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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. (search)
etween the ford and the bridge, it was very severely handled and failed to get a foothold on the south side. A detachment from Ox Ford is otherwise known as Anderson bridge and Ford. Anderson's Station is Verdon, and the ch. Cady house is J. Anderson's. Warren's corps was sent down on the south side to help Burnside across, Crittenden's division of Burnside's corps forded the river on the 24th at Quarles's Mill, between Ox Ford and Jericho Mill, and connected with Warren's left. Potter's division of this corps was with Hancock, leaving only one division, O. B. Willcox's, at Ox Ford.--editors. but was attacked by Mahone's division, and driven back with heavy loss, narrowly escaping capture. General Grant found himself in what may be called a military dilemma. He had cut his army in two by running it upon the point of a wedge. He could not break the point, which rested upon the river, and the attempt to force it out of place by striking on its sides must of necessity be m
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Through the Wilderness. (search)
ld in reserve at Wilderness Tavern, and joined Hancock on the Brock road at 8 A. M. of the 6th. Potter and Willcox, coining from Bealton and Rappahannock Station, reached the field about daylight, anne by the combined Fifth and Sixth corps. General Burnside, with the divisions of Willcox and Potter, attempted to relieve Hancock by passing up between the turnpike and the Plank road to Relati was deemed impracticable, and Willcox was moved to the left toward the Tapp house in support of Potter, who had gone in near the Plank road.--editors. Burnside's other division, under Stevenson, movethe woods for the Brock road. Burnside had finally become engaged far out on our right front; Potter's division came upon the enemy intrenched on the west side of a little ravine extending from Ewee pushed over the river one division under O. B. Willcox. Stevenson's division came up at noon. Potter's division remained a mile in rear on the Fredericksburg road. Willcox fought a brigade of R. H
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Hand-to-hand fighting at Spotsylvania. (search)
f the disaster to their comrades, Hancock met with stern resistance, as Lee in the meantime had been hurrying troops to Ewell from Hill on the right and Anderson on the left, and these were sprung upon our victorious lines with such an impetus as to drive them hastily back toward the left of the salient. Of the Union troops on the left of Hancock, General Grant ( Personal memoirs, p. 231) says: Burnside on the left had advanced up east of the salient to the very parapet of the enemy. Potter, commanding one of his divisions, got over, but was not able to remain there. . . . Burnside accomplished but little on our left of a positive nature, but negatively a great deal. He kept Lee from reenforcing his center from that quarter. editors. As soon as the news of Hancock's good and ill success reached army headquarters, the Sixth Corps--Upton's brigade being in advance — was ordered to move with all possible haste to his support. At a brisk pace we crossed a line of intrenchmen
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at the beginning of Grant's campaign against Richmond. (search)
. Sumner Carruth: 35th Mass., Maj. Nathaniel Wales; 56th Mass., Col. Charles E. Griswold; 57th Mass., Col. William F. Bartlett; 59th Mass., Col. J. Parker Gould; 4th U. S., Capt. Charles H. Brightly; 10th U. S., Maj. Samuel B. Hayman. Second Brigade, Col. Daniel Leasure: 3d Md., Col. Joseph M. Sudsburg; 21st Mass., Lieut-Col. George P. Hawkes; 100th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Matthew M. Dawson. Artillery: 2d Me., Capt. Albert F. Thomas; 14th Mass., Capt. J. W. B. Wright. Second division, Brig.-Gen. Robert B. Potter. First Brigade, Col. Zenas R. Bliss: 36th Mass., Maj. William F. Draper; 58th Mass., Lieut.-Col. John C. Whiton; 51st N. Y., Col. Charles W. Le Gendre; 45th Pa., Col. John I. Curtin; 48th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Henry Pleasants; 7th R. I., Capt. Theodore Winn. Second Brigade, Col. Simon G. Griffin: 31st Me., Lieut.-Col. Thomas Hight; 32d Me., Maj. Arthur Deering; 6th N. H., Lieut.-Col. Henry H. Pearson; 9th N. H., Lieut.-Col. John W. Babbitt; 11th N. H., Col. Walter Harriman; 17th Vt.,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Cold Harbor. June 1st, 1864. (search)
21st Mass., Lieut.-Col. George P. Hawkes; 100th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Matthew M. Dawson. Provisional Brigade, Col. Elisha G. Marshall: 2d N. Y. Mounted Rifles (dismounted), Col. John Fisk; 14th N. Y. Art'y, Maj. William H. Reynolds; 24th N. Y. Cav. (dismounted), Col. William C. Raulston; 2d Pa., Provisional Art'y, Col. Thomas Wilhelm. Acting Engineers: 35th Mass., Capt. Edward G. Park. Artillery: 3d Me., Capt. Albert F. Thomas; 14th Mass., Capt. Joseph W. B. Wright. Second division, Brig.-Gen. Robert B. Potter. First Brigade, Col. John I. Curtin: 36th Mass., Lieut.-Col. Arthur A. Goodell; 58th Mass., Lieut.-Col. John C. Whiton; 45th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Francis M. Hills; 48th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Henry Pleasants; 7th R. I., Capt. Percy Daniels. Second Brigade, Col. Simon G. Griffin: 2d Md.,----; 31st Me., Col. Thomas Hight; 32d Me., Lieut.-Col. John M. Brown; 6th N. H., Maj. Phin. P. Bixby; 9th N. H., Capt. Andrew J. Hough; 11th N. H., Capt. Hollis O. Dudley; 17th Vt., Lieut.-Col. Charles Cumm
