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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
sted of the gun-boats Calhoun (flag-ship), Kinsman, Estrella, and Diana. Weitzel left Thibodeaux on the 11th of January, 1863. and placing his infantry on the gun-boats at Brashear City, he sent his cavalry and artillery by land. Weitzel's force consisted of the Eighth Vermont, Seventy-fifth and One Hundred and Sixtieth New York, Twelfth Connecticut, Twenty-first Indiana, Sixth Michigan, a company of the First Louisiana Union cavalry, and artillery under Lieutenants Bradley, Carruth, and Briggs. A portion of the Seventy-fifth New York, under Captain Fitch, volunteered as sharp-shooters. All moved slowly up the Bayou to Pattersonville, and at Carney's Bridge, just above, they encountered the first formidable obstacles. These consisted of the piles of the demolished bridge, against which lay a sunken old steamboat laden with brick, and in the bayou below, some torpedoes. Just above these was the very formidable steamer Cotton, ready for battle, and batteries (one of them Fort Bisl
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxxiii. The repossession of Alabama. (search)
ompleted, word reached Long that Chalmers's Rebel cavalry from Marion were at work on his rear, where his horses and train were under guard; whereupon, sending a regiment to reenforce the six companies guarding his rear, he gave his men the order to follow him in a charge; and in 15 minutes, without a halt or a waver, they had swept over the Rebel intrenchments, and driven their defenders pell-mell toward the city. Long himself had fallen, shot through the head; Cols. Miller, McCormick, and Briggs, leading their respective regiments, had each been severely wounded; but Selma was won. The Rebels rallied on a new line, but partially constructed, in the edge of the city; where they repulsed a gallant charge of the 4th regular cavalry; and, as it was now dark, they evidently hoped to hold. But the impetuosity of our men could not be restrained. Upton's entire division advanced, supporting a charge of the 4th cavalry, 4th Ohio, and 17th Indiana; while the Chicago Board of Trade batter
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 7 (search)
was very funny. If there is a wrong road, he's sure to take it. Lord Mahon (son of the Earl of Stanhope, who presided at that literary dinner I went to at London) and Captain Hayter, both of the Guards, were down here — Spoons rather, especially the nobil Lord. October 7, 1864 There is a certain General Benham, who commands the engineers at City Point, and was up about laying out some works. Channing Clapp is on his Staff. You ought to see this Ginral. He has the face and figure of Mr. Briggs and wears continually the expression of Mr. B. when his horse sat down at the band of music. When he had got through all the explanations, which were sufficient to have laid out a permanent work of the first class, the Meade rose with weariness, and eased his spirit by riding out and looking at my new camp-ground, and inspecting those everlasting redoubts. Now that the camp is arranged, the Meade is dubious about moving: that's like him! When we got to the extreme left, he thought he wo
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 17 (search)
n the last line of battle, formed mostly after six o'clock P. M. During the time last noticed, Miller's battery having taken up a new position, did first-rate service. As soon as Peck had moved forward I hastened to the Tenth Massachusetts, Col. Briggs, (which regiment I had myself once before moved,) now in the rifle-pits on the left of the Williamsburgh road, and ordered them to follow me across the field. Col. Briggs led them on in gallant style, moving quickly over an open space of seveCol. Briggs led them on in gallant style, moving quickly over an open space of seven or eight hundred yards, under a scorching fire, and forming his men with perfect regularity toward the last of the line last above referred to. The position thus occupied was a most favorable one, being a wood, without much undergrowth, where the ground sloped somewhat abruptly to the rear. Had the Tenth Massachusetts been two minutes later, they would have been too late to occupy that fine position, and it would have been impossible to have formed the next and last line of battle of the thi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
eorgia regulars, reported to General Semmes on the field. Staff--Captain Clemons, A. A. G.; Captain Briggs, A. D. C., wounded; Lieutenants Cody and Redd, volunteer Aids-de-camp. The enemy left somearly part of the action, Captain Clemons, A. A. G., was thrown from his horse and stunned. Captain Briggs, Aid-de-camp, rendered me valuable service on the field throughout the action. Lieutenant B in the ravines to await orders, who were sent to join in the charge, using for this purpose Captain Briggs and Lieutenant Cody, of my staff, and Captain Holt and Lieutenant Slade, of the Tenth Georgi heretofore forwarded to division headquarters. My staff, Captain Clemons, A. A. General, Captain Briggs, A. D. C., and Lieutenants Cody and Redd, volunteer Aids, rendered very efficient service ony's missiles, ball, shell, grape, and bullets; but fortunately, all escaped untouched except Captain Briggs, who was stricken senseless to the ground by a grape shot, (which had passed through and kil
