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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
as did some of the older soldiers, who had been scarred and battered in the months gone by. There was that about it which made all unwilling to be left behind. We wanted to have a part in the great campaign soon to begin. We wished to banish every trace of band-box from the Battery and make a record as famous as that of Ricketts' company from Pennsylvania. We had seen just fighting enough to believe our organization composed of men who lacked only the opportunity to show that neither Massachusetts nor any other state had sons who would contend more manfully in the cause. Gen. Meade's address to the army, informing them of the movement about to begin, enforcing the tremendous issues involved and urging to heroic sacrifices for country and home, was read at evening roll-call to a hushed audience who felt that for them those earnest words were weighty with meaning. Capt. Sleeper also addressed a few words to the men, stating the probable magnitude of the campaign before us, and im
Spotsylvania county (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
der. The advance to the Rapidan was to be made in two columns. The right column, consisting of the Fifth and Sixth corps, was to cross at Germania Ford, Also called Germanna, this being the original name. So named from a colony of Germans that came over during the reign of Queen Anne. They settled here and were employed in working the mines of the neighborhood. Near here, too, stood the residence of Col. Spottswood, Governor of Virginia, early in the last century, after whom Spottsylvania County was named, the sylvania being the Latinized meaning of woods. and the Second at Ely's, six miles farther down. Grant's plan Grant and his Campaigns. Copper. was to cross the river below Lee's army and by a sudden movement turn his right flank, then, by fierce battles, beat and destroy his army. That this plan was not altogether unreasonable, appears from the disparity in the strength of the two armies. Lee's rolls showing as present for duty a force of 52,626 men—foot, horse, a
Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
smoky. It was the Sabbath, but its holy associations were lost sight of in the unceasing activities of war, and an- Where the Battery stood in the Wilderness as it looked in 1890. other movement was projected, having for its object the passing around Lee's right flank by a march to the left, and placing our army at Spottsylvania Court House between him and Richmond. This was the first in that continued series of moves by the left flank which did not end until the Rebellion collapsed at Appomattox. It was a surprise to the army for the prediction was general that Grant would now retreat across the Rapidan. That wasn't Grant. The Fifth Corps was in the van, having left the lines and the Wilderness, and started at 9 o'clock the evening previous, with directions to move to the Court House by the Brock Road. As an illustration of the part chance sometimes plays in ordering the fate of battles, Gen. Lee, taking note of the fact that our army was withdrawing, but not knowing whith
Spottsylvania (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
Chapter 10: May 3-20, 1864. Our anticipations order of march Grant's plan almost a stampede General Hancock Chancellorsville Todd's Tavern the Wilderness and its terrific battle by the left flank battle of the Po Spottsylvania the ghastly salient moving about the Tenth a four-gun Battery news from home. It was with something of a thrill that, in the afternoon of May 3d, we heard orders for drill countermanded by those foreshadowing a march at dark. We did not shrink from the prospect as did some of the older soldiers, who had been scarred and battered in the months gone by. There was that about it which made all unwilling to be left behind. We wanted to have a part in the great campaign soon to begin. We wished to banish every trace of band-box from the Battery and make a record as famous as that of Ricketts' company from Pennsylvania. We had seen just fighting enough to believe our organization composed of men who lacked only the opportunity to show
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
, in the afternoon of May 3d, we heard orders for drill countermanded by those foreshadowing a march at dark. We did not shrink from the prospect as did some of the older soldiers, who had been scarred and battered in the months gone by. There was that about it which made all unwilling to be left behind. We wanted to have a part in the great campaign soon to begin. We wished to banish every trace of band-box from the Battery and make a record as famous as that of Ricketts' company from Pennsylvania. We had seen just fighting enough to believe our organization composed of men who lacked only the opportunity to show that neither Massachusetts nor any other state had sons who would contend more manfully in the cause. Gen. Meade's address to the army, informing them of the movement about to begin, enforcing the tremendous issues involved and urging to heroic sacrifices for country and home, was read at evening roll-call to a hushed audience who felt that for them those earnest words
