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Maryland Heights (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
ckson's Corps alone held the whole of Pope's army at bay for nearly two days, until Longstreet could unite with him. The Crenshaw Battery played no small part in this severe battle, but did not suffer a great deal because it fired from a concealed position most of the time. Capture of Harper's Ferry. Still driving Pope's army, the battery moved on to Harper's Ferry with the army, and reached there on the 15th of September, when the place was invested, guns being put in position on Maryland Heights, Bolivar Heights, and Loudoun Heights. A furious cannonade was soon opened, but the enemy still held out. Finally General Jackson sent word to General A. P. Hill to take the place at the point of the bayonet. General Hill returned answer to General Jackson that if he would give him twenty minutes he could take it with his artillery. Jackson assented. Hill immediately ordered the Crenshaw Battery and the Purcell Battery, which were in front of the main works, up to within 500 or 600
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
ker. With a rest from fighting from the 3d of May until the 1st of July, we headed for the Potomac for the second time. Once over that stream, what a refreshing sight from the devastated fields of Virginia to the green fields of Maryland and Pennsylvania, for we were en route to Gettysburg. We were greeted all along the route with remarks of all kinds from the ladies, some of them not very complimentary. But the boys kept their temper and laughed them off. Pegram's Battalion (of which the Crenshaw Battery was a part) marched behind the whole army into Pennsylvania, but when we got near the enemy it was hurried to the front, and we fired the first gun in the battle of Gettysburg, Braxton keeping down the Emmittsburg pike, and the Crenshaw turning to the right and opening almost simultaneously. Not only did we open the fight, but we bore a conspicuous part in all three days fighting, particularly in the terrific two-hours' cannonade to shake the enemy's infantry that precede
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
re battle, but did not suffer a great deal because it fired from a concealed position most of the time. Capture of Harper's Ferry. Still driving Pope's army, the battery moved on to Harper's Ferry with the army, and reached there on the 15th ofHarper's Ferry with the army, and reached there on the 15th of September, when the place was invested, guns being put in position on Maryland Heights, Bolivar Heights, and Loudoun Heights. A furious cannonade was soon opened, but the enemy still held out. Finally General Jackson sent word to General A. P. Hillthe fortifications around his capital. Without halting for repose, you crossed the Potomac, stormed the heights of Harper's Ferry, made prisoners of more than eleven thousand men, and captured upwards of seventy pieces of arillery, all their smallder, June 6, 1862. Warner, G. W., private, November 12, 1863. Young, C. P., private, March 14, 1862; wounded at Harper's Ferry, September 15, 1862, and at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863; captured en route from Gettysburg but escaped; captured again a
Winchester, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
te, July 20, 1864. Dalton, W. C., private, July 22, 1864; served until surrender. Dillard, Isaiah J., private, December 30, 1864. Ellett, Robert, sergeant and 1st sergeant, March 14, 1862; September, 1864, promoted to 2d lieutenant in Chamberlayne's Battery; killed April 2, 1865, in front of Fort Gregg, Petersburg, Va. Emmett, T. A., private, March 14, 1862; killed August 18, 1864, at Archer's farm; buried on battle-field; remains, after the war, were taken up and removed to Winchester, Va. Farrell, John O., private, March 14, 1862; captured at Five Forks, April 1, 1865. Fleming, A., private, October 3, 1862; surrendered at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. Feltner, George W., farrier, October 3, 1862. Franklin, Benjamin, private, March 14, 1862; served until surrender. Fergusson, E. C., private, August 28, 1863. Ferneyhough, E. S., Jr., private and corporal, May 14, 1862; served until surrender; wounded at Mine Run, 1863. Goolsby, J. C., private, March 14, 1
Sharpsburg (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
completed when, on the 17th, orders came to hasten to Sharpsburg, where a battle was raging. The situation there was a second. When temporarily in command of the battery at Sharpsburg, when Captain Crenshaw had gone ahead to locate his posielming numbers, and saved the army; you saved the day at Sharpsburg, and at Shepherdstown you were selected to face a storm relief of their beleagured comrades. On the field of Sharpsburg, with less than one-third his numbers, you resisted from3. Gray, John T., private, March 14, 1862; wounded at Sharpsburg September 17, 1862; dead. Gibson, John W., private, Margrove, William E., private, March 14, 1862; wounded at Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862, and badly wounded in trenches at PeLynham, Edward N., private, March 14, 1862; wounded at Sharpsburg, Md., September 17, 1862. Langley, James, private, April, 1862; died September 18, 1862, from wounds received at Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862; buried near hospital near the battl
