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professor of horticulture in Harvard University.) Capt. Howard Dwight, assistant adjutant-general at the headquarters of General Banks, was shot and killed by guerillas at Bayou Boeuf, May 4, 1863, after having surrendered while riding to the front. His brother, Brig.-Gen. Wm. Dwight, Jr., was ordered by General Banks to arrest one hundred white persons in the vicinity and send them to New Orleans, to be confined as hostages for the arrest of the assassins. Official War Records, XV, 312, 1119. Irwin, pp. 145, 146. There were not so many white men in that whole region, and the offenders were never brought to justice, though the act was disavowed and condemned by the Confederate officers. Another brother, Maj. Wilder Dwight, had already fallen at Antietam. In the siege of Port Hudson, Colonel Chickering (41st Mass. Infantry) marched, May 21, from Barreas Landing with a force consisting of his own regiment,—now mounted as cavalry on prairie horses,—the 52d Mass. Infantry, four M
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k from the front and placed for a time under General Butler, some of these being Massachusetts regiments, but fortunately little actual military collision was required. Correspondence, etc., in regard to the draft riots may be found in Official War Records, 44, pp. 875-940. Reports not otherwise quoted from Massachusetts officers in regard to military movements at Gettysburg will be found on pp. 71, 842, 853, 980; also in the preceding volume, 43, pp. 547-550, 607, 659, 673, 688, 884, 886, 1043. There is one also (p. 650) from Lieut.-Col. J. D. Greene, 17th U. S. Infantry, an officer of Massachusetts birth. Xxii. The Army of the Cumberland. The only Massachusetts troops forming part of the Army of the Cumberland in 1863-64 were the 2d and 33d Infantry, but the service they rendered was important, and in the case of the latter peculiarly conspicuous. Troops being called for from the east to reinforce Rosecrans, two army corps were hastily sent, the 11th under Howard, the 12
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k 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 mortally wounded, Adjutant General's Report, January, 1865, p 780. including Lieuts. H. J. Parker of Townsend and E. L. Bumpus of Braintree. At Cassville, Ga., both regiments were engaged (May 19-22), with small loss. At Kenesaw Mountain they had several engagements in June, the 33d making another fine charge, and losing 11 killed or mortally wounded, including the 2d lieutenant, C. H. Lord of Ipswich. By July 17 the 33d had been reduced to a mere skeleton regiment. The 2d Mass. was in the breastworks before Atlanta from July 22, 1864, and on the 30th Lieutenant-Colonel Morse of that regiment, being field officer of the day, surprised the enemy's pickets in his front and captured them in their rifle-pits. The regiment was then ordered to the support of the pi
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as on my return from Washington, and found the armies between Middletown and Newton, having been driven back four miles. I here took the affair in hand and quickly united the corps,—formed a compact line of battle just in time to repulse an attack of the enemy. Pond, p. 237. Pond, p. 236. But a more vivid description is that of Col. B. W. Crowninshield of the 1st Mass. Cavalry: One thing struck me as curious,—that the stream of men was now going towards Middletown. Astonished, I left Wheaton and galloped over to the pike, where I learned that Sheridan had just passed up,—as well as can be ascertained, it was half-past 11 o'clock,—and directly after, meeting General Forsyth, chief of staff, I received orders to go to Newtown, form a guard, and collect all the stragglers I could and bring them up to the front. This I proceeded to do, and finally collected about two thousand men of all corps, and brought them up and turned them over to the command of General Crook, then on our e
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enlistment expire amid the din of battle; neither party had as yet formed an idea of the sacrifices its opponent was capable of making. For the over-confidence of the Confederates, see De Leon, Four Years in Rebel Capitals, p. 135. Not one in three looked facts in the face. （De Leon, p. 32.) The war was only a campaign, and not to last six months. （De Leon, 27, 175.) See the similar opinions expressed by Coombs and Benjamin, in 1861, in Century Magazine (October, 1889, p. 950). But Gen. J. E. B. Stuart held a different opinion. （Eggleston's A Rebel's Recollections.) It is remembered that a very able man in Boston, Dr. Samuel Cabot, who had aided largely in sending rifles to Kansas, said once, in speaking of a possible war between the Northern and Southern States, It would not last six months; while, on the other hand, one of the best of the Massachusetts militia officers, who went out as adjutant of General Devens's battalion at the very beginning, and afterwards entered the regul<