Po River (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e unlimbered on some high ground, and shelled a Rebel wagon train whose course along a road parallel to our own we could trace by the long line of dust rising above the trees. We made no long stop here, but moved on moderately, and crossing the Po River, bivouacked near the road for the night, unaware of our close proximity to the enemy. But our lines were, in fact, a short distance from those of the Rebels, for Gen. Hancock had been ordered to cross the Po with the hope of capturing a part ofhe was laid in a grave hastily made by his comrades, and a simple inscription on a smooth pine board, taken from a cracker box, was put at his head, marking the last resting-place of one of the first martyrs to Freedom and Union at the battle of Po River. A wheel of the Fourth Detachment caisson was demolished soon afterwards, making it necessary to mount a spare one under somewhat trying circumstances. Our stay in a place of comparative safety is of short duration, for soon we are moving
Bowling Green (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e 19th was one in connection with Barlow's, Birney's, and Gibbon's divisions, which took post near Anderson's Mills on the Ny. Owing to the losses in action and the expiration of the term of service of many regiments of Mott's division (4th), it had become so reduced in numbers that I issued an order on the 13th of May consolidating it into a brigade, and assigning it to Birney's division.— Hancock's Official Report. Here orders were received to be in readiness to march at dark towards Bowling Green; and it was while preparations were making for this movement that the corps was called upon to aid in checking a bold dash against our right flank. Gen. Ewell, who was undoubtedly still smarting at Hancock's sudden swoop upon him on the 12th, wishing to redeem himself, had passed around our right undiscovered, as it had been drawn in somewhat preparatory to the contemplated move, had seized the Fredericksburg road, and was possessing himself of an ammunition and subsistence train that w
Todd's Tavern (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
t a stampede General Hancock Chancellorsville Todd's Tavern the Wilderness and its terrific battle by the lly towards Fredericksburg, and southerly towards Todd's Tavern. We reached Chancellorsville about 3 P. M., andtion to south-westerly, arriving towards noon at Todd's Tavern, an unpretentious structure one story and a half it was which caused us to turn in our tracks at Todd's Tavern. The field where the first rencontre of the a Hancock, commanding Second Corps, will move to Todd's Tavern, following Fifth Corps closely, is a verbatim exa broiling sun we set forward at a quick pace to Todd's Tavern. Many a poor fellow dropped by the roadside on d retire slowly toward my main line of battle at Todd's Tavern. This movement was executed with great skill anw Miles's command inside of the intrenchments at Todd's Tavern. Hancock's Official Report. During the succMeade blocked Warren's way an hour and a half at Todd's Tavern, and two miles beyond he was retarded by waiting
Ny River (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
cond Corps. Monday, 16 Moved up across the road. Went to Stevens House awhile in P. M. Back again at night. Tuesday, ,17. To Stevens House again. Back again at night. On the move all night, and Wednesday, 18, brought up at Stevens House. Went into battery on the hill near the house. Grant and Meade there. First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery came by. Left about noon, and came down by Sixth Corps ambulance train. Thursday, 19. Left camp about 9 and moved down the left to the Ny River. Fight in the evening on our right flank. Were ordered out with pieces, but came back about 10 o'clock. First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery engaged. It will be seen by the above extracts that there were no movements made by us to the right beyond the Stevens House, for the army was gradually swinging to the left. After the battle of the Wilderness, Culpepper was abandoned as a base of supplies and Fredericksburg opened. To this point were transported the wounded and prisoners of the
Stevensburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
en on our way to take position at some point in the line, orders came to turn in two of our guns. The fact that all the batteries were to be thus reduced mollified our feelings somewhat. In accordance with the order, the guns of the centre section were ordered to the rear, and for the next five months we were a four instead of a six-gun battery. Friday, May 20, was a quiet day with us, nothing occurring to break the reigning quiet except the arrival of a mail—the first since we left Stevensburg. It opened to us once more the outer world. We eagerly scanned the Boston papers to ascertain what had really been accomplished in the campaign and read with some amusement, not wholly unmingled with disgust, that Lee's army was utterly routed and fleeing in confusion which, like so much of the trash published by the papers during the war, would have been decidedly important if true. But now came orders to be in readiness for another move. Morning reports. 1864. May 10. Emerso
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