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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 37 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 27 5 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 I. 21 15 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 16 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 15 15 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 14 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 6 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 6 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 7 5 Browse Search
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has been renewed this morning. At daylight, portions of the Massachusetts 20th, Col. Lee, and the Massachusetts 15th, Col. Devens, not over 300 in all, crossed over three-quarters of a mile below Conrad's Ferry. They crossed the Island, which, at intended by Gen. Stone was to accomplish a reconnaissance in some force, without fighting an engagement. To that end Col. Devens was sent over the river with 300 men, and on Col. Baker was devolved the duty of covering Col. Devens's return to the Col. Devens's return to the river, with 7,000 men; or of extending the reconnaissance quite to Leesburg, if successfully crossing over his whole force of 7,000 men, and ascertaining positively that the force of our or five thousand which the enemy had between Stone's command ag had been withdrawn, as was alleged. Col. Baker crossed but a thousand of his men, and pushed forward, hearing that Devens had been attacked. He soon found himself assailed in front and upon his right flank by a force that gradually swelled to
has been renewed this morning. At daylight, portions of the Massachusetts 20th, Col. Lee, and the Massachusetts 15th, Col. Devens, not over 300 in all, crossed over three-quarters of a mile below Conrad's Ferry. They crossed the Island, which, at intended by Gen. Stone was to accomplish a reconnaissance in some force, without fighting an engagement. To that end Col. Devens was sent over the river with 300 men, and on Col. Baker was devolved the duty of covering Col. Devens's return to the Col. Devens's return to the river, with 7,000 men; or of extending the reconnaissance quite to Leesburg, if successfully crossing over his whole force of 7,000 men, and ascertaining positively that the force of our or five thousand which the enemy had between Stone's command ag had been withdrawn, as was alleged. Col. Baker crossed but a thousand of his men, and pushed forward, hearing that Devens had been attacked. He soon found himself assailed in front and upon his right flank by a force that gradually swelled to