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May 31st (search for this): chapter 1
ks or Seven Pines That battle ought really never to have been fought, for it had no purpose, no plan of action, no place in any scheme of operations. It is a question to this day which was the attacking party. （Walker's 2d Army Corps, p. 51.) (May 31–June 1) was the most important in which the Massachusetts troops had yet taken part. General Sedgwick's division, to which the 19th and 20th Mass. belonged, drove the famous Hampton Legion before it; and the 20th, which had now regained from ca fell on the 57th. Other regiments present were the 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 28th, 32d, 37th, with the 3d, 5th, 10th, 11th, 14th batteries, some of these having a few wounded but none killed. In the efforts to cross the Totopotomoy River (May 29-31) the Massachusetts regiments incurring small losses in killed and mortally wounded were the 15th, 16th, 19th, 21st, 22d, 28th, 32d (the largest loss), 58th Infantry, the 1st Heavy Artillery and the 3d Battery. Other regiments engaged were the 12th
June 11th (search for this): chapter 1
antry (Maj. A. A. Goodell), the 29th (Maj. Charles Chipman), the 35th (Maj. Nathaniel Wales) and the 21st (Lieut.-Col. G. P. Hawkes). They had many toilsome marches and small engagements in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, having been transferred from North Carolina and having set out from Baltimore on March 24, 1863, to take part in the advance on Jackson, Miss., and the siege of Knoxville, Tenn. In the former attack several companies of the 36th Mass. did active duty as skirmishers on June 11 before the city, their colonel being in command of the brigade; and on the evacuation of Jackson the 35th Mass. in line of skirmishers were the first to enter the city, the 29th being the reserve. The losses of all these were small. Official War Records, 37, pp. 561, 573; 51, pp. 552, 553, 580. At Blue Springs, Tenn. (October 10), there was a skirmish without actual loss, but in which Major Goodell of the 36th Infantry, a most valuable officer, was severely wounded; another at Lenoir's,
Webb (search for this): chapter 1
d 10th, in the order here given. The details of casualties in all these cases will be found under the head of the respective regiments, later in the volume. The 35th Mass. Infantry was detailed as a guard for the supply trains, and met with no loss, as was also the case with the 3d, 5th, 9th, 10th and 11th light batteries, which were also engaged. In this battle Col., afterwards Gen., W. F. Bartlett was very severely wounded in the head, and did not again return to his regiment; Brigadier-General Webb speaks highly of the conduct of Colonel (now brigadier-general) Bartlett of the 57th Mass. (General Hancock's report, Official War Records, 67, p. 326.) and among the killed or mortally wounded in the regiment were Capt. J. W. Gird and Second Lieut. J. M. Childs, both of Worcester. Other Massachusetts officers killed or mortally wounded were Maj. Henry L. Abbott (20th Mass.), of whom General Hancock said: This brilliant young officer, by his courageous conduct in action, the high s
Farragut (search for this): chapter 1
Confederate river defence fleet, that the enemy . . . will never penetrate farther down the Mississippi River, See letter in Porter's Naval History of the Civil War, p. 167. was not fulfilled. Davis descended the river, and on July 1 joined Farragut's fleet from New Orleans. On October 15 following he was relieved from command of the flotilla on arrival of Commander (afterwards admiral) Porter, who thus testifies to his services: For the second time (i. e., at Memphis) Rear-Admiral Davis we other two to surrender, and brought them both in as prisoners. Colonel Gooding's report, Official War Records, XV, 348. About this same time, Lieut. Chas. S. Sargent, volunteer aide-de-camp to General Banks, went to communicate with Admiral Farragut and found Admiral Porter at the mouth of Red River. He brought the report that Porter had captured Grand Gulf and Grant had begun his victorious march on Vicksburg. Official War Records, XV, 311. Irwin, p. 144. (This is the present prof
1863 AD (search for this): chapter 1
aptain Dunn, who commanded the detachment, Captain, I must do something for my country. See his memoirs by his brother under the title Chaplain Fuller (Boston, 1863); also one in Harvard Memorial Biographies (1st ed.), I, 79. This incident was, perhaps, unique in the war in view of all the circumstances. Mr. Fuller had just b 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 tse, 3,044 failed to report, and 3,623 paid commutation, amounting to $1,085,800. The number of drafted men and substitutes actually mustered into service during 1863 was as follows: 9th, 200; 11th, 201; 12th, 322; 13th, 200; 15th, 202; 16th, 202; 18th, 302; 19th, 211; 20th, 201; 22d, 194; 28th, 200; 32d, 312; 54th, 73; provost
23rd (search for this): chapter 1
