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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 19: battle of Sharpsburg, or Antietam (continued). (search)
'clock orders were sent to carry the bridge, gain possession of the heights, and to advance along their crest upon Sharpsburg and its rear. The order was repeated, and, finally, losing patience, General McClellan sent the inspector-general (Colonel Sackett) To deliver to General Burnside my positive order to push forward his troops without a moment's delay, and if necessary to carry the bridge at the point of the bayonet, and I ordered Colonel Sackett to remain with General Burnside and see tColonel Sackett to remain with General Burnside and see that the order was promptly executed. Rebellion Record, vol. i. part i. p. 83. Upon receipt of the first order General Burnside advanced his troops, General Crook's brigade, supported by General Sturgis's division, to the bridge and ford just above it. These were preceded by the Eleventh Connecticut Regiment as skirmishers under Colonel Kingsbury, who essayed crossing by the upper ford, but after severe skirmish Colonel Kingsbury was killed and the effort failed. The division under Genera
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter28: Gettysburg-Third day. (search)
. Light, Batt. E, Lieut. Charles A. Atwell; 4th U. S., Batt. F, Lieut. Sylvanus T. Rugg; 5th U. S., Batt. K, Lieut. David H. Kinzie. Cavalry Corps, Major-General Alfred Pleasonton. First division, Brig.-Gen. John Buford:--First Brigade, Col. William Gamble; 8th Ill., Maj. John L. Beveridge; 12th Ill. (4 cos.), 3d Ind. (6 cos.), Col. George H. Chapman; 8th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. William L. Markell. Second Brigade, Col. Thomas C. Devin; 6th N. Y., Maj. William E. Beardsley; 9th N. Y., Col. William Sackett; 17th Pa., Col. J. H. Kellogg; 3d W. Va. (2 cos.), Capt. Seymour B. Conger. Reserve Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Wesley Merritt; 6th Pa., Maj. James H. Haseltine; 1st U. S., Capt. Richard S. C. Lord; 2d U. S., Capt. T. F. Rodenbough; 5th U. S., Capt. Julius W. Mason; 6th U. S., Maj. Samuel H. Starr, Lieut. Louis H. Carpenter, Lieut. Nicholas Nolan, Capt. Ira W. Claflin. Second division, Brig.-Gen. David McM. Gregg :--Headquarters Guard, 1st Ohio, Co. A, Capt. Noah Jones. First Brigade, Co
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XVIII (search)
ted States Cavalry, Captain Ira W. Claflin. first division. Brigadier-General Alfred T. A. Torbert. first brigade. Brigadier-General George A. Custer. First Michigan, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Stagg. Fifth Michigan, Colonel Russell A. Alger. Sixth Michigan, Major James H. Kidd. Seventh Michigan, Major Henry W. Granger. Second brigade. Colonel Thomas C. Devin. Fourth New York, Lieutenant-Colonel William R. Parnell. Sixth New York, Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Crocker. Ninth New York, Colonel William Sackett. Seventeenth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel James Q. Anderson. reserve brigade. Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt. Nineteenth New York (First Dragoons), Colonel Alfred Gibbs. Sixth Pennsylvania, Major James Starr. First United States, Captain Nelson B. Sweitzer. Second United States, Captain Theophilus F. Rodenbough. Fifth United States, Captain Abraham K. Arnold. Brigadier-General A. T. A. Torbert was in command of the First Division, which was composed of three brigades; Brigadi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in the Chancellorsville campaign. (search)
., Capt. Robert B. Hampton (k), Lieut. James P. Fleming. Artillery loss: k, 3; w, 15 = 18. cavalry Corps, The Second and Third Divisions, First Brigade, First Division, and the Regular Reserve Brigade, with Robertson's and Tidball's batteries, on the Stoneman raid. Brig.-Gen. George Stoneman. First division, Brig.-Gen. Alfred Pleasonton. First Brigade, Col. Benjamin F. Davis; 8th Ill., Lieut.-Col. David R. Clendenin; 3d Ind., Col. George H. Chapman; 8th N. Y.,----; 9th N. Y., Col. William Sackett. Brigade loss: k, 1; w, 8; m, 22 = 31. Second Brigade, Col. Thomas C. Devin: L, 1st Mich., Lieut. John K. Truax; 6th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Duncan MoVicar (k), Capt. William E. Beardsley; 8th Pa., Maj. Pennock Huey; 17th Pa., Col. Josiah H. Kellogg; 6th N. Y. Battery, Lieut. Joseph W. Martin. Brigade loss: k, 12; w, 54; m, 134 = 200. Second division, Brig.-Gen. William W. Averell. First Brigade, Col. Horace B. Sargent: 1st Mass., Lieut.-Col. Greely S. Curtis; 4th N. Y., Col. Louis P.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The first day at Gettysburg. (search)
