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Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 28 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 17 17 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 12 2 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 10 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 8 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 4 Browse Search
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 4 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 6 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 4 0 Browse Search
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setts at Newbern were despatched to Washington. Lieut. Avery, of the marine artillery, with three of Wiard's th Massachusetts, except C and D, came next, and Lieut. Avery, with two of his steel howitzers and twenty-five a bridge of slabs, near which the mill stands. Lieut. Avery now opened with grape, canister and solid shot uoolest bravery throughout the brief engagement. Lieut. Avery and his brave little body of marines also foughtCol. Howard's marine artillery, under command of Lieut. Avery. The infantry and artillery having taken up t takes to narrate it, the gallant marines, under Lieut. Avery, came dashing down the hill with their guns, whie, the engagement regularly opened on our side. Lieut. Avery discharged several rounds of shell and canister ng very briskly when driven out by a shell which Lieut. Avery lodged in the building. Others again were discohe tree-tops on the opposite side of the creek. Lieut. Avery elevated his piece and fired a couple of rounds
dred and fifty men, and came out with one hundred and twenty-five; the One Hundred and Second New-York with nearly four hundred men, and has but Major Lane and Captain Avery with sixty-six men remaining, To the Editor of the New-York Tribune: sir: I saw a statement in your paper of the thirteenth that only sixty-six out of four hundred in our battalion came safely off the battle-ground on the ninth, and the only officers uninjured were Major Lane and Captain Avery. This report is erroneous. Though only sixty-six did leave the ground with us uninjured, we took only one hundred and sixty enlisted men and twenty-one officers into the fight. Of these,the One Hundred and Second New-York and the One Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania drew special mention. Major Lane, who commanded the One Hundred and Second, and Captain Avery, are the only officers left. The little band of sixty-six gathered together this morning spoke in high terms of the conduct of their officers. They were cons
dred and fifty men, and came out with one hundred and twenty-five; the One Hundred and Second New-York with nearly four hundred men, and has but Major Lane and Captain Avery with sixty-six men remaining, To the Editor of the New-York Tribune: sir: I saw a statement in your paper of the thirteenth that only sixty-six out of four hundred in our battalion came safely off the battle-ground on the ninth, and the only officers uninjured were Major Lane and Captain Avery. This report is erroneous. Though only sixty-six did leave the ground with us uninjured, we took only one hundred and sixty enlisted men and twenty-one officers into the fight. Of these,the One Hundred and Second New-York and the One Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania drew special mention. Major Lane, who commanded the One Hundred and Second, and Captain Avery, are the only officers left. The little band of sixty-six gathered together this morning spoke in high terms of the conduct of their officers. They were cons
at a subsequent date. Our force engaged amounted to but one hundred and twelve men. We left of killed, wounded, and missing, (exclusive of those who have just come in-among the last the gallant Capt. Thornton,) ten men at Ponchatoula. Surgeon Avery, of the Ninth Connecticut volunteers, with his attendants, voluntarily remained with our wounded, but the former has since returned. We brought in eleven men more or less severely wounded. One fatal case of sun-stroke occurred on board thtillery, which, with horses attached, would be brought back upon the line of the road as soon as we should have left the village. The artillery did so return at the signal of the inhabitants; but, though actively served, did us no harm. Surgeon Avery reports twenty of the enemy killed. Capts. Thornton and Farrington, and the officers and men of their respective commands, though nearly exhausted by the march, two miles of which was over an open trestle-work, in the heat of the day, beha