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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 14: Manassas. (search)
s expedition was only deferred a little over a week beyond the appointed time. On the 16th of July he issued his orders to march that afternoon. His army was organized as follows: First Division, commanded by Tyler: an aggregate of 9,936 men, divided into four brigades, respectively under Keyes, Schenck, Sherman, and Richardson. Second Division, commanded by Hunter: an aggregate of 2,648 men, divided into two brigades, under Porter and Burnside. Third Division, commanded by Heintzelman: an aggregate of 9,777 men, divided into three brigades, under Franklin, Willcox, and Howard. Fourth Division, commanded by Runyon: an aggregate of 5,752 men; no brigade commanders. Fifth Division, commanded by miles: an aggregate of 6,207 men, divided into two brigades, under Blenker and Davies. Thus, the total of his command, not including four regiments left in the Alexandria and Arlington forts, was 34,320 men. From this number, however, Runyon's division may at once be de
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 15: Bull Run. (search)
ith the heaviest division, should advance from Centreville directly to Stone Bridge, three and a half miles distant, and make a feigned attack; while Hunter and Heintzelman should make a secret and circuitous night march northward, cross Sudley Ford, and, rapidly descending on the enemy's side of Bull Run, should clear away the ba taken the initiative. A little past midnight McDowell's army was astir, and the three designated divisions started. Unluckily, at the very outset, Hunter and Heintzelman were delayed two or three hours by the first division not getting out of its camps in time, and failing to clear the road for them. The route proved unexpectedft. By this time Hunter had sent Porter's brigade into the fields to the right of the Sudley road, where Griffin's battery could engage the rebel field-pieces; Heintzelman was hurrying up with an advance regiment and Ricketts' battery. Under this combined pressure the Confederate line wavered, yielded, and finally broke. Their
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Appendix A. (search)
arines, Major John G. Reynolds. Battalion U. S. Cavalry, Major I. N. Palmer. Company D, 5th U. S. Artillery, Captain Charles Griffin. Second Brigade. Colonel Ambrose E. Burnside. 2d New Hampshire. Col. Gilman Marston (wounded), Lieut.- Col. Frank S. Fiske. 1st Rhode Island, Major Joseph P. Balch. 2d Rhode Island (with battery), Colonel John S. Slocum (killed), Lieut.-Colonel Frank Wheaton. 17st New York (with two howitzers), Colonel Henry P. Martin. third Division. Colonel Samuel P. Heintzelman (wounded). First Brigade. Colonel William B. Franklin. 5th Massachusetts, Colonel Samuel C. Lawrence. 11th Massachusetts, Colonel George Clark, Jr. 1st Minnesota, Colonel W. A. Gorman. Company 1, 1st U. S. Artillery, Captain James B. Ricketts (wounded and captured), Lieutenant Edmund Kirby. Second Brigade. Col. Orlando B. Willcox (wounded and captured), Col. J. H. Hobart Ward. 11th New York, Lieut.-Colonel Noah L. Farnham. 88th New York, Colonel J. H. Hobart Ward, Lieu
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
tion of, 96 et seq. Grafton, 142 et seq., 146 Grant, General U. S., 134 Great Bethel, Va., engagement at, 172 Green, Captain, 117 Griffin, Captain, 188, 191, 192 Guthrie, Colonel, 131 H. Hagerstown, Md., 157 Hamlin, Hannibal, 76 Harney, General, 119 et seq. Harper's Ferry, United States Armory at, 83; capture of, by rebels, 95, 98; retaken from the rebels, 157; weakness of, 158; destroyed by Johnston, 161 Harrisburg, 100 Hayne, I. W., 35, 37 Heintzelman, General S. P., commands Third Division on advance to Manassas, 174 Henry House, the, 187 Hickman, Ky., 134 Hicks, Governor, 83, 88 et seq., 94 Houston, Governor, his scheme of independent sovereignty for Texas, 13; deposed from office, 14 Holt, Secretary, 33, 37, 84 Howard, General O. O., 174 Hughes, Archbishop, 76 Hunter, General, David, commands Second Division, 174 Hunter, R. M. T., U. S. Sen.,Va., 25 Huttonsville, 147 I. Illinois, 127 Imboden, General