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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
, they received the attacks both of French and of Richardson's division to his left. The latter division was composed of the brigades of Meagher, Caldwell, and Brooke. Meager first attacked, and fought his way to the possession of a crest overlooking the sunken road in which Hill's line was posted. After sustaining a severe mby companies to the rear, and the latter by companies to the front. Caldwell immediately became engaged in a very determined combat, and was supported by part of Brooke's brigade, the rest of the latter being posted on the right to thwart an effort on the part of the enemy to flank in that direction. The action here was of a verietam-General Richardson having been mortally wounded during the forenoon.) The race was won by Cross. The effort to flank on the right was handsomely checked by Brooke, French, and Barlow—the latter of whom, changing front with his two regiments obliquely to the right, poured in a rapid fire, compelling the surrender of three hu
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
d so often been exhibited on the field of battle, was killed. To relieve these troops, General Caldwell then advanced his second line, made up of the brigades of Brooke and Zook. The latter was mortally wounded while carrying his troops into action. Brooke led his command forward with much gallantry, and after an exceedingly stBrooke led his command forward with much gallantry, and after an exceedingly stubborn fight, drove the enemy from under cover of the woods, and from a position of great natural strength along the rocky bottom of a creek at its margin. Colonel Brooke was wounded in this action. But this success, notwithstanding that Sweitzer's brigade was again advanced to assist the attack, was temporary. Hood had alreadColonel Brooke was wounded in this action. But this success, notwithstanding that Sweitzer's brigade was again advanced to assist the attack, was temporary. Hood had already carried the whole of the position originally held by the left of the Third Corps; and to hold him in check at that point, General Ayres, with two brigades of the Regulars of the Fifth Corps, moved forward. Caldwell experienced the same fate as those that had gone before; for the Confederates, penetrating the wide interval made
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 10 (search)
Twenty-sixth, and were most gallantly repulsed with the loss of their leader, who was mortally wounded. and finally, when the head of Ewell's main column came up, it was held in check by skilful deployments of cavalry and infantry and the practice of the batteries, till the rest of Warren's force had crossed Cedar Run, when he continued his prescribed march—Caldwell's division covering the retreat, and closely skirmishing with the enemy. The escape was so narrow, that, as reported by Colonel Brooke (who commanded the rear brigade of Caldwell's division, and to whose skilful manoeuvring the successful withdrawal was in no small degree due), the enemy succeeded in throwing a column of infantry across the road, and cutting off the Fifty-seventh New York Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman, commanding the regiment, proved himself equal to the emergency, and by promptly moving to the right by a slight detour, succeeded in rejoining the column with but slight loss. I held the enemy a
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
Second Brigade, Colonel T. A. Smythe. Third Brigade, Colonel R. Frank. Fourth Brigade, Colonel J. R. Brooke. Second Division, Brigadier-General John Gibbon. First Brigade, Brigadier-General A. S.ntest, the Irish Brigade, commanded by Colonel Smythe of the Second Delaware Volunteers, and Colonel Brooke, Fourth Brigade, both of Barlow's division, Second Corps, attacked the enemy vigorously on hfantry in that quarter, he again supposed it to be Longstreet, and took measures to meet him. Brooke's brigade, of Barlow's division, was sent out on the Brock road to the extreme left, Where a strpracticable, as all access was commanded by the enemy. Hancock, however, succeeded in throwing Brooke's brigade across the stream some distance above, and was proceeding to develop the enemy's stren deemed a forced retreat, made a very vigorous assault on the two remaining brigades, under Colonels Brooke and Brown. He, however, met so deadly and determined a fire from these fine brigades that