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L. Thomas (search for this): chapter 9
perity continued. On the eighteenth of June the Secretary of War specifically assigned to me the command of my old brigade; Special orders, no. 138.War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, June 18, 1862. 9th. Brigadier-General George H. Gordon, U. S. Vols., is assigned to duty in the Department of the Shenandoah, to take command of the brigade now under Brigadier-General Greene, and will report in person to Major-General Banks. By order of the Secretary of War. L. Thomas, Adjt.-General. and on the 22d, after a fruitless effort on the preceding day by rail, via Manassas, to reach Front Royal, to which place my command had moved from Bartonsville, I shook the dust of Washington from my feet, not to return to it again for two months, when, as part of a wrecked and broken army, we made our way across the Potomac to fight under McClellan at Antietam, for the safety of Maryland and the North. Before leaving Washington, I enlightened the Committee on the Conduc
George H. Steuart (search for this): chapter 9
es of the latter, at ten o'clock the preceding evening (where he was joined by Steuart's cavalry from Newtown), Ewell confronted our outlying pickets. This command r miles of mounted pursuit of foot-men, even the cavalry was tired. Where was Steuart with his three cavalry regiments,--Ashby's, Munford's, and Flournoy's,--to oppg him, Dabney or Cooke, or both of them, aver that General Jackson ordered General Steuart to follow with his cavalry and capture us, even as Flournoy had ridden down and captured Kenly on the 23d in his attempt at escape; and that Steuart would not obey, because he was under the immediate command of Ewell, from whom he had receered for pillage and plunder of Banks's wagons the day before; and those under Steuart (the Second and Sixth Virginia cavalry regiments) were held inactive, while tht, he moved by way of Berryville to Harper's Ferry, halting at Halltown, while Steuart, passing the advance of the Confederate infantry an hour after it had halted,
Boswellian Dabney (search for this): chapter 9
inst the overwhelming force in our front. See Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. A strong detachempt to come, charge them with the bayonet. Dabney relates this incident as of such powerful castce and blood tingle to convey its effect. See Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. Then after this of Jackson, p. 149. The battery upon which Dabney says Carpenter and Cutshaw also kept up so spithe gallant regiment was obliged to recoil Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 109. (run away). Ewell tng the battle had reached a critical stage, Dabney's Life of Jackson, pp. 108, 109. determined topeered like a deer-stalker over its summit. Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 109. What Jackson saw ou who were now in full retreat for the town. Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 109. On right, left,th rattling rifle-shots and ringing cheers. Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. In the main street es? Feeling the necessity of defending him, Dabney or Cooke, or both of them, aver that General J[1 more...]
Charles P. Horton (search for this): chapter 9
e of the main streets, and placing him in an ambulance, he started for a safe place. The driver of the ambulance at one time was going to cut the traces and leave, but Crowninshield's revolver persuaded him to stand by. In full sight of Jackson and his army, the Second kept its formation and delivered its fire; while three companies of the Third Wisconsin, from behind a stone-wall, emptied their muskets into the faces of the advancing lines. Not until my acting adjutant's Lieutenant Charles P. Horton, of the Second Massachusetts. horse was shot dead by my side, not until my aid returned to reply that he had given my message to General Banks that my right had been turned land 1 was ialliug back, did I, with the last of my command, leave the field and turn into the streets of Winchester. We had made our last stand, and though driven after a three hours fight, in such a retreat there was nothing of shame. There were but fifteen rounds of ammunition left for my battery; and ther
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r for twenty-four miles, and is permitted to cross its material and its troops, occupying in so doing until ten o'clock of the next day; and this without an attempt to waylay, to flank, or to surprise it with a cavalry force in numbers quite equal to if not exceeding one half of the whole of Banks's command. It was eleven o'clock at night when the last of our column reached the banks of the Potomac, opposite Williamsport. Our men tumbled down upon the grass and slept until 2 A. M. of the 26th, when we were aroused to begin the passage of the river. The scene before crossing seems to have struck General Banks Banks's Report. as of the most animating and exciting description. A thousand camp-fires, he says, were burning on the hillsides, a thousand carriages of every description were crowded on the banks; and the broad river rolled between the exhausted troops and their coveted rest. The appliances for crossing were most inadequate. It was a mercy that Jackson's unwilling ca
