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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 16: Gettysburg: the first day (search)
, guards, and details. This deduction Livermore averages at seven per cent for Infantry and Artillery and 15 per cent for Cavalry. Army of the Potomac. Present for duty, June 30, 1863 corps STRENGTHDIVISIONSBRIGADESARTILLERY Batts.Guns 1st CorpsWadsworth Meredith, Cutler ReynoldsRobinsonPaul, Baxter 10,355RowleyBiddle, Stone, Stannard523 2d CorpsCaldwellCross, Kelley, Zook, Brook HancockGibbonHarrow, Webb, Hall 13,056HaysCarroll, Smyth, Willard524 3d CorpsBirneyGraham, Ward, De Trobriand Sickles 12,630HumphreysCarr, Brewster, Burling530 5th CorpsBarnesTilton, Sweitzer, Vincent SykesAyresDay, Burbank, Weed 12,211CrawfordMcCandless, Fisher526 6th CorpsWrightTorbert, Bartlett, Russell SedgwickHoweGrant, Neill 15,710NewtonShaler, Eustis, Wheaton848 11th CorpsBarlowVon Gilsa, Ames HowardSteinwehrCoster, Smith 10,576SchurzSchimmelpfennig, Krzyzanowski526 12th CorpsWilliamsMcDougall, Lockwood, Ruger Slocum 8,597GearyCandy, Cobham, Greene420 2,568TylerArtillery Rese
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix O (search)
avail, for Barnes retired. I copied the following from General Birney's letter:— He (Barnes) moved to the rear from three to four hundred yards, and formed in the rear of the road which passed from the Emmettsburg Road to the Round Top. When Zook's Brigade, the first one brought to me, came up, Barnes' troops (being in the way) were, at my request, ordered to lie down, and the Brigade from the Second corps passed over their prostrate bodies into the fight, under my command, relieving de Trobriand's left. A portion of the troops of Barnes were afterwards detached and fought splendidly under another commander. I mentioned the conduct of General Barnes to his corps commander General Sykes, and also to General Sedgwick, that night, after the Council; and Sykes told me that Colonel Sweitzer who commanded one of Barnes' Brigades, had reported the same thing. This extract must be regarded as conclusive. In final confirmation, I may add that General Barnes was relieved of his comman
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 6: invasion! (search)
ady to advance on any point; and his lieutenant, De Trobriand, having massed his troops in St. Louis Street, wembers who have been admitted to their seats! De Trobriand refers this message to General Emory. Whether Eace; and Wiltz is carrying on his business, when De Trobriand, having received his orders, clanks into the Chaecond in command, and must obey my orders, urges De Trobriand. General Emory has ordered me to follow the inselves up in closets. Point them out! cries De Trobriand to Vigers. Vigers has no authority in this Cant is now our Clerk. Call the roll! roars De Trobriand, on which Vigers gets up, and begins to read. of the four Conservatives. Remove him! shouts De Trobriand. O'Quin appeals to his Speaker for protection. e, says this dignitary to the military officer. De Trobriand calls in men in full array, with loaded rifles a member for Rapides, is the next victim. Facing De Trobriand and his armed followers, Vaughan rises and prote
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 7: banditti (search)
r, those hot suppers, that midnight caucus, and those morning cocktails, are conceits of comic writers. But the press, in general, take the thing in serious mood, and to their credit the ablest Republican journals are the sternest critics of De Trobriand's acts. Are we in France? they ask. Is Grant a Bonaparte? Are Emory and De Trobriand the hireling soldiers of a bastard empire? Are we already governed by a Caesar, and is the White House an American Tuileries? Each word pronounced of lDe Trobriand the hireling soldiers of a bastard empire? Are we already governed by a Caesar, and is the White House an American Tuileries? Each word pronounced of late by President Grant is scanned, and in their present temper people are disposed to find Caesarism lurking under phrases which at any other time would seem no worse than awkward forms of speech. Grant is seldom happy in his words. Knowing his weakness, he is silent in strange company; but the ruler of a great country cannot choose but speak and write; and with all his great qualities he is often unfortunate in his use of tongue and pen. His recent Message to Congress on the Centennial Exposi
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 8: the Conservatives. (search)
essure was put on coloured voters; Third: that many of the Negroes wish to get rid of Kellogg; Fourth: that the Returning Board was unlawfully constituted and made false returns; Fifth: that the Assembly was transacting business when De Trobriand drove the Conservative Members out of their seats by force. A Report, embodying these five facts, has been presented to Congress, and has roused the country like a crash of war. The full Committee is coming down, but no one thinks the four ning President Grant of something like high treason to the commonwealth. Adams in Boston, Bryant in New York, are giving the highest intellectual sanction to the general fury. Evarts, the ablest lawyer in America, is denouncing Sheridan and De Trobriand, in terms not often applied by lawyers to the lowest tools of a despotic power. The curses showered on Kellogg have a bitterness unequalled since the war. Should President Grant back down, repudiating Sheridan and letting Kellogg go, where
