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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Bull Run. (search)
be made for those who fled, as few of the enemy could at any time be seen. Raw troops cannot be expected to stand long against an unseen enemy. I have been unable to obtain any report from the Zouaves, as Col. Farnham is still at hospital. Since the retreat more than three-fourths of the Zouaves have disappeared. I beg leave to express my obligations to the officers of my staff, viz.:--Captain H. S. Wright, Lieut. E. S. W. Snyder, Lieutenant F. N. Farquhar, of the Engineers; Captain Chauncey McKeever, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieutenant J. J. Sweet, of the Second Cavalry, and Lieutenant J. D. Fairbanks, of the First Michigan, for the able and fearless performance of their duties, and to recommend them to your favorable consideration. Very respectfully, S. P. Heintzelman, Colonel of the Seventeenth Infantry, Commanding the First Division. Report of Colonel Gorman. Headquarters First Minnesota regiment, Washington, D. C., July 24, 1861. Colonel Franklin, Commandin
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 17: (search)
, and to be put ashore in small boats. Our position is accessible to York river. The men can live on bread and bacon. In haste, your obedient servant, E. D. Keyes, Brig.-Gen 4th Corps. P. S. An officer from Gen. Hooker's division reports this moment that three of his batteries have been taken by the pieces miring and the horses being killed. This officer reports that the men are exhausted for want of proper food. in front of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862, 11.20 A. M. Capt. Chauncey McKeever, A. A. G.: I have had a hard contest all the morning, but do not despair of success. My men are hard at work, but a good deal exhausted. It is reported to me that my communication with you by the Yorktown road is clear of the enemy. Batteries, cavalry, and infantry can take front by the side of mine to whip the enemy. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hooker, Brig.-Gen. May 5, late at night. My dear general: I did the best I could after getting your order,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 124 (search)
s with your troops along both sides of the river toward Charleston, Norfolk, and Blandville, and to keep your columns constantly moving back and forward against these places, without, however, attacking the enemy. Very respectfully, &c., Chauncey McKeever, Assistant Adjustant-General. At the same time I was notified that similar instructions had been sent to Brigadier-General C. F. Smith, commanding Paducah. Kentucky, and was directed to communicate with him freely as to my movemements,ow Greenville, with about three thousand men. Colonel Carlin has started with force from Pilot Knob. Send a force from Cape Girardeau and Bird's Point to assist Carlin in driving Thompson into Arkanas. By order of Major-General Fremont. Chauncey McKeever, Assistant Adjutant-General. The force I determined to send from Bird's Point were immediately designated, and Colonel R. J. Oglesby, Eighth Illinois volunteers, assigned to the command, under the following detailed instructions:
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 10: camping in Washington; in command of a brigade (search)
vailing restriction: Headquarters Third Division, Alexandria, July 10, 1861. Colonel Howard, Commanding Third Brigade. Sir: The bearer of this note, R. F. Roberts, states that privates of the Fourth and Fifth Maine regiments have been committing depredations on his property, stealing potatoes, etc. The general commanding wishes you to investigate the matter and put a stop at once to all such proceedings. If the men can be identified, punish them severely. Very respectfully, Chauncey Mckeever, Assistant Adjutant General. Our soldiers, through the servants and escaping slaves, always claimed that they knew the old residents who were disloyal better than their generals, and they had firmly adopted the theory that the spoils of all enemies belonged to them-particularly such reprisals as potatoes, onions, and other vegetables. They advocated the seizure of cattle, sheep, fowls, and preserved meats, and found great need for fence rails before their claim was admitted by the
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 69: transferred to New York city (search)
h a sad death at the burning of the Park Hotel, in 1902, losing his life in the conflagration. religious bodies, among others, The power of small things, Father love, patriotic and Christian. I could always please an audience better when I spoke without a manuscript. The manuscript usually had the effect either to repress my attempts at humor or the audience's appreciation of it. In official work I had for my adjutant general first my classmate General O. D. Green, and later General Chauncey McKeever. My aids were Lieutenant Edwin St. J. Greble, son of my favorite classmate, and Lieutenant George N. Chase. General Sherman had greatly desired for the sake of economy to have division and department headquarters established at the army posts nearest to the towns or cities, and it was so arranged until an Act of Congress directed that they be returned to the cities. By the President's order sent through General Sherman our Military Division and Department of California went back
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
I, 105,106,138,588. McCook, Daniel, I, 584, 585, 588. McCook, Ed., I, 501, 542, 544, 566; II, 27, 28. McCoy, H. J., II, 547. McDonald, Private, 1, 190, 215, 569, 570, 572, 573. McDowell, H. J., II, 4. McDowell, Irvin, I, 139, 143, 144, 146, 147, 149-155, 157, 163, 164, 169, 172, 200, 205, 227, 228, 256, 257, 260, 262-265, 272; II, 172, 450, 546. McGilvery, Freeman, I, 436. McGregor, Sergeant, I, 68. Mcllvain, Alexander, I, 505. McIntyre, William, I, 247. McKeever, Chauncey, I, 144; II, 549. McKenzie, Alexander, II, 350. McKinley, William, II, 570, 574. McKinstry, Justus, I, 80. McLaren, Adam N., I, 76. McLaws, Lafayette, I, 275,278,288, 289, 318, 337, 340, 351, 359, 361, 367, 369. McLean, Nathaniel C., I, 553. McMorris, Dr., II, 519. McPherson, J. B., I, 49, 55, 499, 502-504, 506-508, 510, 519-521, 523, 529, 532, 542, 550, 556-558, 660, 562, 566, 573-575, 580, 581, 586, 590-594, 596, 602, 605-610, 612, 613; II, 4-9, 15, 16, 575.
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter I. (search)
with your troops along both sides of the river towards Charleston, Norfolk, and Blandville, and to keep your columns constantly moving back and forward against these places, without, however, attacking the enemy. Very respectfully, etc., Chauncey McKEEVER, Assistant Adjutant-General. St. Louis, November 2, 1861. To Brigadier-General Grant: Jeff Thompson is at Indian ford of the St. Francois river, twenty-five miles below Greenville, with about three thousand men. Colonel Carlin has started with force from Pilot Knob. Send a force from Cape Girardeau and Bird's Point to assist Carlin in driving Thompson into Arkansas. By order of Major-General Fremont. C. McKEEVER, Assistant Adjutant-General. headquarters, District southeast Missouri, Cairo, November 3, 1861. Colonel R. J. Oglesby, commanding, etc.,< Bird's Point, Missouri: You will take command of an expedition, consisting of your regiment, four companies of the Eleventh Illinois, all of the Eighteenth and Twenty-
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], [for the Dispatch] (search)
or Messrs. Close and Minor as delegates to the Legislature. There was no opposition. It now turns out that four Secessionists were killed by the fire of the picket guards of the Pennsylvania 4th Regiment, on Sunday morning last, the fourth body being found in the woods yesterday. He was recognized as the brother of a neighboring farmer named Fairfax. The news from the camps to-day is unimportant. The ice boat, City of Philadelphia, is still guarding the city front. Lieut. Chauncey McKeever, U. S. A., Acting Assistant Adjutant General of this brigade, has been appointed a captain in the Adjutant Generals Department, and will remain here on duty in Col. Heintzeiman's staff. from Washington. Washington, July 2. --The President's message will be accompanied by reports from the Secretaries of War, Navy and Treasury Departments. Not one of them have yet been completed. There is no determination as to whether they will be printed and transmitted hence in advance