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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 17: to South Mountain and Antietam. (search)
h by. At last, Halt was ordered, in a wheat field in full view of the battle, and the men expected to be allowed to pass the night where they were, but the sun was just setting when another order came to Fall in and the march was resumed. Across a little brook and to he other side of the valley was but a short march and the regiment soon halted in the vicinity of the troops who had been fighting that day and on the very spot where the batteries had been seen in the afternoon. The body of Gen. Reno had been carried by them on the road and here they learned that Gen. Burnside had carried the heights. It was this conflict that the men had witnessed as they reached the summit of the hill. On the following morning, Sept. 15, the regiment was ordered up the road where Burnside's troops had charged the day before. The hill was very steep. When the summit was reached a halt of some duration was made. The view of Pleasant Valley from this point was very beautiful and when Jack Adams
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 23 (search)
e sound of a sputtering fire that grew momentarily louder. Hooker is engaged Why do we wait? Yet we wait! We wait! Now the Ninth Corps dresses its lines, deploys its columns, and advances. The storm bursts upon the right with dread, magnificent power. The concentric fire of many guns sweeps the heroic Ninth. They near the foot of the hill and from behind the Sunken Road and the stone wall bursts a bright sheet of flame. The blue line melts away, but still it staggers forward. Reno's old brigade reaches the road. They hold their own. They gather head. The enemy flee up the hill and the day is half won. Hancock rushes forward with his division, but Early flings himself down the hill with his fresh troops,—a few minutes' wild work and the position is lost again, and the shattered brigades of the Ninth fall back in the rear of Hancock's advancing line. A little while the anxious forces held in reserve await the reforming of the broken Ninth, Then word comes that Re
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
....................................... 323 Ream's Station, Va.,.............................................. 343, 346 Reardon, D. F.,.............................................. 249 Rectortown,.......................................................... 158 Redding, Michael,.......................................... 171, 186 Reed, John H., Qr. M. Gen.,........................................... 6, 10 Reichardt, Joseph,.................................................... 331 Reno, General,..................................................... 129 Restell, John Jr.,............................................... 107, 329 Return to Boston,................................................... 297 Reynolds, General,................................................... 225 Reynolds, John P., Jr., 4, 8, 23, 24, 28, 43, 47, 49, 51, 116, 127, 135, 141. 145, 151, 192, 222, 258, 261, 264 Revere, Surgeon,...................................................... 89 Review, The Gran
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 18: (search)
road, and thence in an oblique direction towards the southwest. The disposition of the enemy's forces was, Gen. Heintzelman on the extreme right, and Gen. McDowell on the extreme left, while the army corps of Gen. Fitz-John Porter and Sigel, and Reno's division of Gen. Burnside's army, were placed in the centre. For a good part of the day, the action was fought principally with artillery. But about three o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy having massed his troops in front of Gen. Jackson,ficers, Gens. Branch and Starke. The Federals, having been the assailants, their loss was yet more severe, reaching the terrible aggregate of twelve thousand dead or disabled men. Their sacrifice of officers had been serious. Gens. Mansfield and Reno were killed, and twelve other Generals were among the wounded. Gen. Lee had especial reasons for not renewing the battle the next day. The arduous service in which his troops had been engaged, their great privations of rest and food, and the lo
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 5: (search)
oes, the vines being thrifty, and the roots three fourths matured. There is excellent water here, if one is only habituated to the use of it. The rock formation on which the soil rests, through which the water percolates, is limestone, or magnesian rock traversed by limestone; this region, therefore, and that on the other side of the mountain, is especially adapted to grain-growing. Turner's, or South Mountain Pass, is several miles north of Crampton's Gap. There, on the 14th, Hooker and Reno were hotly engaged with a portion of Lee's army, which disputed the passage of the Federals at that point. The enemy was dislodged, driven from the pass, and fell back to Boonesboro, which lies at the base of the mountain on the west side of the pass; the next day they moved toward Williamsport on the Potomac. But the victory was purchased with the lives of the gallant Reno and several hundred brave men. There were wounded, here and at Crampton's Gap, eighteen hundred and six, and the Feder
