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force; when the 3d Corps was sent in haste from Ashby's Gap to Buford's support, and its 1st division, Gen. Hobart Ward, pushed through the Gap, and the Excelsior brigade, Gen. F. B. Spinola, made three heroic charges up as many steep and difficult ridges dislodging and driving the enemy with mutual loss,—Gen. Spinola being twice wounded. . . . Next morning, our soldiers pushed forward to Front Royal, but encountered no enemy. Unknown to us, the Excelsiors had been fighting a brigade of Ewell's men who were holding the Gap, while Rhodes' division, forming the rear guard of Lee's army, marched past up the valley, and had, of course, followed on its footsteps during the night. No enemy remained to fight; but two days were lost by Meade getting into and out of the Gap; during which Lee moved rapidly southward, passing around our right flank, and appearing in our front when our army again looked across the Rappahannock. American conflict, Vol. 2. But no sooner were our guns in posit
hile, then slip out on the other side of the column and make haste to Gen. Lee at Warrenton for help. At daybreak of the 14th, the crack of skirmishers' muskets gave token that the requested aid was at hand, whereupon the bold cavalry leader opened a cannonade upon our astonished forces from the opposite direction, and in the confusion immediately subsequent easily made his escape, Warren, very naturally, thinking himself to be attacked both in front and rear. Then Lee pressed Hill and Ewell forward to anticipate our arrival at Bristow Station, but too late. When Hill approached it, our entire army, except the Second Corps, had gone by. The Third Corps brought up the rear of the troops that had passed. Hill now eagerly followed it, picking up stragglers, and was preparing to charge, when Gen. Warren appeared upon the scene with the Second Corps and somewhat disturbed his calculations. Hill turned at once to fight the foe in his rear. Warren, surprised at finding an enemy in
h dispatched an aid to Gen. French to inquire whether he would like more artillery, to which answer was sent that he already had more than he could get into action. It seems he took the wrong road from the ford, and had fallen in with a part of Ewell's corps before he had spanned half the distance from the river to the tavern, where he was to have joined Warren. With this body of the enemy he had been engaged during the afternoon, but they had now fallen back before him. This failure on the Corps. But, unfortunately, this body was doomed to be a further stumbling-block, for after crossing the river, Gen. French took the wrong road, which, carrying him too far to the right, involved him in serious trouble with Johnson's Division of Ewell's Corps, and by the time he had finished the brush the afternoon was far spent and the golden opportunity had passed. According to Mr. Greeley, he seems to have played at cross purposes with the implicit commands of his superior. See American
H. Granger started for Brattleboro, Vt., on 15 days furlough. John Baxter returned from furlough and reported for duty. Jan. 4. Privates Jacob B. Sulham, Henry L. Ewell and Everett J. Wilson permanently transferred to this Battery for the purpose of reenlistment agreeable to Special Order No. 2 H dq'r s 3rd Army Corps. Franc Ellis A. Friend and J. W. Thayer reported to quarters. March 1. Privates E. A. Foster, T. E. Carter, E. B. Mullett, reported to quarters, P. E. Neagle and Henry L. Ewell absent sick on surgeon's certificate. March 2. Privates White, Friend and Thayer reported for duty. March 3. Privates White, Adams, Hooper and Wright reashington, D. C. April 21. H. Orcutt, John Ramsdell, O. Wheelock, J. T. Goodwin reported to quarters. April 22. Corp. B. C. Clark reported to quarters. Henry L. Ewell returned to the Battery from absent sick. April 23. James Ellworth, Dan'l McAllister, H. Orcutt, John Ramsdell reported to duty. James Kay, James S. Bail
at the junction of the Stevensburg Plank Road with the Orange, or, as we have just seen it termed, the Wilderness Pike. Ewell's corps, that part of Lee's army nearest the Rapidan, and his advance wing, was marching over the same pike to meet our ait out of his track. This he at once began to do, and at first carried everything before him, but the other divisions of Ewell's corps coming up, assumed the offensive and gave Warren a rough handling for a time, inflicting a loss upon him of abouts were making for this movement that the corps was called upon to aid in checking a bold dash against our right flank. Gen. Ewell, who was undoubtedly still smarting at Hancock's sudden swoop upon him on the 12th, wishing to redeem himself, had passom the Second, Fifth, and Sixth corps charged through the woods, at 3 o'clock the following morning, striking the rear of Ewell's column and capturing about four hundred prisoners, besides picking up many dead and wounded. It was a bold move for th
