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Hagerstown (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
moved back to its position. A skirmish line attack on Colquitt was driven back. While waiting for reinforcements, all Hill's available artillery was kept busy. General Cox, from his article in Battles and Leaders, evidently thought that up to this time he had fought Hill's whole division, whereas he had engaged only two brigades of it. About 3:30 p. m., Col. G. T. Anderson's brigade and Drayton's brigade, of Longstreet's corps, arrived after an exhausting march of fourteen miles from Hagerstown. These brigades were sent to Ripley's left, and took position in front of Cox. In some way, Ripley's brigade got out of line and marched backward and forward without finding its position, and did not fire a gun all day. General Hill now ordered his men forward. He had already found from an early morning observation that General McClellan's large army was advancing on the pass, and while such an advance made his position hazardous, he was relieved to find McClellan in his front in such
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
derates advanced, the Federal garrisons at Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg would be withdrawn. Althoarmy was to be concentrated on the fall of Harper's Ferry. Meanwhile, General McClellan, Pope haveneral Hill did not lose it. To relieve Harper's Ferry and to strike the divided Confederates, itaws' command, and relieve Colonel Miles at Harper's Ferry; if too late to aid Miles, they were to tu Captain Siler lost a leg. On the 15th, Harper's Ferry surrendered, and the troops operating agai comrades time to receive the surrender of Harper's Ferry, and then to reach Sharpsburg early enoughl Jackson moved by way of the Winchester & Harper's Ferry railroad. On nearing the town, General Pestructions. General McLaws' division from Harper's Ferry entered coincidently with Walker at 10:30.e the property and garrison surrendered at Harper's Ferry, he sent orders for them to join him, and omas' brigade was left behind to finish at Harper's Ferry, so Hill had only five. He ordered two of [2 more...]
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ry upon the enemy before the season for active operations passed, and believing that the best way to relieve Virginia was to threaten the North, decided to enter Maryland. He took the step fully aware that his army was poorly prepared for invasion. He knew, as he says, that his army was feeble in transportation, the troops poorllost will probably never be known. General Hill, in a letter to the editors of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, (Vol. II, p. 570, note), says: I went into Maryland under Jackson's command. I was under his command when Lee's order was issued. It was proper that I should receive that order through Jackson, and not through Lde as to the Federal losses in this battle. Their official reports itemized show a total loss of only 363. The total North Carolina losses in the invasion of Maryland so far as they are officially reported were, killed, 335; wounded, 1,838. This official list, however, does not include the casualties in the Fifth, Twelfth and
Snaketown (Arizona, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
eft was withdrawn and the line rectified, when Greene's brigade of the Twelfth resumed position in the northeast angle of the wood, which it held until Sedgwick's division came in bold march. The Sixth Regiment History says of the part of that command: The enemy's guns in our front poured shot and shell in us while we were exposed to a cross-fire from his long-range guns, posted on the northeast side of Antietam creek. . . . Our line was called into action, and moved to the front on the Snaketown road, and between it and the Hagerstown pike. The front line had made a noble stand, but they were being pressed back. The enemy with fresh lines was pushing forward when we met them. Here it was that, for the first time in the war, I saw men fix their bayonets in action, which they did at the command of General Hood, who was riding up and down the line. We broke their line and held our place for awhile, but the enemy was bringing up fresh columns and overlapping our left, and we were
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 8
lonel Christie, was posted behind a low stone wall on the left of the Fifth; then came the Twentieth, Colonel Iverson, and the Thirteenth, Lieutenant-Colonel Ruffin. From the nature of the ground and the duty to be performed, the regiments were not in contact, and the Thirteenth was 250 yards to the left of the Twentieth. Fifty skirmishers of the Fifth North Carolina soon encountered the Twenty-third Ohio, deployed as skirmishers under Lieut.-Col. R. B. Hayes (afterward President of the United States), and the action began at 9 a. m. between Cox's division and Garland's brigade. General Hill, in Battles and Leaders, II, 563. Against Garland's 1,000 men, General Cox, of Reno's corps, led the brigades of Scammon and Crook, stated by Cox as less than 3,000. The Thirteenth North Carolina, under Lieutenant-Colonel Ruffin, and the Twentieth, under Col. A. Iverson, were furiously assailed on the left. Both regiments were under tried and true soldiers, and they received the assau
