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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 6 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
he railroad, and of course received the heaviest of the enemy's fire. This staggered the men an instant, but recovering they gave a wild hurrah and over they went, mounting the embankment, driving everything before them at the point of the bayonet. Official War Records, XII (2), 441. Brig.-Gen. C. Grover, commanding brigade, says that the 11th and 16th Mass. have under every trial won new distinction. Lieut. Hiram B. Banks of the 16th was killed in this charge, as were also Lieut.-Col. George F. Tileston, Capt. Benjamin Stone and Lieut. William R. Porter of the 11th. Capt. Charles W. Carroll and Lieuts. Pardon Almy and J. 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 Massachus