this young officer. Official War Records, 68, p. 156. the 23d and 27th also losing, while the 40th was present but not seriously engaged. At Ashland (May 11) the 1st Mass. Cavalry, being detached with others to make a sudden attack upon Ashland Station, lost 6 killed, including Lieut. E. P. Hopkins of Williamstown. At Drewry's Bluff (May 12-16) the Star Brigade, with the 4th Cavalry (1 battalion), again met the enemy, with much heavier losses than at Swift Creek, the losses falling on the 23d, 24th, 25th, 27th and 40th Mass. Infantry. On the first day a portion of the enemy's line of defence was carried with small loss; on the 16th Butler was forced back to his entrenchments, the Confederates entrenching strongly in front, thus leaving him bottled up, in Grant's celebrated phrase, and requiring but a small force of the enemy to keep him there. Grant's report as lieutenant-general, dated July 22, 1865. See the text in Century War Book, IV, 147. General Beauregard's statement o
Fitzhugh Lee (search for this): chapter 1
but the 4th Cavalry (Col. Francis Washburn), with a force of only 12 officers and 67 men, was surrounded by the Confederate cavalry, under Generals Rosser and Fitzhugh Lee, and, after once cutting their way through, returned to the defence of two infantry regiments which had accompanied them. Gen. Theodore Reed, commanding the e killed, and most of the men killed, wounded or captured. The results of the contest were, however, of great importance in checking the Confederates and leading to Lee's final surrender. Meanwhile, on April 3, Cos. E and H, 1st Mass. Cavalry, under Maj. A. H. Stevens, Jr., were the first troops to enter Richmond on the day of itstely essential to it at last, through the protection given to Wilmington, the chief blockade-running port. Its capture ... effectually ended all blockade running. Lee sent me word that Fort Fisher must be held or he could not subsist his army. (Narrative of Col. Wm. Lamb in Century War Book, IV. 642.) Much blame has been cast up
Patterson (search for this): chapter 1
held in Philadelphia at the house of Major-General Patterson, commanding the department of Washinged to call his attention to the matter. General Patterson sent a message by Mr. Felton to General or it had been virtually decided upon by General Patterson, General Cadwallader, Admiral Dupont, thdespatch from Adjutant-General Thomas to General Patterson to the same effect, this being in answerrders. Official War Records, II, 583. General Patterson at once communicated the instructions toered General Butler to proceed to Annapolis (Patterson's Shenandoah Campaign, p. 27). After this thand a force of Pennsylvania troops under Colonel Patterson had marched through on May 9, without any excitement, under orders of General Patterson, commanding the Department of Washington. Having sll aided by His Excellency Governor Hicks. （Patterson's Shenandoah Campaign, p. 27.) The force whid, see Schouler, I, 148, 165, 167, 169; also Patterson's Shenandoah, p. 29. The 7th N. Y. Cavalry w[1 more...]
John Pope (search for this): chapter 1
inted in command of the defences of Washington, under McClellan, at the close of Pope's campaign. Within forty-eight hours a mob of thirty thousand wounded men and c2, 1865. Irwin's 19th Army Corps, p. 463. Xv. The Army of Virginia under Pope. While McClellan was still before Richmond, a new army organization called thfterwards increased by additions. They were placed under the command of Maj.-Gen. John Pope, who unfortunately forfeited confidence in advance by a rather bombasticsetts regiments engaged, but the second battle of Bull Run (Manassas), fought by Pope on his retreat Aug. 30, 1862, involved a number of Massachusetts regiments in acry was also engaged, but without loss. On the following day, September 2, General Pope was withdrawn; he returned to Washington and his army was merged in the Army commanders. Bird's Eye View, p. 80. For the demoralization of the army under Pope, see Walcott's 21st Mass. Infantry, p. 128. There happened afterwards at the
May 11th (search for this): chapter 1
fired until their ammunition was gone, then charged in vain, then retreated in perfect order. At one time they repulsed a charge of the enemy, during which the 25th Mass. Infantry and the 25th South Carolina found themselves face to face. The 25th Mass. lost 14 killed (including Lieut. C. E. Upton), Colonel Pickett pays a fine tribute to this young officer. Official War Records, 68, p. 156. the 23d and 27th also losing, while the 40th was present but not seriously engaged. At Ashland (May 11) the 1st Mass. Cavalry, being detached with others to make a sudden attack upon Ashland Station, lost 6 killed, including Lieut. E. P. Hopkins of Williamstown. At Drewry's Bluff (May 12-16) the Star Brigade, with the 4th Cavalry (1 battalion), again met the enemy, with much heavier losses than at Swift Creek, the losses falling on the 23d, 24th, 25th, 27th and 40th Mass. Infantry. On the first day a portion of the enemy's line of defence was carried with small loss; on the 16th Butler was
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