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Meadow Mills (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
utenant in the regular army. He was also employed as a scout and as a semi-official agent for Massachusetts. Later in the war he died of wounds received at Cedar Creek, Va. See his memoir in Harvard Memorial Biographies, I, 296. Another and an earlier instance was that of Dexter F. Parker of Worcester, a young mechanic of maro, to the Sketches of War History, published by the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, III, 122-125. For Sheridan's opinion of the Massachusetts regiments at Cedar Creek, see his Personal Memoirs, II, 68. For Early's own account of the Valley Campaign, see Southern Historical Papers, III, 212. The final shock fell on Thoburn's eral Lowell in Harvard Memorial Biographies, I, 696. The 2d Mass. Cavalry, as a part of Lowell's command, had acted as rear guard during Sheridan's retreat from Cedar Creek to Strasburg, and had sustained some losses in killed and prisoners. Again it took part in a skirmish at Berryville, Sept. 3, 1864, and sustained, with the 34t
Middlesex Village (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
the 4th M. V. M. (Colonel Packard), which went by afternoon train (April 17) to Fall River, to take the steamer for New York and thence to Fortress Monroe. The 6th (Colonel Jones) left for Washington by rail, but at a later hour. The 3d (Colonel Wardrop) was embarked on the steamer Spalding for Fortress Monroe, but remained in the harbor till morning. The 8th The 8th M. V. M. came mainly from Essex County; the 3d and 4th mainly from Norfolk, Plymouth and Bristol; the 6th mainly from Middlesex, with one company from Boston and one from Worcester. (Colonel Munroe) was delayed by the desire to attach to it other companies; it was not ordered to proceed until April 18, and was then accompanied by Brig.-Gen. (afterwards major-general) B. F. Butler, the instructions from Washington having now been modified to include four regiments and a brigadier-general. This regiment went through Philadelphia, after being, like the 6th, warmly received in New York, it being the second regiment th
Mine Run (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
of the Rappahannock in pursuit of Lee a number of Massachusetts regiments and batteries took part (Nov. 7, 1863), only the 10th and 18th infantries sustaining losses, but not heavily. The report of Col. Joseph Haves (18th Mass.), commanding brigade, is in Official War Records, 48, p. 580, and reports from Capts. J. H Sleeper (10th Mass. Battery) and A. P. Martin (3d Mass. Battery), on pp. 572, 583. In the same way, in the more extended but somewhat ineffectual four days operations at Mine Run, Va. (Nov. 26-30, 1863), many Massachusetts regiments of the three arms of the service were engaged, actual losses falling only on the 1st Cavalry and the 1st, 9th, 11th, 15th and 16th infantries. Brig.-Gen. D. A. Russell of Massachusetts was designated to convey to the Adjutant-General seven captured battle flags and staff, because of his conspicuous conduct as the leader of the storming party of the occasion. Letter of Major-General Meade in Official War Records, 48, p. 491. General Rus
Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
port by Col. Orland Smith (73d Ohio, commanding brigade), as was Lieut. E. M. Cheney of the same regiment, who served as brigade quartermaster. Official War Records, 55, p. 375. Lieutenant-Colonel Ryder's own report follows, p. 376. Lieut. Arthur Macarthur, Jr. (then adjutant 24th Wisconsin), a native of Massachusetts, received a medal of honor for coolness and conspicuous bravery in action in seizing the colors of his regiment and planting them on the captured works on the crest of Missionary Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863. When the color sergeant was exhausted, he carried the flag in front of the regiment, cheering the men to follow him up the ridge. Report of Maj.-Gen. Carl von Baumbach, commanding regiment. Official War Records, 55, 208. Both the 2d and 33d took active part in the battle of Resaca (May 13-16, 1864), the former losing 5 killed or mortally wounded. The 33d again made a fine charge, charging and carrying three fortified hills in succession, but having 24 killed or mor
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