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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at the beginning of Grant's campaign against Richmond. (search)
Col. Wm. C. Moegling; 2d N. H., Col. Edward L. Bailey; 12th N. H., Maj. John F. Langley; 148th N. Y., Col. George M. Guion. Artillery Brigade, Capt. Frederick M. Follett: 7th N. Y., Capt. Peter C. Regan; E, 3d N. Y., Capt. George E. Ashby; F, 1st R. I., Capt. James Belger; D, 4th U. S., Lieut. James Thompson. Third division, All the infantry were colored troops. Brig.-Gen. Edward W. Hinks. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Edward A. Wild: 1st U. S., Col. John H. Holman; 10th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Edward H. Powell; 22d U. S., Col. Joseph B. Kiddoo; 37th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Abiel G. Chamberlain. Second Brigade, Col. Samuel A. Duncan: 4th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Geo. Rogers; 5th U. S., Col. James W. Conine; 6th U. S., Col. John W. Ames. Artillery: K, 3d N. Y., Capt. James R. Angel; M, 3d N. Y., Capt. John H. Howell; B, 2d U. S. (colored), Capt. Francis C. Choate. unattached troops: 1st N. Y. Mounted Rifles, Col. Benjamin F. Onderdonk. cavalry division, Brig.-Gen. August V. Kautz. First Briga
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
n cavalry he might, by turning our right, give us a great deal of trouble. . . . I shall only fear an attack on my right. To this Sheridan replied, the same day, from Front Royal: The cavalry is all ordered back to you. . . . Close in Colonel Powell, who will be at this point. . . . Look well to your ground, and be well prepared. In his official report of the campaign General Sheridan says: During my absence the enemy had gathered all his strength, . . . striking Crook, who held the left of our line, in flank and rear, so unexpectedly and forcibly as to drive in his outposts, invade his camp, and turn his position. This surprise was owing, probably, to not closing in Powell, or that the cavalry divisions of Merritt and Custer were placed on the right of our line, where, it had always occurred to me, there was but little danger of attack. The italics in these quotations are not in the originals.--editors. Sheridan continued to Washington, and the cavalry resumed it
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 10.78 (search)
s ordered up for the same purpose. Discovering that the Sixth Corps could not be attacked with advantage on its left flank, because the approach in that direction was through an open flat and across a boggy stream with deep banks, I directed Captain Powell, serving on General Gordon's staff, who rode up to me while the artillery was being placed in position, to tell the general to advance against the enemy's right flank and attack it in conjunction with Kershaw, while a heavy fire of artillery was opened from our right; but as Captain Powell said he did not know where General Gordon was, and expressed some doubt about finding him, immediately after he started I sent Lieutenant Page, of my own staff, with orders for both Generals Gordon and Kershaw to make the attack. In a short time Colonel Carter concentrated eighteen or twenty guns on the enemy, and he was soon in retreat. Ramseur and Pegram advanced at once to the position from which the enemy was driven, and just then his cavalr
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Petersburg and Richmond: December 31st, 1864. (search)
t Guard: E and H, 4th Mass. Cav., Maj. Atherton H. Stevens, Jr. first division, Brig.-Gen. Charles J. Paine. First Brigade, Col. Delevan Bates: 1st U. S., Lieut.-Col. Giles H. Rich; 27th U. S., Col. Albert M. Blackman; 30th U. S., Col. Hiram A. Oakman. Second Brigade, Col. John W. Ames: 4th U. S., Lieut.-Col. George Rogers; 6th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Clark E. Royce; 39th U. S., Col. Ozora P. Stearns. Third Brigade, Col. Elias Wright: 5th U. S., Col. Giles W. Shurtleff; 10th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Edward H. Powell; 37th U. S., Col. Nathan Goff, Jr.; 107th U. S., Lieut.-Col. David M. Sells. Second division, Brig.-Gen. William Birney. First Brigade, Col. Charles S. Russell: 7th U. S., Col. James Shaw, Jr.; 109th U. S., Col. Orion A. Bartholomew; 116th U. S., Col. William W. Woodward; 117th U. S., Col. Lewis G. Brown. Second Brigade, Col. Ulysses Doubleday: 8th U. S., Col. Samuel C. Armstrong; 45th U. S. (6 co's), Lieut.-Col. Edelmiro Mayer; 127th U. S., Lieut.-Col. James Given. Third Brig
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Fort Fisher, N. C.: January 13-15, 1865. (search)
eut.-Col. Augustus W. Rollins; 16th N. Y. Heavy Artillery (detachment), Lieut. F. F. Huntington. Third division, twenty-Fifth Army Corps (colored troops), Brig.-Gen. Charles J. Paine. Second Brigade, Col. John W. Ames: 4th U. S., Lieut.-Col. George Rogers; 6th U. S., Maj. A. S. Boernstein; 30th U. S., Lieut.-Col. H. A. Oakman; 39th U. S., Col. O. P. Stearns. Third Brigade, Col. Elias Wright: 1st U. S., Lieut.-Col. Giles H. Rich; 5th U. S., Maj. William R. Brazie; 10th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Edward H. Powell; 27th U. S., Col. A. M. Blackman; 37th U. S., Colonel Nathan Goff, Jr. artillery: B, G, and L, 1st Conn. Heavy, Capt. William G. Pride; 16th N. Y. Battery, Capt. Richard H. Lee; E, 3d U. S., Lieut. John R. Myrick. Engineers: A, and 1, 15th N. Y., Lieut. K. S. O'Keefe. The effective strength of the force above enumerated was nearly 8000. The loss aggregated 184 killed, 749 wounded, and 22 missing = 955. By the explosion of a magazine the day after the capture there were
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
ard A. Wild: 29th Conn., Col. William B. Wooster; 9th U. S., Col. Thomas Bayley; 115th U. S. (detached from 1st Brigade, 2d Division), Col. Robert H. Earnest; 117th U. S., Col. Lewis G. Brown. Third Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Henry G. Thomas: 19th U. S., Col. Joseph G. Perkins; 23d U. S., Lieut.-Col. Marshall L. Dempcy; 43d U. S., Col. S. B. Yeoman; 114th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Thomas D. Sedgewick. Attached Brigade (detached from 3d Brigade, 2d Division), Col. Charles S. Russell: 10th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Edward H. Powell; 28th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Thomas H. Logan. Cavalry: 2d U. S. Colored, Lieut.-Col. George W. Cole. Second division, Brig.-Gen. William Birney. First Brigade, Col. James Shaw, Jr.: 7th U. S., Lieut.-Col. Oscar E. Pratt; 109th U. S., Col. Orion A. Bartholomew; 116th U. S., Lieut.-Col. George H. Laird. Second Brigade, Col. Ulysses Doubleday: 8th U. S., Col. Samuel C. Armstrong; 41st U. S., Col. Llewellyn F. Haskell; 45th U. S., Maj. Theodore C. Glazier; 127th U. S., Lieut.-Col.