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A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Biographical sketches. (search)
d States Infantry, and three days later was commissioned brigadier general, United States volunteers. Gen. Franklin commanded a brigade in Heintzelman's division at Bull Run. During the period of organization of the Army of the Potomac, and until its movement in the spring of 1862, he commanded a division which was first assigned to McDowell's corps. The division was detached in April, 1862, and joined McClellan before Yorktown. Gen. Franklin commanded at West Point near the mouth of the Pamunkey, May 6, 1862, and during this month organized the Sixth Army Corps, which he commanded till the following November. During this period he commanded in the affairs at Golding's Farm and White Oak Swamp, June 27 to 30; commanded the left at South Mountain, September 14, his troops capturing Crampton's Gap; relieved Sumner's command in the afternoon of September 17, at Antietam. In November he assumed command of the left grand division (First and Sixth Corps), and in the battle of the 13t
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 2: (search)
Sumner's corps. But during nine hours, while we were sailing up the York, the ever brave men of Hooker's command, among whom were the First and Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers, fought desperately and lost heavily; the Federal loss during the day is said to have been 2,228. Magruder retired during the night, leaving 700 of his severely wounded. The direction of his retreat would be necessarily northwest. At sunset, when we approached the right bank of the York, near the mouth of the Pamunkey, the gunboats having anchored somewhat below the point whither our transports were tending, the forces must still have been engaged at Williamsburg. It would then seem that the object of the expedition up the York, and the engagement of Franklin's division the next day, on the right bank of that river, must have been to intercept the Confederate force retiring from Yorktown, and to form a junction with McClellan's main army. A conversation audible to men in the vicinity of the speakers, b
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Alphabetical Index. (search)
6 Massanutten Mountains ...170 Mechanicsville ...... 43, 45 Meade, Gen. George G. 94, 119, 124, 144 Military Execution .... 23, 162 Mine Run ......144, 145 Monocacy ......... 74, 160 Mud March .......101, 102 Newton, Gen. John ... 22, 109, 129 Newmarket ......182 North Anna River ...... 154 Nineteenth Corps, 162, 164, 166, 168, 171, 174, 176, 178, 179. Occoquon. .116 Opequon .. 169, 171, 174, 176 On the Peninsula. . 33, 66, 55 Pay-day .......... 31 Pamunkey River..36, 37, 155 Peach Orchard ......54 Persimmons ......... 92 Petersburg .......158, 159 Platt, Lieut. Col. E. R., U. S. A... 32, 75 Pleasanton, Gen. .....107, 113 Porter, Gen. F. J ....... 46, 50 Porter, Capt. Josiah 17, 34, 36, 58, 59, 84 Ponchas .......... 28 Pooler, John .......99 Poolesville .........162 Prisoners, 77, 126, 138, 152, 153, 155, 177, 179, 183, 88. Rations .......... 42 Raids ........155, 159 Rappahannock River, 93, 99, 102,109, 110