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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 8: the siege of Yorktown. (search)
f the works in front of the division. The enemy's position extended across the Peninsula from Yorktown, on the York River, to Warwick, on Warwick Creek, a small stream which emptied into the James. From the natural defence of this creek, which they had dammed at Winn's Mills and Lee's Mills, and the conformity of the flooded land in that vicinity, the enemy were, by a comparatively short line of works, able to command all the roads up the Peninsula leading to Richmond. They also held Gloucester, opposite Yorktown, on the eastern side of the York River, where the banks of that stream approach and form a narrow strait. McClellan reported that the position of the enemy is a strong one. From present indications their fortifications extend some two miles in length and mount heavy guns. The ground in front of their heavier guns is low and swampy, making it utterly impassable. The first camp of shelter tents was pitched within two miles of the enemy's outworks of Yorktown on a l
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 9 (search)
works. If this is so, they have only done it to draw us into a trap, or to get where they can have better chance at us. After three weeks laborious preparation, General McClellan having advanced his parallels, got one of his large siege batteries in position and opened fire at a distance of two miles upon the enemy's works (Apr. 30.) The first shot was fired from Battery No. 1 at the mouth of Wormsley's Creek and was aimed at the enemy's shipping in the York River beyond Yorktown and Gloucester. They replied with their large pivot gun, a rifled 68 pounder, mounted on the height of Yorktown. The cannonade was kept up on both sides for about two hours, in the course of which about sixty shots were fired from the one and two hundred pounder Parrott guns of the heavy siege battery. During the night, the enemy kept up a brisk fire of shells upon the parallels where the men were at work. On the next morning the enemy opened fire with their Columbiade, mounted on the heights of Y
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
......213 to 254 Gibbon, Gen., John, ..................... 200, 217, 221, 229, 233, 239, 321, 327 Gibbons, Willam, ................................................... 248, 286 Gifford, Joseph S.,.................................................. 145 Gilbert, Delos, ........................................................ 331 Gillespie, Patrick, .................................................. 323 Glendale, Battle of, .......................................... 92, 93, 98, 99 Gloucester, Va., ...................................................... 59 Goaks, ............................................................ 198 Goarout, Doffles, ...................................................... 330 Goff, Edward H.,..................................................... 323 Golden, Edward, ..................................................323, 329 Gooch, Charles, ....................................................... 363 Goodhue, Alexander, ..............................