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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 distance of fifty-four miles. To this, two miles more should be added to the march of the Second Massachufeating his plans, and giving ample opportunity, which might have been availed of, to remove much Government property, that was destroyed or captured. And on the 25th, after two hours rest, my brigade maintained its unequal contest for three hours against almost the whole of Jackson's army. In this, the principal share of the f in the First Maryland. See Jackson's Valley Campaign, p. 118, note. Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews reported the loss in the Second Massachusetts Regiment on the 25th, as 7 killed and 28 wounded; among the latter were included two commissioned officers, Captain Mudge and Second Lieutenant Crowninshield. He also reported 131 mis
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t our conference in Winchester, but I further found out that before three o'clock in the morning of the preceding day, the 24th, while at Strasburg, he knew all about the extraordinary force of the enemy, and fully appreciated that to attack him, he at least 25,000 to 30,00 men, were close upon us. In corroboration of all this information and these appreciations on the 24th, Banks had heard at Winchester before daylight of the 25th all my statements in confirmation of his own opinions, had quesn daily, who having been compelled to halt from exhaustion, after recovery found their way in by different routes. On the 24th, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews reported his total loss to have been 3 killed and 17 wounded. Banks also reported that there wanner in which the Third Brigade and its commander discharged most important duties on the march from Strasburg, on the 24th inst., in the affair with the enemy, as the rear-guard of the column, on the evening of the same day, which contributed so mu
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r path, and the panic-stricken 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 distance of fifty-four miles. To this, two miles more should be added to the march of the Second Massachusetts, on its return from Bartonsville to Newtown, where we turned upon Jackson. Without sleep on the night of the 23d, the brigade marched the next day eighteen miles to Winchester. On the same day the Second Massachusetts not only marched farther than any other regiment of the brigade, but from three o'clock P. M., until two o'clock of the next day, it was engaged in an almost continuous skirmish with the enemy, holding back alone, in the most plucky manner, as narrated, the head of Jackson's army, materially defeating his plans, and giving ample opportunity, which might have been availed of, to remove muc
June 18th (search for this): chapter 9
. Before I could purchase tickets for the woman, I was compelled to give a bond to save the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad harmless from any lawful claims that might be hereafter brought against it by the owner of this colored property. I readily gave my bond, secured the tickets, placed the bewildered woman and child in charge of a faithful expressman, and soon heard of their safe arrival at the North, where, since then, they have in prosperity continued. On the eighteenth of June the Secretary of War specifically assigned to me the command of my old brigade; Special orders, no. 138.War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, June 18, 1862. 9th. Brigadier-General George H. Gordon, U. S. Vols., is assigned to duty in the Department of the Shenandoah, to take command of the brigade now under Brigadier-General Greene, and will report in person to Major-General Banks. By order of the Secretary of War. L. Thomas, Adjt.-General. and on the 22d
June 15th (search for this): chapter 9
ight of the twenty-fourth of May. On the twelfth of June, at Washington, my commission as brigadier-general of volunteers was handed me, accompanied with an order from the Secretary of War to report immediately for duty to General Banks, wherever he might be found; and this proving to be at Winchester, I arrived there the next night to learn from him that he could not remove the brigadier-general commanding my brigade without a special order from the Secretary of War. Winchester, Va., June 15. Brigadier-General Gordon will proceed at once to Washington, and report to the Secretary of War for further orders. By command of N. P. Banks, M. G. C. The next day, therefore, I returned to Washington, carrying with me on her way to her new home my negro woman Peggy and her child. Before I could purchase tickets for the woman, I was compelled to give a bond to save the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad harmless from any lawful claims that might be hereafter brought
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