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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 8 2 Browse Search
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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 3 (search)
ok quite business-like:-- General Pope's Army. Lynch Law for Guerillas and No Rebel Property Guarded! is the motto of the Second Massachusetts regiment. $578.50 for 21 months service. $252.00 State aid for families of four. $830.50 and short service. $125.00 cash in hand. This Regiment, although second in number, is second to none in regard to discipline and efficiency, and is in the healthiest and most delightful country. Office at Coolidge House, Bowdoin square. Capt. C. R. Mudge. Lieut. A. D. Sawyer. $100 bounty! Cadet regiment, Company D, nine months‘ service. O. W. Peabody. ... Recruiting Officer. Headquarters, 113 Washington Street, Boston. [Boston Journal, Sept. 17, 1862.] War meetings similar to the one called in Roxbury were designed to stir lagging enthusiasm. Musicians and orators blew themselves red in the face with their windy efforts. Choirs improvised for the occasion, sang Red, white, and blue and Rallied ‘Round the flag till too h
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
Dr. Luther Parks, Surgeon. Charles E. Parker, Norfolk House. Dr. John McLean, Roxbury. Dr. H. B. Bryant, Tremont Club. Dr. Hall Curtis, 85 Beacon Street. Dr. L. M. Sargent. E. C. Saltmarsh (has a company), 4 Cornhill Square. C. R. Mudge, 45 Summer Street. E. G. Park, 91 State Street. Dr. Sargent, Rutland Street. George A. Batchelder, Woburn. Guy C. Underwood, City Hall. Charles F. Cabot, 128 State Street. F. W. Dorr, Boston U. S. C. S. C. F. Morse, Jamaica Plait, the brave, the ardent, and faithful, conspicuous in the most exacting demands of his rank; Savage and Cary, Abbott, Williams, and Robeson, in the tornado of fire that swept their heroic souls from earth,--all falling where only the brave fall; Mudge and Shaw, with youth, with frank and manly hearts, leading their regiments into the very jaws of hell without flinching or faltering. At this hour they pass again, In dim procession led, reminding of a sacred companionship, born of patrioti
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 2: Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights—Darnstown, Maryland.--Muddy Branch and Seneca Creek on the Potomac—Winter quarters at Frederick, Md. (search)
nchester and Cedar Mountain, Antietam and Gettysburg! While we may exclaim, 0 blindness! to the future kindly given, we may, we do, rest assured that if even then any true prophet had lifted the veil and pointed to the shadows of coming events, Mudge would still have rung out, as he threw himself at the head of his regiment, to die at Gettysburg, Forward the Second! It is murder, but it is an order. Dwight would still have traced with fainting hand, as his life-blood was wasting away at Antickness, or remove that condition which offered such temptations to disease when the right kind presented itself. My hospital tents were crowded, and thirty men sick in their tents. The commissioned officers did not escape,--Captains Savage and Mudge and Lieutenant Wheaton were seriously ill in houses. We had fires in tents; stoves were received about the first of December. I did all I could to make the men comfortable. It was the thirteenth day of December before we received information t
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
ester. The loss of the Confederates is given in Jackson's report as 68 killed, 329 wounded, and 3 missing. But to these Allan thinks about 40 should be added, to include Ashby's loss, and that in the Louisiana troops at Front Royal, and in the First Maryland. See Jackson's Valley Campaign, p. 118, note. Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews reported the loss in the Second Massachusetts Regiment on the 25th, as 7 killed and 28 wounded; among the latter were included two commissioned officers, Captain Mudge and Second Lieutenant Crowninshield. He also reported 131 missing, though many are coming in daily, who having been compelled to halt from exhaustion, after recovery found their way in by different routes. On the 24th, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews reported his total loss to have been 3 killed and 17 wounded. Banks also reported that there were 189 men of Williams's division sick in hospital at Strasburg, and that 125 of them were left in the hospital at Winchester, and 64 not removed fro
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Index (search)
plan of operations, and orders to Banks to pursue Stouewall Jackson, 133. 134. Protests against the withdrawal of his army from Harrison's Landing, 265 (note). McDowell, General, commands a corps in the Army of Virginia, under Pope, 264, 272. Militia, State, inadequacy of, for war, 2, 27, 28, 33, 34. Absurd usage of, in election of officers, 2. Milroy, General, Federal commander in Civil War, 176. Is attacked by Stonewall Jackson. 177 et seq. Fights Jackson at MacDowcll, 179. Mudge, Captain, wounded at the battle of Winchester, 251. N Negroes, services and sufferings of, during the Civil War, 137, 13, 152, 168-170. Cuteness of one concerning a horse, 144, 145,--and of another i finding things, 150. Stolid indifference of some, to being told that they were free, 159. Neff, Colonel, Rebel officer, 220, 233. Newtown (Va.), the scene of a hot fight between Federal and Confederate troops in Banks's flight to Winchester, 207, 208. General Gordon's retreat from,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
p. 709-712. General Ruger also compliments Lieutenant-Colonel Cogswell (severely wounded) and Major Mudge of the 2d Mass. Colonel Quincy's own modest report is in Official War Records, 39, p. 714. B. Underwood. Twelfth Army Corps (Slocum). First Division.—3d Brigade, 2d Mass., Lieut.-Col. C. R. Mudge. Cavalry Corps. Second Division.—1st Brigade, 1st Mass. Cavalry, This regiments a result, Colonel Prescott was severely wounded. At 4 A. M. the 2d Mass. Infantry (Lieut.-Col. C. R. Mudge) was ordered to advance from behind its breastworks and charge, in company with the 27their unoccupied breastworks and which artillery had failed to disperse. In this charge Lieutenant-Colonel Mudge fell dead and four successive standard bearers were struck down, though the charge was was followed by a volley in their very faces, killing or wounding nearly half their force; Lieutenant Mudge, the adjutant, being among the former, and Colonel Underwood among the latter, his thigh be