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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., Chapter 6 : (search)
Chapter 6:
Return to the old Dominion
up Loudon Valley
New Baltimore
McClellan relieved of command
grand divisions
reminiscences of the marches and halts
Stafford, C. H.
Belle plain
reminiscences
A pontoon bridge had been thrown across the Potomac at this place, over which we passed and climbed the high banks on the Virginia shore.
We marched up Loudon Valley, which is a continuation in Virginia of Pleasant Valley, in Maryland, lying between the same ranges, which, unde he Sixth Corps, whose badge was the Greek Cross, red, white, and blue for the First, Second, and Third Divisions, respectively, moving to the right and rear of the First Corps.
It must have been as late as the 18th of November when we reached Stafford, C. H., northeast of Falmouth, the divisions of the First Corps lying to the left and front, and both corps ranged before the base of supplies at the inlets of the Potomac.
It was said that the pontoon trains that had been ordered from Washingt
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., Chapter 10 : (search)
Chapter 10:
Northward movement of both armies
accessions from the Sixteenth New York
Wolf Run Shoal Fairfax Station
Bristow Station
enter Maryland
change of army commanders
Sixth Corps at Manchester
memorable march of the Sixth Corps to Gettysburg
The great highway from Falmouth to Alexandria leads through Stafford, C. H., across Aquia Creek to the ford at Wolf Run Shoal on the Occoquan.
North of the Occoquan, a road leads northwesterly from the highway, to the Fairfax Station on the Alexandria and Orange Railroad, eighteen or twenty miles west of Alexandria.
This was part of the route traversed in June, 1863, by the Sixth Corps, in its transfer from the vicinity of the Rappahannock to the subsequent theatre of military operations in Pennsylvania.
Our company supped and slept, on the night of the 14th of June, on the north bank of Agwam Creek, south of Aquia.
The next morning we were astir betimes, and moving through the fog a good two hours before the sun