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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
ck West. Born at Salem, Mass., Dec. 17, 1821. Volunteer Aide-de-Camp on the staff of General McClellan; engaged in the capture of Philippi and the battle of Rich Mountain. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, May 17, 1861; served in an important command on the upper Potomac; engaged at the battle of Edward's Ferry, where he was severely wounded; in command of a division of troops under General Banks, stationed most of the time at Camp Chase near Paw Paw Tunnel, Va.; engaged in the battle of Hancock, Jan. 5, 1862, and Blooming Gap, Feb. 14, 1862. Died at Paw Paw, Va., Mar. 2, 1862. Lawrence, William Henry. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, Adjutant, 1st Mass. Infantry, May 25, 1861. On the staff of General Joseph Hooker, Aug. 23, 1861. Major, Aide-de-Camp, U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 10, 1862. Engaged at the battles of Antietam, Lookout Mountain and Peach Tree Creek. Brevet Lieut. Colonel, Colonel and Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, July 10,
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: Marylanders enlist, and organize to defend Virginia and the Confederacy. (search)
military prisons were the swift doom of the unfortunates, where they languished for months, half clad and nearly starved. This blockade running went on over the Potomac from the Chesapeake to the District of Columbia, right under the surveillance of the Federal authorities. When the watch became too vigilant and the pickets too close along the rivers, the Marylanders made their way up through the western part of the State, where the sentiment was generally Union, and forded the river from Hancock up to the mountains. Working through the mountains of West Virginia, through the perils of the bushwhackers and Union men, ten thousand times worse than from Union pickets, they made their way, ragged, barefoot, starving, down to some camp in the valley of Virginia, where they were welcomed with warm hearts and open hands. During all that time the condition of the Southern people of Maryland was like that of the Cavaliers during the Puritan domination in England. They were tied to home
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
te the orders of General Early to burn the town. Justifiable as it was, as a stern and righteous retribution for the outrages in the valley, the work was no less repugnant to him and to the large majority of his command. He announced that no plundering would be permitted; nothing was to be appropriated but boots, shoes and army stores. Before the work of destruction had ceased many of his men were seen to unite with the residents in efforts to suppress the flames or rescue property. At Hancock his indignant protest prevented a similar visitation upon a community that had representatives in the Confederate service. The disaster at Moorefield followed, where General Johnson narrowly escaped capture and was distinguished by his efforts to retrieve the day. That he was not censurable was evidenced by the refusal of General Early to order the investigation demanded by him soon afterward. During the campaign in the valley against Sheridan he did all that a gallant officer could do in
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
number pressed on until after the third day they entered Bath, which the Federals had hastily abandoned, leaving a considerable part of their stores. After only a temporary halt Jackson pushed on after the retreating foe, and driving them into Hancock he sent Ashby under a flag to demand their surrender. Colonel Ashby, on reaching the Federal front, was received and blindfolded, then led into the town, hearing his name often mentioned by the Northern troops as The famous Ashby. Many of themry captain of Virginia. Colonel Ashby was conducted to the Federal officer in command, and on hearing his refusal to surrender returned and reported to General Jackson. In a few minutes McLaughlin's Confederate artillery drove the enemy out of Hancock. Thus far the expedition had attained success nearly equal to Jackson's expectations. The only reverse had been experienced by Monroe's militia, which encountered superior forces of the enemy at Hanging Rock, January 7th. Six days had passed s
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
om the eastward to Harper's Ferry and from the westward to Hancock, for the use of the Federal army, a gap 40 miles long beint against Bath, if successful, would disperse the enemy at Hancock, destroy communication between General Banks on the east a ordered an immediate pursuit, his main body moving toward Hancock and driving the rear of the enemy across the Potomac; Gilhh line. Jackson bivouacked with his main force opposite Hancock on the night of the 4th. The next morning, through Coloneteries upon it. General Lander, who had assumed command at Hancock, refused to surrender and prepared to resist until large r to construct a bridge across the Potomac, two miles above Hancock, that he might cross the river and fall on Lander's flank. as he could not carry away, Jackson left the vicinity of Hancock, on the morning of the 7th, and marched in the direction oson's creek, where he concentrated the Federal troops from Hancock and Cumberland with those from Romney and Springfield.