Orange County (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
y, March 14, 1862, there assembled at the wholesale warehouse of Messrs. Crenshaw & Co., on the Basin bank, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, Richmond, Va., one of the jolliest, most rollicking, fun-loving crowd of youngsters, between the ages of 16 and 25, that were ever thrown together haphazard, composed of clerks, book-keepers, salesmen, compositors, with a small sprinkling of solid business men, from Richmond, reinforced with as sturdy-looking a lot of farmer boys from the counties of Orange, Louisa, Spotsylvania and Culpeper as one generally comes across. The occasion of the gathering was the formation of an artillery company for active service in the field, and after the usual preliminaries, an organization was soon effected, with the following officers: Captain, William G. Crenshaw. Senior First Lieutenant, James Ellett. Junior First Lieutenant, Charles L. Hobson. Senior Second Lieutenant, Andrew B. Johnston. Junior Second Lieutenant, Thorras Ellett. The battery co
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
brigade, but General Hill said: No! I have plenty of artillery, and you deserve to be sent to the rear, and go you shall. And go it did. On July 3d, after being nicely refitted, the battery started to rejoin General A. P. Hill's Light Division, which, with the rest of the army, was driving McClellan towards the Federal gunboats on James river. The battery was then assigned to Maj. R. Lindsay Walker's Battalion of Light Artillery, and the scene of operations having shifted to Northern Virginia, we were soon on the road to Culpeper, and on the 9th of August, 1862, when Jackson came up with Pope at Cedar Run, took part in that battle, where Stonewall pretty effectually disposed of the man who had no lines of retreat, and whose headquarters were in the saddle. Pushing on to Warrenton Springs, on the 24th of August we took part in a furious artillery fight, preliminary to Jackson's move around Pope's army, which was soon accomplished, when the battery struck General Taylor's
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
he war. The Crenshaw Battery was awarded two of the captured guns. Hooker defeated, another idol shattered by Lee, we were destined to meet a new commander of the army of the Potomac when we came up again with our old-time enemy. General Meade had succeeded Hooker. With a rest from fighting from the 3d of May until the 1st of July, we headed for the Potomac for the second time. Once over that stream, what a refreshing sight from the devastated fields of Virginia to the green fields of Maryland and Pennsylvania, for we were en route to Gettysburg. We were greeted all along the route with remarks of all kinds from the ladies, some of them not very complimentary. But the boys kept their temper and laughed them off. Pegram's Battalion (of which the Crenshaw Battery was a part) marched behind the whole army into Pennsylvania, but when we got near the enemy it was hurried to the front, and we fired the first gun in the battle of Gettysburg, Braxton keeping down the Emmittsbur
Stony Creek (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
at morn, noon or night, the Crenshaw Battery was hardly ever overlooked. In the two last named battles—Five Forks and Appomattox—the part played by the company deserves more than a passing notice. From incessant marching and fighting we were pretty well fagged out when we got to Five Forks, but there we found long lines of infantry (Warren's Corps) and Sheridan's cavalry, and fight we must. Lines of battle were soon formed and the Crenshaw Battery ordered to follow the cavalry over Stony creek, who were to attack Sheridan's cavalry, which was done in gallant style, and they were driven nearly to Dinwiddie Courthouse. But they wouldn't stay driven, and were back again the next day, when the battery was put in position in a road overlooking the Gilliam field, supported by Pickett's Division. In fact the battery was placed among Corse's Brigade, with the left gun, and with two guns commanded by Lieutenant Early, in the five forks of the road, from which the place takes its name.
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.44
mmander, General Fighting Joe Hooker having succeeded Burnside. Ah! who of the Crenshaw Battery does not remember Chancellorsville? Who can forget the incessant fighting of the 1st, 2d, and 3d of May, when we struck the enemy first in front, and m R., bugler, March 14, 1862; served until surrender. Burroughs, T. H., private, March 14, 1862; badly wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Burgess, B. F., private, March 14, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. Britton, Sa; wounded at Mine Run, 1863. Goolsby, J. C., private, March 14, 1862; served until surrender; slightly wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863. Gray, John T., private, March 14, 1862; wounded at Sharpsburg September 17, 1862; dead. Gibson, Jded at Hatcher's Run. Hilman, G. L., private, July 1, 1864. Holland, H. W., private, March 14, 1862; killed at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, and buried on the battlefield. Herndon, R. S., private, March 14, 1862; died June 23, 1862. Hine
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