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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 3: in camp at Meridian Hill. (search)
ch lasted during the entire service of the regiments. The Michigan men were forced to do guard duty with sticks until fitted out by the general government, as they brought no muskets with them. The Nineteenth Regiment was assigned to the brigade of Gen. Frederick W. Lander and ordered to march to Poolesville, Md., then the headquarters of that division, known as the Corps of Observation, Gen. Charles P. Stone, commanding. The march was from Washington through Leesboro, Rockville and Darnestown. It was the first march made by the men and to the tender-feet a very hard one. It developed the interesting fact, however, that the boys who were fresh from school or indoor life, could endure more than the men of mature years who had at first laughed at them. On the first night of the march the men camped by the side of a stream. Supper was cooked with water taken from this stream and on the following morning a dead mule was found above the camp, it having been in the middle of th
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 6: removal to Muddy Branch. (search)
aged in this work. All the logs used in the construction had to be felled and squared with common axes, hauled to the different eminences on which the buildings were to be erected, and then placed, each log being fitted and pinned with treenails. These were to protect the ford and lock at Whitehouse on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Long after the regiment left this vicinity, these blockhouses played a conspicuous part in preventing raids across the river. As two towns, Rockville and Darnestown, required a provost guard, Company A, Capt. Merritt, was given the duty. In addition the camp and stores of the regiment demanded a quarter guard. A bakery for the regiment was erected and flour instead of stale bread, was drawn from Poolesville, Levi Woofindale, of Company G, being appointed regimental baker The headquarters of the regiment were located in an old wooden building and here also were the quarters of the Adjutant, Quartermaster and Surgeon. Tents scattered about the bui
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
.... ........... ................ 321 Dame, Redford................................................ .... 341 Damon, Albert....................................................... 241 Dana, N. J.T., Brig. Gen.,.................51, 55, 57, 58, 86, 110, 117, 134, 142 Danforth, George,...................................................... 187 Danforth, Jeremiah,................................................ 144 Danville, N. C.,..................................................... 337 Darnestown, ....................................................... 15, 46 Davis, Edward K., ..................................................... 51 Davis, John, .......................................... ............. 291 Dawson, Jackson, .................................................... 208 Dawson, Thomas, .................................................... 290 Dawes, Redford,................................ ............... 321 Day, Samuel W.,..........................................