICATION, in is entirety, of the War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, is a service project u... |
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whole I have found the force in an utter state of disorganization and confusion. I am obliged to confess also that the accounts of the discipline of portions of the troops are not gratifying. I am trying to get them straigh... |
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gow, Ky., about a week ago [September 18]. The papers captured were copies of the originals sent by General beauregard to General Jordan to be entered.
JAMES B. FRY,
Colonel and Chief of Staff.
[Inclosure Numbers 2.]
... |
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Number 36. Report of Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith, Fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry, commanding Second Brigade.
HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, SECOND DIV., 15TH ARMY CORPS, Post Arkansas, Ark., January 12, 1863.
CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report the part taken ... |
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Numbers 14.
Report of Brigadier General Robert Ransom, jr., C. S. Army, of skirmish at Sandy Ridge, April 20.
HEADQUARTERS,
Kinston, N. C., April 21, 1863.
GENERAL: Your note of to-day is received. I have started five different parties t... |
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on his strong line of intrenchments and under the fire of a numerous artillery. The purpose of the movement having been attained, the troops were directed to remain on the ground awaiting events.
in conjunction with the above, Ma... |
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carried about 7 o'clock p. m., and this command marched immediately. On arriving at Dr. Council's no boat was ready to take the command over. About 10 o'clock p. m. Captain Vallee received an order to return with his section of ... |
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[Inclosure J.]
CAMP NEAR SUFFOLK, VA., April 20, 1863.
Major L. M. SHUMAKER:
SIR: In obedience to your order, received this morning, I have the honor to make the following report of the condition of Stribling's battery. The battery was captu... |
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would not leave his work to attack us, and with our small force had we driven him from his intrenchments it would have been a victory barren of results and involving a heavy sacrifice of men on our part. All this time while conf... |
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MAY 12-26, 1863.-Operations on the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, Va., and skirmishes (15th and 16th) near Carrsville.
REPORTS.
Numbers 1.-Major General John A. Dix, U. S. Army, commanding the Department of Virginia.
Numbers 2.-Major General ... |
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Yorktown. The general commanding further directs that you send a brigade to Williamsburg for a few days to cover this work. The general desires you to take the general command and control of the operations.
Exhibit this to Genera... |
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UNITED STATES FLAG-SHIP MINNESOTA,
Off Newport News, Va., September 26, 1862.
Major General JOHN A. DIX, U. S. A.,
Commanding Seventh Army Corps, Fort Monroe, Va.:
GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your repl... |
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boat are sutlers' goods for the military forces, or goods in small quantities, having the requisite permits from the Treasury Department. I have given the strictest orders to the captain of the port, Captain James Millward, and a... |
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FORT MONROE, November 27, 1862.
Major-General PECK:
I have just received a letter from General Foster, at New Berne, saying he may ask my co-operation in an important movement about the 5th of December. Has your expedition gone? A week ... |
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SUFFOLK, VA., January 10, 1863.
Major-General DIX, Fort Monroe:
Reports from the front state the enemy's force in the region of Windsor at 6,000, with six piece - probably from four to six. Spear advanced so far toward Somerton y... |
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under this order and will attend to the collection and payment into court of the rents. He will take and report an inventory of all personal property belonging to each estate, and not allow any property to be removed, except on his writ... |
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Last spring we concentrated and defeated the enemy. Since then we have spread out and now the enemy is attacking us in detail. If not too late, I suggest, as I did last fall when my views were communicated by the Navy to the War Departme... |
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Hinton's Toll-Gate. He burned 7,000 bushels corn going to rebel army; knows that a rebel brigade or more is to occupy or move through Elizabeth City.
JOHN J. PECK,
Major-General.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Fort Monroe,... |
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I have taken pains to apprise the military authorities of the insufficiency of these means to the ends proposed and urged by them.
