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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 11 9 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 6 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 8 0 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 II. 7 1 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 7 3 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
tterance. Banks seemed brooding over thoughts he did not reveal; he was spiritless and dejected. His mood depressed me, and I hastened to return to my command. At about ten o'clock at night I received a note containing instructions sent to Colonel Ruger of the Third Wisconsin, Headquarters, 9.45 P. M. Colonel Gordon: Sr,--I sent a note about an hour ago to Colonel Ruger to halt. If at or beyond Buckton, to fall back, if necessary, to a position where he would not run any risk of beingColonel Ruger to halt. If at or beyond Buckton, to fall back, if necessary, to a position where he would not run any risk of being cut off. I send the two wagons back. Yours, etc., D. S. Perkins, Major, etc. from which I inferred that possibly Banks had obtained further information, and that now I might press my views with better success. First I called upon Major Perkins, the chief of General Banks's staff. Finding that my suspicions of the strength and purposes of the enemy were shared by him, I asked Perkins if he agreed with me in the advice I had given. Replying that he did, I asked him if he had urged Banks
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 8: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
s]; I must have more force. I sent him a brigade. --Banks before Committee on the Conduct of the War. At five o'clock in the afternoon Crawford was ordered to advance through the woods, preparatory to an attack on the enemy's left flank. Colonel Ruger, commanding the six companies of the Third Wisconsin Regiment of my brigade, had swept with his skirmishers through the woods between my position and the wheat-field, without finding the enemy, when General Williams received orders from Banksawford himself, in violation of military law and etiquette, had ordered the Wisconsin companies to join his troops then filing into the woods for the general charge which Banks contemplated making all along his line. To Crawford's unlawful order Ruger replied that he was momentarily expecting orders from General Gordon, his brigade-commander, and suggested that before taking his regiment from the brigade it would be better to have superior authority ; Wisconsin in the War, p. 253. but at t
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Index (search)
6, 19 (notes), 90, 92, 105, 252, 285, 286 (note), 332 (note). R Ranson, James L., 109. Rebel quartermaster, a, the defenceless condition of his estate and family, 156, 157. Rebels, unarmed, male and female, experiences with, 158, 161, 162-164. Revere, Major, 70. Ricketts, General, division commander under McDowell, 278, 279, 330. Rinker, Mr., a Virginia Rebel and storekeeper,--how his disloyalty was rewarded, 153, 154. Roberts, General, staff-officer to Pope, 282. Ruger, Colonel, commands Third Wisconsin Regiment at battle of Cedar Mountain, 291. Rumors, reports, fears, and false alarms, 35, 36, 39-46, 61, 63, 64, 97, 99, 109-112, 163, 165, 166. Russell, H. S., captain in the Second Mass. Regiment,--captured in the battle of Cedar Mountain, 312. S. Savage, James, Captain, and afterwards Major, in the Second Mass. Regiment, 12, 220, 231-233. Mortally wounded and captured in the battle of Cedar Mountain, 311, 312 (note). Dies at Charlottesville,