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
d. Three of the four regimental commanders were wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Sloan, commanding Fifty-third Georgia, fell, it was then supposed, mortally wounded, while gallantly leading his regiment forward into line on the extreme left of the brigade. The regimental commanders displayed conspicuous gallantry, and, by their example, inspired their commands with the confidence of positive success. Troops never fought more persistently, intelligently, and with more valor. My staff, Lieutenant Briggs, Aid-de-camp, and Lieutenants Redd and Cody, volunteer Aids, were present during the entire action, and were more exposed, if possible, than any of the troops — being often employed in bearing orders to different parts of my line, and to commanders of other troops in the vicinity, displaying coolness and gallantry of the highest order — and all escaping untouched except Lieutenant Redd, who received a slight wound on the body from a spent bullet. Calling for a staff officer to bear an
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 31 (search)
of my staff I owe especial thanks for services rendered on the march and upon the field. Captain Seaton Gales, assistant adjutant-general, and Lieutenant Richmond, aid-de-camp, were with me all the time, promptly carrying orders under the very hottest fire. I take pleasure, too, in speaking of the bearing of private James Stinson, courier, a youth of twenty, who displayed qualities a veteran might boast of, and of the conduct of private J. F. Beggarly, also a courier to headquarters. To Dr. Briggs, senior surgeon of the brigade, my thanks are due for his skill, zeal, and care of the wounded. I am, Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, S. D. Ramseur, Brigadier-General, commanding. Report of Brig.-General Barksdale. Fredericksburg, May 15, 1863. Major W. H. Taylor, A. A. G., Army Northern Virginia: Major: When General McLaws moved up the river on the night of the thirtieth of April, I was temporarily detached from my command, and ordered to report to Genera
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 6 (search)
sociate of all that was most reputable in the town, in virtue of my functions; and also, by a fatality in temperament, of all that was most radical. There prevailed then a phrase, the Sisterhood of Reforms, indicating a variety of social and physiological theories of which one was expected to accept all, if any. This I learned soon after my arrival, through the surprise expressed by some of my more radical friends at my unacquaintance with a certain family of factory operatives known as the Briggs girls. Not know the Briggs girls? I should think you would certainly know them. Work in the Globe Mills; interested in all the reforms; bathe in cold water every morning; one of 'em is a Grahamite, ing a disciple of vegetarianism; that faith being then a conspicuous part of the Sisterhood of Reforms, but one against which I had been solemnly warned by William Henry Channing, who had made experiment of it while living as city missionary in New York city. He had gone, it seemed, to a boar
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
ngs, Josh, 284. Bird, F. ., 237. birth of A literature, the, 167-195. Bishop, W. H., 312, 314. Blackstone, Sir, William, 88. Blake, Harrison, 181. Blanc, Charles, 322. Blanc, Louis, 304, 305, 309, 316, 317, 318, 320, 321, 322. Boarding-schools, Dangers of, 22. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 77. Borel, General, 307. Boswell, James, 15. Bowditch, H. I., 176. Bowditch, Nathaniel, 50. Bowen, Francis, 53, 54. Boyesen, H. H., 314. Bremer, Fredrika, 011. Brentano, Bettine, 25, 92, 93. Briggs, the Misses, 119. Bright, John, 327. Brook Farm, 83, 84, 120. Brookline, Mass., summer life in, 81. Brown, Annie, 227. Brown, Brownlee, 169. Brown, C. B., 58. Brown, John, 155, 196-234, 240, 242, 243, 246, 327. Brown, Mrs., John, 227, 230. Brown, Madox, 289. Brown, Theophilus, 181. Browning, Robert, 66, 67, 202, 235, 272, 286. Brownson, Orestes, 97. Bryce, James, 97. Bull, Ole, 103. Burke, Edmund, 009, 356. Burleigh, C. C., 327. Burleigh, Charles, 118. Burlingame, Anso
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Appendix. (search)
Robert M. Jones, W. W. Johnson, Thomas H. Kelly, Robert. Layne, David S. Liggon, D. L. Leonard, William. Manley, J. H. Marsh, John W. Marsh, Peter M. Moore, Charles M. Moore, James H. McClintick, Robert. Morrison, John. Nowell, Robert H. Newell, Thomas. Omohundro, John B. Peters, Jesse. Phelps, Charles; Phelps, John. Perkinson, Henry. Padgett, John W. Pribble, Cornelius J. Powers, John. Alvis, J. T. Ballard, John. Briggs, George L. Broyles, John J. Callahan, Hezekiah L. Dunbar, George W. Doss, Robert H. Day, John R. Echols, William C. Eika, Frederick. Freeman, Leroy. Frye, Ferd. K. Graham, Samuel. Glenn, Richard. Holcomb, Henry. Hall, Samuel F. Jenkins, Obediah. Keys, W. H. Lewis, John R. Loath, Julius. Lawhorne, Thomas G. Lloyd, Edward. Melton, John F. Marsh, Robert M. Martin, Samuel J. Moore, Samuel F. Moore, Richard. Murry, Michae
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