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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
port, and afterwards the divisions of Kearney, Couch, and Casey were put in motion. General Sumnere with much firmness against several attacks. Couch: Report. He was therefore compelled to engage ngthened by Peck's brigade sent forward by General Couch. The Confederates advanced in close colums held together were brought to a stand at General Couch's position at Seven Pines. On my arrival Berry's brigade. arrived at the position where Couch's troops and the wreck of Casey's division werppened that when Casey had been driven back to Couch's line at the Seven Pines, and the latter with the Chickahominy was doomed; for not only was Couch bisected, but the brigades of Berry and Jameso in the rear of Fair Oaks, in a position where Couch, when separated from the main body, had taken erve, gave a concentrated fire of sixty guns. Couch's division was placed on the right of Porter; Anderson's, of D. H. Hill's division) attacked Couch's front and was repulsed. This repulse was [7 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
o controlled the Twelfth (Banks' old command), which was placed under General Mansfield, a veteran soldier, but who had not thus far been in the field. The Sixth Corps, under General Franklin, embraced the divisions of Smith (W. F.), Slocum, and Couch. Porter's did not leave Washington until the 12th of September, and rejoined the army at Antietam. General H. J. Hunt, who had been in command of the reserve artillery on the Peninsula, relieved General Barry as chief of artillery, and remainedcavalry division and the horse batteries, to whose support most of Sykes' division (Porter's corps) in the afternoon crossed the Antietam Now, between twelve and one o'clock, Franklin with two divisions of his corps, under Slocum and W. F. Smith (Couch remaining behind to occupy Maryland Heights), reached the field of battle, from where the action at Crampton's Pass had left him. General McClellan had designed retaining Franklin on the east side of the Antietam, to operate on either flank or on
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 7 (search)
ion was composed of the Second Corps under General Couch and the Ninth Corps under General Wilcox. n volunteered for this perilous enterprise. Couch's Report of Fredericksburg. Ten ponton-boa, under cover of a fog, the other divisions of Couch's corps, and the Ninth Corps under General Wiltatement of General Sumner's instructions from Couch's Report of the Battle of Fredericksburg, in we two corps composing Sumner's Grand Division, Couch's (Second) corps occupied the town, and Wilcox (Ninth) held the interval between the left of Couch and the right of Franklin's command. The attack, therefore, fell to the lot of Couch; and, in accordance with instructions, he ordered forward Fllowed and supported by Hancock's division. Couch: Report of Fredericksburg. French, debouchtty's divisions of the Ninth Corps advanced on Couch's left, and made several attacks in support of woods at convenient distance from the fords. Couch's corps was moved below Fredericksburg to make[3 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 8 (search)
s under General Reynolds; the Second under General Couch; the Third under General Sickles; the Fiftck to Kelly's Ford, the Second Corps under General Couch had moved no further than United States Fo. Meade's corps (Fifth), with one division of Couch's (Second), formed the left; Slocum's corps (Te threatening demonstrations. First they felt Couch's line, but it proved to be well intrenched; t attack on Hooker's left and centre, formed by Couch's and Slocum's corps. Hancock's front especia. In addition to this, Gibbon's division of Couch's corps held Falmouth, and observed the river on of Slocum's corps, and French's division of Couch's corps formed the right, and faced westward tst of Slocum's corps and Hancock's division of Couch's corps formed the centre and left and covered one of the corps in the hands of the rebels.— Couch: Report of Chancellorsville. but that flank beas immediately repulsed. Gibbon's division of Couch's corps, which had been holding Falmouth, then[2 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
open to Ewell, free to come and to go, without any other fear than that which might be inspired by the not very formidable aspect of the Pennsylvania militia. Forewarned of the designs of the invading army, the War Department had detached General Couch from the command of the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and assigned him, on the 11th of June, to the Department of the Susquehanna, with his headquarters at Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. General Brooks was at the same time command of the Department of the Monongahela, with his headquarters at Pitts, burgh. But commanders without troops to command cannot be considered very formidable barriers to an invasion; and though Governor Curtin issued proclamations and General Couch calls, the response was neither prompt nor enthusiastic, and when at length a few thousand men had been raised, and New York had sent forward some of her militia regiments, these officers did not find It practicable to carry their views of de
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
sitions of Union troops near, 132; Casey's redoubt at Seven Pines captured, 133; positions of Casey's division, 134; Hill's attack on Seven Pines' position not a surprise, 133; Sumner ordered to cross the Chickahominy to support Heintzelman, 136; Couch's force bisected by G. W. Smith, 136; Sumner reaches Couch in rear of, 137; Confederates finally driven back by Sumner, 138; the fighting next day skirmishing only, 139. Final campaign, 1865,565; Five Forks' battle—see Five Forks and Retreat. Couch in rear of, 137; Confederates finally driven back by Sumner, 138; the fighting next day skirmishing only, 139. Final campaign, 1865,565; Five Forks' battle—see Five Forks and Retreat. Fisher's Hill, Early's retreat to after battle of Winchester, 558; the battle of, 559. Five Forks, Sheridan's movement to wards, 591; captured by Devin and Davies, 591; Lee sends two divisions to, 592; Union cavalry driven to Dinwiddie Courthouse, 592; Lee's weakness discovered— Sheridan puts his whole force in motion, 594; Five Forks and Petersburg, 595; situation of the opposing forces, 595; Sheridan's feint on Lee's right, and attack on left on White Oak road, 596; the desperate positi<