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
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
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 W. W. Swan or search for W. W. Swan 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)
E. Simmons of the 18th fell also in this battle; Col. Fletcher Webster and Capt. Richard H. Kimball of the 12th; together with three lieutenants, J. M. Mandeville of the 1st, Bartlett Shaw of the 29th and William H. Flynn of the 28th. It was upon the 18th Mass. that the heaviest losses of all fell. Maj. (afterwards general) G. L. Andrews, U. S. A., a Massachusetts officer commanding the 17th U. S. Infantry, especially compliments in his report the services of Lieut. (afterwards captain) W. W. Swan, U. S. A., also of Massachusetts. At Chantilly, Sept. 1, 1862, fell prematurely a Massachusetts officer, Gen. Isaac I. Stevens, who had left West Point, it is said, with higher honors than had been won by any previous graduate. He led an attack on foot at the head of the 79th New York, a Scotch regiment. The fire was severe and the color-sergeant was wounded, when General Stevens took the colors, calling, We are all Highlanders; follow, my brave Highlanders. He was almost instantly s