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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The battle of Antietam. (search)
ld had fallen before his corps was deployed, and General Alpheus S. Williams who succeeded him was fighting a losing battle aed to his support. The corps consisted of two divisions, Williams's and Greene's. It contained a number of new and undrille deployment was complete, and the command devolved on General Williams. Williams had only time to take the most general dirWilliams had only time to take the most general directions from Hooker, when the latter also was wounded. Of the early morning fight in the corn-field, General Hooker says that of Hooker, and facing more to the westward, for General Williams speaks of the post-and-rail fences along the turnpikeleday, in his report, notices this change of direction of Williams's division, which had relieved him, and says Williams's bWilliams's brigades were swept away by a fire from their left and front, from behind rocky ledges they could not see. Both in the Wesregiment, at Antietam, in Crawford's first Brigade, of A. S. Williams's first division, of Mansfield's Twelfth Corps, gives
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Iuka and Corinth. (search)
derates were retreating, and it was nearly 7 when the first Union troops entered the town and learned that Beauregard had certainly escaped. His army was then safe behind the Tuscumbia. General Pope's encampment before Corinth in May, 1862. The camps, beginning at the left, are those of the 8th Wisconsin, 27th Illinois, 10th Michigan, 14th Michigan, 42d Illinois, 16th Illinois, 27th Ohio, 51st Illinois, 22d Illinois, and 39th Ohio. In the middle distance, on the right, are seen Captain Williams's siege guns. The flag marks General Pope's headquarters. Pope's forces went in pursuit. Before night (May 30th) he reported that he had captured hundreds of barrels of beef, several hundred wagons, and seven thousand stand of arms, which Price and Van Dorn, in their haste to get away, had abandoned. Two days later (June 1st) he reported that Colonel Elliott, with a brigade of cavalry (one regiment of which was commanded by Sheridan), had, among other things done at and near Boo
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