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McClellan (search for this): chapter 6
lina troops conspicuous in all engagements McClellan's Utter defeat by Lee. The series of battven Days battles around Richmond resulted in McClellan's, forced change of base, in the relief of R found all of Hooker's corps before him. General McClellan appeared on the field a few moments afterge had won his admiration. By June 30th, McClellan's retreating forces had reached the intersechad been hoped to deliver a crushing blow to McClellan, was a great disappointment to General Lee. ther retreat after Frayser's Farm caused General McClellan to send General Porter to select and holfirst time in the Seven Days battles, all of McClellan's army was concentrated on one field. Artillhe enemy was gone. The volcano was silent. McClellan had, against the protest of some of his geneg campaign. On the day of Malvern Hill, General McClellan telegraphed to the adjutant-general, routed army. Civil War in America, II, 414. McClellan seemed not to realize his advantage on that [1 more...]
Slocum (search for this): chapter 6
of batteries between his brigades, he, with Sykes' division of regulars, Morell's and McCall's divisions, and later with Slocum's division sent to reinforce him, awaited the attack of the divisions of Jackson, A. P. Hill, Longstreet, Whiting and D. A. P. Hill and Whiting united in a final charge on Porter's left, and in spite of the fact that be had been reinforced by Slocum, broke through his strong lines. Then, writes General Law, We had our innings. As the blue mass surged up the hill position held by the divisions of McCall and Kearny, reinforced by the divisions of Sedgwick and Hooker and a brigade of Slocum. This was a square stand — up fight, with no intrenchments of any sort on either side. It had been expected that General Huger would engage Slocum, and that General Jackson would attack the Federal right, while Longstreet pressed the front. However, both Jackson and Huger found it impracticable to reach the ground in time. Hence Longstreet alone struck the blow in
Cathey (search for this): chapter 6
nth regiment, through an error of its guide, became separated from its brigade and was called upon to support another brigade. Always ready for a fight.Colonel McElroy did his part with skill and courage, and the regiment suffered a loss of about 200 men. No better example of the hotness of the fire to which these regiments were exposed can be found than in the losses of one of the companies. Captain Flowers, of the Thirty-eighth regiment, lost 27 men out of 32 taken into action. Lieutenant Cathey, of the Sixteenth regiment, describes the situation of the soldiers the night of the battle. He says: Our surroundings were deserts of solitary horror. The owls, night-hawks and foxes had fled in dismay; not even a snake or a frog could be heard to plunge into the lagoons which, crimsoned with the blood of men, lay motionless in our front. Nothing could be heard in the blackness of that night but the ghastly moans of the wounded and dying. On retiring from Beaver Dam creek Genera
Fitz John Porter (search for this): chapter 6
s present, but not materially engaged) of Fitz John Porter, and five brigades of A. P. Hill, assisteying. On retiring from Beaver Dam creek General Porter, having, as he says, 30,000 men, Battlep. 337. (Note—General Webb strangely says that Porter had less than 18,000 infantry at Gaines' Mill.ugh to appal any but the stoutest hearts. General Porter himself has put on record testimony to the who ably sustained his part. Meanwhile, on Porter's right stubborn work was doing. There PorterPorter had placed Sykes' regulars, the flower of his corps, and they were commanded by a persistent fightetreams, ravines and tangled woods, revealed to Porter's trained eye that there was an ideal place fole. The hill commanded nearly all the roads. Porter says: The hill was flanked with ravines, e divisions were, as they arrived, posted under Porter's personal direction to take full advantage ofoods. Battles and Leaders, II, 394. General Porter, whose activity contributed much to the su[2 more...]
