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Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union 1 1 Browse Search
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supplies near the head of York River. Its left was established south of the Chickahominy, between White Oak Swamp and New Bridge, defended by a line of strong works, access to which, except by a few narrow roads, was obstructed by felling the densenflagrations of wagons and stores marked the way of the retreating army. Longstreet and Hill reached the vicinity of New-Bridge about noon. It was ascertained that the enemy had taken a position behind Powhite Creek, prepared to dispute our progr of Savage Station. Early on the twenty-ninth, Longstreet and A. P. Hill were ordered to recross the Chickahominy at New-Bridge, and move by the Darbytown to the Long Bridge road. Major R. K. Meade and Lieutenant S. K. Johnson, of the engineers, ters extending in their front, will sweep down the Chickahominy and endeavor to drive the enemy from his position above New-Bridge; General Jackson, bearing well to his left, turning Beaver Dam Creek, and taking the direction toward Cold Harbor. The
attached to my command to open fire from the New Bridge road, on the enemy, fortified at and near Gooccupying the position near what is known as New Bridge, which occurred before twelve o'clock M., onrder of those remarks. Remark No. 1.--New Bridge was finished on Friday evening, the twenty-s it difficult, they came down and crossed at New Bridge on the same morning. My statement in regaverseer's house, the Eleventh on picket near New Bridge, and the First and Ninth Georgia on duty at to place some heavy guns in position on the New Bridge road, and drive the enemy from their works nriven from the works by our batteries on the New Bridge road, and by Captain Brown's Wise artillery ahominy, crossed that stream in the night at New Bridge, and bivouacked at Reynoldsville, twelve houce of the artillery, at Garnett's farm, near New Bridge, at Savage's Station, and at Crew's farm. for the south side of the Chickahominy, via New Bridge. After marching until nine o'clock that nig[4 more...]
were at White House; the 2d, 3d, and 4th corps were near New Kent Court-House. The enemy had withdrawn across the Chickahominy, having his main force between New bridge and Richmond. Bottom's, Long, and Jones's bridges were merely watched by small cavalry patrols, and there were no indications even of this with regard to the ln is on the same road, within supporting distance. Sumner is on the railroad, connecting right with left. Stoneman, with advanced guard, is within one mile of New bridge. Franklin, with two divisions, is about two miles this side of Stoneman. Porter's division, with the reserves of infantry and artillery, is within supporting kahominy are destroyed. The enemy are in force on every road leading to Richmond, within a mile or two west of the stream. Their main body is on the road from New bridge, encamped along it for four or five miles, spreading over the open ground on both sides. Johnson's headquarters are about two miles beyond the bridge. All a
re, but not in great force. The advanced guard was near New bridge. The camp at Tunstall's was the most beautiful we occosted as follows: The advanced guard within a mile of New bridge; the 6th corps three miles from New bridge, with the 5thNew bridge, with the 5th corps at supporting distance in its rear; the ad corps on the railway, about three miles from the Chickahominy, connecting veral additional ones. The west bank of the river, opposite New, Mechanicsville, and Meadow bridges, was bordered by high bly spirited and successful reconnoissance took place near New bridge, which first brought Lieut. (afterwards Gen.) Custer tos were also on the left bank, between Mechanicsville and New bridge. Having been informed late on the 24th that McDowell'-battery of the 2d U. S. Artillery, taking the road from New bridge via Mechanicsville to Hanover Court-House. Gen. Moreln. Sykes's division of regulars to move on the 28th from New bridge towards Hanover Court-House, to be in position to suppor
taken over his corps on the day previous. At the time Gen. Sumner crossed this was the only available bridge above Bottom's bridge. I found the approach from the right bank for some four hundred yards submerged to the depth of several feet, and, on reaching the place where the bridge had been, I found a great part of it carried away, so that I could not get my horse over, and was obliged to send him to Bottom's bridge, six miles below, as the only practicable crossing. The approaches to New and Mechanicsville bridges were also overflowed, and both of them were enfiladed by the enemy's batteries established upon commanding heights on the opposite side. These batteries were supported by strong forces of the enemy, having numerous rifle-pits in their front, which would have made it necessary, even had the approaches been in the best possible condition, to have fought a sanguinary battle, with but little prospect of success, before a passage could have been secured. The only ava