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e preceding volume, 43, pp. 547-550, 607, 659, 673, 688, 884, 886, 1043. There is one also (p. 650) from Lieut.-Col. J. D. Greene, 17th U. S. Infantry, an officer of Massachusetts birth. Xxii. The Army of the Cumberland. The only Massachusetts troops forming part of the Army of the Cumberland in 1863-64 were the 2d and 33d Infantry, but the service they rendered was important, and in the case of the latter peculiarly conspicuous. Troops being called for from the east to reinforce Rosecrans, two army corps were hastily sent, the 11th under Howard, the 12th under Slocum. The first of these included the 33d Mass. (Lieut.-Col. Godfrey Rider, Jr., Steinwehr's division) and the second included the 2d Mass. (Colonel Cogswell, Williams's division). The orders arriving Sept. 24, 1863, the troops travelled west by rail for a week ere reaching their new command. On October 29 a sudden call was made upon the 33d to carry a very steep fortified hill, some two hundred feet high, at Wau
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e of the 6th Mass. Infantry, Phineas S. Davis (afterwards killed, in 1864, as colonel of the 39th Mass. Infantry); and under arrangements perfs vividly a scene between the governor and a local selectman, who in 1864 offered a company from his town for a new regiment if the officers cssachusetts troops forming part of the Army of the Cumberland in 1863-64 were the 2d and 33d Infantry, but the service they rendered was impord the threatened capture of Richmond. Pond's Shenandoah Valley in 1864 (Campaigns of the Civil War), p. 3. The part taken by Massachusetts Shenandoah, as reorganized under Maj.-Gen. P. H. Sheridan (Aug. 31; 1864), contained the following Massachusetts forces:— Army of the Shenat had preceded, for the Massachusetts troops as for all others. In 1864 Congress had passed a bill reviving the grade of lieutenantgen-eral,f military operations; which was to make the sanguinary struggles of 1864 and 1865 nothing but a series of assaults upon fortified lines, the
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oln to serve for three years, or during the war, would see their terms of enlistment expire amid the din of battle; neither party had as yet formed an idea of the sacrifices its opponent was capable of making. For the over-confidence of the Confederates, see De Leon, Four Years in Rebel Capitals, p. 135. Not one in three looked facts in the face. （De Leon, p. 32.) The war was only a campaign, and not to last six months. （De Leon, 27, 175.) See the similar opinions expressed by Coombs and Benjamin, in 1861, in Century Magazine (October, 1889, p. 950). But Gen. J. E. B. Stuart held a different opinion. （Eggleston's A Rebel's Recollections.) It is remembered that a very able man in Boston, Dr. Samuel Cabot, who had aided largely in sending rifles to Kansas, said once, in speaking of a possible war between the Northern and Southern States, It would not last six months; while, on the other hand, one of the best of the Massachusetts militia officers, who went out as adjutant of General <
Keyes (search for this): chapter 1
). First Division.—2d Brigade, 29th Mass. Infantry. Second Division.—1st Brigade, 15th Mass. 3d Brigade, 19th and 20th Mass. Third Army Corps (Heintzelman). Second Division.—1st Brigade, 1st, 11th and 16th Mass. Fourth Army Corps (Keyes). First Division.—3d Brigade, 7th and 10th Mass. Fifth Army Corps (Porter). First Division.—1st Brigade, 18th and 22d Mass.; 2d Mass. Sharpshooters. 2d Brigade, 9th Mass. Artillery.—3d and 5th Mass. batteries. Sixth Army Corps (Frankl, Capt. R. C. Derby in The Young Captain, p. 141. but had then been driven back with seven days fighting to the James River. Among the general officers from Massachusetts who had distinguished themselves in this prolonged contest were Hooker, Keyes and Sumner; and among men of less experience, Devens. Xiv. The Department of the Gulf. When General Butler, on March 20, 1862, took command of the newly organized Department of the Gulf, he had with him about thirteen thousand five hu
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P. Harlow; 10th Mass., Lieut.-Col J. B. Parsons; 37th Mass., Col. Oliver Edwards; Artillery Brigade, 1st Mass. Light Battery. Eleventh Army Corps (Howard). Second Division.—2d Brigade, 33d Mass., Col. A. B. Underwood. Twelfth Army Corps (Slocum). First Division.—3d Brigade, 2d Mass., Lieut.-Col. C. R. Mudge. Cavalry Corps. Second Division.—1st Brigade, 1st Mass. Cavalry, This regiment actually served with the Sixth Army Corps, and on the right flank. Lieut.-Col. G. S. Curtisd Infantry, but the service they rendered was important, and in the case of the latter peculiarly conspicuous. Troops being called for from the east to reinforce Rosecrans, two army corps were hastily sent, the 11th under Howard, the 12th under Slocum. The first of these included the 33d Mass. (Lieut.-Col. Godfrey Rider, Jr., Steinwehr's division) and the second included the 2d Mass. (Colonel Cogswell, Williams's division). The orders arriving Sept. 24, 1863, the troops travelled west by rail<
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