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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The defence of Fort Gregg. (search)
orne by them. In General Lane's account the name of Lieutenant McElroy of the Washington artillery is mentioned. But in orWashington artillery, is in Owen, with two guns, and Lieutenant McElroy, of the same battalion, has charge of a company of sr — who had already been dispersed by the Federal attack. McElroy reached the latter with his men, but Battles not receivingddenly surrounded, and his command captured by the enemy. McElroy immediately opened fire from Fort Gregg with his artilleryve rounds each, and were then retired to Fort Gregg. Lieutenant McElroy says, in his report, there were two hundred men in teteenth Mississippi, into Gregg. As the enemy advanced, McElroy was cautioned to have his ammunition as handy as possible Third company Washington artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Frank McElroy. General Harris, with his two other regiments, Ni Third company Washington artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Frank McElroy. Preparations were now made by the enemy for the
Montgomery; Quartermaster Sergeant, S. Kennedy. Color Guard.--Corporals George W. Wood, E. J. Jewell, A. H. Peale, and J. H Dearie. First Company.--Capt. M. M. Isaacson; First Lieutenant, J. B. Richardson, Jr.; Second Lieutenant, H. G. Geiger. Second Company.--First Lieutenant, C. C. Lewis, commanding; First Lieutenant, Samuel J. McPherson; Second Lieut., C. H. Slocomb. Third Company.--Captain M. B. Miller; 1st Lieutenant, J. B. Whittington; 2d Lieutenant, L. A. Adam; 1st Sergeant, Frank McElroy; 2d do., A. V. Hero; 3d do., L. Prados; 4th do., J. T. Handy; 1st Corporal, E. J. Jewell; 2d do., A. H. Peale; 3d do., W. H. Ellis; 4th do., Collins. Fourth Company.--Captain, B. F. Eshleman; 1st Lieutenant., Jos. Norcom; 2d Lieutenant, Harry A. Battles; 2d Sergeant, W. J. Behan; 3d do., G. E. Apps; 4th do., J. D. Reynolds; 1st Corporal, George Wood; 2d do., J. W. Dearn. Dr. Palmer's Sermon to the Washington Artillery. The following is a report of the eloquent and patrio
other brave men, went into the fighting at Manassas plains with two of the companies assigned to different brigades. The Fourth, under Capt. B. F. Eshleman, Lieuts. J. Norcum, H. A. Battles, and G. E. Apps, was with Pickett's brigade; the Second, under Capt. J. B. Richardson, Lieuts. Samuel Hawes, G. B. De Russy, and J. D. Britton, with Toombs' brigade. The First under Capt. C. W. Squires, Lieuts. E. Owen, J. M. Galbraith, and C. H. C. Brown; and the Third under Capt. M. B. Miller, Lieuts. Frank McElroy and Andrew Hero, were held together. About noon on the 29th, Longstreet sent Miller and Squires to open on the enemy's batteries near Groveton. Miller soon found the enemy with his shells and silenced a battery in front. Squires, with three rifle guns under Lieutenant Owen, and followed by Lieutenant Landry's Donaldsonville artillery, two guns, found place on Miller's left. The roar of these guns, pouring confusion into the enemy's lines of infantry, meant that Longstreet, long
n this defense of the Confederate center. Captain Miller, with his four Napoleons, ordered to the left, was assigned to position by General Longstreet. It was a post of honor and danger, and soon, Lieutenant Hero having been wounded and Lieutenant McElroy having been detached to the right, Miller found himself the only officer with his company and barely enough men left to work a section. Two determined assaults by the enemy met with bloody repulse, and the third, thanks to the able assistance of Sergeant Ellis, in command of a section, suffered the same fate. Too much praise, Walton reported, cannot be bestowed on Captain Miller for his stubborn defense of the center for several hours; to Lieutenants Hero and McElroy, Sergeant Ellis and Artificers Bier and Dempsey. This part of the action was under the immediate eye of General Longstreet and his staff, who, when Captain Miller's cannoneers were exhausted, dismounted and assisted the working of the guns. Captain Richardson,
. Thomas Rice, of the Montgomery Guards, First Louisiana, took command of the regiment after Colonel Nolan's death, from July 2d to July 5th, when the army fell back into Virginia. About midnight following the 2d of July, the Washington artillery, having reached the field dusty and tired, were ordered to take position at the Peach orchard, whence Federal General Sickles had been driven. Before daylight of the 2d Eshleman's battalion was in position; Captain Miller and Lieutenants Hero, McElroy and Brown with four Napoleons; two Napoleons of the Fourth under Captain Norcum and Lieutenant Battles, and two Napoleons of the Second under Captain Richardson and Lieutenant Hawes. The howitzers were in reserve under Lieutenant Apps. With some changes in position at daylight, they were engaged moderately during the forenoon, under a fire which disabled the gallant Norcum. Walton now had 75 guns posted in one great battery, menacing Cemetery hill, and 63 more were massed before Hill's
