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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 17: Second battle of Bull Bun (search)
was adroitly giving Lee and Longstreet time to get near him before battle. Phil Kearny's division, passing to the north of Manassas, soon skirmished with A. P. Hill's rear guard, while the latter was drawing off toward Sudley Springs and Jackson. Naturally, Kearny was not able to bring him to battle. King's division, of McDowell's corps, coming toward Centreville from Gainesville along the Warrenton Pike, unexpectedly encountered just at evening Confederate troops. A combat resulted. Gibbon's brigade, of King's division, supported by Doubleday's, with remarkable persistency resisted these assailants, the Confederates at once having attacked this intruding division. There was heavy loss on both sides. Ewell and Taliaferro were badly wounded, the former losing a leg. King's command remained two hours after the conflict and then went to Manassas. The end of this remarkable day found Pope with his headquarters at Centreville. He now saw plainly that he had been outgeneraled, h
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 18: the battle of South Mountain (search)
e, at dawn of the next day, showed the severity of the struggle. Burnside had detached General John Gibbon from Hooker to keep up a connection with Reno, but near night Gibbon was sent up the NatiGibbon was sent up the National road. He kept a battery in the road well forward. The Confederates from their crest began to fire as they got glimpses of this bold move both upon the brigade and the battery. But Gibbon's menGibbon's men by strengthening their skirmishers and steadily moving on pushed everything before them; they ran from tree to tree, or rock to rock, till the battery thus covered by them had worked ahead enough to be effective. Then Gibbon's battery began its discharges straight upon the Confederate guns,. which had hitherto annoyed his march. By its effective help the battery aided the regiments abreast of i Confederate regiments were then helped by three more, and our men were clogged for a time. But Gibbon in the end secured the gorge and slept on his battlefield. I came to the scene of the conflic
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 19: the battle of Antietam; I succeed Sedgwick in command of a division (search)
re ground than Meade. But soon there was surging to and fro. The forces engaged on the two sides were about equal, and the losses of men, killed and wounded in Hooker's corps, were startling. Ricketts's division alone exceeded a thousand, while Gibbon's small brigade counted nearly four hundred. The Confederate losses were equally heavy, but our men did not then know that. The depletion was so great that when there was at last not enough infantry to guard his battery, Gibbon ordered it toGibbon ordered it to limber to the rear and retire. Soon he followed with his infantry on account of reduction of numbers and want of ammunition. Hooker, however, persisted as usual, and, contrary to his first design, kept swinging to his own left and pressing forward. It had the effect to dislodge Jackson and D. H. Hill from their first line, and at last to force them through the cornfields and open spaces into the West woods. In this severe work General Starke, having the Stonewall division, and Colonel D
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 21: battle of Fredericksburg (search)
s made up of three divisions: 1st, Doubleday's; 2d, Gibbon's; 3d, Meade's. Franklin believed, as anybody wouldported on its left by Doubleday and on its right by Gibbon. In order to give an additional confidence, two dime of his batteries, which gave him some relief. Gibbon had separated from Meade while advancing in the woores indicate the severity of the engagement. General Gibbon, wounded during the day, had with his division oods strongly occupied by Pender's deployed lines. Gibbon endeavored to rush Taylor's brigade across an open e of ground. Now when Meade made his last advance, Gibbon, perceiving the effort, sent Taylor forward again. lroad embankment to stop him. The other brigades of Gibbon's division came into line to the left of Taylor. Tarter was at first repulsed; but now fully aroused, Gibbon gathered as many as he could from his reliable regiirit, and the railway was taken with 180 prisoners. Gibbon, bleeding, was obliged to leave the front and Taylo
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 22: battle of Chancellorsville (search)
as Pleasonton would naturally throw out on all the roads which led to him, afforded me a good outpost of warning to my right rear. But there was no cavalry placed on the Orange plank road, nor on the old turnpike, which near Dowdall's tavern passes off to the north of west, making a considerable angle with the plank road. As soon as Meade had crossed the Rapidan, Anderson's two Confederate brigades were drawn back from the United States Ford; the bridges were immediately laid and all but Gibbon's division of the Second Corps (Couch's) came to join us at Chancellorsville. Sickles, too, with the Third, had been taken from Sedgwick and was (Thursday night) in bivouac near the United States Ford, just across the river. General Hooker, with a portion of his staff, had already come up and taken his headquarters at Chancellorsville. Our troops had skirmished all along with Stuart's cavalry, and exchanged some shots with Anderson's division in front of Slocum's center and left, yet th
