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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 5 1 Browse Search
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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
Waldron, on the 20th April Samuel M. Quincy, letter of May 2, 1861, from Colonel Holmes. G. N. Macy, through letter of May 6, 1861, from F. A. Osborn. Frank H. Tucker, applying for quartermaster or captaincy, May 6, 1861. George P. Bangs, letter recommending, May 6. William Cogswell, letter, May 8, 1861, from Governor Andrew. I find the names of Charles G. Loring, Jr., W. B. Williams, C. F. Morse, Rufus Choate, S. M. Quincy, Richard Goodwin, George P. Bangs, James M. Ellis, C. P. Horton, appended to a paper dated May 9, 1861, showing the connection of those gentlemen with the regiment at that time. The names of Savage and Cary, captains; of Wheaton, adjutant; of Henry L. Higginson, Hawes, Motley, Howard and Sawyer,--do not appear in any lists or in ally letters in my possession. For a complete list of all the officers and enlisted men that were ever commissioned or enlisted in the second Massachusetts regiment of Infantry, see The Record of the Second Massachusetts
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
e of the main streets, and placing him in an ambulance, he started for a safe place. The driver of the ambulance at one time was going to cut the traces and leave, but Crowninshield's revolver persuaded him to stand by. In full sight of Jackson and his army, the Second kept its formation and delivered its fire; while three companies of the Third Wisconsin, from behind a stone-wall, emptied their muskets into the faces of the advancing lines. Not until my acting adjutant's Lieutenant Charles P. Horton, of the Second Massachusetts. horse was shot dead by my side, not until my aid returned to reply that he had given my message to General Banks that my right had been turned land 1 was ialliug back, did I, with the last of my command, leave the field and turn into the streets of Winchester. We had made our last stand, and though driven after a three hours fight, in such a retreat there was nothing of shame. There were but fifteen rounds of ammunition left for my battery; and ther
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Index (search)
of his forces in this battle, 211 (note),--and what became of them, 212. He reaches Newtown, and confers with General Gordon, from whom he refuses to take the command, 215, 216. Subsequent services of, 272. Hawes, Captain, 273. Herr, Mr., Rebel miller, has his flourmills destroyed, 37, 47, 48. Hill, A. P., division commander under Stonewall Jackson, 279, 289, 292, 296. Horse, a, one that was a trial to his owner, 139-141,--and another that was stolen and recovered, 269-271. Horton, Charles P., acting adjutant to General Gordon, 241 (note). Howe, Church, Lieutenant and Quartermaster of Fifteenth Mass. Regiment, 65. Implicated in movements leading to the disaster of Ball's Bluff, 66, 69, 70. J Jackson, Stonewall, Rebel general,--enumeration of his forces in the Shenandoah Valley 114 (note). His emotions at seeing the Federal forces approach Winchester, 117, 118. His character compared to Cromwell's, 118. Retreats from Winchester, 118. -and is whipped by Shie
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
drews, its second commander, was also a graduate of the academy. In General Gordon's account of this battle he especially compliments Colonel Andrews, Maj. Wilder Dwight A vivid description of the battle may be found in the Life and Letters of Wilder Dwight, p. 278; and others in Gordon's Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, p. 284, and Walcott's 21st Massachusetts, p. 127. The report of Col. G. L. Andrews (2d Mass.) is in Official War Records, XII (2), 153. and Lieuts. Henry B. Scott and Charles P. Horton. The 12th Mass. Infantry (Colonel Webster) acted as a support in the battle of Cedar Mountain, and there lost Capts. John Ripley and Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. The company commanded by Captain Shurtleff was peculiarly the company of the Boston Latin School, and his death recalled the dignified and tender way in which he had spoken of its possibility when receiving the standard given to his company by that school. See his memoir in Harvard Memorial Biographies, II, 44. At that early