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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 12 (search)
a mile and a half from the river. We at once formed a line of battle, the left resting on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, and the right of our division line connecting with the left of the Second division of this corps, commanded by Brigadier-General Howe. To our left, on the other side of the railroad, extended the lines of the Fifth corps. The Forty-ninth Pennsylvania, Fifth Wisconsin, and One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania formed our brigade front. The Sixth Maine were posted aboods to the left of the railway, (I am informed the battery was formerly Griffin's and afterward Hazlett's,) made some splendid shooting. On a hill running to the right of the storming party, from which hill the enemy's skirmishers were driven by Howe's skirmishers of the Second division, were planted Martin's and Waterman's batteries, and four twenty-pound Parrott guns from the reserve artillery, The rebels say that the shells from all these guns were dropped directly over their works, and wer
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
rded to Washington. She established a resting-place for the weary soldiers passing to and fro through Pittsfield; and when they came in large numbers, she arranged that the women who worked with her should be called to her assistance by the firing of a gun just before the transport train arrived. Then the soldiers were abundantly fed, their knapsacks were packed with food and their canteens filled with milk, tea or coffee; when, refreshed and cheered, they continued their journey. Mrs. Abbie J. Howe of Brookfield, Mass., is deserving especial mention for her untiring devotion to the sick and wounded under her charge. She was one of that brave corps of women who dared serve in the pestilential wards of the Naval School Hospital at Annapolis, Md., which were filled with the released prisoners from Andersonville and other prisons. After Mrs. Charlotte E. McKay of Massachusetts had been bereft of her husband by the war, and then of her only child by sickness, she sought comfort in
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
6 Howard, Caleb, 298 Howard, Charles, 1st Mass. H. A., 298 Howard, Charles, 591 Howard, F. A., 470 Howard, G. F., 298 Howard, G. H., 298 Howard, G. W., 298 Howard, H. W., 298, 533 Howard, H. L., 394 Howard, J. A., 490 Howard, J. E., 582 Howard, J. G., 582 Howard, O. H., 298, 423, 534 Howard, O. O., 660 Howard, Peter, 76 Howard, T. F., 298 Howard, W. H., 76 Howard, W. H., 76 Howard, W. H., 76 Howard, W. J., 76 Howard, W. W., 76 Howard, Willard, 298 Howe, A. R., 217 Howe, Abbie J., 601 Howe, C. C., 76 Howe, Church, 217, 298, 534 Howe, E. E., 298 Howe, Estes, 582 Howe, F. E., 423 Howe, G. H., 298 Howe, George, 298 Howe, H. S., 423, 470 Howe, H. W., 298 Howe, J. A., 217, 298, 534 Howe, J. H., 298 Howe, J. W., 298 Howe, Julia W., 660 Howe, N. T., 582 Howe, P. R., 298 Howe, Rufus, 298 Howe, S. G., 660 Howe, W. C., 298 Howe, W. G., 298 Howe, W. H., 499 Howe, W. L., 298 Howe, Willis, 76 Howell, L. C., 298 Howells, W. D., 660 Howes, C. F., 470