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April 24th, 1875 AD (search for this): chapter 9
din of musketry, a yell of triumph rose from the endless columns that seemed to gird the town. My troops were not dismayed, though many had fallen. We had not yet gained the cover of the streets, and some of my brigade, notably the Second Massachusetts and Third Wisconsin, disdained to do so until again they had turned in defiance upon the foe. It was about this time that Lieutenant Crowninshield was wounded. Says Captain Comey of the Second Massachusetts Regiment, in a letter of April 24, 1875, The right of the column had nearly reached a street on the outskirts of the town when Crowninshield was hit, and cried out, I am shot! Do not leave me! Immediately we left the ranks and went to his assistance; found him trying to rise from the ground. Together we strove to reach the town; had but little hopes of doing so, as the Rebels were closing in on all sides but one. Sergeant McDowell came to our assistance, and picking Crowninshield up, we hurried him to one of the main stree
May 25th (search for this): chapter 9
fires begun to glow around the thousand carriages upon the banks of the Potomac, at eleven o'clock at night of the twenty-fifth of May, when Governor Andrew at Boston penned the last words of a proclamation, calling upon Massachusetts to rise once morrow, from thence to oppose with fiery zeal and courageous patriotism the march of the foe. This was dated the twenty-fifth of May, Sunday, 11 P. M. The next day the public was again excited by an appeal This appeal came out in the Boston daiigned by all the officers of rank who were cognizant of or had participated in the events of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May. This paper, containing most flattering references to my brigade, was the more acceptable, as, without any knowlelliamsport to Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts. This final act, connected with the days of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May, requires explanation. In July of 1861 it came to my knowledge that the congressional delegation from Massachus
July (search for this): chapter 9
lored woman Peggy, who with her child I passed among the first across the swollen river to a land of freedom. Across the Potomac! Yes, we were again where, in July of the preceding year, we had made our march so gayly into Virginia. One more campaign was ended. There was now left from Banks's command on Virginia soil a feebtwo miles above the railroad bridge at Harper's Ferry, and was driven back by our shells, fired from batteries established where we first pitched our encampment in July of 1861; he ascended Loudon Heights between the Shenandoah and the Potomac, but was driven off by our guns from across the river. Information of the numbers of Stlliamsport to Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts. This final act, connected with the days of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May, requires explanation. In July of 1861 it came to my knowledge that the congressional delegation from Massachusetts had recommended my promotion to a brigadier-generalslip. The President of the
May 24th (search for this): chapter 9
crowd of fugitives,not until these were over, could we fairly estimate the sum total of our achievements. Between the 24th of May, at eleven o'clock, A. M., and near midnight of the 25th, my brigade had marched from Strasburg to Williamsport, a disBrig.-Gen. U. S. V. signed by all the officers of rank who were cognizant of or had participated in the events of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May. This paper, containing most flattering references to my brigade, was the more acceptable, ater our arrival at Williamsport to Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts. This final act, connected with the days of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May, requires explanation. In July of 1861 it came to my knowledge that the congressional deleund, and went into camp at Bartonsville, where the Second had so ably arrested Jackson's march in the night of the twenty-fourth of May. On the twelfth of June, at Washington, my commission as brigadier-general of volunteers was handed me, accompa
May (search for this): chapter 9
hell, roundshot, and canister but the accurate aim of our men of the Second, who from behind the stone-wall and the crest of the hill so annoyed the enemy's gunners that his firing was wild. A Southern account of these two hours of the fight bears testimony to the pluck with which we responded to our enemy's challenge. This part of the contest is spoken of as a fierce cannonade, intermingled with a sharp, rattling fire of riflemen, the smoke of which melted away into the silvery veil of May dews, exhaled by the beams of the rising sun. See Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. General Jackson, it seems, had been an observer of our movements. He is described as having ridden forward with two field-officers, Campbell and another, to the very crest of the hill, and amidst a perfect shower of balls observed the position. It is said that though both the officers beside him were speedily wounded, he sat calmly on his horse until he had satisfied himself of our dispositions. He saw, it
1861 AD (search for this): chapter 9
and around Charlestown; he attempted with his infantry to ford the Potomac two miles above the railroad bridge at Harper's Ferry, and was driven back by our shells, fired from batteries established where we first pitched our encampment in July of 1861; he ascended Loudon Heights between the Shenandoah and the Potomac, but was driven off by our guns from across the river. Information of the numbers of Stonewall Jackson's forces given by observers during his occupation of towns between Winchesteal could no longer be deferred, was sent immediately after our arrival at Williamsport to Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts. This final act, connected with the days of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May, requires explanation. In July of 1861 it came to my knowledge that the congressional delegation from Massachusetts had recommended my promotion to a brigadier-generalslip. The President of the United States in a personal interview informed me that the reason why he did not heed this
1862 AD (search for this): chapter 9
old friend of yours. Friend of mine, sir? replied old Jack, --he was, sir, once a friend. Major Dwight retired, his request unheeded. As I write these lines, the name of T. J. Jackson, of Virginia, confronts me from a sheet filled with the autographs of my classmates at the Military Academy at West Point, reminding me of that boy companion to whom the dawn of life was as serious as its close,--that honest, dear old Jack, who as Lieutenant-General (Stonewall) Jackson remembered me, in 1862, no longer as a friend. Return now to the main street, through which, towards Martinsburg, moved the main column of our troops. An eager enemy was close upon us; there was no time for any arrangement or defence. Pursuers and pursued were swallowed from view, and the rout roared through every street with rattling rifle-shots and ringing cheers. Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. In the main street I found myself, with my staff, in rear of a battery. All around and in front there was a
June 21st (search for this): chapter 9
brother's fate. Colonel De Forrest, then in command at Martinsburg, was ordered by General Hatch to send with Mr. Dwight an escort of ten men,--men who can remember what they see of the enemy and his strength. Let them move, said the order, with a white flag, twenty yards in advance of the main body, and waving the flag, wait to be recognized by the enemy's pickets. How our major escaped from captivity without aid from his brother has been told too many times to repeat. On the twenty-first of June a despatch came to me, Dwight is safe, prisoner at Winchester. (Signed) F. D'Hauteville. A telegram from the Secretary of War, that my promotion from colonel to brigadier-general could no longer be deferred, was sent immediately after our arrival at Williamsport to Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts. This final act, connected with the days of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May, requires explanation. In July of 1861 it came to my knowledge that the congressional
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