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Alphabetical Index. (search)
50 Porter, Capt. Josiah 17, 34, 36, 58, 59, 84 Ponchas .......... 28 Pooler, John .......99 Poolesville .........162 Prisoners, 77, 126, 138, 152, 153, 155, 177, 179, 183, 88. Rations .......... 42 Raids ........155, 159 Rappahannock River, 93, 99, 102,109, 110 Rappahannock Station..... 136 Rappahannock Ford.. 138 Rapidan ...... 42, 149 Refugees .........182 Reminiscences, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 74, 85, 89, 134, 138, 139. Reynolds, Gen. John F ... 93, 97 Reno, Gen. ......... 78 Return ........ 182, 185 Right Grand Division ... 89 Rockville .......... 72 Rodes, Gen.....165, 171, 175 Rosters .....13, 42, 47, 105, 128 Russell, Gen. D. A ... 138, 175 Salem ...........87 Salem Church ....... 109 Scouse ......... 68 Second Corps .... 124, 143, 153 Sedgwick, Gen. John . 39, 111, 112, 152 Seven Pines ........40 Sharpsburg .......78, 81 Shenandoah Valley ... 165, 176 Sheridan, Gen. P. H. 155, 168, 169, 170, 172, 189. S
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
, assigned to regiments in the field and forwarded to their several destinations. （Schouler's Massachusetts in the Civil War, I, 336.) Generals Halleck, Burnside, Reno, Parke, Cullom and Sedgwick have all made most earnest inquiries concerning the success of the recruiting in Massachusetts, and expressed the greatest satisfaction looked for. His force, which embarked at Annapolis on Jan. 5, 1862, included five Massachusetts regiments; the 21st (Lieutenant-Colonel Maggi), brigaded under General Reno, and the following, brigaded under General Foster: the 23d (Colonel Kurtz), the 24th or New England Guards Regiment (Col. T. G. Stevenson), the 25th (Colonel Uosses; the 21st especially distinguishing itself by a brilliant charge, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Maggi, driving the Confederates from the fort. General Reno wrote: The honor of entering the fort is divided between the 21st Mass. and the 51st New York, but all charged gallantly. This early success caused great enth
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Twenty-first regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
the State in command of Col. Augustus Morse, and, remaining in Baltimore a few days, moved on the 29th to Annapolis, Md., and encamped. On September 17 the regiment was remustered. In command of Lieutenant-Colonel Maggi, and forming part of General Reno's brigade, it sailed January 9 for North Carolina in the Burnside expedition. It suffered loss in the charge and capture of the enemy's works at the battle of Roanoke Island February 8, was closely engaged at New Berne March 14, and took part in the expedition to Camden April 17-22. The regiment moved with its brigade to Newport News July 6, becoming part of the 2d Brigade, Reno's Division, 9th Army Corps. Joining General Pope's forces at the Rapidan, it engaged at Manassas August 30, and met heavy loss at Chantilly September 1. It was engaged at South Mountain and Antietam, and was active at Fredericksburg, encamping afterward at Falmouth, Va. Leaving camp Feb. 9, 1863, the regiment moved to Kentucky, to serve as part of the 9th
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, V. Pope's campaign in Northern Virginia. August, 1862. (search)
lry. Pope advanced his line, resting his left (Reno's corps of Burnside's army) on the Rapidan near bank, so that on the 24th, Sigel and Banks and Reno occupied Sulphur Springs, and Jackson's main boe, with the divisions of Hooker and Kearney and Reno, reached Manassas Junction, about noon of the 2t he also ordered forward Hooker. Kearney, and Reno, and afterwards Porter. But much time had beenhe sought to get his remaining forces in hand. Reno's corps, and Heintzelman with his two divisionsd severely; and, towards noon, he was joined by Reno's command and the divisions of Hooker and Kearn, in front and west of the Sudley Springs road; Reno and Sigel holding the centre,—Sigel's line beincoming into action, he directed Heintzelman and Reno to assault the enemy's left. The attack was mand forming the left leg, and Porter, Sigel, and Reno the right, with Heintzelman's two divisions hol cold and drenching rain. The attack fell upon Reno, Hooker, a part of McDowell, and Kearney. A fi[3 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
ral Hooker. The Ninth Corps, of Burnside's old force, was under General Reno. Sumner continued to command his own (Second) corps, and also c was moving towards the latter; and Burnside's command (the corps of Reno and Hooker) had the advance by the former. The Confederate defence , it was guarded only by D. H. Hill's division of five thousand men. Reno's corps arrived near the pass early in the forenoon; but that officeest on the left—the key-point being overlooked. After a sharp fight Reno succeeded in dislodging the Confederate brigade opposed to him, andbut was unable to push beyond. The Confederate brigade opposed to Reno was under General Garland, who was killed early in the action. Garlhis way by the main road well up towards the top of the pass, and as Reno's corps had gained a firm foothold on the crest to the left of the pnd wounded in this severe struggle, and among those who fell was General Reno, commander of the Ninth Corps, an able and respected officer.
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