July 1st, is thus described by Captain Newel Cheney, of the 9th N. Y. Cavalry, in a paper prepared for the Gettysburg Monument Commission of New York: Colonel William Sackett, commanding the 9th N. Y. Cavalry, was brigade officer of the day and in charge of the brigade picket-line made up of details from each regiment of Devin'ng of July 1st at Gettysburg, and occurred about 5:30 A. M., as near as Hodges can remember. When he fell back from the bridge to the higher ground, he found Colonel Sackett had formed a skirmish-line of the whole of his picket force, which, as I have said, consisted of detachments from the different regiments of the (Devin's) brired. . . . The First Brigade of Buford's division (Colonel Gamble's) coming up on the left of the road, the line of the Second Brigade, still under command of Colonel Sackett, moved farther to the right and occupied the line from the Chambersburg road to the Mummasburg road. That portion of the 9th Cavalry which had remained in ca
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st-3d, 1863. (search)
F, 4th U. S., Lieut. Sylvanus T. Rugg; K, 5th U. S., Lieut. David H. Kinzie. Brigade loss: w, 9. cavalry Corps, Maj.-Gen. Alfred Pleasonton. First division, Brig.-Gen. John Buford. First Brigade, Col. William Gamble: 8th Ill., Maj. John L. Beveridge; 12th Ill. (4 co's) and 3d Ind. (6 co's), Col. George H. Chapman; 8th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. William L. Markell. Brigade loss: k, 13; w, 58; m, 28 = 99. Second Brigade, Col. Thomas C. Devin: 6th N. Y., Maj. Wm. E. Beardsley; 9th N. Y., Col. William Sackett; 17th Pa., Col. J. H. Kellogg; 3d W. Va. (2 co's), Capt. Seymour B. Conger. Brigade loss: k, 2; w, 3; m, 23 =28. Reserve Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Wesley Merritt: 6th Pa., Maj. James H. Haseltine; 1st U. S., Capt. Robert S. C. Lord; 2d U. S., Capt. T. F. Rodenbough; 5th U. S., Capt. Julius W. Mason; 6th U. S., Maj. Samuel H. Starr (w and c), Lieut. Louis H. Carpenter, Lieutenant Nicholas Nolan, Captain Ira W. Claflin. Brigade loss: k, 13; w, 55; m, 223 = 291. Second division, Brig.-Gen
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. Thomas Wilhelm. cavalry Corps, Maj.-Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. Escort: 6th U. S., Capt. Ira W. Claflin. first division, Brig.-Gen. A. T. A. Torbert. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. George A. Custer: 1st Mich., Lieut.-Col. Peter Stagg; 5th Mich., Col. Russell A. Alger; 6th Mich., Maj. James H. Kidd; 7th Mich., Maj. Henry W. Granger. Second Brigade, Col. Thomas C. Devin: 4th N. Y. (guarding trains), Lieut.-Col. William R. Parnell; 6th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. William H. Crocker; 9th N. Y., Col. William Sackett; 17th Pa., Lieut.-Col. James Q. Anderson. Reserve Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Wesley Merritt: 19th N. Y. (1st Dragoons), Col. Alfred Gibbs; 6th Pa., Maj. James Starr; 1st U. S., Capt. Nelson B. Sweitzer; 2d U. S., Capt. T. F. Rodenbough; 5th U. S., Capt. Abraham K. Arnold. Second division, Brig.-Gen. David McM. Gregg. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Henry E. Davies. Jr.: 1st Mass., Maj. Lucius M. Sargent; 1st N. J., Lieut.-Col. John W. Kester; 6th Ohio, Col. William Stedluan; 1st Pa., Col. John
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 10 (search)
Doc. 9.-General Stahel's reconnoissance. Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Sackett. headquarters Ninth New-York cavalry, Centreville, Va., October 19, 1862. Brigadier-General Stahel, Commanding First Division Eleventh Army Corps: sir: In acce men, that I know of, escaped, two of them badly wounded. I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Wm. Sackett, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Ninth New-York Cavalry. New-York Tribune account. Fairfax Court-House, Octoberh. Sending home four of his six pieces of artillery, and dividing his troops into two parties, he sent one, under Lieut.-Col. Sackett, to Snickersville, with instructions to proceed to Leesburgh, and thence return to Chantilly. This portion of theage in leading wherever danger threatened. General Stahel was ably seconded by Capt. Dahlgren, Col. Wyndham, and Lieut.-Colonel Sackett, and generally by his soldiers. The expedition lost not more than twelve in killed and wounded. They captured n