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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 4: the balls Bluff disaster. (search)
uty during the night, under command of Lieut. J. G. G. Dodge, who found a narrow path along the shonning toward the bivouac of the Nineteenth. Lieut. Dodge gave chase and hailed them, but they would eturn for his comrades. During the night Lieut. Dodge asked for more men as pickets and a detail e island by the enemy. During the night, Lieut. Dodge, in making the round of his pickets had head had reached the island, and in this skiff Lieut. Dodge was rowed across by private Carr of CompanyU. S. blanket around him and was hailed by Lieut. Dodge with: I say, you fellow with the red blankeappeared, and, in an insolent tone, said to Lieut. Dodge, Ain't you a d—d Yank? I'm a Yankee, he asked the officer. I have none responded Lieut. Dodge, in our army the word of an officer is suffonversation was allowed. (My own idea, said Lieut. Dodge later, was that this ought to have been donlowed to converse with the Confederates. Lieut. Dodge returned to the island and crossed again to[2 more...]