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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
l strength of this position, General W. F. Smith, commanding the Second Division of the Fourth Corps, was ordered to push a strong reconnoissance over the Warwick at that point. Under cover of a heavy artillery fire from eighteen guns, under Captain Ayres, four companies of Vermont troops passed the creek, by wading breast-deep, and carried the rifle-trenches held by the Confederates as an advanced line. Here they were re-enforced by eight additional companies. The enemy, upon being driven f from batteries on the other side. He then essayed to force the passage; but each attempt was met with such determined opposition The crossing was held by General Franklin, with the divisions of Smith and Richardson and Naglee's brigade. Captain Ayres directed the artillery. that, obstructed and estopped, he was compelled to give over. Meantime, the column of Longstreet, whose line of march flanked the swamp and gave free motion, were pushing rapidly forward on the Long Bridge or New Mark
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
fter half an hour of this desperate work, the position was secured. Meantime, Weed's brigade of Ayres' division of the Fifth Corps The One Hundred and Fortieth New York, of this brigade, had gonetion originally held by the left of the Third Corps; and to hold him in check at that point, General Ayres, with two brigades of the Regulars of the Fifth Corps, moved forward. Caldwell experienced ut through the woods on the right, hurled Sweitzer back; and the division of Regulars, under General Ayres, being struck on its right and rear, fought its way with great gallantry and heavy loss thron how line after line was swept back, and how the enemy, following on the heels of the troops of Ayres last engaged, debouched from the woods in front of Little Round Top. Thus far, the success of Loickles was one intrinsically false, and though the successive attacks of Barnes and Caldwell and Ayres had been repulsed, yet the advantage was gained at a heavy cost to the Confederates. When, ther
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
-General J. J. Bartlett. Third Brigade, Brigadier-General R. B. Ayres Second Division, Brigadier-General J. Cault fell to the lot of Griffin's division, of which Ayres' brigade was formed on the right, and Bartlett's thed flank the Confederates made a vigorous attack upon Ayres' brigade of Regulars, and this giving way, Bartlett's brigade also was beaten back. Moved at noon with Ayres' Regulars on the right. Attacked the enemy on my fro of battle in a ravine below Alsop's, advanced, with Ayres' and Sweitzer's brigades on the road. Of Bartlett'swith Colonel Sweitzer's brigade on the left, and General Ayres' on the right.—Bartlett: Notes on the Rapidan Campaign. It so happened that Ayres' men in the road had good cover, the road being sunken about three feet be through the personal exertions of Generals Griffin, Ayres, and Bartlett. They advanced a little way further, doubtful whether the enemy had not abandoned it), by Ayres' brigade, Fifth Corps, in conjunction with troops of
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
This court was composed of Generals Hancock, Ayres, and Miles, and its finding is as follows: gade, which was marching by the flank to cover Ayres' left. The result was that in a few minutes this brigade gave way, thus compelling Ayres' left to fall back, and stopping the advance on the rigAt the same time his other division, under General Ayres, carried a small work on the Squirrel Leveas. Crawford's, strengthened by one brigade of Ayres'. Crawford crossed Hatcher's Run at Armstrong'e was ordered, however, as it was thought that Ayres' division could reach Hancock more readily tha these two. Darkness was so near at hand when Ayres moved that he halted for the night at Armstronrt, but he assenting to my suggestion that General Ayres could more readily be got there, I directed General Ayres to move at once. Darkness was so near at hand that he was halted at Armstrong's Mik successfully in the morning, with the aid of Ayres' and Crawford's divisions, the major-general c[4 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
e position of his corps was then in this wise: Ayres' division thrown forward to within a few hundrvision in rear of and somewhat to the right of Ayres; Griffin's division in rear of and somewhat tolop with what force the White Oak road, in General Ayres' vicinity, was held. My instructions to Ged. It was, by consequence, necessary for General Ayres to halt at the run until an infantry bridgonsumed till near two A. M. of April 1st, when Ayres crossed his division and hastened towards Dinword where they were, until he should hear that Ayres' division had reached Dinwiddie. In the mid his corps before moving forward. He disposed Ayres' division on the left and Crawford's on the riole of this refused line, so that Crawford and Ayres outflanked it to the north. Or nearly so: Cra wit, that Crawford's division on the right of Ayres, having to manoeuvre on a more extended radius to change front so rapidly—it came about that Ayres' right was for a time in air; and as it receiv[12 more...]