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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 177 (search)
shortly after arrived as a support. Here General Dwight was ordered to halt and await the disembar This caused a detention of four hours. General Dwight was now reenforced by the remainder of histhis time an order to halt was given, when General Dwight received instructions from General Grover to the other side. When all were over, General Dwight was ordered to burn the lower bridge, at wgade in front, followed by the brigades of General Dwight and Colonel Kimball. Lieutenant Rogers's bnd rallied them, at the same time ordering General Dwight to hasten up with his brigade. The sectthing over three hundred men, was taken by General Dwight, with a loss of only seven killed and twenty-one wounded. General Dwight was ordered to halt, take a favorable position, and hold it. Thonel Cassidy with the Sixth New-York. Brigadier-General Dwight of the First brigade, was with this f and about eight hundred Texas cavalry. General Dwight formed his line of battle, under cover of [2 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 171-operations on the Opelousas. (search)
pported by one regiment of infantry and a section of artillery, being thrown forward to Washington, on the Courtableau, a distance of six miles. The command rested on the twenty-first. Yesterday morning, the twenty-second, I sent out Brigadier-General Dwight with his brigade of Grover's division and detachments of artillery and cavalry, to push forward through Washington toward Alexandria. He found the bridges over bayous Cocodue and Bocuff destroyed, and occupied the evening and night in rto Bayou Cocodue, and that the Texans declared that they were going to Texas. Here the steamer Wave was burnt by the enemy, and the principal portion of her cargo, which had been transferred to a flat, captured by us. A despatch was found by General Dwight, in which Gov. Moore tells General Taylor to retreat slowly to Alexandria, and if pressed to retire to Texas. General l)wight will push well forward to-day, and probably halt to-morrow, to continue his march or return, according to circumsta