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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 16 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 2 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., General Edwards's brigade at the bloody angle. (search)
General Edwards's brigade at the bloody angle. by James L. Bowen, historian of the 37TH Massachusetts regiment. In the article entitled Hand-to-hand fighting at Spotsylvania, the author, while generally accurate and graphic, omits any reference to that brigade of the Sixth Corps (Colonel Oliver Edwards's Fourth Brigade, Second Division) which was first engaged there, which was holding the key to the position when his own (Upton's) brigade came upon the field, and which fought longer than any other brigade of the Sixth Corps engaged. On that day the brigade had present for duty three small regiments, the 10th and 37th Massachusetts and the 2d, Rhode Island. When the First and Second Divisions of the Sixth Corps, which had been massed the previous evening, were summoned to the support of Hancock, whose Second Corps had penetrated the Confederate lines, General Wright, who had just assumed command of the Sixth Corps, directed that the first brigade under arms and ready to move sho
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
. General Edwards's Brigade at the Bloody Angle, by James L. Bowen, in Century War Book, IV, 177. General McAllister's Brcause it has already been so well done in a general way, in Bowen's valuable Massachusetts in the War, that it seemed better many cases the chapter given to some particular regiment in Bowen's Massachusetts in the War is of far more historical value t-General's Report (January, 1866), pp. 15, 17, 23. Compare Bowen, p. 82. This number has since been considerably increased bmpers grew up, who enlisted expressly with a view to this. Bowen, in his Massachusetts in the Civil War, gives the following figures as to desertion, Bowen, p. 872. the ten worst regiments, in this respect, being graded as follows: 2d Cavalry, 61ort (January, 1864), p. 928, (January, 1865), pp. 195, 953; Bowen's Massachusetts in the Civil War, pp 131, 760, 848, 851; Of expense to the Massachusetts treasury was some $35,000. Bowen's Massachusetts in the War, p. 37. For Mrs. Livermore's acc