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John B. Kohler (search for this): chapter 26
nd Pennsylvania, Colonel Isaac C. Bassett. One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel Gideon Clark. Second Rhode Island (battalion), Captain Elisha H. Rhodes. Fifth Wisconsin (battalion), Major Charles W. Kempf. Second division: Brigadier-General George W. Getty. first brigade: Brigadier-General Frank Wheaton. Sixty-second New York, Lieutenant-Colonel Theo. B. Hamilton. Ninety-third Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel John S. Long. Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel John B. Kohler. One Hundred and Second Pennsylvania, Major James H. Coleman. One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania, Major Robert Mullroe. Second brigade: Colonel James M. Warner. Lieutenant-Colonel Amasa S. Tracy. Superintended a portion of the line. Second Vermont, Major Enoch E. Johnson. Third and Fourth Vermont, Major Horace W. Floyd. Fifth Vermont, Captain Addison Brown, Jr. Sixth Vermont, Captain Martin W. Davis. Eleventh Vermont (First Heavy Artillery), Major Aldace F. Walker.
A. W. Evans (search for this): chapter 26
er in connection with Wilson's cavalry, which was beyond the Senseny road on Getty's left, and as they were pressing back Ramseur's infantry and Lomax's cavalry Grover attacked from the right with decided effect. Grover in a few minutes broke up Evans's brigade of Gordon's division, but his pursuit of Evans destroyed the continuity of my general line, and increased an interval that had already been made by the deflection of Ricketts to the left, in obedience to instructions that had been givenEvans destroyed the continuity of my general line, and increased an interval that had already been made by the deflection of Ricketts to the left, in obedience to instructions that had been given him to guide his division on the Berryville pike. As the line pressed forward, Ricketts observed this widening interval and endeavored to fill it with the small brigade of Colonel Keifer, but at this juncture both Gordon and Rodes struck the weak spot where the right of the Sixth Corps and the left of the Nineteenth should have been in conjunction, and succeeded in checking my advance by driving back a part of Ricketts's division, and the most of Grover's. As these troops were retiring I orde
Ramseur (search for this): chapter 26
e two divisions within supporting distance of Ramseur's, which lay across the Berryville pike aboutf Lomax, Jackson, and Johnson on the right of Ramseur, while to the left and rear of the enemy's ge to capture a small earthwork in front of General Ramseur's main line; and notwithstanding the Confng Rodes into the interval between Gordon and Ramseur. When the two corps had all got through t Getty's left, and as they were pressing back Ramseur's infantry and Lomax's cavalry Grover attackeus attack, quickly broke Rodes up and pressed Ramseur so hard that the whole Confederate army fell that they could render him no assistance, and Ramseur's division, which had maintained some organizile and into position early enough to destroy Ramseur while still isolated. So much delay had not bling him to bring them all to the support of Ramseur before I could strike with effect. My idea was to attack Ramseur and Wharton, successively, at a very Executive Mansion Washington, Sept.
Jacob Sharpe (search for this): chapter 26
hird Massachusetts Cavally (dismounted), Lieutenant-Colonel Lorenzo D. Sargent. One Hundred and Thirty-first New York, Colonel Nicholas W. Day. One Hundred and Fifty-ninth New York, Lieutenant-Colonel William Waltermire. Third brigade: （1) Colonel Jacob Sharpe. （2) Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Neafie. Thirty-eighth Massachusetts, Major Charles F. Allen. One Hundred and Twenty-eighth New York, Captain Charles R. Anderson. One Hundred and Fifty-sixth New York (1), Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Neafie. Oses in the battle of the Opequon were heavy, amounting to about 4,500 killed, wounded, and missing. Among the killed was General Russell, commanding a division, and the wounded included Generals Upton, Mclntosh and Chapman, and colonels Duval and Sharpe. The Confederate loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners about equaled mine, General Rodes being of the killed, while Generals Fitzhugh Lee and York were severely wounded. We captured five pieces of artillery and nine battle-flags. The resto
John P. Linton (search for this): chapter 26
l Thomas F. Wildes. One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio, Captain John W. Chamberlin. Second brigade: Guarding trains, and not engaged in the battle. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert S. Northcott. First West Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob Weddle. Fourth West Virginia, Captain Benjamin D. Boswell. Twelfth West Virginia, Captain Erastus G. Bartlett. Third brigade: Colonel Thomas M. Harris. Twenty-third Illinois (battalion), Captain Samuel A. Simison. Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania (1), Lieutenant-Colonel John P. Linton Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania (2), Major Enoch D. Yutzy. Tenth West Virginia, Major Henry H. Withers. Eleventh West Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel Van H. Bukey. Fifteenth West Virginia, Major John W. Holliday. Second division: （1) Colonel Isaac H. Duval. （2) Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes. first brigade: （1) Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes. （2) Colonel Hiram F. Duval. Twenty-third Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel James M. Comly. Thirty-sixth Ohio (1), Colonel Hiram F. Duval. Thirty-sixth O
Daniel D. Bidwell (search for this): chapter 26
Second Pennsylvania, Major James H. Coleman. One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania, Major Robert Mullroe. Second brigade: Colonel James M. Warner. Lieutenant-Colonel Amasa S. Tracy. Superintended a portion of the line. Second Vermont, Major Enoch E. Johnson. Third and Fourth Vermont, Major Horace W. Floyd. Fifth Vermont, Captain Addison Brown, Jr. Sixth Vermont, Captain Martin W. Davis. Eleventh Vermont (First Heavy Artillery), Major Aldace F. Walker. Third brigade: Brigadier-General Daniel D. Bidwell. Seventh Maine, Major Stephen C. Fletcher. Forty-third New York, Major Charles A. Milliken. Forty-ninth New York (battalion), Lieutenant-Colonel Erastus D. Holt. Seventy-seventh New York, Lieutenant-Colonel Winsor B. French. One Hundred and Twenty-second New York, Major Jabez M. Brower. Sixty-first Pennsylvania (battalion) (1), Captain Charles S. Greene. Sixty-first Pennsylvania (battalion) (2), Captain David J. Taylor. Third division: Brigadier-General James B. Ricketts.
