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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 151 151 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 18 18 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 11 11 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 8 8 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 7 7 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 6 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 6 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 6 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 6 6 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 5 5 Browse Search
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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 16: the march down the Peninsula. (search)
ops went by one route and the wagon trains by another. These trains extended a distance of 40 miles in a single line. The march down the Peninsula, as a whole, was not hard, although the dust was so thick that the men could not see five paces in front of them. The road was lined with dead horses and the weather was very hot, although pleasant. The country through which the march lay was beautiful and during much of the time the river James was in sight. After marching a few miles on August 17, a halt was made for the night. On the next day eighteen miles were covered and at nine in the evening the regiment came in sight of the Chickahominy. The river, which had given them so much trouble on the onward march to Richmond was now flowing peacefully on, looking, in the bright moonlight, like a silver ribbon. Its banks were the camping ground of the regiment for the night and on the following morning, soon after sunrise, the men crossed on a pontoon bridge at Banet's Ferry, near
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Roster of the Nineteenth regiment Massachusetts Volunteers (search)
, Norfolk, Va., by expir. service as Sergt. Batt. I, 5th U. S. Art'y, to which he was tranfs. Aug. 17, ‘65. Ballow, Edmund A., priv., (B), July 31, ‘63; 32; sub. Alvin Newcomb; N. F. R. Barden, GeF.R. Braninger, Wm., priv., (A), July 29, ‘63; 25; sub.; N. F.R. Branagan, Michael, priv., (—), Aug. 17, ‘61; 18; did not serve in 19th regt.; M. O. July 10, ‘61, in 17th regt. and re-en. in same; d Bryant, Enoch, Jr., priv., (H), Dec. 9, ‘61; disch. disa. Dec. 8, ‘62. Bryant, F. L., priv., Aug. 17, ‘61; 45; did not serve in 19th regt; M. in 22nd regt, Aug. 10, ‘61; disch. Aug. 10, ‘64 in 22. disa. Aug. 20, ‘62. Mason, William, priv., (H), June 6, ‘64; 35; sub. W. H. Boyle; deserted Aug. 17, ‘64 to the enemy at Deep Bottom. Masury, Lawrence M., mus., (B), Aug. 26, ‘61; 18; disch. Ju4; 26; sub. Emery Cobb; abs. pris. since June 22, ‘64; N. F.R. Randall, Edward A., corp., (I), Aug. 17, ‘61; 28; M. O. Aug. 28, ‘64 as priv. Randall, Lot J., priv., (K)