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Whitten (search for this): chapter 12
s were instantly killed or mortally wounded. The losses of the Second had been terrible: Captains Abbott, Cary, Williams, and Goodwin, and Lieutenant Perkins, were dead; Major Savage was mortally wounded and a prisoner; Captain Quincy and Lieutenant Millen were wounded and prisoners; Surgeon Leland (early in the action), Lieutenants Oakey, Browning, Grafton, and Robeson, were wounded; Captain Russell was a prisoner. Corporal Bassett, Bright, Dyer, Flemming, Hazelton, Livingston, and Sergeant Whitten, of Company A; Gilson and Corporal Oakes, of Company B; Brown, F. H. Cochrane, Francis, Corporal Gray, Hines, Jewell, Stonehall, and Williston, of Company C; Bickford, Corporal Fay, and Corporal Wilcox, of Company D; Ide and Sparrow, of Company E; Sergeant Andrews, Hatch, Howard, and Hoxsey, of Company G; Corporal Cahill, Corporal DeWeale, and Duffy, of Company H; Sergeant Willis, of Company I; and Conlan, Daly, Livingstone, Montague, Roberts, and Watson, of Company K,--were killed. Co
George H. Gordon (search for this): chapter 12
djutant-general, whose energy and bravery it is impossible to commend too highly. Colonel Colgrove's Official Report of the Battle of Cedar Mountain, to General George H. Gordon. and moved to the right of the Second Massachusetts, where again it opened fire upon the enemy. By this time, Pender with his brigade, who until now hadf me as to the condition of my command. I do not think I have now, I said, more than three or four hundred troops together; we have been very much cut up. General Gordon, Pope replied, you will move, as soon as relieved, to the right of the pike and form the centre of a new line of battle. I don't expect much of your troops tn should be given in full When Major Pelouze was attempting to move the Tenth Maine forward in the wheat-field, an officer passed him, saying he had orders for Gordon's brigade, Colonel Pelouze, letter to Major Gould, in the History of the First, Tenth, and Twenty-ninth Maine. then on the right. In the midst of the strugg
Z. B. Tower (search for this): chapter 12
ders, I returned to my brigade and directed commanders to move out their regiments, while I proceeded to point out to General Tower, of Ricketts' division, who had now come up to relieve me, the exact position I had held for so many hours. Althoughe enemy had moved his batteries to the positions occupied during the fight by our own. My description of positions to General Tower concluded, ambulances sent with my command and scouts taken from my own escort recalled, I was ready to leave; but totwo hundred men, over the ground from whence the whole of Banks's corps had retreated. On my right our troops, under General Tower, still held their strong point at Brown's cottage, and held it through the night, as I had maintained it through theI had occupied until I was ordered forward to the stubble-field. This was the position I surrendered after dark to General Tower, of Ricketts' division. Our right never was attacked, it was too strong; but, alas! it was too evident that Bank
Branch (search for this): chapter 12
vements of the enemy at the time I was ordered into action. In addition to the reserve brigade of Winder's division, and Branch's brigade of A. P. Hill's division, both of which had united with the restored fragments of the two that had been driven the two brigades of Archer and Pender were added to this force, the third (or Stonewall) brigade of Winder's division, on Branch's left, was prolonged so far into the timber that its fire took the repulsed regiments in flank as they were retreating across the wheat-field; after which, in connection with Branch's, the two brigades poured a united fire into the Tenth Maine, until, as related, it was driven back into the forest. In the woods upon which Jackson now directed his attack, nothing but my three small regiments was left to confront not less than five Brigades of Branch, Archer, and Pender of Hill's division, the Stonewall brigade and Taliaferro's, with what was left of Garnett's of Jackson's own division. entire brigades of t
Ewell (search for this): chapter 12
ops, whom he could not warn of their danger, though his officers soon discovered it and fell back, but not until four hundred of them were captured. Dabney's Life of Jackson. There are yet two brigades of the enemy to account for: those of Ewell's division, which remained inactive upon the face of the mountain through the scenes we have described. Precluded from advancing by the incessant fire of their own batteries, which swept the valley through which they must pass, Jackson's Repouliar efforts put forth. In Banks's testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, he attempts to exculpate himself for attacking Jackson by trying to make it appear that Jackson was marching to attack him. He had seen the movement of Ewell's remaining regiments to the mountain-side, and the brigade of Thomas (of Hill's division) reinforcing Early; and, in his own language, he had gone down to the front with some officers, and had been impressed with the idea that while the enemy wa
