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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
nant Putnam, had been killed. Brig.-Gen. I. N. Palmer, commanding brigade, says in his report, The 10th Mass., after several hours' hard fighting, reported their ammunition exhausted, but they remained firmly on the field till after dark, and until the enemy was everywhere repulsed. Here ended the remarkable campaign of three months, in which the Army of the Potomac had forced its way to a point where it could see the spires of Richmond and hear the clocks of the city striking, Capt. R. C. Derby in The Young Captain, p. 141. but had then been driven back with seven days fighting to the James River. Among the general officers from Massachusetts who had distinguished themselves in this prolonged contest were Hooker, Keyes and Sumner; and among men of less experience, Devens. Xiv. The Department of the Gulf. When General Butler, on March 20, 1862, took command of the newly organized Department of the Gulf, he had with him about thirteen thousand five hundred men, a consid