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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 27 (search)
ve the highest reward and esteem of their country. I have the honor to be, etc., Franklin Sawyer, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Eighth Ohio Volunteers. Official report of Colonel Andrews. Wilmington, Delaware, December 27, 1862. Captain Joseph W. Plume, A. A.A. G., French's Division. Captain: I have the honor to report the following, as the part taken by the Third brigade, under my command, in the attack on the enemy's works near Fredericksburgh. On the morning of the twelfth of December at half-past 7, the command, following General Kimball's brigade, and advancing by the left flank, crossed the pontoon-bridge, and formed line of battle in the main street of Fredericksburgh, the men keeping near their arms, and the roll being called every hour. This evening, the Fourth New-York volunteers performed picket-duty. On the morning of the thirteenth, I received marching orders from division headquarters, and formed the brigade in the rear of Kimball in the following orde
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Rebel reports and Narratives. (search)
ing upon Massaponax Creek. As regards the disposition of the Federal troops, nothing more is known than that the three great bodies of troops were commanded, that on the Federal right by Gen. Sumner, that on the Federal centre by Gen. Hooker, and that on the Federal left by Gen. Franklin. It is estimated that not less than forty thousand troops were engaged in the attack directed by Gen. Sumner, and that fifty thousand were employed upon the Federal centre and left. Friday, the twelfth of December, was employed by the Federal generals in arranging and massing their troops for the next day's attack. Active skirmishing was kept up by the pickets on both sides for several hours; and in the afternoon, with a view to feeling the confederate position, the heavy Federal guns thundered across the river, and were only feebly replied to by the batteries on the confederate left. The solemnity of the immediately approaching battle cast its shadows over the scene, and that earnestness and
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 76 (search)
Doc. 70.-Captain Birch's expedition Into Marion County, Ark., Dec. 12. Ozark, Mo., Dec. 18, 1862. Major James H. Steger, A. A. General. sir: I have the honor of reporting to you for the information of the Commanding General the result of a scout commanded by me in Marion County, Arkansas. By permission from Captain Flagg, commanding this post, I took command of forty men composed of detachments from companies D, F, G, and H, Second battalion, Fourteenth regiment cavalry Missouri State militia, and on the morning of the ninth instant marched for Lawrence's Mill, a distance of thirty-five miles. I arrived at the mill early in the night, and remained there till noon of the tenth, waiting for forage. During this time I held a consultation with the officers of my command and those of the enrolled militia stationed at the mill, in regard to the direction we should take. It had been my intention to make an expedition into the White River country below Dubuque, where it is
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 78 (search)
Doc. 72.-destruction of the Cairo. Letter from Lieutenant Alford. Off the mouth of the Yazoo, December 12. yesterday we were ordered up the Yazoo again, and were accompanied by the gunboats Signal, Pittsburgh, Cairo, and ram Queen of the West. We hove anchor at six in the morning and got under way. Our boat was in the advance. We had proceeded about eighteen miles unmolested, when in rounding a point we descried a skiff containing a white man and a negro. We fired a shot and brought them about and took them aboard. We examined them, and from the negro we got the information that the rebels had placed a large number of torpedoes and infernal machines all along up the Yazoo River to their battery on Drumgool's Bluff. Accordingly we kept a bright look-out, and at half-past 11 A. M. discovered one. We were nearly on it before we saw it. We backed down-stream and lowered our cutter to examine, and found an inch-line made fast to a large root on the bank on the left-han