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of the Petersburg crater. (search)
General Burnside, the corps commander, and General Potter, the division commander. On the 23d of In the afternoon of the 29th of July, Generals Potter and O. B. Willcox met together at General of the First Division; and the next division (Potter's) was to move in the same way to the right of crater that a brigade of the Second Division (Potter's) under the command of Brigadier-General S. Gnd held them in that position. Meantime General Potter, who was in rear of the Union line of intrf ordering forward Colonel Bliss's command General Potter wrote a dispatch to General Burnside, statnts of his own, together with the regiments of Potter's Second Division which had gone in on the rig guns were brought to Major-General Robert B Potter. From a photograph. bear upon them. The onle for thirty days or more without relief. General Potter's and General Ledlie's divisions had sligh a dam. With the notable exception of General Robert B. Potter, there was not a division commander i[2 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., In the crater. (search)
ents. We marched with the stillness of death; not a word was said above a whisper. We knew, of course, that something very important was to be done and that we were to play a prominent part. We formed our lines of battle in the trenches of General Potter's division. Our brigade, commanded by Colonel E. G. Marshall of the 14th New York Artillery, was first in line and formed three lines of battle, the 2d Pennsylvania Provisional Artillery in the first line, the 14th New York Artillery in the nd crawl in, as sharp-shooters were picking off every one passing that point, which was in full view of the enemy. I escaped their bullets, but the next officer who came received a serious if not mortal wound. In this wing of the fort were Generals Potter, Hartranft, and S. G. Griffin, and myself, with one or two other officers. Bartlett, who was in the pit of the crater, had received a shot, disabling his artificial leg, and he could not be carried to the rear. Colonel E. G. Marshall, comm
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Actions on the Weldon Railroad. (search)
pleased sufficiently as it was, and ordered Warren to maintain his hold on the road at all hazards. He directed Mott's division, Second Corps, to establish a connection with the new works, and ordered out Willcox's, White's, General Julius White had commanded a division in the Twenty-third Corps, in Burnside's army in east Tennessee. Immediately after the mine explosion, July 30th, he relieved General James H. Ledlie in command of the First Division, Ninth Corps.--editors. and afterward Potter's divisions from the Ninth Corps' works to reenforce Warren; these to be followed finally by Gregg's cavalry brigade and two hundred railroad men to destroy the tracks toward Reams's. Station. My division being nearest was first to arrive next morning, and was ordered to bivouac near the Globe Tavern, where Warren had his headquarters. When White came up he was posted farther to the right. Beauregard likewise ordered out reenforcements, under Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill, viz., three b
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 11.88 (search)
Military Railroad, the supply route of the Army of the Potomac. [See map, p. 538.] Meade's Station was the depot of the Ninth Army Corps. This part of the line — about a mile in length — was garrisoned principally by the Third Brigade of the First Division of the Ninth Corps, commanded by Colonel N. B. McLaughlen. The First Division, commanded by General Willcox, was intrusted with the defense of the whole line from the Appomattox to somewhat beyond Fort Morton, and the Second Division (Potter's) continued the defense of the line about to Fort Alexander Hays. The Third Division, under my command, was in reserve to these two divisions. The division covered four miles, with headquarters at the Avery House, in the center, the right resting at the Friend House, a mile in rear of the works, north-east of Fort Stedman, and the left behind Fort Prescott. From the Avery House a ravine ran northerly about two-thirds of a mile in rear of the works, to the Friend House, approaching Fort
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Petersburg and Richmond: December 31st, 1864. (search)
, Capt. Victor Traxmarer; 60th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Martin P. Avery; 50th Pa., Capt. George W. Brumm. Third Brigade, Lieut.-Col. Gilbert P. Robinson: 3d Md. (4 co's), Capt. Joseph F. Carter; 29th Mass., Capt. Charles T. Richardson; 57th Mass., Lieut.-Col. Julius M. Tucker; 59th Mass., Lieut.-Col. Joseph Colburn; 14th N. Y. Heavy Art'y, Maj. George M. Randall; 100th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Joseph H. Pentecost. Acting Engineers: 17th Mich., Lieut.-Col. Frederick W. Swift. Second division, Brig.-Gen. Robert B. Potter (on leave), Brig.-Gen. Simon G. Griffin. First Brigade, Col. John I. Curtin: 35th Mass., Col. Sumner Carruth; 36th Mass., Lieut.-Col. Thaddeus L. Barker; 58th Mass., Lieut.-Col. John C. Whiton; 39th N. J., Col. Abram C. Wildrick; 51st N. Y., Capt. Thomas B. Marsh; 46th Pa., Capt. Roland C. Cheeseman; 48th Pa., Lieut.-Col. George W. Gowan; 4th and 7th R. I., Lieut.-Col. Percy Daniels. Second Brigade, Col. Herbert B. Titus: 31st Me., Maj. George A. Bolton; 2d Md., Lieut.-Col. Ben
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