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
d. On Humphreys' left, the prolongation of the same line was continued to the left by Graham's brigade of Birney's division, as far as the Peach Orchard, where, leaving the ridge, the remainder of Birney's division, made up of the brigades of De Trobriand and Ward, was refused, and stretched obliquely back through a low ground of woods, a wheat-field and woods, towards Round Top, in front of which, in a rocky ravine, the left flank rested. This brought the salient at the peach orchard, which wr as could be done in the emergency. Longstreet first advanced his right division under Hood, so that the attack fell upon that part of Sickles' corps which stretched back from the peach orchard to the Round Tops—that is, upon the brigades of De Trobriand and Ward; and while sharply assailing this front, Hood at the same time thrust his right unperceived between the extreme left of Sickles and Round Top. The extraordinary danger to which this menace exposed not merely the force of Sickles, but
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
kroad, they pushed rapidly across that road, and, facing southward, commenced firing. Egan swept down upon the flanks of the enemy with Smythe's and Willett's brigades of his own division, and Mc-Allister's brigade of Mott's division, while De Trobriand's brigade and Kerwin's brigade of dismounted cavalry formed on the west side of the road, and advanced at the same time. The forward rush of Egan's men was irresistible, and the Confederates were driven from the field with the loss of two colched down the Vaughan road to where it crosses Hatcher's Run. The Confederate intrenchments on the opposite bank were not strongly manned; the stream was, however, so obstructed that the cavalry were driven back in an attempt to cross it; but De Trobriand's brigade easily carried the passage with a skirmish line. Before reaching Hatcher's Run, Humphrey's second division under General Smythe was turned abruptly to the right on a path leading northeasterly towards Armstrong's Mill. Advancing ab
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
kly driven off, and the Second Corps crossed, Barlow's division leading. Artillery was put in position to cover an attack; but this was unnecessary, for the Confederate force retired. A redoubt, forming the bridge-head on the south bank, was blown up as the Union troops approached, eight guns being abandoned to the pursuers, as were also ten others on the north bank. High Bridge was saved with the loss of four spans. Humphreys then took up the pursuit, with the division of Miles and De Trobriand, on the Old Stage road leading to Appomattox Courthouse, while Barlow's division was directed on Farmville, distant three miles. Barlow found this place in possession of a considerable force of the enemy, that was burning the bridges there, and covering a wagon-train moving towards Lynchburg; but on Barlow's approach it abandoned the place, destroying one hundred and thirty wagons, and rejoined the main body of Lee's army. This Humphreys found intrenched in a strong position four or f
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
l. 8, p. 227. — Resources of the South. Atlantic, vol. 10, p. 502. Deserted House, Va. Engagement of Jan. 30, 1863. Losses of 6th Regt. M. V. M. and Batt. 7; question of courage of the 6th Regt. M. V. M. Boston Evening Journal, Feb. 3, 1863, p. 4, col. 6; Feb. 4, p. 4, col. 2; Feb. 6, p. 4, col. 6; Feb. 7, p. 4, col. 6; Feb. 9, p. 4, col. 5; Feb. 13, p. 4, col. 5. De Soto, U. S. steamer, brings yellow fever from Key West. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 1, pp. 727, 733, 765. De Trobriand, Gen. Regis. Four years in the army of the Potomac, rev. of French edition. N. Y. Nation, vol. 7, p. 73. — – Rev. of; with outline of events. N. Y. Nation, vol. 47, p. 463. Devens, (Gen.) Col. Chas., Jr. Engagement of Oct. 21, 1861, at Ball's Bluff, Va. (Edwards' Ferry, or Leesburg). Early or false rumors; complaint of news withheld by government. Boston Evening Journal, Oct. 22, 1861, p. 2, col. 1, p. 4, col. 6; Oct. 23, p. 2, cols. 1, 5, p. 4, cols. 6, 7. — – Despatch
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 17: (search)
leaves the White Oak Road about two miles west of Burgess' Tavern, and was in our prospective line of march. The remaining brigade of Mott's Division, It must not be understood from this that there were but two brigades in this division. De Trobriand's brigade is located by Hancock in the report, but is omitted in the extract as having at this time no special bearing on the concerns of the Battery. General Pierce's, had been moved up to support a section of Beck's Battery under Lieut. Metcassault on the bridge Egan had already done so. I do not think the enemy comprehended the situation exactly. He pushed rapidly across the ridge, resting his right across the Boydton Plank Road, and, facing south. commenced firing. De Trobriand's Brigade was quickly formed just in front of the Dabney Mill Road, with Kerwin's brigade of dismounted cavalry on its left. Roder's (K) and Beck's batteries were opened on the enemy. Maj. Mitchell, in returning from Gen. Egan, found the ene
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