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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 7 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Kilpatrick's and Dahlgren's raid to Richmond. (search)
key at Hanovertown and the Mattapony at Aylett's; but late on Wednesday night, March 2d, he fell into an ambush near Walkerton, formed by Captain Fox with home guards of King and Queen County, furloughed men, and Magruder's squadron, and by Lieutenant Pollard with a company of the 9th Virginia. Dahlgren, at the head of his men, fell dead, pierced with a bullet. The greater part of his command was captured. On the second morning after Colonel Dahlgren's death, Lieutenant Pollard carried to GLieutenant Pollard carried to General Fitzhugh Lee, in Richmond, some papers which he said had been taken from Dahlgren's body, together with the artificial leg which the young officer wore in place of a limb amputated a short time before. The documents were published in the Richmond newspapers, and afterward in the newspapers at the North. One of them, signed Ulric Dahlgren, purporting to be an address to his men, contained this passage: We hope to release the prisoners from Belle Isle first, and having seen them fairly st
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Land operations against Mobile. (search)
th of April the trenches were well advanced and a bombardment was begun by ninety guns in position, joined by all the gun-boats within range. In the evening a lodgment was effected on the right of the Confederate lines, and during the night the garrison made good its retreat, with the loss of about 500 prisoners captured. Nearly fifty guns fell into the possession of the besiegers. Steele set out from Pensacola on the 20th of March, and, as if Montgomery were his object, moved first to Pollard on the Escambia, fifty miles to the northward of Pensacola. There he turned toward Mobile, and on the 1st of April, after a march of a hundred miles over very bad roads, deployed before Blakely. His supplies had run so short that Veatch's division of the Thirteenth Corps had to be sent out on the 31st of March with a commissary train of seventy-five wagons. The siege of Blakely began on the 2d of April. From left to right the lines of attack were held by Garrard's division of the Sixtee
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
Ashbel W. Angel: 38th N. J. (4 co's), Maj. William H. Tantum; D, 20th N. Y. Cav., Capt. Wayland F. Ford; E, 16th N. Y. H. Art'y, Capt. John W. Hees; H, 16th N. Y. H. Art'y, Capt. Henry C. Thompson; I, 184th N. Y., Capt. George Wetmore. Harrison's Landing, Col. Wardwell G. Robinson: 184th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. William P. McKinley; I, 1st U. S. Colored Cav., Lieut. Horace Hudson. Fort Powhatan, Col. William J. Sewell: 38th N. J. (6 co's), Col. William J. Sewell; F, 20th N. Y. Cav., Lieut. John C. Pollard; detachment 3d Pa. H. Art'y, Lieut. Frederick Grill; E, 1st U. S. Colored Cav., Capt. Charles W. Emerson. twenty-Fourth Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. John Gibbon. Headquarters Guard, Capt. Charles E. Thomas: F, 4th Mass. Cav., Capt. Joseph J. Baker; K, 4th Mass. Cav., Capt. Charles E. Thomas. first division, Brig.-Gen. Robert S. Foster. First Brigade, Col. Thomas O. Osborn: 39th Ill., Capt. Homer A. Plimpton; 62d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Henry R. West, Maj. Thomas J. Platt; 67th Ohio, Col.