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1864 AD (search for this): chapter 19
tion; thence, on the evening of the 29th, to Fort Stevenson, inside which we pitched our tents. Thus ended the Battle of Hatcher's Run, or Boydton Plank Road as it is sometimes called, which closed active operations on this part of the line for 1864. Our total loss was two officers mortally wounded, one private killed and two wounded, and seven horses shot. Cornelius McAuliffe was thrown from a caisson on the return march, resulting in the breaking of one of his legs. Lieut. Granger died n they held when the fighting ceased, and during the night massed fifteen thousand infantry and Hampton's cavalry, with which they had intended to advance upon us at daylight of the 28th. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. Morning reports. 1864. Oct. 25. One recruit received—Timothy Herlehy. Two horses shot by order E. L. Smith, Lieut. Battery K, 4th U. S. Ar'ty, A. A. I. G. Oct. 26. Corp. G. A. Pease sent to general hospital. Oct. 27. Lieut's Granger and Smith and Privates A.
October 27th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 19
rom Michler's U. S. map, and the location of troops mainly from a map sketched by Col. Morgan, then Hancock's chief-of-staff, now deceased. We are opposite the entrance of the White Map of Boydton Plank Road, or Hatcher's Run battlefield, October 27, 1864 Oak Road, along which the right of Lee's line afterwards ran when Sheridan fought so famously for Five Forks. On the corner of it and the Plank Road stands (or stood) an unpretentious woodcol-ored hostelry, known as Burgess' Tavern or houht when we were aroused, and ordered to limber up preparatory to moving out. As we had expected to remain on the field and renew the contest next morning, this was an unlooked for order, but retracing our way through Where the Battery stood Oct. 27, 1864 mire and water, we emerged at Yellow Tavern just as the sun was breaking through the clouds. There we lay till noon, going thence to the camp in the rear line occupied by us on the return from Reams Station; thence, on the evening of the 29
November 1st, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 19
Chapter 17: Hatcher's Run. October 25 to November 1, 1864. By the left flank-the fight on Boydton Plank Road the Tenth sent in at it hot and heavy we are flanked on to Libby —give ‘Em canister fall of Lieut. Smith and Private Atkinson running the gantlet fall of Lieut. Granger with Drawal of the Corps synopsis of General Hancock's Report. Having marched some distance to the rear, we came to a halt in a large field near Fort Bross. This was a fort at the extreme left of our rear line of defences, near the Norfolk Railroad. Here we were joined by more artillery and two divisions of infantry. No further movement was made Tuesday, and we lay whiling away the time, hearing and circulating yarns as to the destination of the prospective move. The battery wagon and forge were sent to City Point, which gave color to the story that all non-combatants and superfluous materielwere to be sent thither, that a small picket was to hold the main line, while the rest of t
J. W. Adams (search for this): chapter 19
making no sign of retreat, some of the more courageous step out and call on their comrades to halt and save these guns. For a moment the line falters, but a moment only, for the Rebel artillery across the Run increasing its fire at this time, dispels the little resolution they had mustered; again the line sways backward and we are alone. What shall we do, Lieutenant? Granger. The only other officer with the Battery being Lieut. Smith, Capt. Sleeper not yet having reported for duty, Lieut. Adams having been detached in command of the Twelfth N. Y. Battery, and Lieut. Rollins being with the train. asks some one. Give them shell! he replies. We can whip them alone. And we dogive them shell, for now their line appears to view, stretching through the woods, and the leaden messengers multiply. As we spring to the work with the utmost vigor, Sergeant Townsend coolly watches the Rebel guns in the opposite direction. At their every flash he shouts down! and down it is until the she
John P. Apthorp (search for this): chapter 19
und by the concussion of a shell. Another struck and disabled both wheels of the fifth piece, a fragment of it wounding private Alfred C. Billings in the lip, and two pieces entering the head of Michael Farrell. A close call was made for John P. Apthorp, whose canteen strap was cut by a shell as he lay by the fourth piece; but sadder than all, and as a climax to the horrors that had accumulated around us, a fragment of an exploding shrapnel entered the breast of Lieut. Granger, inflicting aorted at headquarters, Lieut. Smith of Battery K was detached to take charge of us, and Lieut. Dean of the Sixth Maine was detailed to assist him. When darkness had fairly settled down, all firing had died away, and from the surrounding John P. Apthorp territory there came up wails from the wounded and dying, not all of whom had been brought off the field. It was with great difficulty that places could be found in an ambulance for our wounded officers, so crowded were these conveyances.
