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Kelly's Ford (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
e slanders of traitors and the lying tongues of misnamed friends, I take the liberty of sending you a truthful account of the doings of the One Hundred and Fifty-third regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, during the unsuccessful reconnoissance across the Rappahanock. It, with the other regiments of the Eleventh corps, broke camp on Monday, April twenty-seventh, and marched to the neighborhood of Hartwood Church. On Tuesday morning at four o'clock, after a short night's rest, moved on to Kelly's Ford, arriving there at noon. On this second day of the march, which you, as an old soldier, well know is always the most trying, the regiment did well, and the stragglers from it formed a very small number of those brought up in the rear by the provost-guard. On the same evening at eleven o'clock, camp was broken, and in silence, our corps was the first to cross the pontoons, and penetrate the darkness and swamps of the southern side of the Rappahannock, where but a few hours' rest were give
Waterloo, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
ith marvellous energy brought his pieces into position, all pointing toward the approaching avalanche--forty pieces ready to open their thunders. General Hooker was at Chancellorsville. In an instant he was in the saddle. There was no force at hand but Berry that could be thrown instantly into the break. It was his old command, hardened, indurated, made perfect through suffering in all the hard-fought contests of the Peninsula. With a heroism unsurpassed, equal to the Imperial Guard at Waterloo, amid all the disaster, rout, panic, and commotion, they moved into position--one single block to resist the moving mass, to stop it square till Birney, Berdan, and Williams could be recalled; till Slocum could change front; till the dam could be thrown across the stream! With yells and cheers the enemy advanced and met the canister and shells of thirty pieces of artillery. It was a terrible fire. There stood Berry's division, as firm as a rock. Again and again the rebels dashed again
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
General Howard, asking for support, saying he had found a portion of the enemy intrenched, and was going to attack them. General Howard sent him word that he would support him, and sent a staff-officer to ascertain the exact locality of General Sickles's line of battle, in order to join it upon the right. At this time he received an order from General Hooker to send a brigade to General Sickles. He had only the reserve, Bolan's brigade, and that the best of his corps, consisting partly of Ohio and Massachusetts troops, under a most brave and thorough officer. There was no alternative, and General Howard conducted the brigade to its position in person, taking some prisoners on the way. General Howard galloped back to his headquarters with the greatest speed; and it was fortunate that he made no delay, for within five minutes after his return a couple of shots from two of our rifled cannon located on the right, upon the old turnpike, announced the enemy in that vicinity. Soon
Northampton County (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
g Monday morning we had a very lively brush with a line of rebel skirmishers on an opposite hill, and I had every opportunity of seeing the coolness and determination nearly unanimously evinced, and feeling proud of the spirit animating our Northampton County boys. At such times to particularize would be improper; suffice it to say that no officer was shot by a private, and no private cut down by an officer. Those who have fallen — and, alas! we mourn a number of such — have fallen in the nobanz's regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, and desiring you, for the sake of justice to your fellow-citizens now in the front rank of the army, bravely battling for all they hold dear at home, to publish this letter in all the newspapers of Northampton County. Very respectfully, J. F. Frueauff, Major Commanding One Hundred and Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers. Congratulatory order of General Hooker. headquarters of the army of the Potomac, May 6, 1863. The following order has
Fredericksburgh (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
nt outside of the intrenchments, down the Fredericksburgh road to the picket-line, where we relieve troops of the storming of the heights of Fredericksburgh, I promised to furnish further particularwas moving up the Bowling Green road into Fredericksburgh. Then the action commenced. Newton's dithe Light brigade occupied the streets of Fredericksburgh. This division, General Howe commanding,and twenty men, and reached a point below Fredericksburgh, on the Rappahannock, where we bivouackedment — Sedgwick's attack. The heights of Fredericksburgh were of no account to Hooker. Sedgwick hn ; but that was of no consequence if the Fredericksburgh road was intact. The rain was pouring. those of the enemy first occurred — up to Fredericksburgh, and from the town up as far as Wildernese ten miles above or rather south-west of Fredericksburgh, where the plank and turnpike roads come m Church, about four miles south-west of Fredericksburgh, and may, we suppose, be regarded as the [17 more...]<
Falmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
rris. headquarters Sixty-Sixth regiment N. Y.V., camp near Falmouth, Va., May, 1863. sir: I have the honor to submit the following rehe brigade, Gen. Zook commanding, about four miles to the right of Falmouth, where the brigade bivouacked for the night. This regiment was ornued march of about twelve hours. returned to its old camp near Falmouth, Va. A report of the loss of the regiment, from the time of leavi headquarters Sixty-First regiment, N. Y. Vols., camp near Falmouth, Va., May 7, 1863. To Captain G. H. Caldwell, Assistant Adjutant-Gend and Twenty-Ninth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, camp near Falmouth, Va., May 8, 1863. Captain: I have the honor to report in compliaforce to pieces. All of his movements, from the moment of leaving Falmouth, had been with this object in view. Reynolds was on the extremem his plan, thought over and over, and decided upon before he left Falmouth. There will be universal regret that he recrossed the river, bu
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
infantry force beyond opened upon them. Colonel Seaver immediately returned the fire. The Fourth and Fifth Vermont, and Twenty-first New-Jersey soon came up and the rebels were driven from that portion of the heights. The Sixth Vermont, Colonel Barney, was retained on Marye's Hill, by order of the General from Newton's division, who had gained that range, and sent to the front as skirmishers. This was the way the heights of Fredericksburgh were carried, and this was the part taken by Vermont troops in that brilliant achievement. I remain, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, L. A. Grant, Colonel Commanding Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel Salomon's report. headquarters Eighty-Second regiment ill. Vols., camp near Brooke's Station, Va. May--, 1863. To Brigadier-General A. Schimmelfennig, Commanding First Brigade Third Division, Eleventh Army Corps: sir: In regard to the part my regiment took in the action on Saturday, May second, I beg leave to report:
Deep Run (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
ral Lee shall never hereafter again expose his valuable life to the missiles of death. It is unnecessary; and now that Jackson has fallen, this, our great hero and chieftain, owes it to us, if not to himself, to be where the shock of battle cannot reach. Ten thousand, or even one hundred thousand men slain in battle might be replaced, but if General Lee should fall, who could take his place? Echo answers who! I have passed over the whole battle-ground since the fight. It reached from Deep Run — indeed, it may be said to extend from Hamilton's Crossing, five miles below Fredericksburgh, where the artillery duelling between our batteries and those of the enemy first occurred — up to Fredericksburgh, and from the town up as far as Wilderness, fifteen miles above. The country above where the main fighting took place, has been aptly described by General Lee as a tangled wilderness, and yet this section of densely wooded land, covered with the closest undergrowth ever seen, has been
Malvern Hills (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 193
y in pursuit; not the close of a hard-fought battle, but the beginning of one, with a fierce, exultant, determined host advancing. The river roaring in its might, just bursting through the breach, must be dammed in an instant. The flood must be stopped at once or all is lost. There has been no moment like it during the war. It was a critical hour — that sunset hour on Sunday at Pittsburgh Landing, but there the torrent had been stemmed all through the day. It was an eventful moment at Malvern Hills, when Magruder led up his whisky-maddened men to that terrible artillery fire of our forces; but that was the last spasm of a foe exhausted by seven days fighting. But here, at this moment, in this wood, this clearing, may have been the turning-point of the destiny of this nation, the welfare of the human race for all coming time. Now is the hour for the stringing of the nerves, the bracing of hearts, the clenching of teeth! Flesh and blood must become adamant. Sickles, looking dow
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 193
as put in motion, the regiment leading. Arriving at near the rifle-pits of the enemy, a heavy fire from musketry and artillery was received. The regiment being in column, the proper time for deploying not yet arriving, the loss was heavy; and the fire, one of the heaviest that could be given, caused the regiment to waver for a few moments, when it rallied and successfully gained the crest of the hill, capturing one of the pieces of artillery belonging to the famous Washington battery, of Louisiana. In this charge, Colonel George C. Spear was instantly killed, Captains Crosby and Ellis, and Lieutenants Koerner and Harper wounded, and ten enlisted men killed, and fifty-four wounded. The regiment then under my command assisted the troops, under the command of Col. Shaler, in driving the enemy some three miles along the plank-road, and in the direction of Chancellorsville, capturing numbers of prisoners. As no account of them was taken, they being immediately sent to the rear, the
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