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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 16. operations in Tennessee. (search)
on the enemy's artillery in position on the Overton Hill, during the charges which were made by the infantry. The enemy's artillery being silenced and captured, and our infantry having possession of the work, at about five o'clock P. M. I moved the battery in the general pursuit, with Colonel Morgan's brigade. The casualties on the fifteenth instant were as follows: Lieutenants E. D. York, severely wounded, left arm broken, and T. H. Stevenson, slightly wounded, musket shot; Sergeant I. V. Elder, severely wounded in left side, musket shot; Privates Wm. Campbell, severely wounded in thigh; James Stuard, severely wounded by shell in back; James Evans, seriously wounded in breast, musket shot; I. O. Eversole, slightly wounded by. shell; T. E. Stanley, slightly wounded by shell. Five horses were killed, three by musketry, two by shell; nine horses were wounded, two by shell, seven by musketry. The following ammunition was expended:   shot. shell. Sph. Case. total. F
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 140 (search)
Olustee, Fla., and distant from Jacksonville some forty or fifty miles, in a westerly direction, under the following circumstances: On the evening of February nineteenth, the general ordered his command to be in readiness, with several days' cooked rations, for a forward movement from Barber's Station, thirty-two miles from Jacksonville, on the Florida Central railroad. At daybreak, February twentieth, the command took its line of march on the road to Sanderson, with its cavalry brigade and Elder's battery, under command of Colonel Guy Henry, in the advance. Passing Sanderson, the general commanding was informed, that we should meet the enemy in force — as the information would have it, fifteen thousand strong — some miles this side of Lake City, but no reliance was placed on such dubious information, in regard to strength as well as position. About five miles further on, our advance reported some sixty or seventy skirmishers of the enemy, falling slowly back on the north side of t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 172 (search)
ts to give a night entertainment with them. General Burnside is also locating some heavy pieces and mortars. The other parts of our line were too distant from Petersburg and the rebel works on the west bank of the Appomattox for an effectual use of heavy pieces, and the bombardment will be opened from the right and right-centre alone. The extraordinary heat continues, and with the air of dust in which this whole vicinity is enveloped makes active movements almost impracticable. Captain Elder, of the First United States Artillery, Chief of Artillery of the Eighteenth corps, rode into the enemy's lines yesterday, by mistake, and was captured. June 26--9. P. M.--At about ten o'clock last evening the enemy, mistaking the movements of our reliefs for an abandonment of our line, attempted to advance their picket-line in front of Potter's and Ledlie's divisions of the Ninth corps, and Turner's division on the left of Smith's line. From our line a heavy musketry and artillery f