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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...]