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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Operations South of the James River. (search)
e bridge across the Meherrin River at that point; the object being to delay reenforcements from the south while the Army of the James was making a lodgment at Bermuda Hundred and City Point. While organizing the division I studied up the situation, and at the end of a week I reported to General Butler that I did not consider the tisoners, having seriously impeded the movement of the Confederate reenforcements moving north under General Beauregard. On the 11th the division crossed to Bermuda Hundred, and on the 12th moved out under cover of the advance of the Army of the James on Drewry's Bluff, and the same night reached Coalfield and destroyed the stativalry was threatened by the enemy holding the line on the City Point front, and was therefore compelled to retire with the captured prisoners, and returned to Bermuda Hundred, where we arrived after dark. Shortly after this affair General Gillmore was relieved from the command of the Tenth Corps. On the 15th of June, the Eight
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 11.81 (search)
liam F. Smith, p. 206.--editors. began on the evening of the 12th of June, and Smith's corps (the Eighteenth) was at Bermuda Hundred in the early afternoon of the 14th. From Point of Rocks it crossed the river that night and was pushed forward withies at Richmond to my urgent representations, I ordered General Bushrod R. Johnson to evacuate the lines in front of Bermuda Hundred at the dawn of day on the 16th, leaving pickets and skirmishers to cover the movement until daylight, or later if ne [1:45 P. M.] communicated with General Bragg upon this point, and had asked the War Department to elect between the Bermuda Hundred line and Petersburg, as, under the present circumstances, I could no longer hold both. The War Department had givenesponsibility of the measure, which I did. Scarcely two hours after Johnson's division had abandoned its position at Bermuda Hundred, Butler's forces drove off the Confederate pickets left there, as already stated, and took full possession of the li
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., General Grant on the siege of Petersburg. (search)
n the 16th [of June, 1864], the enemy, to reenforce Petersburg, withdrew from a part of his intrenchment in front of Bermuda Hundred, expecting, no doubt, to get troops from north of the James to take the place of those withdrawn before we could disght commanding, that were embarking at Wilcox's Landing, under orders for City Point, to report to General Butler at Bermuda Hundred, of which General Butler was notified, and the importance of holding a position in advance of his present line urgedCanal has been prepared by General P. S. Michie, engineer in charge of the work: The strong defensive lines of Bermuda Hundred, behind which the Army of the James retreated after its repulse at Drewry's Bluff, May 16th, 1864, were badly chosen, with one brigade of infantry, on the north bank of the James, at Deep Bottom, and connected by pontoon-bridge with Bermuda Hundred. On the 19th General Sheridan, on his return from his expedition against the Virginia Central Railroad [see p. 23
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)
Brig.-Gen. August V. Kautz. First Brigade, Col. Robert M. West: 20th N. Y., Col. Newton B. Lord; 5th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Christopher Kleinz. Second Brigade, Col. Samuel P. Spear: 1st D. C. (4 co's), Maj. J. Stannard Baker; 11th Pa.. Lieut.-Col. Franklin A. Stratton. Third Brigade, Col. Andrew W. Evans: 1st Md., Lieut.-Col. Jacob H. Counselman; 1st N. Y. Mounted Rifles, Col. Edwin V. Sumner. Artillery: 4th Wis., Capt. Dorman L. Noggle; B, 1st U. S., Lieut. Theodore K. Gibbs. defenses of Bermuda hundred, Brig.-Gen. Edward Ferrero. First Brigade, Col. William Heine: 41st N. Y. (6 co's), Lieut.-Col. Detleo von Einsiedel; 103d N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Andrew Wettstein; 104th Pa. (5 co's), Capt. Theophilus Kephart. Second Brigade, Lieut.-Col. G. De Peyster Arden: 6th N. Y. Heavy Art'y, Maj. George C. Kibbe; 10th N. Y. Heavy Art'y, Maj. James B. Campbell. Provisional Brigade, Col. William M. McClure: detachment C, 13th N. H., Lieut. Royal B. Prescott; 2d Pa. Heavy Art'y (batt'n), Capt. Nichola
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Closing operations in the James River. (search)
cattered forces of the enemy. The first of these, on February 1st, resulted in serious disaster, the principal army detachment and the army transport Smith Briggs being captured by the Confederates. The second expedition, on April 14th, composed of a larger force of troops, supported by the Morris, Perry, and Barney, failed of its main object, and retired without gaining any substantial advantage. The James River campaign opened in May with the landing of the army at City Point and Bermuda Hundred. At daybreak on the 5th the fleet left Newport News. It was composed of five iron-clads, the monitors Tecumseh, Canonicus, and Saugus, the Quintard turret-ship Onondaga, and the casemated ram Atlanta, which Captain John Rodgers had captured the year before in Warsaw (Wassaw) Sound. The iron-clads were towed up the river by ten of the small steamers in the rear of the transports carrying the troops. The advance was composed of seven gun-boats, the Osceola, Commodore Morris, Shokokon,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., General Warren at five Forks, and the court of inquiry. (search)
