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Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
nd talk freely with one another, and perhaps exchange papers or rations. But such truces were precarious, as the least thing—the accidental discharge of a musket, or the rumble of a wagon—would bring on the firing again. The loss of the Union army at Cold Harbor was 13,153 men; of the Rebels, not more than as many hundred. Morning reports. 1864 June 1. One horse died—exhaustion. June 2. One horse died—exhaustion. June 6. Corp. Geo. A. Smith returned from hospital and reported for duty. L. R. Allard, formerly dropped from the rolls, returned from. Camp Parole Md., and is again taken up on the books. June 7. One horse died—exhaustion. June 8. One horse died in train—exhaustion. Alvin Abbott previously dropped, returned. Corporal W. B. Lemmon returned. June 9. One horse died in train,—exhaustion. June 10. One horse died of exhaustion. June 11. Received from Capt. Cochrane 18 horses. Two horses died—glanders. June 12. Two horses died
Camp Parole (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
nd talk freely with one another, and perhaps exchange papers or rations. But such truces were precarious, as the least thing—the accidental discharge of a musket, or the rumble of a wagon—would bring on the firing again. The loss of the Union army at Cold Harbor was 13,153 men; of the Rebels, not more than as many hundred. Morning reports. 1864 June 1. One horse died—exhaustion. June 2. One horse died—exhaustion. June 6. Corp. Geo. A. Smith returned from hospital and reported for duty. L. R. Allard, formerly dropped from the rolls, returned from. Camp Parole Md., and is again taken up on the books. June 7. One horse died—exhaustion. June 8. One horse died in train—exhaustion. Alvin Abbott previously dropped, returned. Corporal W. B. Lemmon returned. June 9. One horse died in train,—exhaustion. June 10. One horse died of exhaustion. June 11. Received from Capt. Cochrane 18 horses. Two horses died—glanders. June 12. Two horses died
Bermuda Hundred (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
g that the attempt to force a passage across the Chickahominy, where the two opposing armies then lay, had little promise of success, deemed it advisable to extend his line to the left, and endeavor to pass the river lower down by a movement to Cold Harbor. This latter place was the point of convergence of several roads from Richmond, White House (the new base of supplies), and other places. The Sixth Corps, having marched around from the right of our line, was joined by a force from Bermuda Hundred, under Gen. W. F. (Baldy) Smith, and after a severe contest with the enemy, whom they found already confronting them, succeeded in taking and holding this important strategic position. To support his advanced column, then, was the prime object of our movement by the left flank. In common with the whole corps, we left our position on the evening of June 1st, and fell into column in rear of the Third Brigade, Second Division. Of course we were unapprised of our destination, but had c
Wooten (search for this): chapter 14
r's Battery, Third position, Cold Harbor sketched by A. Waud. 1864 Harper's Weekly very offensive. Whereupon, on the afternoon of Sunday (the 5th), Gen. Grant sent a flag of truce to Lee, proposing to bury the dead and succor the wounded. June 5, 5 P. M. By direction of Gen. Hancock, I accompanied a flag of truce with Col. Lyman, of Gen. Meade's staff. The point selected to put out the flag was on the Mechanicsville road, where our pickets are very close to the enemy's . . . . . . . Major Wooten, 18th N. C. Infantry, met Col. Lyman and myself.—Diary of a Staff Officer. After some informalities in the asking had been adjusted, For interesting particulars on this point see McCabe's Life and Campaigns of Lee. the truce was granted the 7th, to last from 12 M. till 3 P. M. Then ensued a scene so anomalous in the prosecution of war! All the firing soon died away, the details went out from both sides to engage in the burial of the dead. The rest clambered upon their respective w
George A. Smith (search for this): chapter 14
int of convergence of several roads from Richmond, White House (the new base of supplies), and other places. The Sixth Corps, having marched around from the right of our line, was joined by a force from Bermuda Hundred, under Gen. W. F. (Baldy) Smith, and after a severe contest with the enemy, whom they found already confronting them, succeeded in taking and holding this important strategic position. To support his advanced column, then, was the prime object of our movement by the left flankn the firing again. The loss of the Union army at Cold Harbor was 13,153 men; of the Rebels, not more than as many hundred. Morning reports. 1864 June 1. One horse died—exhaustion. June 2. One horse died—exhaustion. June 6. Corp. Geo. A. Smith returned from hospital and reported for duty. L. R. Allard, formerly dropped from the rolls, returned from. Camp Parole Md., and is again taken up on the books. June 7. One horse died—exhaustion. June 8. One horse died in train—ex
Lyman (search for this): chapter 14