's pickets. The advanced guard also is near New bridge. We are gradually drawing near the rascals.tent to-night. May 26, 8 P. M., camp near New bridge. . . . We broke up the last camp about t the banks of the Chickahominy and very near New bridge. It, of course, commenced raining about an is that Joe's heart may fail him . . . . New bridge, May 29, 8 P. M. . . . I rode some fortys very beautiful . . . . June 2, 8 P. M., New bridge. It has been impossible for me to write illed and some wounded. June 3, 10 A. M., New bridge. . . . There has been some heavy cannonago well . . . June 5, 9 A. M. (Thursday), New bridge. We have had a terrible time during the n't know what will become of us! June 11, New bridge, A. M. . . . Am very well to-day, and th relieves me very much. June 12, 8 A. M., New bridge . . . Am about to break up this camp ando ago, and find Old Tavern, on the road from New bridge to Richmond; it is in that vicinity that the
, Maj. A., 134. Myers, Lieut.-Col. F., report on supplies, 636, 637. Naglee, Gen. H. M., 81; at Williamsburg. 331; Fair Oaks, 363, 377, 379, 380 ; White Oak Swamp, 428, 430. Napoleon, Prince, 83-85. Navy in Peninsula, 247, 264, 269, 291-293. 296, 437. Neff, Lieut.-Col., 65. Negroes, educated to emancipation, as prisoners offered alternatives, idea of liberty, 34 ; as guides, 253. New Berne, N. C., 203. 244. 245. New Market, Md., 553, 554, 557. New Market, Va., 426, 430. New Bridge, Va., 348, 349, 360, 366, 394-403. Newport News, Va., 254, 259. Newton, Gen. J., at West Point, Va., 301, 336; Crampton's Gap, 563 ; Antietam, 600; after Antietam, 635. Newton, Col., 65. Nicholson, Capt. (navy), 292. Norfolk, Va., 203, 246, 247, 249, 252. North, people of, ill-treated in the South, 29, 37 ; loyalty, 30. 31, 33 ; enthusiastic over W. Va. campaign, 56. Occoquan river, Va., 106, 231-233. Old Tavern, Va., 392, 405. Ord, Gen. O. C., 81, 165. Osborn, Capt., 428. P
and L, drawn up in a cornfield. Before the battle of Fair Oaks he had been attached to General Stoneman's column operating most of the time in the vicinity of New Bridge, where the Artillery Reserve Camp was at length established. To the right we see Batteries C and G (Gibson's) of the Third United States Artillery ready for acder smooth-bores. Through the heavy roads he kept his guns well to the fore throughout all of the Peninsula Campaign. For his participation in the skirmish at New Bridge he was thrice mentioned in despatches. But previous to this he had been reported for gallantry at Blackburn's Ford in the first battle of Bull Run, his guns being the last of Barry's battery to limber up and retire in order. It was on the 23d of May that Tidball's guns swept the Confederate troops from New Bridge on the banks of the Chickahominy. His firing was so accurate and his men so well drilled that the discharge of his guns was spoken of as being so rapid as to be almost contin
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil War with losses on both sides December, 1860-August, 1862 (search)
22d, 45th Va., 1 battalion 8th Va. Cav., Finney's Battalion. Losses: Union 14 killed, 60 wounded. Confed. 40 killed, 66 wounded, 100 captured. May 23, 1862: front Royal, Va. Union, 1st Md., Detachments of 29th Pa., Capt. Mapes' Pioneers, 5th N. Y. Cav., and 1st Pa. Artil. Confed., 1st Md., Wheat's La. Battalion, 6th, 7th, 8th La. Losses: Union 32 killed, 122 wounded, 750 missing. Confed. No record found. May 23-24, 1862: Ellison's Mills, Mechanicsville, and New Bridge, Va. Union, 33d, 49th, 77th N. Y., 7th Me., 4th Mich., Tidball's Battery. Confed., 8th, 9th, 10th Ga., part of 1st and 4th Va. Cav., 5th La., battery La. Art., squadron La. Cav. Losses: Union 7 killed, 30 wounded. Confed. 27 killed, 35 wounded, 43 captured. May 24-31, 1862: retreat of Gen. N. P. Banks' command (Union) from Strasburg, Va., down the Shenandoah Valley, including Middletown and Newtown (May 24th, 1862), Winchester (May 25th, 1862), Charlestown (May 28th, 186
d, her people sorrow laden. The Sunday following Lee surrendered at Appomattox. The armies in the West shortly yielded. By the time of the arrival of the Confederate army at Cold Harbor, the third line of defenses had been run northeast from Chaffin's Bluff to the Charles City road, which was crossed four and one-half miles outside of the city, thence directly north to the ground overlooking the swampy lowlands of the Chickahominy, where it terminated abruptly, its flank commanding New Bridge, five miles outside of Richmond. From here, detached works held the ground upstream overlooking the river, and connected with the lines that had been started on ground overlooking the Chickahominy bottoms directly north of the city the year before. These were now completed, and the lines of detached works followed the right bank of Brook Run to its source and then bent toward the James, across the Deep Run turnpike and the Plank Road, four miles up the James from the outskirts of the cit
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