H. A. Brown (search for this): chapter 6
-fourth and Forty-eighth Georgia, formed Ripley's brigade. Two of Ripley's regiments, the First North Carolina and the Forty-fourth Georgia, united with Pender on the right, and the Third North Carolina and Forty-eighth Georgia moved to a position in front of the enemy. All moved forward. The two regiments directly in front suffered little, comparatively, but Pender and the two regiments on the right went indeed into a storm of lead. The Georgians lost 335 men in a very short while. Colonel Brown thus describes the action of the First: It advanced to the attack in front of the splendid artillery of the enemy, posted across the pond at Ellison's mill. The slaughter was terrific, yet the regiment pressed forward in the face of this fire for more than half a mile, advancing steadily to what seemed inevitable destruction, till it reached the pond and took shelter in a skirt of woods. Regimental History. In this movement Colonel Stokes was mortally wounded, Lieutenant-Colonel Mc
R. W. Wharton (search for this): chapter 6
l Avery was wounded, the command devolving upon Maj. R. F. Webb, who ably sustained his part. Meanwhile, on Porter's right stubborn work was doing. There Porter had placed Sykes' regulars, the flower of his corps, and they were commanded by a persistent fighter. D. H. Hill, on the extreme Confederate left, and General Jackson, between him and A. P. Hill, moved their divisions against these lines. In Jackson's division, the only Carolinians were the Twenty-first, Colonel Kirkland, and Wharton's sharpshooters. Of their part in the battle General Trimble says: The charge of the Sixteenth Mississippi and Twenty-first North Carolina (with sharpshooters attached), sustained from the first movement without a falter, could not be surpassed for intrepid bravery anc high resolve. Anderson's and Garland's brigades of D. H. Hill's division were made up entirely of North Carolinians, Anderson having the Second, Fourth, Fourteenth and Thirtieth; Garland, the Fifth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, T
Majs (search for this): chapter 6
ge on that day's field. On the Confederate side there was also much confusion. The army was too much paralyzed to make any effective pursuit of the Federals, and, after a few days of rest, withdrew to the lines around Richmond. As already seen, the North Carolina losses in these seven days were: killed, 650; wounded, 3,279. Conspicuous among the slain were the following field officers: Cols. M. S. Stokes, Gaston Meares, R. P. Campbell, C. C. Lee; Lieut.-Cols. Petway and F. J. Faison; Majs. T. N. Crumpler, T. L. Skinner, B. R. Huske. These were among the State's most gifted and gallant sons. The losses among the company officers were also heavy. During the progress of this great campaign, there was little fighting in North Carolina, for most of her troops were in Virginia, and the Federals around New Bern did not show much further activity. Some skirmishing occurred around Gatesville, Trenton, Young's crossroads, Pollocksville and Clinton. On the 5th of June, there was a
R. H. Riddick (search for this): chapter 6
een said, we were lavish of blood in those early days, and an attack on a battery or a strongly-fortified line was deemed especially glorious. Pender's North Carolina brigade, made up of the Sixteenth, Twenty-second, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth and two battalions of other troops, advanced, as the division commander says, gallantly in the face of a murderous fire to the right of Field's advanced brigade. Under Pender's personal direction, Col. W. J. Hoke, of the Thirty-eighth, and Col. R. H. Riddick, of the Thirty-fourth North Carolina, joined in a desperate but abortive effort to force a crossing. In this daring advance the Thirty-fourth was outstripped by the Thirty-eighth, and that regiment alone tenaciously fought its way close up to the Federal rifle-pits, furnishing a magnificent yet fruitless exhibition of bravery. Of this attack Judge Montgomery says: Pender and his brave Carolinians swept over the plain and down the bottom, under a murderous fire of artillery and mu
Longstreet (search for this): chapter 6
ited the attack of the divisions of Jackson, A. P. Hill, Longstreet, Whiting and D. H. Hill. The battle that followed the mwere driven back by overwhelming numbers. Toward night, Longstreet, A. P. Hill and Whiting united in a final charge on Portd Charles City roads, just north of Malvern hill. There Longstreet, supported only by the division of A. P. Hill, attacked at General Jackson would attack the Federal right, while Longstreet pressed the front. However, both Jackson and Huger found it impracticable to reach the ground in time. Hence Longstreet alone struck the blow in which all were expected to participate. On opening the battle, General Longstreet sent Branch's--North Carolina brigade of A. P. Hill's division to his righbstinate line of McCall, to whose hard fighting that day Longstreet pays this tribute: He was more tenacious of his battle tt Sharpsburg. The failure of all his officers to join Longstreet in this battle, in which it had been hoped to deliver a
G. B. Singeltary (search for this): chapter 6
rred around Gatesville, Trenton, Young's crossroads, Pollocksville and Clinton. On the 5th of June, there was a collision of an hour's duration between the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts regiment, a few cavalrymen, and two pieces of artillery on the Federal side, and Col. G. B. Singeltary's Forty-fourth North Carolina regiment at Tranter's creek, near Washington. During this engagement Colonel Singeltary was killed. In these various actions the Confederate losses were: killed, 8; wounded, 17. urred around Gatesville, Trenton, Young's crossroads, Pollocksville and Clinton. On the 5th of June, there was a collision of an hour's duration between the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts regiment, a few cavalrymen, and two pieces of artillery on the Federal side, and Col. G. B. Singeltary's Forty-fourth North Carolina regiment at Tranter's creek, near Washington. During this engagement Colonel Singeltary was killed. In these various actions the Confederate losses were: killed, 8; wounded, 17.
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