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Kennedy (search for this): chapter 6
give perhaps a skirmish before morning. On all these memories I but touch, that I may recall to mind that the citizens of Charlestown were quite willing if not anxious to appeal to the officers for protection against the swarms of foragers who invaded their spring-houses and their cellars for food. As the army increased in numbers, camps were pitched on the outskirts of the town, where I selected as my headquarters the yard or park which enclosed a gentleman's house. The man's name was Kennedy, and he was supposed to have some Union proclivities, as well as a house-full of females and slaves. The inmates were so much surprised to see a regiment of infantry file into their yard and locate tents and baggage in front of the old family mansion, that there was an immediate appeal to General Banks, who thought I better move, --which I did, first however calling upon the family to assure them that I thought my protection was more valuable than my presence was annoying. The old lady
P. R. Mason (search for this): chapter 6
trasburg, Fulkerson's brigade having marched from Woodstock, and Garnett's (Stonewall's) with Burks's from Mount Jackson, twenty-two miles. During the night Shields sent forward more troops. Kimball's brigade and Daum's artillery went out on the Strasburg road nearly to Kernstown. In rear, Sullivan supported Kimball, and covered the approaches to Winchester on the east and west; Tyler's brigade and Broadhead's cavalry were held in reserve. In the morning (the 23d), at nine o'clock, Colonel Mason of the Fourth Ohio made a reconnoissance; he was out one hour, and reported that Ashby's was the only hostile force before us; and this was then true. Both Banks and Shields agreed that this was not a dangerous indication, and the former between one and two P. M. left for Washington. On the same morning, too, at daylight, Jackson pressed forward from Strasburg. At one P. M. his whole force reached the vicinity of Kernstown, a march of fourteen miles. Jackson meant to have deferred h
Abercrombie (search for this): chapter 6
experiences. My regiment had rejoined General Abercrombie's brigade, from which, as I have said, sending Major Dwight to find rooms for General Abercrombie, our brigade commander. Knocking at a usiness. I want a room, said he, for General Abercrombie; and he will protect you. Still the ck a light and read as follows : General Abercrombie will put his brigade immediately under with the above order. By command of General Abercrombie. Geo. B. Drake, A. A. G. In a momemmanded by Generals Hamilton, Williams, and Abercrombie. This force was increased by the division eir eyes whenever a rooster crowed; for General Abercrombie, commanding the brigade, had given striyear of 1862. We were to be no more to General Abercrombie. General Hamilton was, by order of Gene possible despatch; and Send forward to General Abercrombie to return with all his trains to Winchen front of Fredericksburg. As it was, only Abercrombie got away, and him we saw no more. In this [1 more...]
Donelson (search for this): chapter 6
nished wonderful consolation to a good woman, who hurled it at me because I gave her no encouragement for her losses. We found the women here much more violent than the men, but perhaps this was only from the female habit of not suppressing their feelings. The women took a malicious pleasure in expressing to our officers their sentiments of hatred to your president and to your government; and no amount of swearing induced them to believe in our recent victories at Henry, Mill Springs, and Donelson. We found some difficulty, too, in trading with our treasury notes, especially with the lower classes; but when they found it was that or nothing, they took them eagerly. The thin, flimsy-looking currency, issued by the Confederate States, as well as by their municipal corporations, was exchanged among their own people with confidence in its value, although I observed that the knowing ones used it to buy lands of the foolish. Many of the Second Regiment can recall the guard duty, on pi
Davis (search for this): chapter 6
llery 27 pieces; of cavalry 290. The force under General Shields First brigade, Kimball's,--Eighth Ohio; Sixty-seventh Ohio; Fourteenth Indiana; Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania. Second brigade, Sullivan's, -Thirteenth Indiana; Fifth Ohio; Sixty-second Ohio; Thirty-ninth Illinois. Third brigade, Tyler's,--Seventh Ohio; Twenty-ninth Ohio; First Virginia; Seventh Indiana; One Hundred Tenth Pennsylvania. Daum's Artillery,--Jenks's Battery A, First Virginia; Clark's Battery E, Fourth Artillery; Davis's Battery B, First Virginia; Robinson's Battery L, First Ohio; Huntington's Battery H, First Ohio. Broadhead's Cavalry,four companies First Michigan; two companies Ohio; two companies Maryland; six companies First Virginia; two companies Ringgold and Washington cavalry. numbered in infantry 6,000, and in cavalry 750. There were also twenty-four pieces of artillery, and one company of Massachusetts sharp-shooters. The battle of Kernstown, as the Confederates call it, was fought on a hig
