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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 4: (search)
, at the command, they spring to the work; the wheels instantly slip to their places; by a strong pull altogether four men raise the gun with handspikes till it is again poised Camp of the Tenth Massachusetts Battery, Poolsville, Md., summer of 1863. from a sketch drawn by John P. Apthrop. on the muzzle; meanwhile, the carriage has been pushed up with elevated trail, and the heavy piece falls back promptly with its trunnions in their appointed sockets. A few nimble leaps restore the imple. 1862. Dec. 27. Horse died of glanders. Dec. 28. One horse died of disease of the liver. Arrived at Poolsville about 11 o'clock A. M. Dec. 31. Mustered in for pay by Maj. H. M. Tremlett, 39th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1863. Jan. 3. George H. Innis, Samuel J. Bradlee, E. T. Atwood and Harmon Newton sick in quarters. Jan. 4. George H. Innis returned to duty. Serg't. Geo. H. Putnam sick. Jan. 5. William Rawson sick in quarters. Serg't. Alden sick in quarter
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 5: (search)
his death. Sergt. George H. Putnam was promoted to fill the vacancy on the 8th of August. John C. Frost also left us the same date, and was discharged from the service for disability the following September. Before we left this camp, a large mail, which had been accumulating at Washington for three weeks, arrived, and opened to us once more the outer world from which we had been so completely excluded. July 31, we moved forward and took post at Sulphur Springs. Morning reports. 1863. June 26. Battery arrived at Maryland Heights at 10 o'clock A. M. June 27. Gen. French took command of this post to-day. June 28. Private Charles Slack reported to quarters. June 29. Private Charles Slack reported for duty. Privates Frank M. Estee and Warburton reported to quarters. June 30. Privates Estee and Warburton reported for duty. Started from Maryland Heights for Frederick City. July 1. Arrived at Frederick City at 6 o'clock P. M. July 2. Started from Freder
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 6: (search)
side of their cap, while the men were to wear theirs in front. From this apparently insignificant beginning the idea of division and corps badges was developed by Maj. Gen. Butterfield when he was made Chief-of-Staff of the Army of the Potomac in 1863. Hooker then took up the matter, and, having done away with the Grand Divisions, divided the army into seven corps, and designated a badge to be worn by each. To the First Corps he gave the circle; Second Corps, trefoil; Third Corps, diamond; Fio the whole number of enlisted men. War is the stern remedy for wrong when all other remedies have failed. It knows no pity, no leniency; and he who enters upon it must accept its lard conditions even if he perish in its grip. Morning reports 1863. August 1. Privates Elworth, Ham, Innis, Clark, Ramsdell and Pierce (?) reported for duty. August 2. Capt. J. Henry Sleeper returned and took command of the Battery. August 3. Two horses shot; disease glanders; by order of Capt. Sleeper.
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 7: (search)
rms, 45,614.—Four Years with General Lee. Taylor. while ours aggregated seventy thousand. Had our advance, after the successes at the fords, been a little more prompt, a battle would probably have been precipitated, in which the advantage of numbers might have achieved for us a decided success. But the Fates had decreed otherwise, and during the night of the 8th the enemy retreated across the Rapidan, leaving us to take quiet possession of the region they had occupied. Morning reports. 1863. Oct. 19. Battery left Fairfax Station. Oct. 20. One dark gray horse died on the road, wounded. Oct. 21. Arrived at Catlett Station. Oct. 22. Privates Starkweather and Apthorp report for duty; Wm. H. Trefry reported to quarters. Oct. 23. One horse reclaimed by Lieut. Dauch (?) which was one of the horses turned in to the Battery (See morning report of Oct. 4, 1863.) Six horses shot, by order of Dr. Benson. Four horses unserviceable. Sergeant Chandler Gould reported to quarte
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 8: (search)
ill further advance into the enemy's country; and this, with our supply trains across the river, and the rations of the army now nearly exhausted, was not to be thought of in the hostile month of December. He therefore decided to sacrifice himself, if necessary, rather than continue operations longer, and issued the orders for withdrawal. He would now have marched to the heights of Fredericksburg to camp for the winter, but was again negatived in the project by Halleck. Morning reports. 1863. Nov. 12. Serg't G. F. Gould and privates H. Newton, Charles Slack, T. Ellworth, reported to quarters. Bugler Reed at hospital. Nov. 13. Privates Charles Slack, Thomas Ellworth, Hiram Warburton reported for duty. Nov. 14. Private H. Newton and Serg't Gould (?) reported for duty. Nov. 15. Five horses unserviceable. Three horses shot by order of Dr. Benson Third Corps Headquarters. Nov. 16. Received 8 horses from Capt. A H. Pierce, Warrenton Junction, Va. Nov. 17. One hors
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 9: (search)
Their streets were corduroyed, and they even boasted sidewalks similarly constructed. A comprehensive photograph of their camp at Brandy Station, in the winter of 1863– 64, would be a valuable feature in any history of the army to which this corps belonged. In erecting our own quarters for the winter, we made no lofty endeavorve it in the proposed reorganization of the batteries from your state. I remain Your Ob't Serv't, [Signed] D. B. Birney, Major General. Morning reports. 1863. Dec. 4. Privates Wm. Endicott and Henry Orcutt reported to quarters. Eleven horses unserviceable. Sergeant Chas. E. Pierce appointed Orderly Sergeant, vice S. Osborne reported for duty from Convalescent Camp. They were previously dropped from the rolls under provision of G. O. No. 3, Art'y Headquarters A. O. P. series 1863. One horse shot by order Capt. J. H. Sleeper, the stiver (?) water having run out thereby rendering him perfectly useless. Removed from Brandy Station to 2nd Corp
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 15: (search)
nd ourselves in the midst of a country which had not been much desolated by the march of war. Through this we passed cheerily along amid apple-trees laden with fruit, and cornfields whose ears were just ready for roasting. At 8 o'clock we had reached Reams Station, a place on the railroad ten miles south of Petersburg, where the infantry, in pursuance of instructions, went to work destroying the road. This was done after the method pursued by the Rebels on the Orange and Alexandria road in 1863, and so far as we know, the one pursued by the armies on both sides whenever opportunity offered, viz.: by placing the rails across piles of burning ties, where, becoming heated in the middle, they bent of their own weight, thus rendering them temporarily useless. A map of the battlefield is here inserted. The railroad runs generally north and south. The Halifax road, a thoroughfare which accompanies the railroad southward at close intervals, is at this point not more than eight rods to
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 20: (search)
to a well contested field, and I firmly believe that no braver men were ever banded in an unrighteous cause than constituted the Rebel Army of Northern Virginia—unquestionably the flower of the Southern forces. They fought with a valor that would have insured success had the God of Battles been on their side. To defeat such an army was glory enough; to be defeated by them, no disgrace. But they were not invincible man for man. The men who entered the Army of the Potomac in 1861, 1862, and 1863 were every inch their peers. Whenever the circumstances indicated otherwise, the fault was not in the men but their leaders. Had the Union army been as well officered as the Confederate, the Rebellion would have gone down in Virginia in 1862. But my present purpose is not with this phase of the late conflict. I only wish to emphasize the good character and excellent fighting material of the Company as a whole, and cite as weighty evidence bearing on this position the incontrovertible stat