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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 31: after the battle. (search)
Their arrival steadied Hall's and Harrow's swaying line; enabled Webb to rally his command once more; made effective Stannard's throwing out perpendicularly to the line, on the left, and Hayes' rush from the right; formed a cul-de-sac, and held the enemy in the jaws of a vise whose resistless pressure must inevitably crush. If they had not been just there, who will say what might have happened.? The four rebel colors taken were all captured during the hand to hand fighting. Corporal Joseph H. DeCastro, of Co. I, and Private John Robinson, Co. I, Sergt. Benjamin H. Jellison, Co. C, and Private Benjamin Falls, of Co. A, each got one. Benjamin Falls captured his flag at the stone wall, taking it from the rebel color bearer's hands. When he reached the wall, he saw the flag flying above it, and, supposing it to have been left there, he took hold of it, but it could not be moved. Looking over the wall, he saw that a rebel soldier still had hold of it. Falls raised his musket on
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 35 (search)
Levi Woofindale. Co. H.Albert C. Douglas, First Sergeant. William A. Stone, Sergeant. George B. Simonds, Sergeant. Charles Cross, Corporal. Edward E. Powers, Corporal. William H. Bingham. John H. Gate. Samuel Cottle. Samuel Diver. Francis McRuma. Benjamin Lummas. Thomas A. Morse. John Restall, Jr. Augustus E. Soper. William J. Tirrell. Joshua Very. John Very. John A. Wilson. Co. I.Daniel Treadley, Sergeant. James Corrigan, Sergeant. Jonathan T. Ross, Sergeant. Joseph H. DeCastro, Corporal. Daniel Murphy, Musician. Michael Callopy. Frank Chandler. George McKenna. John Rourke. Co. K.William A. McGinnis, First Sergeant. Patrick Nolan, Sergeant. J. L. Smith, Sergeant. Joseph Libby, Sergeant. Joseph Burns, Sergeant. Joseph E. Hodgkins, Corporal. Edward Williams, Corporal. Archibald Buchanan, Corporal. David J. M. A. Jewett, Corporal. Patrick W. Harvey. John W. Hayes. Thomas B. Homans. Exor Oliver. Edwin B. Pratt. Edward W. Schoff. James B. Wigg
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 44: in camp at
Bailey's Cross Roads
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rs, the story is done. The record is concluded by inserting the following, which appeared in the Boston Journal: near Petersburg, Dec. 25, 1864. On the 15th of December, at Headquarters Second Army Corps, near Yellow Tavern, Va., General Meade presented medals of honor commemorative of special instances of distinguished bravery in battle to several noncommissioned officers and soldiers of the Second Corps. Among these honored and gallant men were Sergeants B. H. Jellison and Joseph H. DeCastro of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Infantry. These gallant soldiers were two of the four members of this regiment, who, on the 3d of July, 1863, at Gettysburg, captured the battle flags of the Fourteenth, Nineteenth, Fifty-Third and Fifty-Seventh Virginia Regiments. The others were Sergeant B. F. Falls, Co. A, of Lynn, who fell mortally wounded at Spottsylvania, May 12, and Private John Robinson, of Co. I, of Boston, now a prisoner of war. At the close of this interesting ceremony, the
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
........................... ............. 291 Dawson, Jackson, .................................................... 208 Dawson, Thomas, .................................................... 290 Dawes, Redford,................................ ............... 321 Day, Samuel W.,.................................................... 188 Dean, Charles,................................................ 330, 348 Deansfield, John, ................................................. 331, 341 DeCastro, Joseph H., ......................... 203, 241, 242, 246, 288, 354, 368 Deep Bottom, Va., ..................................................... 343 Deering, John, ........................................................ 188 Delaney, William, ...................................................... 105 Delano, Ezra, .....................................................331, 341 Delay, Daniel,..................................................... 144 Dennett, George,.............................