Cary (search for this): chapter 12
ed and wounded out of the Second alone; and of this number, six of the officers and fifty-two of the non-commissioned officers and privates were instantly killed or mortally wounded. The losses of the Second had been terrible: Captains Abbott, Cary, Williams, and Goodwin, and Lieutenant Perkins, were dead; Major Savage was mortally wounded and a prisoner; Captain Quincy and Lieutenant Millen were wounded and prisoners; Surgeon Leland (early in the action), Lieutenants Oakey, Browning, Graftounhurt, and thirty-five per cent of the regiment as engaged were killed or wounded. See Record of the Second Massachusetts infantry, by A. H. Quint, pp.110, 111. Surrounded by many of their men killed in the action, I saw dead upon the field Captains Cary, Goodwin, Abbott, Williams, and Lieutenant Perkins. Major Savage had been removed, to die at Charlottesville. Never in the entire history of the Second Massachusetts Regiment had its percentage of loss been so great. Not at Winchester, An
Williston (search for this): chapter 12
n Russell was a prisoner. Corporal Bassett, Bright, Dyer, Flemming, Hazelton, Livingston, and Sergeant Whitten, of Company A; Gilson and Corporal Oakes, of Company B; Brown, F. H. Cochrane, Francis, Corporal Gray, Hines, Jewell, Stonehall, and Williston, of Company C; Bickford, Corporal Fay, and Corporal Wilcox, of Company D; Ide and Sparrow, of Company E; Sergeant Andrews, Hatch, Howard, and Hoxsey, of Company G; Corporal Cahill, Corporal DeWeale, and Duffy, of Company H; Sergeant Willis, of , Roberts, and Watson, of Company K,--were killed. Corporal Buxton, Gilman, and Spalding, of Company A; Stephens (J.), of Company B; Donovan, of Company C; Daniels, of Company E; Moore, of Company F; Dillingham, Greene (M.), Smith, and First Sergeant Williston, of Company G; Sylvester, of Company I; and Hauboldt, of Company K,were mortally wounded. Ninety-nine others were wounded ; and fourteen men, besides four of the wounded, were prisoners. Of the twenty-three officers who went on the fie
Flemming (search for this): chapter 12
he non-commissioned officers and privates were instantly killed or mortally wounded. The losses of the Second had been terrible: Captains Abbott, Cary, Williams, and Goodwin, and Lieutenant Perkins, were dead; Major Savage was mortally wounded and a prisoner; Captain Quincy and Lieutenant Millen were wounded and prisoners; Surgeon Leland (early in the action), Lieutenants Oakey, Browning, Grafton, and Robeson, were wounded; Captain Russell was a prisoner. Corporal Bassett, Bright, Dyer, Flemming, Hazelton, Livingston, and Sergeant Whitten, of Company A; Gilson and Corporal Oakes, of Company B; Brown, F. H. Cochrane, Francis, Corporal Gray, Hines, Jewell, Stonehall, and Williston, of Company C; Bickford, Corporal Fay, and Corporal Wilcox, of Company D; Ide and Sparrow, of Company E; Sergeant Andrews, Hatch, Howard, and Hoxsey, of Company G; Corporal Cahill, Corporal DeWeale, and Duffy, of Company H; Sergeant Willis, of Company I; and Conlan, Daly, Livingstone, Montague, Roberts, and
Boswellian Dabney (search for this): chapter 12
vol. XII. part III. pp. 180 to 239. See also Dabney's Life of Jackson. we now know the movements ot until four hundred of them were captured. Dabney's Life of Jackson. There are yet two brigasixty thousand men before he could resume. Dabney's Life of Jackson. When we consider that the woubt how such a contest would terminate? Even Dabney admits in his history of this action that Jack he puts our force at 32,000 in the battle. Dabney's Life of Jackson. Arguments for Jackson's pro Jackson's Report. Jackson thought, says Dabney, that Cedar Mountain was his most successful bh would make a line of battle six miles long. Dabney's Life of Jackson. Had Jackson known that he w that Pope had received reinforcements, which, Dabney says, Jackson placed as high as 60,000. Jacksf Time at last grind out the truth; and before Dabney had exhausted even his endless vocabulary in c him retreat. Of the fight at Cedar Mountain, Dabney says: Jackson meant to have fought at Culpeper
H. B. Scott (search for this): chapter 12
stood there for some time, of all my brigade, alone, for the regiments on the right had fallen back. Of course, when it too would be compelled to retire was only a question of moments; but the moment had not yet come, and it was not anticipated. The Twenty-seventh Indiana, which had retreated through the woods, was rallied, re-formed, In rallying and re-forming the regiment at this point, and indeed during the whole action, I was aided by yourself and your staff, and particularly by Captain Scott, your assistant adjutant-general, whose energy and bravery it is impossible to commend too highly. Colonel Colgrove's Official Report of the Battle of Cedar Mountain, to General George H. Gordon. and moved to the right of the Second Massachusetts, where again it opened fire upon the enemy. By this time, Pender with his brigade, who until now had kept carefully out of sight, had gained our rear. In the confusion, the roar and smoke, this force was not seen until after it had reached ou
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