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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
re three of those five regiments of Sedgwick's division who had routed the enemy at Fair Oaks. This brigade was sent down the steep bank unsupported, and at its foot they sustained for fifteen or twenty minutes the enemy's cutting fire, while open boats could be prepared and pushed into the stream. In these unprotected boats the brigade, by several instalments, made the passage of the stream, under concentrated fire, till they had gained the cover of the opposite bank. The affair, says Mr. Swinton's History, was gallantly executed, and the army, assembled on the northern bank, spectators of this piece of heroism, paid the brave fellows the rich tribute of soldiers' cheers. But the harder half of the task remained. This was the ordeal of marching straight through the town, and driving out the picket marksmen who, having been forced back from the bank, had taken refuge in the houses. This most severe of trials was too much even for the other fine regiments of the brigade, and the
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II. 274. Stow, Mr., II. 226. Strattan, Jacob, II. 422. Strong, Adelia, II. 158. Strong, G. C., Brig.-Gen., II. 194, 195;, 464. Strong, J., II. 158, 160;. Strong, S., Hon., II. 158. Sullivan, Letitia, I. 133. Sullivan, R., Hon., I. 349. Sullivan, T. R., II. 163. Sully, Alfred, Brig.-Gen., II. 247. Summerhayes, J. W., Lieut., II. 455. Sumner, Charles, Hon., I. 84; II. 53. Sumner, E. V., Maj.-Gen., I. 124, 213;, 214, 218, 422, 423; II. 170, 307;, 309. Swinton, William. I. 426. Sykes, G., Maj.-Gen., II. 337, 338;, 340. T. Tanner, Edward, II. 427. Tannett, T. R., Colonel, I. 412. Taylor, Chancellor, II. 237. Taylor, E. T., Rev., 1. 75. Taylor, J. Bayard, II. 413. Taylor, Nelson, Colonel, I. 141,144. Taylor, R., Brig.-Gen. (Rebel service), I. 368. Taylor, S. H., Rev., II. 158, 230;, 395. Taylor, Zachary (President U. S.), I. 22. Teague, G. H., Captain, I. 135. Tebbets, Catharine A., II. 52. Tebbets, E. M.,