waiting to reform, captured all who remained, as it swept along. I was with the extreme advance in the last movement, and was relieved while there at 7 P. M., the battle being then over, and not even a fugitive enemy in sight. I personally sought of General Sheridan a reason for his order; but he would not, or could not, give one, and declined to do so. I obeyed the order to report to General Grant that night, and was by him assigned to the command of the defenses at City Point and Bermuda Hundred. After the evacuation of Richmond and Petersburg I was given the command of the troops at the latter place and along the Southside Railroad, belonging to the Army of the Potomac. When these troops were relieved by troops from the Army of the James, I was left in Petersburg awaiting orders. I then addressed a letter, dated April 9th, to General Rawlins, chief-of-staff, soliciting an investigation. On the 22d of April I sent another, requesting permission to publish the first one, for
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
Pontoniers: I, 3d Mass. Art'y, Capt. John Pickering, Jr. Unattached Cavalry: I, L, and M, 4th Mass., Col. Francis Washburn; 5th Mass. (colored), Col. Charles F. Adams, Jr.; 7th N. Y. (1st Mounted Rifles), Col. Edwin V. Sumner. defenses of Bermuda hundred, Maj.-Gen. George L. Hartsuff. infantry division, Brig.-Gen. Edward Ferrero. First Brigade, Brevet Brig.-Gen. Gilbert H. McKibbin: 41st N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Detleo von Einsiedel; 103d N. Y., Capt. William Redlick; 2d Pa., H. Art'y, Maj. Be Col. George B. Dandy: 10th Conn., Lieut.-Col. Ellsworth D. S. Goodyear, Capt. Francis G. Hickerson; 11th Me., Lieut.-Col. Jonathan A. Hill, Maj. Charles P. Baldwin, Lieut.-Col. Jonathan A. Hill, Capt. Henry C. Adams; 24th Mass. (detached at Bermuda Hundred), Capt. Thomas F. Edmands; 100th N. Y., Maj. James H. Dandy, Capt. Edwin Nichols; 206th Pa., Col. Hugh J. Brady. Fourth Brigade, Col. Harrison S. Fairchild: 8th Me., Lieut.-Col. Edward A. True, Capt. Edward H. Reynolds; 89th N. Y., Maj. Fran
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 12: operations against Richmond. (search)
ng between it and the James River, called Bermuda Hundred, and proceeded to cast up a line of intre immediately after seizing City Point and Bermuda Hundred, he was forced to be governed by circumstty from the South and Southwest. He left Bermuda Hundred on the 12th of May, with two brigades, ad of the York, and sent back by water to Bermuda Hundred. Then the Army of the Potomac moved. Wased, in completeness Line of defense at Bermuda hundred. this shows a portion of the line of won that Smith was so quickly sent back to Bermuda hundred, as we have observed. see page 333. n its passage of the James, Grant went to Bermuda hundred, and finding the van of Lee's Army, underement, was driven back to the defenses of Bermuda hundred, when the Confederate works in front of tas immediately connected with the Army at Bermuda hundred by a pontoon bridge, represented in the eh's (Eighteenth) corps was transferred to Bermuda hundred, and thenceforth served with the Army of [10 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
the Union troops were about to be withdrawn. The deception did not succeed; and after spending two or three days, chiefly in reconnoitering, Hancock and Gregg were ordered to return to the lines before Petersburg. This they did; by way of Bermuda Hundred, on the 20th. Meanwhile, Birney was attacked August 18 1864. by a heavy force; but after a fight of twenty minutes, in which Miles, with two brigades, participated, the Confederates were repulsed. In this demonstration against Richmond thes and 32 wagons. Hampton lost about 50 men. It was broken by General Grant, who, believing that only a few troops were then occupying the Confederate works on the north side of the James, ordered General Butler to cross over the river from Bermuda Hundred, with the Tenth and Eighteenth Corps (commanded respectively by Generals Birney and Ord), and Kautz's cavalry, and attempt, by a sudden and rapid movement, to capture Richmond before Lee could send troops to prevent it. If Lee should do so,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
ode in the case of an attempt to clear them out. --Sherman's Report. In an interesting narrative of the services of the First District of Columbia Cavalry, while it was in the division of General Kautz, kindly furnished me by Colonel D. S. Curtiss, a member of that regiment, and the most conspicuous leader of charges upon railways in the business of destroying them, a vivid account is given of the methods employed in effectually ruining the roads. In his account of Kautz's raid from Bermuda Hundred, by way of Chesterfield Court-House [see page 328], Colonel Curtiss says, speaking of the destruction of a railway track: It was done by detailing the men, dismounted, along the track, with levers, who lifted it up. All moved uniformly at the word of command, turning over long spaces, like sward or land-furrows: Then knocking the ties loose from the rails, the former were piled up, the latter laid upon them, and a fire kindled under, which, burning away, soon caused the rails to bend so
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