Halleck (search for this): chapter 6
s, as if it had become a body of mis-representatives with the single purpose of decrying the commander of the Army of the Potomac, General McClellan had been carefully and methodically preparing his vast army for the field. I have referred to the onward movement ordered by the President on the twenty-second of February, with General McClellan in command of the grand army of the Potomac, organized into its several divisionary corps, under McDowell, Sumner, Heintzelman, Keyes, and Banks. Halleck was in charge of a department at the West, and Fremont in charge of the Mountain Department. It is with Banks's corps that our interest lies. While the others were to move on their devious way up the peninsula to Yorktown, Williamsburg, the Chickahominy, and the James, we were to move up the valley of the Shenandoah, closing this gateway to the enemy. Our force was as follows: We had the brigades that wintered with us at Frederick, commanded by Generals Hamilton, Williams, and Abercrombi
Garnett (search for this): chapter 6
it as 5,276. The first brigade, commanded by Garnett, known as the Stonewall brigade, was made up 's brigade having marched from Woodstock, and Garnett's (Stonewall's) with Burks's from Mount Jackstonewall) brigade of five regiments under General Garnett, the second of three regiments and one baart of Carpenter's battery towards his left. Garnett followed, and then came the artillery of McLatern declivity of the ridge, and with four of Garnett's regiments and two of Burks's in the centre from that wall, so he turned his attention to Garnett, whose line was concealed in the undergrowth,Jackson was in another part of the field, General Garnett had ordered a retreat. The Rebels turned in disorder. Garnett met the Fifth Virginia coming to his assistance, and ordered it to retire. ounded was 568. Jackson was angry with General Garnett, and soon relieved him from the command og under great disadvantage, I regret that General Garnett gave orders to fall back, as otherwise th
Maulsby (search for this): chapter 6
itself in the road, and we proceeded on at a rapid pace. Now it was, for the first time, that I learned our destination. Our friends, the Maryland regiment, Colonel Maulsby commanding, had been stationed as a guard at a ferry on the Shenandoah, between four and five miles from Charlestown towards the southeast. During the day CoColonel Maulsby had been threatened by the enemy's cavalry, and had asked for reinforcements, which were not furnished. Between twelve and one o'clock A. M., of the 7th, a frightened teamster came flying from camp to Banks's headquarters, crying out that the loyal Maryland regiment had been cut to pieces. Twelve hundred cavalry, heWhile awaiting daylight, I extracted from the frightened teamster, whom I had brought along as a guide, the following story of the disaster that had overtaken Colonel Maulsby:-- When the twelve hundred cavalry of the enemy made the attack on us I heard the first shots fired, and then heard the officers call out, Turn out, boys,
Sumner (search for this): chapter 6
movements and misapprehending his motives, as if it had become a body of mis-representatives with the single purpose of decrying the commander of the Army of the Potomac, General McClellan had been carefully and methodically preparing his vast army for the field. I have referred to the onward movement ordered by the President on the twenty-second of February, with General McClellan in command of the grand army of the Potomac, organized into its several divisionary corps, under McDowell, Sumner, Heintzelman, Keyes, and Banks. Halleck was in charge of a department at the West, and Fremont in charge of the Mountain Department. It is with Banks's corps that our interest lies. While the others were to move on their devious way up the peninsula to Yorktown, Williamsburg, the Chickahominy, and the James, we were to move up the valley of the Shenandoah, closing this gateway to the enemy. Our force was as follows: We had the brigades that wintered with us at Frederick, commanded by Gen
Parrott (search for this): chapter 6
ties into the North Fork of the Shenandoah. The place was favorable for a stand, and it looked for a time as if the enemy were determined to make one there. Retreating, however, across the creek, Jackson burned both the pike and railroad bridges in his flight, and placed his cavalry and artillery on a commanding ridge on the south side of the creek, confronting us on the northern side. The enemy's batteries, posted about three fourths of a mile from us, exchanged continual shots with our Parrott's. Our guns, cleverly concealed just over the brow of a hill, did good execution without loss of men or horses. Beneath the hill, resting from their fatiguing march of a good sixteen miles, were my infantry. The enemy's guns, answering our fire, sent shells merrily around our heads; but the men had got somewhat used to the sound, and munched their cold rations with indifference, and kept on, too,--all but one poor fellow, a private of my Twentyninth Pennsylvania Regiment, who would have c
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