hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative. You can also browse the collection for X. Filling or search for X. Filling in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
ar, pp. 456, 468. Capt. Moses W. Gatchell (15th Mass.) was also killed. Major-General Stone, in his official report, pays the highest tribute to the behavior of Colonel Devens and his command, as exhibiting every proof of high courage and good discipline, and attributes the entire calamity to the fact that the cavalry scouts, upon whom Devens had relied to give him information as to the approach of the enemy, had been withdrawn without his knowledge. Official War Records, V, 296. X. Filling up the regiments. After the battle of Ball's Bluff, the mayor of Worcester sent a messenger to enquire of Colonel Devens what the city could do for the 15th Mass., which had been recruited there. The answer was: Send us three hundred and ten men to fill our gaps; also a blanket and a pair of mittens for each of us. That will do for the present. H. S. Washburn's Poems, p. 19. Doubtless the clothing was supplied, but the need of recruits for any particular regiment brought up some ne