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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 5 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 1 1 Browse Search
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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
y, May 6, 1861. George P. Bangs, letter recommending, May 6. William Cogswell, letter, May 8, 1861, from Governor Andrew. I find the names of Charles G. Loring, Jr., W. B. Williams, C. F. Morse, Rufus Choate, S. M. Quincy, Richard Goodwin, George P. Bangs, James M. Ellis, C. P. Horton, appended to a paper dated May 9, 1861, showing the connection of those gentlemen with the regiment at that time. The names of Savage and Cary, captains; of Wheaton, adjutant; of Henry L. Higginson, Hawes, Motley, Howard and Sawyer,--do not appear in any lists or in ally letters in my possession. For a complete list of all the officers and enlisted men that were ever commissioned or enlisted in the second Massachusetts regiment of Infantry, see The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, by Rev. A. H. Quint, pp. 298, 514. That Messrs. Wheaton and Motley were very early applicants in April, and that all the others were actively engaged in recruiting companies early in May, there is abu
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General Pope—Battle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
d of the Second Regiment) practised his men in aiming, to enable them to do better than at Winchester, where not one of the enemy could show himself with impunity at a thousand yards. My military family consisted of officers taken from the Second Massachusetts Regiment; this was due to the kindness of the Secretary of War, who promoted, at my request, to the rank of captains, Lieutenant H. B. Scott, as assistant adjutant-general, Lieutenant Wheaton, as commissary of subsistence, and Lieutenant M. M. Hawes, as quartermaster. Lieutenant Robert G. Shaw, who subsequently, as colonel of the First Massachusetts Colored Regiment, was killed at Fort Wagner, served as an aid on my staff. Although General Pope was at Washington, in the District of Columbia, we began to receive at Little Washington, through the newspapers, furious orders, intended to inflame his army with zeal,--No lines of retreat, No bases of supply, Live upon the country, We have always seen the backs of our enemy, Discar
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Index (search)
neral, commander of Federal Cavalry, 162. Forms the rearguard in Banks's retreat from Strasburg, 201. Is met by Stonewall Jackson at Middletown (Va.), and fights an unequal battle, 209, 210. Retreats towards Strasburg, and fights again, and then makes his escape, 211; enumeration of his forces in this battle, 211 (note),--and what became of them, 212. He reaches Newtown, and confers with General Gordon, from whom he refuses to take the command, 215, 216. Subsequent services of, 272. Hawes, Captain, 273. Herr, Mr., Rebel miller, has his flourmills destroyed, 37, 47, 48. Hill, A. P., division commander under Stonewall Jackson, 279, 289, 292, 296. Horse, a, one that was a trial to his owner, 139-141,--and another that was stolen and recovered, 269-271. Horton, Charles P., acting adjutant to General Gordon, 241 (note). Howe, Church, Lieutenant and Quartermaster of Fifteenth Mass. Regiment, 65. Implicated in movements leading to the disaster of Ball's Bluff, 66, 69