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Oliver Edwards (search for this): chapter 2
Sixth Army Corps. First Division.—Artillery, 1st Light Battery (A), Capt. W. H. McCartney. Third Division.—2d Brigade, 7th Mass., Col. T. D. Johns; 10th Mass., Lieut.-Col. J. B. Parsons; 37th Mass., Col. Oliver Edwards
W. H. McCartney (search for this): chapter 2
Sixth Army Corps. First Division.—Artillery, 1st Light Battery (A), Capt. W. H. McCartney. Third Division.—2d Brigade, 7th Mass., Col. T. D. Johns; 10th Mass., Lieut.-Col. J. B. Parsons; 37th Mass., Col. Oliver Edwa
T. D. Johns (search for this): chapter 2
Sixth Army Corps. First Division.—Artillery, 1st Light Battery (A), Capt. W. H. McCartney. Third Division.—2d Brigade, 7th Mass., Col. T. D. Johns; 10th Mass., Lieut.-Col. J. B. Parsons; 37th Mass., Col. Oliver Edwa
J. B. Parsons (search for this): chapter 2
Sixth Army Corps. First Division.—Artillery, 1st Light Battery (A), Capt. W. H. McCartney. Third Division.—2d Brigade, 7th Mass., Col. T. D. Johns; 10th Mass., Lieut.-Col. J. B. Parsons; 37th Mass., Col. Oliver Edwa
Colorado (Colorado, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Sixth Army Corps. First Division.—Artillery, 1st Light Battery (A), Capt. W. H. McCartney. Third Division.—2d Brigade, 7th Mass., Col. T. D. Johns; 10th Mass., Lieut.-Col. J. B. Parsons; 37th Mass., Col. Oliver Edwa
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Sixth Army Corps. First Division.—Artillery, 1st Light Battery (A), Capt. W. H. McCartney. Third Division.—2d Brigade, 7th Mass., Col. T. D. Johns; 10th Mass., Lieut.-Col. J. B. Parsons; 37th Mass., Col. Oliver Edwa
1868 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ight. Schouler, I, 51. It is obvious that a considerable range of time is thus opened by this discrepancy as to hours; and it is also noticeable that his testimony in 1862 was given a good deal nearer to the actual occurrences than that made in 1868. On the other hand, there is ample evidence that Co. E, 4th Regiment Mass. Volunteer Militia, took the train at South Abington at 7.13 A. M., April 16, 1861, due to arrive in Boston at 8.13 A. M., and, as there was no delay or accident, it is fai8th Mass. Infantry. If, therefore, the first statement of Adjutant-General Schouler was correct, Captain Allen's Abington company had distinct precedence over the three Marblehead companies; whereas, if the Adjutant-General's modified statement of 1868 is to be accepted, the matter is left more indefinite. As a matter of fact, the controversy is not of great importance, because many companies took the first trains on their respective railways, and were after that at the mercy of the time tables
1860 AD (search for this): chapter 1
also be remembered that the Northern mind, generally shrinking from all belief in a coming war, had delayed serious action long after active preparations had begun at the South. Young men coming from that region were amazed, during the winter of 1860-61, to find their Northern acquaintances employing or amusing themselves as usual, while at the South everybody was drilling. All the events in Kansas had not really opened men's eyes. Both sides, moreover, strangely underrated their opponents. 55th Mass. Infantry. As to German soldiers, Mr. J. G. Rosengarten, in his The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States, estimates the total number recruited in this State as 1,876, the total German population of the State, by the census of 1860, being 9,961. Rosengarten, p. 195. This statement is based on the calculations made by Dr. B. A. Gould for the Sanitary Commission. These soldiers were doubtless widely scattered through the regiments, There were, for instance, many German
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f the two Bethels has passed into history. This, however, is the first time that this singular example of intuition on the part of General Phelps has ever been written for publication. (Report of Association of Graduates, U. S. Military Academy, 1885, p. 77.) When, on July 18, 1861, the Army of the Potomac made its first reconnaissance at Blackburn's Ford, the duty was chiefly performed by the 1st Mass. Infantry (Col. Robert Cowdin), the first three years regiment to leave the State, and tf men supplied to be 159,165, including 26,163 in the navy. This estimate includes re-enlisted veterans, who may not be included in the U. S. report. The final report from the Adjutant-General's office at Washington on the statistics of the war (1885) reports from Massachusetts 122,781 white troops, 3,966 colored troops and 19,983 sailors, making in all 146,730 men, of whom 13,942 died in the war. The only States surpassing Massachusetts in total number were New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illin
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of history. (Official War Records, XIX (2), 312.) The 21st shared the fortunes of the 35th on that day, but with a loss of only ten killed, including Second Lieut. Henry C. Holbrook of Barre, and thirty-five wounded. In other parts of that fragmentary battle Massachusetts men had a prominent share. The 2d Mass. Infantry having taken a Confederate flag, Lieut.-Col. Wilder Dwight rode along the line displaying it, amid a storm of bullets. Life and Letters of Wilder Dwight (Boston, 1891, 2d ed ), p. 293. Near the end of the battle he fell, mortally wounded. His last act before being wounded was to walk along the line of the regiment, which was drawn up under the shelter of a fence, and to direct the men to keep their heads down out of the reach of the enemy's fire. Life, etc, p. 293. Compare his memoir in Harvard Memorial Biographies, I, 271. How well this regiment reflected the character of such an officer may be seen in the contemporary testimonials. Brig.-Gen. A.
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