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
t was started to General Hill, but never reached him. By whom it was lost will probably never be known. General Hill, in a letter to the editors of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, (Vol. II, p. 570, note), says: I went into Maryland under Jackson's command. I was under his command when Lee's order was issued. It was proper that I should receive that order through Jackson, and not through Lee. I have now before me the order received from Jackson. My adjutant-general made affidavit twenceived at our office from General Lee. But an order from Lee's office, directed to me, was lost and fell into McClellan's hands. Did the courier lose it? Did Lee's own staff officers lose it? I do not know. The copy that reached Hill was in Jackson's own handwriting So important did that officer consider the order that he did not trust his adjutant to copy it, but made the copy himself. With like care, General Hill preserved the order then, and preserved it until his death. Who lost the
Antietam Creek (United States) (search for this): chapter 8
battery posted at long range on the Hagerstown ridge by General Doubleday. Their left was withdrawn and the line rectified, when Greene's brigade of the Twelfth resumed position in the northeast angle of the wood, which it held until Sedgwick's division came in bold march. The Sixth Regiment History says of the part of that command: The enemy's guns in our front poured shot and shell in us while we were exposed to a cross-fire from his long-range guns, posted on the northeast side of Antietam creek. . . . Our line was called into action, and moved to the front on the Snaketown road, and between it and the Hagerstown pike. The front line had made a noble stand, but they were being pressed back. The enemy with fresh lines was pushing forward when we met them. Here it was that, for the first time in the war, I saw men fix their bayonets in action, which they did at the command of General Hood, who was riding up and down the line. We broke their line and held our place for awhile,
Pitt (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
l Walker, however, mistakes about this advance being checked by Mansfield's men at this fence, so often mentioned in reports of this battle; for, as Lieut. W. F. Beasley has shown, the Forty-eighth (and perhaps the others) not only reached this fence, but drove the enemy from it, passed over and far beyond it (some 75 yards) before Lieut.-Col. S. H. Walkup ordered the regiment to fall back. Our Living and Dead, I, 330. In the retirement of this regiment, Colonel Manning, a native of Pitt county, was severely wounded, and Col. E. D. Hall succeeded to the command of the brigade. To the left, General Ransom's brigade of Carolinians drove the enemy from the woods in its front, and then, with grim determination, held, for the rest of the day, that important position, called by General Walker the key of the battlefield, in defiance of several sharp, later infantry attacks. Ransom's men endured a prolonged fire from the enemy's batteries on the extreme edge of the field. General Wal
Martinsburg (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
also were the Twenty-seventh, Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth; the Sixth was with Hood; the Twenty-first and the First battalion were in Ewell's division; Branch with five regiments, and Pender with four, were under A. P. Hill; Garland with five, Anderson with four, and Ripley with two regiments were in D. H. Hill's division. The cavalry was under Stuart, and the batteries were scattered. It had been supposed that as the Confederates advanced, the Federal garrisons at Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg would be withdrawn. Although General McClellan advised this, General Halleck prevented it. So, General Jackson, General McLaws and General Walker were sent to invest these places, and the rest of the army—Longstreet's and D. H. Hill's divisions—was ordered to cross South mountain and move toward Boonsboro, where the army was to be concentrated on the fall of Harper's Ferry. Meanwhile, General McClellan, Pope having been relieved of command, was advancing by slow stages toward his adve
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
urs, for it had been directed to hold the gap at all hazards, and did not know that it was fighting Franklin's corps. The action began about noon. Gen. Howell Cobb with his brigade, consisting of the Fifteenth North Carolina regiment and three Georgia regiments, left Brownsville, two miles from the gap, about 5 o'clock, to reinforce Munford. On their arrival they went promptly at their enemies. Weight of numbers soon broke their thin line, and left the gap to Franklin. Manly's battery was ry to carry what has since been known as Burnside's bridge across the Antietam, held by two regiments and a part of a regiment from General Toombs' brigade. No more gallant deed was done that day than the defense of this bridge by those devoted Georgia regiments. The enemy, however, found a ford, and by attack from the men who crossed there and a direct assault on the bridge carried it. This was followed by the attack of this corps on the Confederate right, held by the division of D. R. Jones
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