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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 2 (search)
f four divisions—the First Division, under General Tyler; the Second, under General Hunter; the Thifternoon at Blackburn's Ford, on Bull Run. General Tyler had been ordered with his division to occur, of the Corps of Engineers, then engineer on Tyler's staff. His notion of the method of executingits brigades, added to Richardson's brigade of Tyler's division, a false attack at Blackburn's Ford; the First Division (Tyler) to move by the turnpike up to the Stone Bridge at daybreak, threaten tthither side of Bull Run, at Sudley's Spring. Tyler, meanwhile, had pushed on, and, by six, drew uns that a Federal force (which was the head of Tyler's column) had drawn up opposite Stone Bridge, part of the battle. Meanwhile, the force of Tyler had deployed in front of Stone Bridge, and a sre presently forced back sufficiently to allow Tyler's force near Stone Bridge to commence crossing division in the centre; and Keyes' brigade of Tyler's division on the left. Beauregard reformed h[5 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
s right and getting through to the bridge at Port Republic to make a junction with Shields. At the same time Shields attacked the bridge on the east side, to make a junction with Fremont. The result was that Ewell repulsed Fremont, while Jackson held Shields in check. Early next morning, drawing in Ewell and concentrating his forces, Jackson threw himself across the river, burned the bridge to prevent Fremont from following; fell upon Shields' advance, consisting of two brigades under General Tyler, and repulsed him, capturing his artillery. The former of these affairs figures in history as the battle of Cross Keys, and the latter as the battle of Port Republic. In this exciting month's campaign, Jackson made great captures of stores and prisoners; but this was not its chief result. Without gaining a single tactical victory he had yet achieved a great strategic victory, for by skilfully manoeuvring fifteen thousand men he succeeded in neutralizing a force of sixty thousand.
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
old, Cushing, Brown, and Rorty. Next on the left was Thomas's battery, and on his left Major McGilvray's command, consisting of Thompson's, Phillips', Hart's, Sterling's, Ranks', Dow's, and Ames' of the reserve artillery, to which was added Cooper's battery of the First Corps. On the extreme left, Gibbs' and Rittenhouse's (late Hazlitt's) batteries. As batteries expended their ammunition, they were replaced by batteries of the artillery reserve, sent forward by its efficient chief, Colonel R. O. Tyler. Withholding the fire until the first hostile outburst had spent itself, General Hunt then ordered the batteries to open; and thus from ridge to ridge was kept up for near two hours a Titanic combat of artillery that caused the solid fabric of the hills to labor and shake, and filled the air with fire and smoke and the mad clamor of two hundred guns. During this outburst the troops crouched behind such slight cover as they could find; but the musket was tightly grasped, for each man
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
orks, firing during the action over the troops in front. Birney's division and Tyler's division of foot-artillerists, which had recently joined the army, were in rethe Second Corps moved to the vicinity of Anderson's Mills on the Ny [see map]. Tyler's division remained at the Fredericksburg road near the Harris House [see map].. Preparations for this were under way, when, in the afternoon, Ewell attacked Tyler in the manner and with the results described in the text above. At the same tihappened that this flank was held by a division of foot artillerists, under General Tyler, posted in an important position, covering the road from Spottsylvania to Fseized the Fredericksburg road and laid hands on an ammunition train coming up. Tyler promptly met this attack and succeeded in driving the enemy from the road and i The gallant Colonels Porter, Morris, McKeen, and Haskell were killed, and General Tyler was wounded. Yet Gibbon's troops, too, clung tenaciously to the ground gai
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
Mountain. 173. Badge system of the Potomac army, its origin and value, 268. Baker, Colonel, death at battle of Ball's Bluff, 77. Ball's Bluff, the battle of, 75. Barnard, General, on early ideas on quelling the rebellion, 29; on assaulting Yorktown, 110; on the passage of the Chickahominy, 130. Bethel, Butler, General, plan for capture of Big and Little, 31. Big Bethel, the affair of, 31. Birney, evidence on Meade's attack at Fredericksburg, 248. Blackburn's Ford, General Tyler's repulse at, 48. Blair, Postmaster-General, on advance via York River, 83. Blenker's division detached from Mc-Clellan to join Fremont, 93. Bolivar Heights, the position of, 206. Bottom's Bridge, purpose of throwing Potomac army on Richmond side of the Chickahominy, 121. Boydton plankroad, action of, 542. Braddock Road, origin of the name, 47. Brandy Station, cavalry action at, 313. Bristoe Station, Hooker's defeat of Ewell at, 179; race of the two armies for, 38