Daniel W. Atkinson (search for this): chapter 19
Chapter 17: Hatcher's Run. October 25 to November 1, 1864. By the left flank-the fight on Boydton Plank Road the Tenth sent in at it hot and heavy we are flanked on to Libby —give ‘Em canister fall of Lieut. Smith and Private Atkinson running the gantlet fall of Lieut. Granger with Drawal of the Corps synopsis of General Hancock's Report. Having marched some distance to the rear, we came to a halt in a large field near Fort Bross. This was a fort at the extreme left poor, for their shells all go over us. We have fired the last shell, Lieutenant, is heard from the Fourth Detachment Then give them canister! is the immediate response, as immediately obeyed. While in the discharge of this command, Daniel W. Atkinson, No. Two man on the Fourth Detachment gun, is shot through the lower part of the abdomen, and falls to the ground with an agonizing groan. In a few moments he is dead. Thus perished a brave soldier, a professed Christian and true man who
Ayres (search for this): chapter 19
all of his force I had used to meet the attack in front as well as another of his brigades. The attack on Gregg was made by five brigades of Hampton's cavalry. . . . . Between 6 and 7 P. M. I received a despatch from Gen. Humphreys, stating that Ayres' Division of the Fifth Corps had been ordered to my support, but had halted at Armstrong's Mill, which was as far as it could get. The despatch also authorized me to withdraw that night if I thought proper; but stated that if I could attack successfully in the morning with the aid of Ayres' and Crawford's divisions, the Major-General commanding desired me to do so. Though these reinforcements were offered to me, the question of their getting to me in time, and of getting ammunition up in time to have my own command effective in the morning, was left for me to decide; and I understood that if the principal part of the fighting in the morning would be thrown upon these reinforcements, it was not desired that they should be ordered up. Th
T. Beck (search for this): chapter 19
intervals on the left of the Dabney's Mill road (over which we had been marching) where it meets the Boydton Plank Road. Battery K parked in our company. From this position we were enabled to watch the fight going on between one of our batteries (Beck's C & I, 5th Regulars) and some Rebel guns; but when the shells from the latter came whistling along not far overhead, or, plunging into the ground uncomfortably near, indicated that the troops massed and massing here were visible to them, we lay ng when the enemy open a flank fire upon us with some guns posted about eight hundred yards up the White Oak Road. We immediately direct the most of our efforts in that direction, and it is not long before we have them silenced. We had succeeded Beck's Battery in this position. They had exhausted their supply of ammunition, and had gone to the rear for more, and we continued the contest after their departure, unaided. But now a more important factor in the fray moved to the front. It was
Tobias Beck (search for this): chapter 19
near Burgess' Tavern, and from our left, having apparently a section of artillery at each place. Beck's Battery of the Fifth Artillery soon silenced the fire of the section at the tavern . . . . Preprds from Egan's left on the White Oak Road, from which he opened a very annoying artillery fire. Beck, with four guns, replied gallantly. . . . More important events directed my attention from this point, though Granger's Battery, Tenth Massachusetts, was sent forward to relieve Beck, that the latter might replenish his ammunition. . . . . Knowing the views of my superiors, I had determined to asaring on the concerns of the Battery. General Pierce's, had been moved up to support a section of Beck's Battery under Lieut. Metcalf, which was in position on a secondary ridge, about midway between f the Dabney Mill Road, with Kerwin's brigade of dismounted cavalry on its left. Roder's (K) and Beck's batteries were opened on the enemy. Maj. Mitchell, in returning from Gen. Egan, found the enem
A. C. Billings (search for this): chapter 19
5. One recruit received—Timothy Herlehy. Two horses shot by order E. L. Smith, Lieut. Battery K, 4th U. S. Ar'ty, A. A. I. G. Oct. 26. Corp. G. A. Pease sent to general hospital. Oct. 27. Lieut's Granger and Smith and Privates A. C. Billings and Farrell wounded and sent to hospital. McAuliffe, leg broken also sent to hospital. Lieut. E. L. Smith Battery K, 4th U. S. Art'y and Lieut. Deane, 6th Me. Art'y temporarily attached. Seven horses shot in action. Hiram Pike slightly wounded. Oct. 28. Lieut. Asa Smith died at general hospital City Point, Va., from effects of wound received Oct. 27. Lieut. Granger sent to general hospital also Billings, Farrell and McAuliffe. Oct. 29. Capt. Sleeper returned to duty front leave of absence since Aug. 25. Lieut. Wm. G. Rollins returned to duty from ammunition train. Oct. 30. Private C. A. Mason dropped from the rolls Oct. 23 is taken up. Lieut. E. L. Smith returned to Battery K, 4th U. S. Art'y. One horse died—effects of woun
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