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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
ning of the twenty-fourth of March by despatches coming thick and fast, calling me back to Winchester. We have heard cannon at intervals, hear them now, wrote Major Crane, of the Third Wisconsin, at halfpast six of the day before; and so, as I read the orders sent me at ten minutes past six P. M. from General Williams to return at once to Berryville, I exclaimed, There are Major Crane's cannon. Push on to Winchester, continued the orders, if on your arrival at Berryville you hear the sound of large guns, giving an indication of an action in progress at the former place. Rapidly we retraced our steps. Six companies of my regiment had encamped for the nig below. And this plan, while Ashby was pounding away with his guns against the Federal left, he proceeded to carry out. It was, by the way, this hammering that Major Crane had heard when he sent me the note I have alluded to. Leaving Colonel Burks to support Ashby, Jackson led Fulkerson's brigade and part of Carpenter's batter
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 8: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
nd a prisoner. In the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, Colonel Knipe was twice wounded, and was carried from the field; Lieutenant-Colonel Selfridge's horse was shot under him; Major Mathews fell, dangerously wounded: of its twenty company-officers who went into action, 17 were killed, wounded, or missing, and 226 of its rank and file. In the Fifth Connecticut, Colonel Chapman, Lieutenant-Colonel Stone, and Major Blake were missing, supposed to have been killed. In the Third Wisconsin, Lieutenant-Colonel Crane was killed, pierced with several fatal wounds, and great havoc was wrought among officers and men by a terrific fire of musketry which, falling upon their flank from the underbrush and the woods, swept the companies engaged with great destruction. Official Records, War of the Rebellion, series i. vol XII. part II. Official Reports of Generals Williams, p. 145, and Crawford, p. 149. But there was, however, one relic of Crawford's brigade, and that was Crawford himself. I sa
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Index (search)
inds a camping-ground for same in West Roxbury, 13. Afterwards Major, on General Banks's staff, 170. His communication to the Boston Advertiser after the battle of Winchester, 255,--and subsequent suspension therefor from the service, 256 (and note). His second appearance in the Boston Advertiser, blaming the War Department, and his final dismissal from the service by the President, 266, 267 (and note). Courtenay, Colonel, commander of Rebel battery under Stonewall Jackson, 199, 235. Crane, Major, 121. Killed at Cedar Mountain, 305. Crawford, S. W., Brigadier-general under Banks, 226, 258, 281-283, 289, 291, 294. In the battle of Cedar Mountain, 305. What his orders from Pope were, and their bearing on the question of Banks's responsibility, 351. Crosby, Lieutenant, 230. Crowninshield, Lieutenant, wounded at the battle of Winchester, 241 (note.) Currency, Federal and Confederate, comparative value of, 166, 167. Curtis, Greely S., first to apply for a commis