ly very offensive. Whereupon, on the afternoon of Sunday (the 5th), Gen. Grant sent a flag of truce to Lee, proposing to bury the dead and succor the wounded. June 5, 5 P. M. By direction of Gen. Hancock, I accompanied a flag of truce with Col. Lyman, of Gen. Meade's staff. The point selected to put out the flag was on the Mechanicsville road, where our pickets are very close to the enemy's . . . . . . . Major Wooten, 18th N. C. Infantry, met Col. Lyman and myself.—Diary of a Staff OfficerCol. Lyman and myself.—Diary of a Staff Officer. After some informalities in the asking had been adjusted, For interesting particulars on this point see McCabe's Life and Campaigns of Lee. the truce was granted the 7th, to last from 12 M. till 3 P. M. Then ensued a scene so anomalous in the prosecution of war! All the firing soon died away, the details went out from both sides to engage in the burial of the dead. The rest clambered upon their respective works and looked unrestrained upon the men with whom they had so lately contended
Hexamer (search for this): chapter 14
ere, must needs forego the outside purifying we were so sorely in need of; but our dipper of coffee and slice of fresh meat, broiled on the coals, eaten with hardtack accompaniment, refreshed us to some extent. Then followed a tedious period of lying awaiting orders, for we had parked on a plain, once a corn-field, not far from the cross-roads, and lay there in the dust under a burning sun, not knowing what the next move was to be. Orders came at last, and moving to the front, we relieved Hexamer's New Jersey Battery from lunettes they had thrown up on the brow of a slight rise of land. In this position the muzzles of their guns were barely above the level of the plain in their front. While moving out un- The old Tavern at Cold Harbor, 1896 der fire to give us the place, they lost three men and some horses. Nor did the enemy forget us as we unlimbered and got into place, though fortunately inflicting no injury. It became less interesting to them, however, when our guns opened,
Baldy (search for this): chapter 14
passage across the Chickahominy, where the two opposing armies then lay, had little promise of success, deemed it advisable to extend his line to the left, and endeavor to pass the river lower down by a movement to Cold Harbor. This latter place was the point of convergence of several roads from Richmond, White House (the new base of supplies), and other places. The Sixth Corps, having marched around from the right of our line, was joined by a force from Bermuda Hundred, under Gen. W. F. (Baldy) Smith, and after a severe contest with the enemy, whom they found already confronting them, succeeded in taking and holding this important strategic position. To support his advanced column, then, was the prime object of our movement by the left flank. In common with the whole corps, we left our position on the evening of June 1st, and fell into column in rear of the Third Brigade, Second Division. Of course we were unapprised of our destination, but had come to believe that the incept
Edward A. Pollard (search for this): chapter 14
but that was all. They were cut down mercilessly. Five colonels of this division were killed, and one general (Tyler) wounded. In less than an hour the Second Corps lost more than three thousand men. Gibbon's troops, like Barlow's gained a position far in advance of the one they started from, and close to the enemy. Hancock's corps, the only portion of the Yankee army that had come in contact with the Confederate works, had been hurled back in a storm of fire.—Third Year of the War. Edward A. Pollard. The story of the Second Corps is the story of the Sixth and Eighteenth that assaulted at the same time. They were repulsed most disastrously at every point. The following statement is made by Mr. Swinton on p. 487, Army of the Potomac, and has been adopted by many subsequent writers. Harper's Pictorial History of the Rebellion discredits it. Others have denied it. Some hours after the failure of the first assault, Gen. Meade sent instructions to each corps commander to renew t
Grant (search for this): chapter 14
was postponed until 5 P. M.） It may be desirable at this point to explain in brief the cause of this new movement. Gen. Grant, thinking that the attempt to force a passage across the Chickahominy, where the two opposing armies then lay, had littwhich the horses were unhitched and taken to the rear. This looked as if we had come to stay. We did not then know that Grant had determined to force the enemy's lines in this position at whatever cost. We feel sure, however, that our escape fromine at Cold Harbor, nearer to the enemy than that of any other. A siege of Lee's fortifications was now begun by order of Grant, with the view of carrying them by regular approaches. On arriving at our new position we found that our heavy artilled Harbor sketched by A. Waud. 1864 Harper's Weekly very offensive. Whereupon, on the afternoon of Sunday (the 5th), Gen. Grant sent a flag of truce to Lee, proposing to bury the dead and succor the wounded. June 5, 5 P. M. By direction of Gen. H
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