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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 45 (search)
agglers from the fight. Captain Garner and the escort deserve mention for untiring energy in carrying orders. Lieutenant-Colonel Goddard, A. A. G.; Lieutenant-Colonel William M. Wiles, Provost-Marshal General; Major William McMichael, A. A. G.; Surgeon H. H. Sexes, Medical Inspector; Captain D. G. Swaim, A. A. G., Chief of the Secret Service; Captain William Farear, A. D. C.; Captain J. H. Young, Chief Commissary of Musters; Captain A. S. Burt, Acting Assistant Inspector-General; Captain Hunter Brooke, Acting Judge-Advocate; Captain W. C. Margendant, Acting Topographical Engineer; Lieutenant George Burroughs, Topographical Engineer; Lieutenant William Porter, Acting A. D. C.; Lieutenant James Reynolds, Acting A. D. C.; Lieutenant M. J. Kelley, Chief of Couriers; Assistant Surgeon D. Bache, were on the field of battle, and there and elsewhere discharged their duties with zeal and ability. I must not omit Colonel J. P. Sanderson of the regular infantry, who, having lately joined
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 94 (search)
he duty of the President to declare, on or before the first day of July then next following, by his proclamation, in what States and parts of States insurrection exists: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South-Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North-Carolina, and the State of Virginia, except the following counties, Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Pleasants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh, are now in insurrection and rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil authority of the United States is obstructed so that the provisions of the Act to provide increased revenue fr
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 185 (search)
was sick, and riding in an open carriage upon his bed, about three miles in advance of the troops, accompanied by Capt. Hunter Brooke of his staff, and Major Boynton of the Thirty-fifth Ohio, together with nine members of his escort, was suddenly acamping-grounds for the brigade, thus leaving but four of the escort with Gen. McCook--one of whom was dismounted, and Capt. Brooke, who was unarmed and in the carriage attending upon the General when the attack began. The General succeeded in turh scattered them instantly. Gen. McCook was found in a house near where he was shot, whither he had been carried by Capt. Brooke and the driver of the carriage. Of those in advance, Capt. Brooke, two members of the escort, and two teamsters of Capt. Brooke, two members of the escort, and two teamsters of the Ninth Ohio, were captured, and one member of the Ninth Ohio band was wounded by a sabre-cut on the head. Gen. McCook's wagons were fired, but not greatly damaged. The three horses attached to this team, and the mules of one other brigade team w
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Trial of a Confederate soldier for murder. (search)
e Yankees a few weeks since. A letter from Nashville, dated the 4th instant, and published in the Cincinnati Commercial, says: The evidence for the prosecution of the case of Gurley, the guerilla, who murdered Gen. McCook, of Ohio, closed to-day before the Military Commission, of which Col. John F. Miller, of the 29th Indiana, is President. The court granted a continuance of the case until the 13th, to enable Gurley to procure a witness among the rebel prisoners at Camp Chase. Capt. Hunter Brooke is the chief witness, having been present at the murder. Gurley plead not guilty, but outside the court admitted having shot Gen. McCook while acting as a soldier in the rebel service. It will be difficult to convince the court that Gurley was acting as a soldier at the time; for the rebel papers, detailing the murder, spoke of it as such, and spoke of him as a partisan ranger. The statement about the rebel papers is false.--On the contrary, it was pronounced at the time one o