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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 4: the balls Bluff disaster. (search)
nd in an hour. The first boat was launched and manned by men of Capt. Rice's company, Co. F., and they continued throughout the day and the night to work the boats between the Maryland shore and the island, which was about an eighth of a mile in width. Ropes, taken from canal boats, were finally stretched across the stream, and by this means the boats could be pulled across, hand over hand, and thus make more frequent trips. The First California regiment, Col. Baker, then acting Brigadier General, the New York (Tammany) Col. Coggswell, the Twentieth Massachusetts, Col. Lee, a section of Vaughn's battery and two mountain howitzers were poled across to the island. After some difficulty a fourth scow was hauled out of the canal and into the river, by Col. Baker's command, but in trying to get the artillery across on it, the current carried it too far down the stream, and for a long time that scow was useless but was eventually brought back to the landing. Finally the largest s
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern soldier. (search)
a Regiment in the battle at Stone Bridge. The following graphic description of scenes on the battle-field, and the gallant conduct of the Eight Georgia Regiment, was written for the Dispatch by a gentleman who participated in the fierce conflict of the 21st of July: Eighth Georgia Regiment. On Thursday, the 18th inst., about 2 P. M., this Regiment left Winchester for Manassas, under command of Lieut. Colonel Montgomery Gardner. Colonel Bartow had been for some weeks acting Brigadier General of a Brigade, consisting of the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 21th Georgia Regiments, and a battalion of Kentuckians. The 8th marched 27 miles over the mountains, fording the Shenandoah, to Piedmont on the Manassas Gap Railroad, arriving there about 12 M., Friday. The march was fatiguing in the extreme. After a delay of a few hours they left for Manassas on the cars, and a slow, tedious ride brought them to this point late Saturday morning. They marched three and a half miles to camp in th
The Daily Dispatch: June 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Correspondence. (search)
pon the ground in great, thrown away by the panic-stricken . But this confusion and disorder long duration. Banks, riding continually among the them kindly and glumly, to a consideration of their un consternation. At length, stationing and Staff, with several others, across borough which the soldiers were rapidly the men were formed into line, to march on in a soldier-like man occurred in the extreme rear of the unable to state with confidence. cruelty, acting Brigadier General, of whose regiments — the First has been already stated, with two regiments — the Twenty-eighth New fifth Connecticut--is reported, and authority, as captured. During the continued for two hours before from Winchester, the brigade be admirably, and repulsed the enemy; on flanked by superior numbers, to withdraw. Our forces-- brigade on the left, and Gordon's right — were in position along a gorge two hills. second Massachusetts was firing upon from behind a stone wa<
The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee's army. (search)
some further particulars of the recent skirmishing along our lines. On Thursday, the 17th, the Stonewall brigade was sent out beyond our lines to destroy a certain bridge on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and to tear up the track. The enemy, who, at that time, crossed the river in force, perceiving this, attacked them with overwhelming numbers, and they were compelled to fall back, with the loss of several men. Col. Ronside, of the 4th Virginia Regiment, who was at that time acting Brigadier General, is now in Winchester, severely wounded. On Friday morning the enemy, seeing the smoke of a bare which was accidentally fired near our lines, and supposing that we were burning our commissary stores for a precipitate retreat, made an advance along the whole lines but finding that our forces were prepared to meet them, and that our army advanced at the same time to meet them, they declined an engagement, and the main body of their army again fell back beyond the Potomac. When this was