Lieutenant Cushing and Lamson are still in the Nansemond and still under instruction to give all the ass... |
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FORT MONROE, VA., May 22, 1863.
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief:
Eighty contrabands were sent last week to Franklin from Richmond to take up the iron on the Weldon road. Four of them are in Suffolk. We have now all ... |
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alludes to the iron of the Atlantic road. The State is but a stockholder in the road, a large portion belonging to private individuals. A meeting of the directors of the company has been called and your proposition will be submi... |
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HEADQUARTERS,
Wilmington, N. C., March 23, 1863.
Honorable JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.:
SIR: The steam-tug Mariner, formerly the most powerful tug in this river, has come in from Nassau, her owners having pu... |
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HEADQUARTERS,
Near Suffolk, Va., April 17, 1863-6.30 p. m.
Major General S. G. FRENCH, Commanding, &c.:
GENERAL: The commanding general desires me to say that you may use the North Carolina regiment (Fifty-fifth) of General D... |
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, EXECUTED DEPARTMENT,
Raleigh, N. C., April 23, 1863.
Major General D. H. HILL,
Commanding, Goldsborough, N. C.:
GENERAL: Yours of yesterday is just received. In view of the alarming information it conveys ... |
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HEADQUARTERS, April 24, 1863-4 p. m.
Major General S. G. FRENCH, Commanding Division:
GENERAL: The commanding general directs that you have the batteries on your line hitched up at once.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
G... |
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completed and whether any of the troops you have in North Carolina can be spared from there? As regards your aggressive movement upon Suffolk, you must act according to your good judgment. If a damaging blow could be struck there ... |
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9 a. m. this morning I proceeded to execute the order, and have destroyed two wharves-Cox's and Aiken's. The destroying of landings, as ordered by General Longstreet, I do not understand. To-morrow the working party will proceed ... |
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HEADQUARTERS MARTIN'S BRIGADE,
Tarborough, May 16, 1863.
Major ARCHER ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Goldsborough, N. C.:
MAJOR: I returned here last night from Greenville. I found Captain Coleman had laid out a line of de... |
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Davis', Cooke's, Ransom's, Clingman's, and Martin's brigades a large amount of field artillery, and three regiments of cavalry; one of the latter, in addition to the two sent, he has offered to send me. I have directed him to susp... |
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Quarter's Department. He remarks that the Quartermaster-General may have ordered the clothing to be forwarded, but that it has not yet reached the depots of his army, and that unless greater efforts to insure prompt tra... |
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their headquarters were in the vicinity. When General McClellan took his position upon the field of battle, the headquarters station was that,then near him, which had previously been established near General Pleasonton.
With the advance of Gener... |
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UNATTACHED.
6th New York Cavalry (eight companies), Colonel Thomas C. Devin.
Ohio Cavalry, Third Independent Company, Lieutenant Jonas Seamen.
3rd U. S. Artillery, Batteries L and M, Captain John Edwards, jr.
TWELFTH ARMY CORPS.*
(1.) Major... |
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their men, and equally exposed with them. Those wounded refused all assistance, ordering their men to return to the ranks and do their duty.
I desire to call your particular attention to Major Philbrick and Adjutant Hoo... |
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very full ranks. I informed Colonel Lee that he was in command of the brigade, being my senior; but he positively declined to relieve me, and repeatedly desired me to give such orders as I saw fit, and be would obey the... |
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Numbers 69. Report of capt. H. G. O. Weymouth Nineteenth Massachusetts Infantry, of the battle of Antietam.
HDQRS. NINETEENTH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS,
Bolivar, Va., September 29, 1862.
COLONEL: At your request I forward to you the followi... |
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No. 99. Report of Colonel Thomas M. Anderson, Twelfth U. S. Infantry, of the battle of Antietam.
CAMP, SYKES' DIVISION, Near Sharpsburg, Md., September 26, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to report that the battalion of the Eighth and Twelfth I... |
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No. 102. Report of Major Charles S. Lovell, Tenth U. S. Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of action near Shepherdstown.