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 25: the battle of Gettysburg; the second and third day (search)
way-hearing a heavy engagement on my front, and judging the firing to be coming nearer and nearer to his position, caused Gibbon to detach the brigade of Colonel S. S. Carroll to my support. Colonel Carroll was at that time a young man of great quirigades now most exposed to direct assault were those of Smyth and Willard (Hays's division), and Webb, Hall, and Harrow (Gibbon's division). At last two signal guns were fired. Then, after just interval enough to mark well the signal, the cannonthe flanks traceable. It was more like a closed column, and bore to its left and aimed for Zeigler's Grove front. Hays, Gibbon, Doubleday, and their brigade commanders and all their commands, in two lines, were behind the slight barricades and the adually regained his health and strength. So each family had its own sorrows and woundings after Gettysburg. Hancock, Gibbon, Webb, Butterfield (Meade's chief of staff), and so many others were wounded that commands changed hands. Meade did not
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
280. Garnett, H. H., II, 317, 320, 321. Garnett, Robert S., I, 54, 435, 439. Garrard, Kenner, I, 520, 528, 542, 579, 590, 592, 594, 595; II, 7, 27, 28. Geary, J. W., I, 430, 432, 433, 461, 465-469, 476, 494, 516, 544, 545, 616-618; II, 94. Gebhart, Mr., II, 536. George, George W., I, 11, 12. George, King of Greece, II, 514. Geronimo, Chief, 11, 551. Getty, George W., I, 345; 11, 450. Gettysburg, Battle of, I, 397-447. Gettysburg, Campaign of, I, 378-396. Gibbon, John, I, 101, 283, 284, 293, 333, 336, 356, 436, 444. Gibson, H. R., II, 587. Kidding, Joshua R., II, 321. Gilbreth, F. W., 1, 403, 537, 556; 11, 23, 216. Gile, G. W., II, 411. Gillem, A. C., II, 340, 341. Gillen, P. H., II, 384. Gilman, Frank G., I, 537, 562. Gilmore, Eliza Otis, I, 17-29, 37, 40, 41, 49, 59, 61, 122, 549, 50. Gilmore, John, I, 16, 21, 24; 11, 45. Gilmore, Quincy A., 11, 131, 178. Gilmore, Rodelphus H., II, 566. Gilsa, von, Leopold, I, 349,364,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
4 Gavin, Patrick, 517 Gay, C. R., 517 Gay, G. G., 517 Gay, G. H., 457 Gay, James, 457 Gaylord, Amos, 517 Gaylord, J. H., 364 Gaylord, W. G., 457 Gazette, E. K., 457 Gendron, James, 364 Gentsch, Francis, 364 George, A. W., 518 George, Frank, 518 George, H. O., 365 George, Hiram, 518 George, John, 518 George, Munroe, 518 Gerard, Charles, 457 Gerrish, Edward, 365 Gerrish, G. M., 518 Getchell, E. J., 518 Getchell, H. D., 457 Getchell, L. G., 365 Getty, G. W., 208, 266 Gibbon, John, 230 Gibbons, Barney, 365 Gibbons, John, 365 Gibbons, T. J., 492 Gibbs, Charles, 518 Gibbs, J. K., 518 Gibbs, William, 365 Gibson, C. H., 365 Gibson, D. E., 518 Gibson, E. J., 492 Gibson, Edward, 518 Gibson, H. H., 518 Gibson, J. J., 457 Gibson, John, 518 Gibson, L. D., 365 Gibson, Seth, 365 Gibson, Thomas, 457 Giester, Christopher, 518 Gifford, Eben, 518 Gifford, J. S., 457 Gifford, Jonathan, 518 Gifford, Robert, 365 Gifford, W. H., 518 Gilbert, Charles, 492 Gilbe
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
irit—the light-footed skirmishers leaping and springing up the slopes and ledges with the nimbleness of the coney. It was found that, owing to the precipitous figure of the mountain sides, the hostile artillery did little hurt; but the Confederate riflemen, fighting behind rocks and trees and stone walls, opposed a persistent resistance. They were, however, forced back, step by step; and by dark, Hooker's troops had carried the crest on the right of the gap. Now, as simultaneous with this, Gibbon with his brigade had worked his way by the main road well up towards the top of the pass, and as Reno's corps had gained a firm foothold on the crest to the left of the pass, it seemed that the position was carried; and though it was by this time too dark to push through to the western side of the mountain, yet the whole army was up, and with the position secured would in the morning force an issue by its own pressure. Yet these successes were not gained without a heavy sacrifice. Fifteen
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 7 (search)
hich remained yet in the town. In obedience to his instructions, Franklin threw forward Meade's division, supported by Gibbon's division on the right, with Doubleday's in reserve for any emergency. Meade advanced across the plain, but had not proon to Burnside's prescription of one division at least for the column of attack, had put in not only Meade's division but Gibbon's division and Doubleday's division, making the whole of Reynolds' corps. Doubleday, early in the attack, was turned off to the left to meet a menace by the enemy from that direction; but Gibbon advanced on the right of Meade, and, though he did not push on as far as the latter, he helped stem the hostile return, and assisted in the withdrawal of Meade's shattered linordered forward Birney's division of Stoneman's corps; and Birney arrived in such time that, when the troops of Meade and Gibbon were broken and flying in confusion, he presented a firm line that checked the Confederate pursuit. As I advanced with m
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