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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 19: the battle of Antietam; I succeed Sedgwick in command of a division (search)
rward its head as rapidly as possible from Boonsboro to the east bank of the Antietam. During that first day, September 15th, only two divisions, Richardson's and Sykes's, drew sufficiently near to receive the enemy's fire. Eager as McClellan was to engage Lee before Jackson and other detachments could get back to him, Lee's bod at Fair Oaks, had rejoined after the command left Washington. It was the first time I had seen Whittlesey under fire. He reminded me, as I observed him, of General Sykes, who, in action, never moved a muscle. The effect of this imperturbability on the part of a commander was wholesome. With a less stern countenance, but an eqan's division, with Hugh Ewing's brigade behind it, extended down the Antietam. Pleasonton, commanding and supporting by cavalry several batteries, together with Sykes's division of Porter's corps, held all the ground between Burnside and Richardson. Our Willcox's division and the reserve artillery were kept back for emergencies
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 22: battle of Chancellorsville (search)
ral line as those to be attained by Meade and Sykes. I, with the Eleventh, was to follow Slocum aoint, and the result of this clogging was that Sykes got considerably ahead of Hancock, and Slocum' style, but did not succeed in connecting with Sykes on his right; neither did Slocum reach out far We had four detached columns-those of Meade, Sykes, Slocum, and French-feeling out experimentallyheights in sight of the coveted Banks's Ford. Sykes beheld McLaws with deployed troops on the veryd seized the strong position. This position Sykes continued to hold. He was outflanked; but, with General Hancock close at hand, Sykes did not propose to retire nor fear to hold his ground. It that moment, and the orders of Hooker came to Sykes to return to Chancellorsville at once and takealso to Meade, as he was getting ready to give Sykes a strong support on his left. My command had ront with Sykes or with Iancock at the time of Sykes's attack, he would have seen that his ability [3 more...]