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Walker (search for this): chapter 8
's Report. After a brief rest, Jackson and Walker started to join their commander. By a severe hen they were sorely needed. When Jackson and Walker reported for position, General Lee's ground halmost parallel to the Hagerstown turnpike. General Walker was first placed on Longstreet's right, buned in the battle. A little before ten, General Walker, having been ordered from the right, pushebehind Hood. Walker's division, consisting of Walker's own brigade and Ransom's brigade, was, with from Harper's Ferry entered coincidently with Walker at 10:30. Walker, in Battles and Leaders, IWalker, in Battles and Leaders, II, p. 678. The second stage of the battle has now been reached. Hooker has retired and Mansfiel thrown into confusion; and McLaws, passing by Walker's left, also threw his division diagonally upotteries on the extreme edge of the field. General Walker reports: True to their duty, for eight houtysev-enth North Carolina and Third Alabama of Walker's brigade were still bravely in line. Against[17 more...]
Sutton (search for this): chapter 8
ide, he fell dead on the field. General Branch had achieved high honors in civil life. These he had given up to serve his country manfully in the field, and he was rapidly working toward the highest rank when he fell, as soldiers love to die—at the head of a victorious command. Major Gordon, of the adjutant-general's office, says that on the very day General Branch was killed, he had been appointed majorgen-eral, but that the government, hearing of his death, never issued his commission. Sutton says of his death: No country had a truer son, or nobler champion, no principle a bolder defender than the noble and gallant soldier, Gen. Lawrence O'Brian Branch. General Lee lost about one-third of his army on this field of blood. The next day, however, he remained on the field, defiant and ready to meet any new attack Mc-Clellan might order, but his enemy had suffered enough and made no move. That night he quietly crossed the Potomac without loss or molestation. General Pendleton, w
Lawrence O'Brian (search for this): chapter 8
ield, and he was rapidly working toward the highest rank when he fell, as soldiers love to die—at the head of a victorious command. Major Gordon, of the adjutant-general's office, says that on the very day General Branch was killed, he had been appointed majorgen-eral, but that the government, hearing of his death, never issued his commission. Sutton says of his death: No country had a truer son, or nobler champion, no principle a bolder defender than the noble and gallant soldier, Gen. Lawrence O'Brian Branch. General Lee lost about one-third of his army on this field of blood. The next day, however, he remained on the field, defiant and ready to meet any new attack Mc-Clellan might order, but his enemy had suffered enough and made no move. That night he quietly crossed the Potomac without loss or molestation. General Pendleton, with the reserve artillery and about 600 infantry, was left to guard the ford near Shepherdstown. General Griffin headed some volunteers from four
James B. Gordon (search for this): chapter 8
838. This official list, however, does not include the casualties in the Fifth, Twelfth and Fourteenth regiments. The following field officers, or acting field officers, were killed or mortally wounded: Gen. L. O'B. Branch, Gen. G. B. Anderson, Col. C. C. Tew, and Capts. W. T. Marsh and D. P. Latham, commanding Fourth North Carolina. The following field officers, or acting field officers, were wounded: Cols. Van H. Manning, R. T. Bennett, F. M. Parker, W. L. DeRosset; Lieut.-Cols. Sanders, W. A. Johnston, Thomas Ruffin (three times); Majs. R. F. Webb and S. D. Thruston; Captains (commanding regiments) S. McD. Tate and E. A. Osborne. In October, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart made a daring cavalry expedition into Pennsylvania. In this expedition the First North Carolina cavalry, Lieut.-Col. J. B. Gordon, took part. General Hampton in his official report commends the regiment, and especially the squadron commanded by Capt. W. H. H. Cowles, which had some special duties assigned to it.
