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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 68 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 30 2 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 19 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 18 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 18 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 17 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 12 2 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 12 0 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 11 1 Browse Search
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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 2: Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights—Darnstown, Maryland.--Muddy Branch and Seneca Creek on the Potomac—Winter quarters at Frederick, Md. (search)
e fare of the suffering soldier in the field, I fear the New York Tribune would have howled Onward to Richmond! with more relentless energy than ever before. At this date, too, a rumor reached us that there had been a fight at Harper's Ferry, with a report that a Colonel Ashby, as prisoner, had just passed through our camp to headquarters. Nine days before, our Captain Tompkins, commanding the Rhode Island Battery at Sandy Hook, had written me that there were fourteen hundred Rebels at Halltown witl two twelve-pounders, and that a Major Gould wished him to take his guns over to-day. As the river is very high, writes the captain, should we, under such circumstances, be obliged to retreat, we shall have a rough time of it. This was about all there was to the whole rumor. The captain had more wisdom than the major. Had it been otherwise, the lesson to be learned from crossing an unfordable stream to attack a superior force, relying upon artillery, with no bridge or preparation to
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
e under Steuart (the Second and Sixth Virginia cavalry regiments) were held inactive, while their commander wasted valuable time on a point of military etiquette before he yielded to an urgent order of Lieutenant Pendleton of Jackson's staff to follow the enemy, which afforded the Federal army time to make such headway that it was beyond, as Jackson declared, the reach of successful pursuit. With what cavalry Ashby could collect, he moved by way of Berryville to Harper's Ferry, halting at Halltown, while Steuart, passing the advance of the Confederate infantry an hour after it had halted, proceeded as far as Hainesville beyond Martinsburg, contenting himself with picking up a good many prisoners. See history of the Campaign of General T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, by William Allan, p. 115. It remains to consider our losses in this retreat,--first of men, second of material Banks, in his official report of losses on the 24th and 25th, gives as killed, 38; wounded, 155; missing,