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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 2 (search)
of the hostile position. From here, several divergent expeditionary columns were sent out to mislead the enemy. Another column, composed of the brigade of General Morris, held position at Phillippi, about the same distance north of the enemy's stronghold, as General McClellan, at Buchanon, with his other two brigades, was west of it. The 7th of July, Morris was directed to advance southward to a position within a mile and a half of Garnett's camp at Laurel Hill, and by strong demonstrations give the enemy the impression that the main attack was to be made by him. The 8th, Mc-Clellan, with the brigades of Rosecrans and Scheich, moved eastward from Buchait otherwise must have been. The last stand made by Garnett was at Carrick's Ford, at the passage of the Cheat River, where he was attacked by the advance of General Morris's brigade This attack was made by the Fourteenth Ohio, the Seventh and Ninth Indiana, and a section of Barnett's battery. on the 13th, driven in disorder,
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
Brigade, Brigadier-General F. Wheaton. Second Brigade, Colonel L. A. Grant. Third Brigade, Brigadier-General T. H. Neill. Fourth Brigade, Brigadier-General A. L. Eustis. Third Division, Brigadier-General H. Prince. First Brigade, Brigadier-General W. H. Morris. Second Brigade, Brigadier-General D. A. Russell. Inspector-General and Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-Colonel M T. McMahon Chief of Artillery, Colonel C. H. Tompkins. The command of the army remained under General Meade, who had pr of his regiment, separated by the swamp from the rest of his brigade, reached the parapet, planted on it his colors, but fell covered with many wounds, and expired in the enemy's hands, losing his colors with honor. The gallant Colonels Porter, Morris, McKeen, and Haskell were killed, and General Tyler was wounded. Yet Gibbon's troops, too, clung tenaciously to the ground gained; and some remained so close to the hostile works, that the men could only be reached by covered ways. In less than