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, SYKES' DIVISION, Camp near Sharpsburg, Md., September 25, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to... |
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and well. On the 16th firing of the enemy for some time was pretty sharp, but no one was injured. On the 17th we were fired at but little, and without effect, except two horses killed. Private Drimer was accidentally wounded in the hand by ... |
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Division, Ninth Army Corps, with which we were connected, held the extreme left of our line, and about 4 o'clock p. m. were ordered to advance to the support of General Willcox on our right, who had been repulsed. We did so, and held our p... |
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In the mean time the whole line had formed in good order, and were pushing the enemy from the woods and open fields. The requisitions made upon the corps would permit of no reserves, and it may be truly stated that, to c... |
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enroll Colonel Goodrich, Sixtieth New York, commanding Third Brigade, Second Division, killed; Colonel Croasdale, of One hundred and twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, killed; Lieutenant-Colonel Dwight, of Second Ma... |
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pursuit of the flying enemy, making several prisoners and capturing a number of horses and arms. They proceeded to near Winchester, whence they returned and joined me with the main force near Bunker Hill. I returned to ... |
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The following telegrams, which I sent to General White and Colonel Miles, will show that they were instructed what to do, and that, at all hazards, they were to defend themselves to the last extremity:
[Dated Baltimore,... |
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of its extremities, however, being in view. I saw it first at about 11 o'clock and again and about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the enemy were observed planting a battery on the western slope of the eastern range of mountains. On the mo... |
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would have been difficult or impossible to have withdrawn the lines then already occupied. My own ideas were that time it was not so much a successful resistance as a prolonged resistance, for twenty-four or forty-eight hours. I do not beli... |
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Question. On the northern slope of the hill?
Answer. Yes, sir; north of the lookout, in the direction of Solomon's Gap. A little before night I received an order from Colonel Miles to make an examination in regard to the en... |
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By Colonel FORD:
Question. What was your profession before you entered the military service?
Answer. Medicine and surgery.
Question. Do you know the cause of my disability on Sunday evening and Monday while I was on the Har... |
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I had several times called for ammunition. On the 12th of September I received the following:
I have the honor to report your communication received. The reserve ammunition is on an island a short distance above here. Requisition for ordnan... |
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By General WHITE:
Question. How long have you been in the service?
Answer. Altogether?
Question. Yes, sir.
Answer. Three months and a little over, last year, and the same period this year, or rather a little over four mo... |
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I did not hear of it until I got down to headquarters. It seems that Colonel Davis brought him to headquarters to deliver him to Colonel Miles, and waited there at the quarters for some time for our return. But the offic... |
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By the JUDGE-ADVOCATE:
Question. You say they were blindfolded as they passed through our lines?
Answer. The two privates were.
Question. Were they blindfolded as they came in?
Answer. I do not know. I know they were as ... |
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SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
No. 12. Baltimore, Md., June 20, 1862.
I. The Twelfth Regiment New York State Militia (exclusive of Company A) will march to-day for Harper's Ferry. Upon the arrival of the regiment at that p... |
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petent officer in command, Colonel Ford, himself, not appearing nor designating any one who might have restored order and encouraged the men. That the abandonment of the heights was premature is clearly proven. Our forces were not driven f... |
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[CHAP. XXXI.
CAVALRY.
Major General JAMES E. B. STUART.
Hampton's Brigade.
1st North Carolina, Colonel L. S. Baker.
2nd South Carolina, Colonel M. C. Butler.
10th Virginia.
Cobb's (Georgia) Legion, Lieutenant Colonel P. M. B. Young.
J... |
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Return of casualties in McLaws' division, &c.-Continued.
Engaged. Killed.
Command. Officers. Enlisted Officers. Enlisted
men. men.
Kershaw's brigade:
2nd South
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Carolina*
3rd South 26 345
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