Hays (search for this): chapter 8
ost handsomely served. During this time men had fallen as leaves fall. So thick were men lying that General Hood found difficulty in keeping his horse from stepping on wounded men. On the Federal side, General Mansfield was killed; Generals Hooker, Hartsuff, Crawford and many subordinates were wounded. On the Confederate side, General Starke and Colonel Douglass, commanding Lawton's brigade, had been killed; Generals Lawton, D. R. Jones and Ripley wounded. A third of the men of Lawton's, Hays' and Trimble's brigades were reported killed or wounded. Of Colquitt's field officers, 4 were killed, 5 wounded, and the remaining one struck slightly. All of Jackson's and D. H. Hill's troops engaged suffered proportionately. Manassas to Appomattox, p. 243. As Mansfield's men of the Twelfth corps deployed, Hooker's corps, worn from its struggle with Jackson, withdrew up the Hagerstown pike. General Longstreet says: Walker, Hood and D. H. Hill attacked against the Twelfth corps; worn
J. D. Cox (search for this): chapter 8
id use of his brigade. Walker at the head of his six North Carolina regiments and two others, charged headlong, says Gen. J. D. Cox, who commanded the extreme Federal left, upon the left flank of Sedgwick's lines, which were soon thrown into conedgwick, the North Carolina regiments were destructive participants, Walker's division containing them being, as stated by Cox, the first to start the rout. On the right, Colonel Manning, commanding a brigade, took the Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth mains now only the final stage of this day of slaughter. This was the attack of Burnside's corps, mainly directed by General Cox, as Burnside was in command of one of the wings. To make this attack, the corps thought it necessary to carry what ham the river. Outflanked and staggered by the gallant attack of A. P. Hill's brigades, his advance was arrested. . . . General Cox, reinforced by his reserve under General Sturgis, handled well his left against A. P. Hill; but assailed in front and
Rodman (search for this): chapter 8
ellan's large army was advancing on the pass, and while such an advance made his position hazardous, he was relieved to find McClellan in his front in such force, for the Confederates had feared that the Federals would cross nearer to Crampton's and strike McLaws' rear before Harper's Ferry surrendered. While Longstreet's brigades were reaching the top of the mountains, the Federals were steadily marching heavy columns up to push their way through. Reno's other divisions, Willcox, Sturgis, Rodman, joined Cox and formed on the Confederate right. The First corps under Hooker, consisting of three divisions of 42 regiments of infantry, 10 batteries and cavalry, formed on the Confederate left to attack the position held by Rodes. Gibbon, of this corps, advanced on the National turnpike against Colquitt. Before the general advance in the afternoon, the Federals had, according to General McClellan, 30,000 men; according to Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 23,778 men on the field of
R. B. Hayes (search for this): chapter 8
ain Snow, as its support. The Twenty-third, Colonel Christie, was posted behind a low stone wall on the left of the Fifth; then came the Twentieth, Colonel Iverson, and the Thirteenth, Lieutenant-Colonel Ruffin. From the nature of the ground and the duty to be performed, the regiments were not in contact, and the Thirteenth was 250 yards to the left of the Twentieth. Fifty skirmishers of the Fifth North Carolina soon encountered the Twenty-third Ohio, deployed as skirmishers under Lieut.-Col. R. B. Hayes (afterward President of the United States), and the action began at 9 a. m. between Cox's division and Garland's brigade. General Hill, in Battles and Leaders, II, 563. Against Garland's 1,000 men, General Cox, of Reno's corps, led the brigades of Scammon and Crook, stated by Cox as less than 3,000. The Thirteenth North Carolina, under Lieutenant-Colonel Ruffin, and the Twentieth, under Col. A. Iverson, were furiously assailed on the left. Both regiments were under tried
Phelps (search for this): chapter 8
arnage was simply frightful, and yet it was only beginning. Between 6 and 7 o'clock Mansfield pressed forward to support Hooker. The Twenty-first North Carolina and the First battalion, of Ewell's division, and the First and Third regiments of D. H. Hill's division were so far the only North Carolina troops engaged. Hood is now sent for, and the Sixth regiment, Major Webb, enters with him. G. T. Anderson enters to brace the Confederate left. Doubleday's attack was driven back, Gibbon and Phelps suffering terribly; the Confederates, however, were repulsed in an effort to follow their advantage. Hofmann and Ricketts, and subsequently Mansfield's brigades, moved further toward the Confederate center, and this brought into action the brigades of Colquitt and Garland, of D. H. Hill's division. Garland's brigade was commanded by Col. D. K. McRae, and included the Fifth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-third North Carolina regiments. The artillery, under Col. S. D. Lee and Ma
Minor (search for this): chapter 8
to close in to the right. This order was not received, or it was found to be impossible of execution. The main attack was on the Twenty-third North Carolina behind the stone wall. Its namesake, the Twenty-third Ohio, seems to have been particularly zealous in this attack. The Federals had a plunging fire upon this regiment from the crest of a hill, higher than the wall, and only about 50 yards from it. The Twelfth North Carolina, only 72 men strong, could not offer much aid. It was, says Minor, commanded by an inexperienced captain, and under his order fell back and was thrown in some disorder from a severe fire, but nearly half of its members attached themselves to the Thirteenth, and received Colonel Ruffin's commendation for bravery and efficient aid. The fight in front of the wall was of the stub-bornest nature. Some of the Ohio men broke through a gap, and for a few seconds bayonets and clubbed muskets were brought into play. Cox's numbers enabled him to fall on both flank
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