eeted with minies. Tolopotomoy Creek was about midway between us and the enemy. Their main line was not visible directly in our front, being screened by woods; but a little to our right front it came into plain view, at a distance, we now judge, of less than a thousand yards. We spent the afternoon in shelling the enemy's lines at intervals. Heavy firing came up from the left a long distance away. This we now know to have been the attack made upon Warren's corps, near Bethesda Church, by Ewell, who was attempting to turn his left. To relieve this pressure upon Warren, Gen. Meade ordered an attack along the whole line. The order was not received in time to be acted upon by all the corps commanders; but Hancock received it, and with commendable and characteristic promptness sent in Barlow's division, which drove the enemy's skirmishers, captured their rifle-pits, and held then all night in spite of a midnight attempt to retake them. Next day (June 1st) we had little to do but w
n. George K. Putnam, Number One man on the—— piece, was wounded in the knee as we were leaving the guns, was taken prisoner and kept a week without having the wound dressed. He was then exchanged, but died at Annapolis, November 21st. Henry L. Ewell, driver on the——piece, was wounded in the shoulder, and underwent a surgical operation, but pyemia setting in, death resulted in the hospital at Washington, November 2d. John T. Goodwin and Samuel H. Foster both received flesh wounds, as aass. Battery. Morning reports. 1864. Aug. 24. Received notice of transfer to general hospital Aug. 12 of privates J. W. Bailey, W. A. Trefry, M. M. Pierce, James Peach, F. A. Munroe. Aug. 25. Capt. Sleeper, privates Devereux, Foster, Ewell, Goodwin, O. P. Brown, Starkweather and Ben. G. Hooper wounded; L. W. Adams, Geo. H. Stetson, Wm. Rawson, Geo. K. Putnam, Chas. A. Mason, and——Thompson wounded and missing; Serg't A. B. Parker, Corp. F. M. Howes, Corp. Geo. A. Smith, private
the time but later declared his preference for the post of a cannoneer to that of a line officer in either Heavy Artillery or Infantry. Morning reports. 1864. Aug. 26. Private A. B. Spooner died of Chronic Diarrhea at General Hospital, Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 20, 1864. Aug. 27. B. G. Hooper sent to brigade hospital. Received notice of 20 days leave granted Capt. Sleeper, Gen. Orders 229 Headquarters Army of Potomac Aug. 25, 1864. Aug. 28. Privates Foster, Goodwin, Starkweather, Ewell, Devereux, and 0. P. Brown sent to hospital. Aug. 29. Four horses shot by order Capt. Miller —Glanders, farcy and wounds. Aug. 30. E. J. Wilson and R. G. Gilley temporarily detached at Artillery Brigade Headquarters. Sept. 1. Died Aug. 27, Geo. N. Devereux of wounds received Aug. 25. Sept. 2. Lieut. J. Webb Adams on detached service at Twelfth New York Battery. Corp'l S. Paine returned to duty from hospital. Four recruits received from camp of distribution. Sept 3. One hors
received from Capt. Fisher. Received marching orders at 12.20 A. M. Moved out of camp at 9 A. M. and relieved the 11th Mass. Battery in Fort Welch at 2 P. M. Left Section occupies Fort Gregg. Nov. 30. Moved the caisson camp to Fort Wheaton. Left section rejoins the Right and Centre in Fort Welch. Dec. 1. Private Hiram B. Oliver injured in foot by axe. Sent to brigade hospital. Dec. 2. Corp. Leverett Pierce reported to quarters. Dec. 3. Notice received of the death of Private Henry L. Ewell at Lincoln General Hospitals, Washington, D. C., of Pyaemia, Nov. 21, 1864. Corp'l Pierce reported to duty. Private Thayer to quarters. Sixteen horses received from Capt. Fisher. Dec. 4. Corp. Geo. A. Pease returned to duty from general hospital. Lieut. J. W. Adams returned to duty from detached service having been absent since Sept. 24, 1864. Dec. 5. Corp. Pease and Private Thayer reported to quarters. Serg't George H. Day discharged the service, for promotion agreeably t
mes,28Charlestown,Sept. 9, 1862,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Edwards, Joseph,21Charlestown,Sept. 9, 1862,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Edwards, William,28Charlestown,Sept. 9, 1862,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Ellsworth, James,44Boston,Jan. 29, 1864,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Ellsworth, Thomas,21Marblehead,Sept. 9, 1862,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Endicott, William E.,20Canton,Sept. 9, 1862,Prisoner Aug. 25, 1864. June 9, 1865. exp. of service. Ewell, Henry L.,20Cambridge,Jan. 4, 1864,Wounded Aug. 25, 1864. D. Nov. 2, 1864, Wash'ton, D. C. Fales, Edward A.,23Barre,Dec. 28, 1863,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Farrell, Michael,25Canton,Sept. 8, 1864,July 3, 1865, expiration of service. Fay, Asa W.,25Barre,Jan. 4, 1864,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Fisher, Alvan B.,24Rutland,Sept. 9, 1862,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Fiske, Charles,19Millbury,Dec. 26, 1863,June 9, 1865, expiration of service. Floytrop, Emil C.,27
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