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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 1: organization of the regiment. (search)
eymouth's Company from Lowell and Cambridge, Capt. Plympton's Company from Boston, Capt. Russell's Company from Boston, Capt. Rice's Company from Cambridge and Capt. Wilson's Company from Boston. The field officers were: Edward W. Hinks—Colonel, ordered to report with his command forthwith to Col. Dike, commanding, at Camp Schouler, Lynnfield. Company F, Capt. Edmund Rice, Cambridge, originally assigned to the Fourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, (and which by Special Order No. 365, date Boston; First Lieut., David Lee, of Lancaster, Pa.; Second Lieut., George M. Barry, of Boston. Company F. Captain, Edmund Rice, of Cambridge; First Lieut., James H. Rice, of Brighton; Second Lieut., James G. C. Dodge, of Boston. Company G. Cay 4, 1861, directs that said Company Officers take rank in the order following: Captains. 1. Ansel D. Wass. 2. Edmund Rice. 3. Moses P. Stanwood. 4. Harrison G. O. Weymouth. 5. Andrew Mahoney. 6. Jonathan F. Plympton. 7. James D. Ru
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 3: in camp at Meridian Hill. (search)
section of two guns of Vaughn's Rhode Island Battery, posted there. They called the place Camp Straw. The work was very light and much freedom was enjoyed. The men improved the opportunity to have a change of rations by buying food from the farmers. An old colored mammy's squash and sweet potato pies were believed to be great luxuries by those who had never bought them. No one ever patronized her twice. The men of the six companies who were on picket duty were under command of Capt. Edmund Rice and lived in cozy little shanties which were very comfortable, except in heavy storms, when they were not quite as dry as the men might have wished. While at Camp Benton, dress coats, with brass shoulder scales and leather neck stocks, were issued, and, when not in line or on guard the spare moments of the men were spent in cleaning the brasses. The government pay of $13.00 per was hard earned. In addition to the usual camp guard, a detail from each regiment in the brigade was de
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 4: the balls Bluff disaster. (search)
Chapter 4: the balls Bluff disaster. On October 21, 1861, Col. Hinks was informed at 1 P. M., by Capt. Edmund Rice, of Company F, commanding the companies on the river, that his detachment was ordered to cross to the Virginia side as soon as certain other regiments had preceeded him. Col. Hinks and Lieut. Col. Devereux immediately repaired to the point of crossing, some four miles from camp. The weather was superb and the spirits of the men were high, as they scented a movement on the pa, which, at that point divided the stream. The recent rains had so swollen the river as to make this work dangerous and difficult. Only 120 men could be transported to the island 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
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 5: life at camp Benton. (search)
t. Surg. Josiah Newell Willard, '57; Capt. George Wellington Batchelder, '59; Sergt. Maj. Edgar Marshall Newcomb,‘60; First Lieut. John Hodges,. Jr., ‘61 and Charles Brooks Brown, '56. It was not an infrequent occurrence for the regimental band to include among its selections the delightful melody of Fair Harvard in their honor. The chief thing of interest, beside work, at Poolesville seemed to be to stockade the tents and to build a fire-place which would not smoke the occupants out. Capt. Rice constructed one where the fire was to be in a hole in the ground, the smoke to be carried under ground until it could escape by means of a hollow log, placed upright, some six or eight feet from the tent. This seemed a success until one morning, when the log was found burning rapidly and the tent was filled with smoke so dense that one could almost cut it. In some tents a trough about eighteen inches deep and two feet wide was dug from the centre of the tent to the outside. This was cove
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 7: the winter at Muddy Branch. (search)
Asst. Adjt. General at the headquarters of the First Brigade, Corps of Observation; Capt. C. M. Merritt, Company A. was at Rockville as Provost Marshall, with Second Lieut. W. L. Palmer, of Company I, as Deputy Marshall; Capt. J. Scott Todd, of Company C, was at Seneca in charge of building defensive blockhouses; Capt. James D. Russell, of Company D, at Muddy Branch Lock, building the defensive blockhouse between Muddy Branch and Seneca and Second Lieut. Samuel Baxter was with him. Capt. Edmund Rice, of Company F, had charge of the picket line on the Potomac River at Seneca Lock, while Second Lieut. Dudley C. Mumford was at Lock No. 31, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Capt. Weymouth, of Company G, was at Whitehouse Lock. A number from the regiment had been sent away on recruiting duty, including First Lieut. Moncena Dunn, of Company D, Sergt. Warner W. Tilton, of Company A, Sergt. Ephraim A. Hall, Jr., Company F, Corp. John N. Thompson, Company B; Privates Edward K. Davis, Company D;
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 8: the siege of Yorktown. (search)
