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George A. Custer (search for this): chapter 4.57
at the crossing of the Low Dutch and Hanover roads. Custer's brigade occupied the ground to the right and fron After some delay McIntosh moved forward to relieve Custer, who had been ordered to report to his division comhouse, while the 1st New Jersey was sent to relieve Custer's men on outpost. General J. E. B. Stuart, who wion. A lull in the firing now ensued, during which Custer's brigade returned. After the engagement had openeFrom a sketch made at the time. Gregg, meeting Custer, who was about to begin his march in the opposite dd as possible in the vicinity of Spangler's house. Custer, eager for the fray, had wheeled about and was soonthis juncture appeared and took command in person. Custer, as soon as he arrived, extended the left of the linington's battery, was ordered by Gregg to charge. Custer, who was near, placed himself at its head, and off flank attacks demoralized the Confederate column. Custer and McIntosh, whose tenacity had kept the head of t
A. M. Randol (search for this): chapter 4.57
to begin his march in the opposite direction, had ordered him to return, and at the same time had sent word to Irvin Gregg to concentrate as much of his command as possible in the vicinity of Spangler's house. Custer, eager for the fray, had wheeled about and was soon on the field. Gregg at this juncture appeared and took command in person. Custer, as soon as he arrived, extended the left of the line along Little's Run with a portion of the 6th Michigan, dismounted, and at the same time Randol placed in position to the left and rear of Chester the second section of his battery under Lieutenant Kinney. At this stage the ammunition of that portion of the 3d Pennsylvania which was on the left, and of the 1st New Jersey, began to run short, and the 5th Michigan was ordered to relieve them. The latter was dismounted, and whilst it was moving to the front a dismounted regiment from W. H. F. Lee's brigade came to the support of the Confederate skirmishers. A heated contest followed,
Noah H. Ferry (search for this): chapter 4.57
ee's brigade came to the support of the Confederate skirmishers. A heated contest followed, in which the 1st New Jersey and the 3d Pennsylvania remained to take part. After the firing abated these regiments attempted to withdraw, but they were followed up so closely that they were obliged to face about and resume the conflict. However, they soon drove the enemy back, inflicting severe punishment. The short supply of ammunition of the 5th Michigan having by this time given out, and Major Noah H. Ferry, who was in command of the line, having been killed, the whole line was driven in. Improving this opportunity, Fitz. Lee sent forward the 1st Virginia, which charged our right and center. The 7th Michigan at once moved forward from the direction of the Reever house in close column of squadrons and advanced to the attack. The right of the 5th Michigan swung back, and the 7th pressed forward to a stone-and-rail fence and opened fire with their carbines. The 1st Virginia advanced with
William Brooke (search for this): chapter 4.57
t he himself rode to the Lott house for the 1st Maryland. But Gregg, when he first arrived and looked over the field, had moved the 1st Maryland over to the Low Dutch road, just north of the Hanover road, in order to strengthen his right, and so failing to find this regiment where he had expected, McIntosh gathered up what loose men he could, joined them to his headquarters party and charged. My squadron was still deployed along the edge of Lott's woods. Standing in company with Lieutenant William Brooke-Rawle on a little rise of ground in front of his command, and seeing that the situation was becoming critical, I turned to him and said: I have been ordered to hold this position, but, if you will back me up in case I am court-martialed for disobedience, I will order a charge. The lieutenant, always ready to pitch in, as he expressed it, with an energetic reply convinced me that I would not be deserted. I accordingly directed him to close in the left and Sergeant Heagy the right,
Daniel E. Sickles (search for this): chapter 4.57
on Little Round Top. The slow development of Sickles's corps In his letter to Colonel Benedict, for some time to be relieved, he sent to General Sickles a staff-officer with instructions to explps could not be sent to relieve him, that General Sickles would send one of his staff to see the grir arrival. He received, for reply, that General Sickles would attend to it in due time. No office Fifth Corps on a hurried march to reenforce Sickles, finally secured that vitally important positit necessary, to comment on the action of General Sickles in advancing his troops to the Emmitsburgs in process of being copied by them. As General Sickles rode up to headquarters, in pursuance of 's corps, and there was no council held. General Sickles returned immediately, and every corps com . . . Question: Did this collision of General Sickles's corps with the enemy prevent the order th, 1865, that at 5 o'clock, which was before Sickles's line had given way, he was directed to coll[7 more...]