Battles in the confusion having been captured with his command, owing to the darkness and the absence of horses. Lieut. Frank McElroy, of the Third company, was as quick as a flash from his guns. His practice throughout with artillery-infantry was excellent. Three times did McElroy, with his small garrison, repulse as many attacks; three times his bullets from brigade rifles whizzed around the advancing Federals, decimating them. They fell before McElroy's shells and Harris' rifles, coverMcElroy's shells and Harris' rifles, covering the field before Fort Gregg with dead bodies. One-half of the Washington artillery drivers were armed with muskets and placed on duty in the forlorn hope of Fort Gregg. Under Lieutenant McElroy's able and courageous management these drivers diLieutenant McElroy's able and courageous management these drivers did gallant service. On this terrible day Capt. Andrew Hero, Jr., was wounded at Petersburg, as he had been severely wounded at Sharpsburg. As sergeant, lieutenant and captain, Hero was a true soldier. His name was one particularly hard for a sold
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The artillery defenders of Fort Gregg. (search)
rwhelmed at Five Forks the evening before. McElroy was in Gregg with his dismounted artilleristsarp lookout, I went over to Gregg to see that McElroy was all right, and thence to the Gregg House d possessing themselves of his two guns. But McElroy opened upon them with his little force, and tthe retiring enemy. I wish I knew his name. McElroy immediately took possession of Battles' guns,ssible. The horses having been brought up, McElroy, by my orders, moved down the road towards thhe two forts—Gregg and Whitworth. I directed McElroy to pile up all the canister that was in the lnally became of them I never heard. Seeing McElroy and his men all ready, and Harris on his way awn. He then ordered me to go and withdraw McElroy from Gregg, and Lieutenant Richard Walke, of tly the rushes of the enemy, the discharge of McElroy's guns when the enemy was almost up to their ny Washington Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Frank McElroy of the third company of the Washingto[2 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.31 (search)
ive or eighty men, who had been detached from the artillery of General A. P. Hill's Third Army Corps some time after the battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864. On October 13, following, four men from the Donaldsonville Artillery, namely, C. J. Savoy, G. Charlet, O. Delmer and John S. Mioton, were ordered to report to General Walker, an artillery officer of Hill's Corps, the writer being one of the four. We were then sent to Fort Gregg, under the command of Captain Chew, of Maryland, with Frank McElroy, of the 3rd Company, Washington Artillery, as our lieutenant. During our stay in the fort we were drilled as infantry by one or two officers of General Mahone's Brigade. Our winter quarters were just back of the fort—that portion being protected by a stockade—the front and sides being an earthwork, with a good sized ditch in front. There was no artillery in the fort at that time, but in constructing it provisions had been made for four guns. Early on that memorable Sunday morning
ergeant, Stringer Kennedy. Color Guard.--Corporals George W. Wood, E. J. Jewell, A. H. Peale and J. H. Dearie. First Company.--Captain, H. M. Isaacson; First Lieutenant, J. B. Richardson, Jr.; Second Lieutenant, H. G. Geiger. Second Company--First Lieutenant, C. C. Lewis, commanding; First Lieutenant, Samuel J. McPherson; Second Lieutenant, C. H. Slocomb. Third Company.--Captain, M. W. Miller; First Lieutenant, J. B. Whittington; Second Lieutenant, L. A Adam; First Sergeant, Frank McElroy; Second Sergeant., A. V Hero; Third Sergeant L. Prados; Fourth Sergeant J. T. Handy; First Corporal, E. J. Jewell; Second Corporal A H. Peale; Third Corporal W. H. Ellis; Fourth Corporal Collins. Fourth Company--Captain, B. F. Eshleman; First Lieutenant, Jos.Norcom; Second Lieutenant, Harry A. Battles; Second Sergeant, W. H. Behan; Third Sergeant G. E. Apps; Fourth Sergeant J. D. Reynolds; First Corporal, George Wood; Second Corporal J. W. Dearn. The New Orleans De