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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
d penetrated their designs. He kept his superior informed of the increasing number of foes in his front, and had been re-enforced in March by a division under General Getty, making his whole force about fourteen thousand. Now he was about to comply, reluctantly, with a summons from Foster for three thousand troops to oppose Hill,et recalled Hill from North Carolina, and the besiegers numbered about forty thousand. Gallant achievements were almost daily performed by both parties, To General Getty was intrusted the river line below Onondaga battery (see map on page 42), the key of the position, extending about eight miles in length. During the siege GenGeneral Getty stormed and carried, with the Eighth Connecticut and Eighty-ninth New York, aided by Lieutenant Lamson and the gun-boats, a Confederate battery on the west branch of the Nansemond. He captured 6 guns and 200 prisoners. General Peck mentioned with commendation Generals Corcoran, Terry, Dodge, and Harland, and Colonels Du
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
commanded respectively by Generals C. Griffin, J. C. Robinson, S. W. Crawford, and J. S. Wadsworth. The brigade commanders were Generals J. Barnes, J. J. Bartlett, R. B. Ayres. H. Baxter, L. Cutler, and J. C. Rice; and Colonels Leonard, Dennison, W. McCandless, J. W. Fisher, and Roy Stone. Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Bankhead, chief of staff; Colonel C. S. Wainwright, chief of artillery. Sedgwick's (Sixth) corps comprised three divisions, commanded respectively by Generals H. G. Wright, G. W. Getty, and H. Prince. The brigade commanders were Generals A. T. A. Torbert, A. Shaler, F. Wheaton, T. H. Neill, A. L. Eustis, and D. A. Russell; and Colonels E. Upton, H. Burnham, and L. A. Grant. Chief of staff, Lieutenant-Colonel M. T. McMahon; chief of artillery, Colonel C. H. Tompkins. The reserve park of artillery was under the chief direction of General H. J. Hunt, chief of artillery of the Army of the Potomac, and under the immediate command of Colonel H. S. Burton. A brigade of en
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 11: advance of the Army of the Potomac on Richmond. (search)
hasten to the main body by the Brock road. At the same time Meade ordered General Getty, of the Sixth Corps, to seize and hold with his division, until Hancock shothe plank road, along which Hill was advancing, and had passed Parker's store. Getty did so, and found himself at once pressed more and more by Hill, who had eviden been aiming to secure the same strategic point before Hancock should reach it. Getty held it firmly until about three o'clock, when Hancock's advance, under Birney,pleted, he was ordered to advance on Hill and drive him beyond Parker's store. Getty, moving on each side of the plank road, had already made a vigorous attack on Hter opened the battle on the left by advancing two divisions under Birney, with Getty's command, supported by the brigades of Owen and Carroll, of Gibbon's division.te loss was probably about 11,000. Among the wounded of the Nationals were Generals Getty, Gregg, Owen, Bartlett, and Webb, and Colonel Carroll. The Confederates lo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
4 Gault, Samuel, 61, 364 Gavin, Patrick, 517 Gay, C. R., 517 Gay, G. G., 517 Gay, G. H., 457 Gay, James, 457 Gaylord, Amos, 517 Gaylord, J. H., 364 Gaylord, W. G., 457 Gazette, E. K., 457 Gendron, James, 364 Gentsch, Francis, 364 George, A. W., 518 George, Frank, 518 George, H. O., 365 George, Hiram, 518 George, John, 518 George, Munroe, 518 Gerard, Charles, 457 Gerrish, Edward, 365 Gerrish, G. M., 518 Getchell, E. J., 518 Getchell, H. D., 457 Getchell, L. G., 365 Getty, G. W., 208, 266 Gibbon, John, 230 Gibbons, Barney, 365 Gibbons, John, 365 Gibbons, T. J., 492 Gibbs, Charles, 518 Gibbs, J. K., 518 Gibbs, William, 365 Gibson, C. H., 365 Gibson, D. E., 518 Gibson, E. J., 492 Gibson, Edward, 518 Gibson, H. H., 518 Gibson, J. J., 457 Gibson, John, 518 Gibson, L. D., 365 Gibson, Seth, 365 Gibson, Thomas, 457 Giester, Christopher, 518 Gifford, Eben, 518 Gifford, J. S., 457 Gifford, Jonathan, 518 Gifford, Robert, 365 Gifford, W. H., 518 Gilb
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 7 (search)
wall. Hancock took five thousand and six men into action, and his loss.numbered two thousand and thirteen men, of whom one hundred and fifty-six were commissioned officers. The losses in some of the regiments were of a severity seldom seen in any battle, no matter how prolonged. These were veteran regiments, says Hancock, led by able and tried commanders.—Report of Fredericksburg. To relieve Hancock's and French's hard-pressed battalions, Howard's division now came up, and Sturgis' and Getty's divisions of the Ninth Corps advanced on Couch's left, and made several attacks in support of the brave troops of the Second Corps, who could not advance and would not retire; but all these could do was to hold a line well advanced on the plain under a continual murderous fire of artillery. It is hardly to be supposed that General Burnside had contemplated the bloody sequence to which he was committing himself when first he ordered a division to assail the heights of Fredericksburg; but
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
neral A. Shaler. Second Division, Brigadier-General G. W. Getty. First Brigade, Brigadier-Generalour flank or rear without your knowing it. General Getty is now moving up the plankroad towards youected a division of the Sixth Corps, under General Getty, to hold stoutly this position until Hancoeffected. While the latter was still far off, Getty had begun to feel the presence of the enemy, ah led the van of Hancock's corps, first joined Getty, and was posted on the right soon after the difour o'clock, the attack on Hill was opened by Getty's command. His troops encountered the enemy ittack without waiting for me. Finding that General Getty had met the enemy in great force, I ordereeneral Birney immediately moved forward on General Getty's right and left—one section of Ricketts' f Gibbon's division advanced to the support of Getty's right, on the right of the plank road; and awo right divisions under Birney, together with Getty's command, The brigades of Owen and Carroll[4 more...]
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), G (search)
orty-fourth, I., 322; losses at Mechanicsville, Va., X., 158; Forty-seventh, I., 366; militia, III., 338. Second Battalion, IX., 25. Georgia,, C. S. S., VI., 296. Georgia volunteer, grave of, IX., 283. Germanna Ford, Va.: III., 17, 24, 25, 37, 38, 40; IV., 119. Germanna Plank Road. IX., 61. Germans: recruiting of, in Wisconsin regiment, VIII., 75; in Confederate army, VIII., 120. Germantown,, U. S. S., VI., 54, 142. Gertrude,, C. S. S., VI., 309. Getty, G. W.: II., 81, 100; III., 40, 43; headquarters of, VIII., 231; X., 199. Getty, R., VI., 221. Gettys, J., II., 234. Gettysburg, Pa.: I., 21, 28, 68, 70, 71; fighting at, rarely paralleled in history, I., 73, 75, 103 seq., 109. 122, 132, 147; II., 9, 106, 203, 226 seq., 231; Confederate soldiers at, II., 231, 233; view of, on day Lincoln dedicated National Cemetery at, II., 233; high-water mark of the Civil War, II., 234-267; Baltimore Turnpike, II., 236; Carlisle Road. II.,