B. W. York (search for this): chapter 4.57
painful marches northward, and who threw the veteran corps of the Potomac upon the invading army? Widely spread as the Confederate army was when General Meade took command of the Union forces,--Longstreet at Chambersburg, Ewell at Carlisle and York,--it was a matter of course that the serious collision should be a surprise to one or the other party, and that accident should determine which should encounter its antagonist with the advantage in concentration. It turned out that the collision dable army; nor had the Confederate commander furnished any indication of his purpose. But on the same day, General Lee, having the evening before learned of the crossing of the Potomac by Hooker, recalled his advanced divisions from Carlisle and York, and threw forward Hill and Longstreet, with a view to a concentration at Gettysburg. During the 30th the two armies continued rapidly to approach each other, until, on the morning of the 1st of July, a stunning collision took place between the h
George G. Meade (search for this): chapter 4.57
nsylvania Cavalry was ordered to report to General Meade's headquarters, where it remained until af this there are several reasons. First, General Meade had been in command of the army but three orces at Chancellorsville. On the other hand, Meade, by marching northward, did not relinquish the on the 2d of July, it seems probable that General Meade, who had come upon the ground after midnigter to Colonel Benedict, March 16th, 1870, General Meade states that Geary informed him that, afterergy in which this action was conducted by General Meade with previous experiences of the Army of t pike. It was, indeed, a gloomy hour when General Meade assembled his corps commanders to consult n alleged, with much of circumstance, that General Meade sought to retreat from Gettysburg, and he urg. After finishing it I presented it to General Meade, and it met his approval. I then stated t doing, I shall attack. The charge that General Meade, during the battle of the afternoon, actua[46 more...]
Irvin Gregg (search for this): chapter 4.57
Maryland, and to march with McIntosh's and Irvin Gregg's brigades west-ward to Gettysburg. After f these conflicting orders, we (McIntosh's and Gregg's brigades) advanced over a crooked road to Haurg and familiar with the country, advised General Gregg that the shortest route to Gettysburg was ces on what was known as the Stallsmith farm. Gregg's troops were not so favorably situated. Occuturn, and at the same time had sent word to Irvin Gregg to concentrate as much of his command as porons near Pennington's battery, was ordered by Gregg to charge. Custer, who was near, placed himsee to the Lott house for the 1st Maryland. But Gregg, when he first arrived and looked over the fieber cut the Confederate to the ground. Before Gregg had time to turn another Confederate came up, ght cut, sliced off the top of Gregg's scalp. Gregg, who subsequently rose to a captaincy in his r on the field. Eyster was sent to prison; Sergeant Gregg was taken to the hospital and was soon aft[12 more...]
Charles Treichel (search for this): chapter 4.57
on as the latter was brought up the whole command moved forward, and at day-light on the 30th the advance, under Captain Charles Treichel, of the 3d Pennsylvania, charged into Westminster and captured a lot of Stuart's stragglers. Here we met with ar's house on the Hanover road, instantly replied. The 3d Pennsylvania was ordered forward, and two squadrons under Captains Treichel and Rodgers were moved across to Little's Run (which flowed southward from Rummel's spring-house) and placed to thee drawing nearer to each other McIntosh sent his adjutant-general, Captain Walter S. Newhall, to the left with orders to Treichel and Rogers to mount and charge, and also sent Captain S. C. Wagner, of his staff, to rally the headquarters staff, buglehe woods on my left, soon followed, but directed his charge to the head of the enemy's column. Newhall, when he reached Treichel and Rogers, joined them in their charge, which struck the right flank of the enemy's column, near the color-guard. The
G. G. Benedict (search for this): chapter 4.57
l bastion, enfilading the low curtain known as Cemetery Ridge, strongly attracted the attention of Hancock on the afternoon of the 1st, and he dispatched that division, the first of the Twelfth Corps to arrive, with instructions to take position on the left of the First Corps and extend its own left to the hill. These instructions Geary had intelligently carried out, some of his regiments passing the night on Little Round Top. The slow development of Sickles's corps In his letter to Colonel Benedict, March 16th, 1870, General Meade states that Geary informed him that, after waiting for some time to be relieved, he sent to General Sickles a staff-officer with instructions to explain the position and its importance, and to ask, if troops could not be sent to relieve him, that General Sickles would send one of his staff to see the ground and to place troops there on their arrival. He received, for reply, that General Sickles would attend to it in due time. No officer or troops came.
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