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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 3 1 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 7.42 (search)
== 122. Artillery, Capt. Romeyn B. Ayres: E, 1st N. Y., Capt. Charles C. Wheeler; 1st N. Y., Capt. Andrew Cowan ; 3d N. Y., Capt. Thaddeus P. Mott; F, 5th U. S., Capt. Romeyn B. Ayres. Artillery loss: I, 3; w, 4; m, 15==22. Cavalry: I and K, 5th Pa., Capt. John O'Farrell. Loss: k, 1. cavalry reserve, Brig.-Gen. P. St. George Cooke. First Brigade: 6th Pa., Col. Richard H. Rush; 5th U. S. (5 co's), Capt. Charles J. Whiting (c), Capt. Joseph H. McArthur. Second Brigade, Col. George A. 11. Blake: 1st U. S. (4 co's), Lieut.-Col. William N. Grier; 6th U. S. (with Stoneman's command), Capt. August V. Kautz. Cavalry Reserve loss: k, 14; xw, 55; in, 85 == 154. [Brig.-Gen's George Stoneman and William H. Emory operated on the right flank of the army with a mixed command of infantry, cavalry, and artillery.] Total loss of the Army of the Potomac: 1734 killed, 8062 wounded, and 6053 captured or missing == 15,849. The present for duty equipped, or effective force of this army (exclu
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The charge of Cooke's cavalry at Gaines's Mill. (search)
th Cavalry on that day, the loss in the command of General Fitz John Porter would have been immensely greater than it was; indeed, I believe that the charge, more than any other thing, was instrumental in saving that part of the army on the north bank of the Chickahominy. You were the last general officer of General Porter's command on the field on the left, General Porter himself leaving before you did; you had, therefore, an excellent opportunity of seeing what was going on. Colonel G. A. H. Blake, United States Army, wrote me, June 16th, 1879: About sundown you advanced the brigade under a warm fire and I deployed the 5th and 1st Cavalry in two lines, and a little to the rear of (the interval of) reserve batteries of artillery, which had opened a rapid fire. The infantry of the left wing had then disappeared from the top of the hill. You then rode off to a battery further to the left, where Rush's Lancers had been ordered. The 5th Cavalry soon charged, and I saw no mor
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), B (search)
, Mo., and Shawnee Mound, Mo.), I., 354. Blackwater River, Va., VI., 316. Blackwood, G., VIII., 115. Blackwood, Dr. VII., 216. Blackwood's magazine, I., 90. Blacque Bey X., 4. Blair, C. W., III., 117. Blair, F. P., Jr. : I., 353 seq.; II., 185; III., 118, 132, 345; VIII., 102; X., 224. Blair, J., I., 14. Blair, M., X., 12. Blair's Landing, La., II., 352. Blair's plantation, La., VI., 320. Blaine, J. G., IX., 292. Blake, G. A. H., IV., 47. Blake, H. C., VI., 316. Blake's Mill, Ga., IV., 332. Blakely guns V., 56, 120. Blanchard, A. G., X., 271. Bledsoe's battery, Confederate, I., 350, 352, 356, 358. Blemiel, Father Vii., 272. Blenheim, losses at, X., 140. Blenker, L., I., 311; V., 292. Blennerhasset Island, O., II., 340. Block houses: on Nashville & Chattanooga R. R., IV., 149; garrisoned against Wheeler's cavalry, IV., 151. Blockade: I., 89; the ear