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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 4: the balls Bluff disaster. (search)
nched and manned by men of Capt. Rice's company, Co. F., and they continued throughout the day and the night to work the boats between the Maryland shore and the island, which was about an eighth of a mile in width. Ropes, taken from canal boats, were finally stretched across the stream, and by this means the boats could be pulled across, hand over hand, and thus make more frequent trips. The First California regiment, Col. Baker, then acting Brigadier General, the New York (Tammany) Col. Coggswell, the Twentieth Massachusetts, Col. Lee, a section of Vaughn's battery and two mountain howitzers were poled across to the island. After some difficulty a fourth scow was hauled out of the canal and into the river, by Col. Baker's command, but in trying to get the artillery across on it, the current carried it too far down the stream, and for a long time that scow was useless but was eventually brought back to the landing. Finally the largest scow was poled up and around the island to
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
..................... 127 Clay, George, ...................................................... 363 Clements, Charles E., .................................................... 187 Clemment, John, ....................................................... 341 Clump of Trees, The, ............................................. 240, 243 Coffin, Gorham, ................................................ 143, 247 Coffin, John G., ........................................................ 106 Coggswell, Colonel, ................................................. 21, 23 Colburn, David F., .................................................... 188 Colby, Eben, ......................................................... 285 Cold Harbor, ......................................................... 317 Cole, Rufus H., Jr., ...................................144, 153 Cole's Hill, .................................................. 275, 282, 298 Collins, George, ......................................