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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of Olustee, or Ocean Pond, Florida. (search)
ing down on the railroad between us and home with their rapidly increasing force. Most of us thought it would be sufficient to attempt to make the St. John's River our main western line, but Seymour thought it his duty to go on. He was, and is, a brave and honorable patriot and soldier. General Jones shows that the Confederates had chosen a strong position. They had their line of battle fully formed to meet us. My old regiment, the 7th Connecticut Infantry, about 330 strong, armed with Spencer carbines, led the advance guard, commanded by Colonel Henry, and composed of the mounted 40th Massachusetts Infantry (a small regiment), Captain Samuel S. Elder's regular battery, and a detachment of the I st Massachusetts Cavalry. Between 2 and 3 P. M. they met and drove back the enemy's cavalry, and soon found the main line, striking up a vigorous combat. Our troops were stretched along the road in the order General Jones describes. When the artillery opened, General Seymour told me th
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan's Richmond raid. (search)
ying and kicking, and drivers were yelling, when, suddenly, jackasses, mules, and contrabands made for the rear, encountering on the way the corps commander and staff, who only by turning into a convenient farm-yard escaped the deluge. The center of the line was occupied by the Reserve Brigade (Merritt's): six hundred dismounted men of the 1st and 2d United States, 6th Pennsylvania, and 1st New York Dragoons, armed with Sharps breech-loading carbines-excepting the 1st New York, which had Spencer magazine carbines (seven-shooters). The brigade was posted on the crest of a ravine, with timber in front and rear, excepting opposite the regiment on the left where there was a clearing, and on the right which rested on a swamp. The enemy kept up a desultory fire until 8 A. M., when a compact mass of infantry, marching steadily and silently, company front, was reported moving through the timber upon our position. This timber consisted of large trees with but little undergrowth. Our men
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Atlanta campaign. May 3d-September 8th, 1864. (search)
B. Brown, Capt. Louis Love, Capt. Henry L. Philips. Artillery, Capt. Henry H. Griffiths, Maj. John T. Cheney, Capt. H. H. Griffiths, Capt. Josiah H. Burton: F, 1st Ill., Capt. Josiah H. Burton, Lieut. Jefferson F. Whaley, Lieut. George P. Cuningham; 1st Iowa, Lieut. William H. Gay, Capt. H. H. Griffiths, Lieut. W. H. Gay. Sixteenth Army Corps (Left Wing), Maj.-Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Brig.-Gen. Thomas E. G. Ransom. General Headquarters: 1st Ala. Cav., Lieut.-Col. G. L. Godfrey, Col. George E. Spencer; A, 52d Ill. (detailed Aug. 8th), Capt. George E. Young. Second division, Brig.-Gen. Thomas W. Sweeny, Brig.-Gen. Elliott W. Rice, Brig.-Gen. John M. Corse. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Elliott W. Rice: 52d Ill., Lieut.-Col. Edwin A. Bowen; 66th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Roger Martin, Maj. Thomas G. Morrison, Capt. Alfred Morris; 2d Iowa, Col. James B. Weaver, Lieut.-Col. Noel B. toward, Maj. Mathew G. Hamill, Capt. John A. Duckworth; 7th Iowa, Lieut.-Col. James C. Parrott, Maj. James W. Mc
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Union cavalry in the Hood campaign. (search)
enemy's works, after having broken through and driven back his attenuated left wing. The race for victory which followed between rival arms of the service was an unusual scene in that or any other army. Up to that time the cavalry in the West had been reserved for independent operations, and had rarely been seen assaulting fortified positions. Such work had been, by common consent, left for the infantry; but now, under the influence of organization and discipline, the cavalry, with their Spencer repeating rifles, felt themselves equal to any task. And so well did they perform the one before them that McArthur and his gallant men, in the heat and exultation of the moment, were loud in their praises of the dismounted cavalrymen, and generously awarded them the trophies of victory, together with the honor of being first to enter the works. It is impossible within the limits of a single chapter to give any adequate account of the gallant deeds of Hatch, Croxton, Hammond, Johnson, K
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the campaign of the Carolinas. (search)
patrick. First Brigade, Col. Thomas J. Jordan: 3d Ind. (batt'n), Capt. Charles T. Patton; 8th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Fielder A. Jones; 2d Ky., Maj. Owen Star; 3d Ky., Lieut.-Col. Robert I. King; 9th Pa., Lieut.-Col. David H. Kimmel. Second Brigade, Col. Smith D. Atkins: 92d Ill. (mounted), Lieut.-Col. Mathew Van Buskirk; 9th. Mich., Col. George S. Acker; 9th Ohio, Col. William D. Hamilton; 10th Ohio, Col. Thomas L. Sanderson; McLaughlin's Ohio Squadron, Capt. John Dalzell. Third Brigade, Col. George E. Spencer, Col. Michael Kerwin, Col. Thomas T. Heath: 1st Ala., Maj. Francis L. Cramer, Capt. Jerome J. Hinds, Maj. Sanford Tramel; 5th Ky., Col. Oliver L. Baldwin, Maj. Christopher T. Cheek; 5th Ohio, Maj. George H-. Racer; 13th Pa., Maj. George F. McCabe, Col. Michael Kerwin. Fourth Brigade (provisional organization of dismounted men), Maj. William B. Way: 1st Reg't, Maj. Charles A. Appel; 2d Reg't, Lieut.-Col. William Stough; 3d Reg't, Capt. John B. Riggs. Artillery. 23d N. Y. (assigned Ap