mpassable. The first camp of shelter tents was pitched within two miles of the enemy's outworks of Yorktown on a level plain, and was called, Camp Winfield Scott. The men of the Nineteenth were employed in picket duty and building corduroy roads. One morning the Brigade was ordered out in light marching order and moved by the flank into the woods in the direction of the enemy's works. After marching a mile or so, it halted in the edge of some woods. The right [Capt. Wass,] and left [Capt. Rice,] flank companies of the regiment were deployed as skirmishers. After the two companies had got their distance ahead, the rest of the regiment moved after them by the flank, the rest of the brigade having gone off to the right. After advancing about twenty rods, the men came to a road which crossed the one that they had been following. Filing to the right into this and following it some rods, the skirmishers moving by the flank, they halted and lay down behind a bank along the side of
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 10: the march to the Chickahominy. (search)
again ordered to the front and drawn up in line of battle a short distance beyond where it had been halted before, and a few hundred feet from the battlefield of the two days past. Here Andrew M. Murphy, of Company K, was wounded by a spent ball. What a sight met their eyes as the men took their position— knapsacks, haversacks, overcoats, blankets and surplus clothing of every kind strewed the ground in all directions. The road was a veritable paradise for a junk dealer. Company F, Captain Rice, was deployed as skirmishers from the railroad station at Fair Oaks to the Seven Pines, in front of the regiment and in touch with the rebel right. Darkness settled down and the men lay on their arms all night, sleeping soundly after their day of uncertainty and anxiety, except on one occasion, when they were awakened by a picket firing and turned out. The next day a detail was sent out to bury the dead. Most of the wounded had been removed and the Union dead buried, but the ground was
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 13 (search)
the enemy, and, after a march of seven miles, was placed in Libby Prison, where he died on July 13th, 1862, and was buried in an unknown grave. In his report of the operations of the Nineteenth regiment at Glendale on this day, June 30, Capt. Edmund Rice, then the ranking officer said: We marched toward the field of action, coming upon it on the double-quick and under fire, the action at its height as we came into position. We were soon ordered forward into the woods, cautioned that ux was wounded while faithfully performing his duties; being prostrate at the time from continued illness, fatigue and exposure. Lieut. David Lee, of Company E, died faithfully at the post of duty. Sergeant Major E. M. Newcomb, since promoted, and killed at Fredericksburg, proved to his superior officers that he enlisted for his country's good and from purely patriotic motives. I am, general, Your obedient servant, Edmund Rice, Captain, Nineteenth Mass. Vols., Commanding Regiment.
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 18: the battle of Antietam. (search)
ent ball on the breast plate and fell forward. Someone said Nichols is gone but he sprang up again and took his place in the ranks, saying I'm not killed yet. Major Rice heard his remark and responded, There's a brave man. The division moved on through this wood with the ranks being depleted at every step. Gen. Sumner did noieut. Col. Devereux. His favorite horse was shot under him and he received a wound in the arm, but was able to direct operations until the battle was over. Maj. Edmund Rice was severely wounded during the engagement and Capt. George W. Bachelder, of Company C, was mortally wounded. When the regiment passed through the stacks Alexander Grant. Total 1 officer, 14 men. wounded: Colonel Edward W. Hinks, arm and body, severely. Lieut. Col. Arthur F. Devereux, wrist, slight. Major Edmund Rice, thigh. Co. A.Sergeant Isaac N. Adams (since died). Corporal Gorham Coffin, slight. Private William W. Holmes, shoulder. Private Oliver S. Rundlett, brea
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 19: at Bolivar Heights. (search)
e battle of Antietam Lieut. Col. Devereux secured leave of absence for ten days on account of death in his family, and the command came into the hands of Capt. H. G. O. Weymouth. A number of changes occurred in the regiment in September. Capt. Edmund Rice, absent from wounds, was promoted to major; Capt. Ansel D. Wass was discharged to enable him to be commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel of the 41st Massachusetts regiment; First Lieut. William L. Palmer, of Company I, was appointed Adjutant, in, and Edgar M. Newcomb as First Lieutenant. In Company E First Lieut. Elisha A. Hinks who had been transferred from Company B, was absent from wounds. Capt. James H. Rice, of Company F, who had been promoted from First Lieutenant, vice Edmund Rice, promoted to Major, was absent from wounds, and the command of Company F was in the hands of First Lieut. William H. Hill, who had been promoted from Second Lieutenant, vice Chadwick promoted. Capt. James D. Russell, of Company G, who had b
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