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 28: (search)
emanding a named sum of money as an indemnity for the wanton burning of the house of Hon. A. R. Boteler, near Martinsburg, and that of Governor Letcher, by Hunter, in Lexington; declaring, at the same time, that if the indemnity were not paid, he would burn the town in retaliation and to put a stop to such vandalism. Payment was not made, and the town was given over to the flames. The same day McCausland marched to McConnellsburg for the night, and on the 31st fell back to the Potomac, at Hancock, then followed the National road to Cumberland, August 1st, and thence down that river to Old Town, where he crossed into Virginia and encamped that night at Springfield. The next day he marched up the South branch of the Potomac to Romney, where he spent the 3d; then on the 4th he crossed over to New Creek, then back to Burlington and on to Moorefield on the 6th, where he was attacked and surprised in his camp by Averell's cavalry that had been following him, and driven out with loss and
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ynolds marched down from Cheat mountain and attacked the Confederate camp on the Greenbrier. He was repulsed after a spirited little battle of four hours duration. Colonel Rust, who on this occasion commanded the left wing of the Confederates, performed his part so well as to be favorably mentioned by Gen. H. R. Jackson in his official report. In December Jackson's brigade, now under Col. William B. Taliaferro, joined Gen. Stonewall Jackson at Winchester. During Jackson's advance upon Hancock, Md., in the winter campaign to Romney, Colonel Rust, in command of his own regiment and that of Colonel Fulkerson, with one section of Shumaker's battery, when near the railroad bridge over the Big Cacapon, encountered the enemy and defeated him. Gen. Stonewall Jackson in his report says: Colonel Rust and his command merit special praise for their conduct in this affair. On March 4, 1862, Colonel Rust was appointed brigadiergen-eral in the army of the Confederate States. He and his command
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
83, 4 Vicinity of, 1863 42, 5 Hall's Ferry, Miss. 36, 1 Hallsville, Mo. 152, C5 Halltown, W. Va. 27, 1; 29, 1; 42, 1; 69, 1; 74, 1; 81, 4; 82, 1; 85, 1; 100, 1; 116, 2 Hamburg, Mo. 152, D8 Hamburg, Tenn. 10, 10; 12, 5; 14, 2, 14, 3; 24, 3; 78, 3; 118, 1; 135-A; 149, C2 Hamden, Ohio 135-A; 140, F5 Hamilton, Va. 7, 1; 27, 1; 100, 1; 116, 2; 136, F6 Hampton, Va. 7, 1; 18, 1, 18, 2; 135-A; 137, G11 Hampton Roads, Va. 137, G11 Hancock, Md. 25, 6; 27, 1; 82, 3; 116, 2; 135-A Hanging Rock, Va.: Skirmishes, June 21, 1864. See Salem, Va. Hanging Rock, W. Va. 135-A; 136, E4 Hankinson's Ferry, Miss. 36, 1; 51, 1 Hannah's Creek, N. C. 80, 9; 138, F6 Hanover, Pa. 43, 7; 116, 2; 135-A; 136, C8 Hanover County, Va. 135, 3 Hanover Court-House, Va. 16, 1; 19, 1; 20, 1; 21, 1-21, 5, 21, 9, 21, 11; 22, 1; 23, 3; 74, 1; 81, 3, 81, 6; 86, 12; 91, 2; 92, 1; 100, 1; 137, E8 Engagement, May 2
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 27: (search)
corps. Crawford, it was thought, would not be able to reach the field in time, and Ayres, who was at Armstrong's mill, began his march at once; but night came on before he could cross the run. He therefore advanced no further. The assault on Hancock, however, had been so completely broken that the rebels were unable to re-form. If Crawford could have attacked them at this crisis, the destruction of the whole assaulting force must have been inevitable. As it was, several hundred rebels strg at ten P. M., and Warren at one o'clock; and by noon of the 28th, the whole army was back in its former camps. It is stated by rebel writers that during the night of the 27th, Lee massed 15,000 infantry and all of Hampton's cavalry opposite Hancock, with a view of crushing the Second corps in the morning; but in the morning the corps was gone. At midnight Grant said to Meade: Your despatch, with those from Hancock, just received. Now that the enemy have taken to attacking, I regret t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861-1861, (search)
en from the other side in twenty-four hours, by the various railroads leading to that point; so at Parkersburg, but in less numbers. The Ohio river is fordable in the summer and fall at many points, and the whole river, from Sandy to the end of Hancock, is easily crossed. Your obedient servant, Geo. W. Summers. Executive Department, May 10, 1861. My Dear Sir,—Your favor of the 3d has been received. * * * Arms have been sent to the volunteer companies, but no troops have been, or willted the command of a regiment. I now accompanied Loring's army to Winchester, in the latter part of December, 1861, where his (Loring's) force was united with that of Jackson. On the 1st of January, 1862, this united force moved towards Hancock, Maryland, on what Jackson intended to be the beginning of a winter campaign. When near Bath, in Morgan county, Maryland, we came upon the enemy's pickets, and there was a halt. During this delay Jackson and Loring met, and some unpleasant words pa
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