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A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 4 0 Browse Search
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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 25 (search)
events. The enemy knew exactly the route the regiment would be compelled to take and came on pell mell. Just as they turned the corner they were greeted with a volley which threw them into confusion and turned them back. The men of the regiment made a rush for the river, gained the pontoon bridge, and Major Rice, with Lieut. Donath and half a dozen men with axes severed the shore lines which held the bridge on the south side, then leaped into the boats and poled across. The bridge slowly drifted down with the current to the north shore and the enemy did not dare follow, as the north side frowned with batteries. Chancellorsville, so far as the Nineteenth Massachusetts was concerned, was over. Casualties May 3-4, 1863. wounded Co. A. Sergeant Henry O. Beal Corporal Marcus Kimball Private Charles W. Merrill Co. B. Private Martin Barry Private John J. Wells Co. F. Private Asa W. Greene Private John Towle Co. G. Private Jackson Dawson Co. H. Corporal George P. Thomas
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
58, 261, 299, 334, 356, 365 Barry, Dennis, ........................................................ 106 Barry, Dennis (E), .................................................... 143 Barry, George, ............... .................................... . 331 Barry, George M.,.................................................. 4, 8, 50 Barry, John, ......................................................... 144 Barry, John (C),............................................... .. 141, 187 Barry, Martin, ........................................................ 208 Barter, John, ......................................................... 188 Bartlett, Edwin R., ............................. 284 Bartlett, Edward S., ............................................... 187 Bartlett, William A., .................................................. 249 Bartley, Frank,...................................................... 291 Barton, Peter, .......................................................
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Roster of the First Massachusetts Light Battery. October 3, 1861. (search)
since muster out. Otis S. Neale, Received a warrant, later. Jno. Copeland, Discharged for disability. Jno. Carroll, Discharged for disability. Wm. Hanscom, Calvin Currier, Killed or died in hospital. Geo. Howe, Discharged for disability. Harry Marsh, Discharged for disability. Henry Carpenter, Died since muster out. Stephen Tucker, Discharged for disability. Died since muster out. Chas. Poore, Died since muster out.. A. Johnson, Wm. F. Ward, Henry R. Jenkins, Martin Barry, Discharged for disability. Jno. Kelly, Chas. G. Milliken, Killed or died in hospital. Benj. Brooks, Robt. G. Small, Robt. Macdonald, Taken prisoner. Died since muster out. Robt. Reade, Jas. S. Gordon, Edwin W. Pratt. Third section—centre. Lieut. Jacob Federhen, Commanding. Wounded. （Senior 1st Lieut., Dec., 1862). Fifth Detachment.—Sergt. Matthew Adams; Gunner, Reuben P. Charters; Chief of Caisson, Asa Smith. Commissioned, later. Killed or died in hospit<
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 18: (search)
its three months service, it was immediately reorganized by Captain Porter as the First Massachusetts Light Artillery, and mustered in for three years service. It then consisted of six Guns—two rifles, two smooth bores, and two howitzers—and two hundred men. Their departure from Boston and passage through New York, on their way to the front, was marked with great enthusiasm. Shortly after their arrival in Washington a grand review of cavalry and artillery took place, on which occasion General Barry, chief of artillery, complimented Captain Porter on the drill and discipline of the battery, which he placed on the right of line of twenty full batteries assembled. President Lincoln and General McClellan were also present, the President remarking to the general, That, pointing to Porter's battery, is the best battery on the field. When the Union army advanced into Virginia, Porter's battery was assigned to Slocum's division of the grand old Sixth Corps, with whose glorious record t