Wesley Merritt (search for this): chapter 26
r-General Alfred T. A. Torbert. escort: First Rhode Island, Major William H. Turner, Jr. first division: Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt. first brigade: Brigadier-General George A. Custer. First Michigan, Colonel Peter Stagg. Fifth Michigan, the battle.] Lieutenant Terence Reilly. moved at 3 o'clock that morning. The plan was for Torbert to advance with Merritt's division of cavalry from Summit Point, carry the crossings of the Opequon at Stevens's and Lock's fords, and form a ju of Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry had been left back by Breckenridge, but, with Averell on the west side of the Valley pike and Merritt on the east, Torbert began to drive this opposing force toward Winchester the moment he struck it near Stephenson's depy and Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry with such momentum as to break the Confederate left, just as Averell was passing around it. Merritt's brigades, led by Custer, Lowell, and Devin, met from the start with pronounced success, and with sabre or pistol in ha
Orsamus R. Etten (search for this): chapter 26
nt John F. Young. One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Pennsylvania (1), Colonel Matthew R. McClennan. One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Pennsylvania (2), Major Lewis A. May. artillery brigade: Colonel Charles H. Tompkins. Maine Light Artillery, Fifth Battery (E), Captain Greenleaf T. Stevens. Massachusetts Light Artillery, First Battery (A), Captain Wm. H. McCartney. New York Light Artillery, First Battery (1), Lieutenant William H. Johnson. New York Light Artillery, First Battery (2), Lieutenant Orsamus R. Van Etten. First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery C, Lieutenant Jacob H. Lamb. First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery G, Captain George W. Adams. Fifth United States, Battery M, Captain James McKnight. Nineteenth Army Corps: Brigadier-General William H. Emory. first division: Brigadier-General William Dwight. first brigade: Colonel George L. Beal. Twenty-ninth Maine (1), Major William Knowlton. Twenty-ninth Maine (2), Captain Alfied L. Turner. Thirtieth Massachusetts, Cap
La Rhett L. Livingston (search for this): chapter 26
, Major A. Bayard Nettleton. Eighteenth Pennsylvania (1), Lieutenant-Colonel William P. Brinton. Eighteenth Pennsylvania (2), Major John W. Phillips. Second brigade: Brigadier-General George H. Chapman. Third Indiana (two companies), Lieutenant Benjamin F. Gilbert. First New Hampshire (battalion), Colonel John L. Thompson. Eighth New York, Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Benjamin. Twenty-second New York, Major Caleb Moore. First Vermont, Colonel William Wells. horse-artillery: Captain La Rhett L. Livingston. New York Light Artillery, Sixth Battery,[At Sandy Hook, Md., and not engaged in the battle.] Captain Joseph W. Martin. First United States, Batteries K and L, Lieutenant Franck E. Taylor. Second United States, Batteries B and L, Captain Charles H. Peirce. Second United States, Battery D, Lieutenant Edward B. Williston. Second United States, Battery M,[At Pleasant Valley, Md., and not engaged In the battle.] Lieutenant Carle A. Woodruff. Third United States, Batteries C, F, and
Lomax (search for this): chapter 26
so by the night of the 18th Wharton's division, under Breckenridge, was at Stephenson's depot, Rodes near there, and Gordon's at Bunker Hill. At daylight of the 19th these positions of the Confederate infantry still obtained, with the cavalry of Lomax, Jackson, and Johnson on the right of Ramseur, while to the left and rear of the enemy's general line was Fitzhugh Lee, covering from Stephenson's depot west across the Valley pike to Apple-pie Ridge. My army ORGANIZATION of the Union forccted line of battle in good shape to resist. Getty and Ricketts made some progress toward Winchester in connection with Wilson's cavalry, which was beyond the Senseny road on Getty's left, and as they were pressing back Ramseur's infantry and Lomax's cavalry Grover attacked from the right with decided effect. Grover in a few minutes broke up Evans's brigade of Gordon's division, but his pursuit of Evans destroyed the continuity of my general line, and increased an interval that had already
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