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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 3: in camp at Meridian Hill. (search)
cleanliness and order are strictly enforced. Under the superintendence of Lieut. Col. Devereux, the companies have acquired a proficiency in drill not surpassed by many older troops. Under charge of Major Howe, the important duties of the guard are well attended to. Other departments are in good hands, and a system of strict accountability is rigidly enforced. The other troops in the brigade were the Twentieth Massachusetts and the Seventh Michigan, Forty-Second New York (Tammany), Captain Saunders' Company of Sharpshooters (First Company of Massachusetts Sharpshooters) and Captain Vaughn's battery of Rhode Island Artillery. Small bunches of recruits were received from various sources while here, 43 being added from the 14th of September to the 27th. Shortly after the command was located at Camp Benton, six companies of the regiment, Companies A, B, C, D, E and F, were detailed, at various times, as pickets along the Potomac River, between Shelden's Island and Conrad's Ferry. C
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 4: the balls Bluff disaster. (search)
rk. One company of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Company K, (the Tiger Zouaves), under Capt. Wass and Major Howe, and the Andrew Sharpshooters, under Capt. Saunders, of Salem, also crossed the river. The whole command was under Brig. Gen. Gorman, and the object was to make a reconnoissance along Goose Creek. Early in to the right of the ground, while pickets were in advance in a road running between the cornfield and the open field between it and the woods. About 3 P. M. Captain Saunders, with the Andrew Sharpshooters, crossed to this ground and ranged themselves behind the rail fence. Shortly after this the enemy issued from the woods, thret show themselves until about 5 P. M., when they issued from the woods in front of the river and near the terminus of the fence running from the river, where Captain Saunders and six of his men were seated about a campfire. Just before this, four men of the Fire Zouaves had come from the woods and reported them all clear. The
. Charles A. Alley. William P. Edwards. Adolph Mahnitz. Timothy O'Connell. Charles Preston. Thomas Riley. James Strange. Stephen J. Younger. Co. C.Milton Ellsworth, First Sergeant. Benjamin F. Hall, Sergeant. Benjamin H. Jellison, Sergeant. George E. Breed, Corporal. James Morse, Corporal. Richard R. Foster, Corporal. Moses R. Littlefield, Wagoner. Richmond L. Pillsbury, Musician. Eben Colby. William E. Fletcher. James H. Heath. Coloneus Morse. Ernest A. Nichols. Edwin C. D. Saunders. John H. Steele. Charles W. Tibbetts. Co. D.Benjamin W. Russell, First Sergeant. Charles P. Welch, Sergeant. Charles K. Hills, Corporal. Joshua Kendall, Musician. Ira Weston, Wagoner. John Brill. Clarence P. Crane. John Cavanaugh. Erastus Cousins. William Heffron. Henry Lee. John Moses. Nathan Walden. Co. E.Samuel E. Viall, First Sergeant. Daniel Corrigan, Sergeant. James Clark, Sergeant. Phillip Dunn, Sergeant. Terrence Gormley, Corporal. Timothy Leary, Wagon
........................... 324 Salter, Solomon,..................................................... 330 Sampson, Christopher C.,..........................................2, 5, 43 Sargent, George C.,........................... 332, 341 Saunders, Captain,..................................... 16, 32, 33 Saunders, Edwin C. D.,............................................... 285 Savage's Station,............................................... 88, 89, 98 Scanlan, David,.......................Saunders, Edwin C. D.,............................................... 285 Savage's Station,............................................... 88, 89, 98 Scanlan, David,..................................................... 293 Scannell, Patrick,.................................................... 247 Scannell, Michael,................................248, 282, 285, 318, 327, 328 Schiverin, Fritz,........................................... 293 Schoff, Edward N.,............................................. 288, 353, 356 Schouler, Camp,..................................................... 1 Schouler, William, Adjt. Gen.,........................ 3, 6, 8, 10, 30, 296, 332 Schults,