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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.19 (search)
bruptly and said, That is wrong. Those troops must be moved farther to the right; I don't wish them to overlap that battery. I started out to execute the order, and he rose at the same moment, and we sauntered out slowly to the gun on the right. About an hour before, I had remarked to the general, pointing to the two pieces in a half-jesting manner, which he well understood, General, do you see that section of artillery? Well, you are not to go near it to-day He answered good-naturedly, McMahon, I would like to know who commands this corps, you or I? I said, playfully, Well, General, sometimes I am in doubt myself ; but added, Seriously, General, I beg of you not to go to that angle; every officer who has shown himself there has been hit, both yesterday and to-day. He answered quietly, Well, I don't know that there is any reason for my going there. When afterward we walked out to the position indicated, this conversation had entirely escaped the memory of both. I gave the n
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Cold Harbor. June 1st, 1864. (search)
h: 14th Conn., Col. Theodore G. Ellis; 1st Del., Maj. William F. Smith; 14th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Elijah H. C. Cavins; 12th N. J., Capt. James McComb; 10th N. Y. (battalion), Maj. George F. Hopper; 108th N. Y., Capt. William H. Andrews; 4th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Leonard W. Carpenter; 8th Ohio, Maj. Albert H. Winslow; 7th W. Va. (battalion), Capt. Isaac B. Fisher. Fourth Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Robert O. Tyler: 8th N. Y. Art'y, Col. Peter A. Porter; 155th N. Y., Capt. Michael Doran; 164th N. Y., Col. James P. McMahon; 170th N. Y., Col. James P. McIvor; 182d N. Y. (69th N. Y., N. G. A.), Lieut.-Col. Thomas M. Reid. Third division, Maj.-Gen. David B. Birney. First Brigade, Col. Thomas W. Egan: 20th Ind., Col. William C. L. Taylor; 3d Me., Col. Moses B. Lakeman; 40th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Augustus J. Warner; 86th N. Y., Maj. Michael B. Stafford; 124th N. Y., Capt. Henry S. Murray; 99th Pa., Maj. John W. Moore; 110th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Enoch E. Lewis; 141st Pa., Col. Henry J. Madill; 2d Md., U. S. Sha
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cold Harbor. (search)
tructive fire was poured in upon Smith, and from both flanks on the Sixth Corps in the center. At some points the slashings and obstructions in the enemy's front were reached. Barlow, of Hancock's corps, drove the enemy from an advanced position, but was himself driven out by the fire of their second line. R. O. Tyler's brigade (the Corcoran Legion) of the same corps swept over an advance work, capturing several hundred prisoners. One officer alone, the colonel of the 164th New York [James P. McMahon.--editors.], seizing the colors of his regiment from the dying color-bearer as he fell, succeeded in reaching the parapet of the enemy's main works, where he planted his colors and fell dead near the ditch, bleeding from many wounds. Seven other colonels of Hancock's command died within those few minutes. No troops could stand against such a fire, and the order to lie down was given all along the line. At points where no shelter was afforded, the men were withdrawn to such cover as c