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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 15: siege of Fort Pickens.--Declaration of War.--the Virginia conspirators and, the proposed capture of Washington City. (search)
ughout the war that ensued. Map of Pensacola Bay and vicinity. Lieutenant Worden, in the mean time, had returned to Pensacola, and departed for home. He left the Sabine about three o'clock in the afternoon, April 12, 1861. landed at Pensacola, and at nine in the evening left there in a railway car for Montgomery, hoping to report at Washington on Monday night. He was disappointed. Bragg had committed a great blunder, and knew it early on the morning The Union Generals. 1. Robert C. Schenck, M. G. 2. John W. Geary, B. G. 3. August Willich B. G. 4. Absalom Baird, B. G. 5. A. J. S. Emmer, B. G. 6. James B. Ricketts, B. G. 7. Abner Doubleday, M. G. 8. William B. Hazen B. G. 9. Charles Griffin, B. G. 10. William F. Barry, B. G. 11. P. J. Osterhaus, B. G. 12. Robt H. Milroy, M. G. Source. Publisher 628 & 630 Chestnut St. of the 13th, when a spy informed him of the re-enforcement of Fort Pickens. That movement exasperated him, and he was de
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 22: the War on the Potomac and in Western Virginia. (search)
hio Regiment, Colonel A. McD. McCook, to picket and guard the road. These troops left their encampment near Alexandria on the 17th, accompanied by Brigadier-General Robert C. Schenck, and proceeded cautiously in cars and on trucks in the direction of Vienna. Detachments were left at different points along the road, one of which nd the train, and was pushing it .up. When the whole train was fairly exposed to the masked cannon, they opened fire, and swept it from front to rear with Robert C. Schenck. grape and canister shot. Fortunately, the shot went high, and most of the soldiers were sitting. The frightened engineer, instead of drawing the whole tr back, carrying their dead and wounded companions on litters and in blankets. The Union loss was five killed, six wounded, and thirteen missing. Report of General Schenck to Lieutenant-General Scott. Correspondence of the Louisville Courier, June 29, and New York Tribune, June 20. That of the insurgents is unknown. The latter
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 25: the battle of Bull's Run, (search)
sary of Subsistence-Horace F. Clark; Surgeon — William S; King; Assistant Surgeon--David L. Magruder. First Division.--General Tyler. Four brigades. The First Brigade, commanded by Colonel Erasmus D. Keyes, of the Eleventh United States Infantry, was composed of the First, Second, and Third Regiments of Connecticut Volunteers, the Fourth Maine Volunteers, Captain Varian's Now York Battery, and Company B of the Second United States Cavalry. The Second Brigade, under Brigadier-Genera, R. C. Schenck, consisted of the First and Second Ohio Volunteers, the Second New York Volunteers, and a light battery with a part of Company E of the Third United States Artillery. The Third Brigade was commanded by Colonel William T. Sherman, of the Thirteenth United States Infantry, and was composed of Colonel Corcoran's Irish Regiment (Sixty-ninth New York Militia), Colonel Cameron's Scotch Regiment (Seventy-ninth New York Militia), the Thirteenth New York Volunteers, Second Wisconsin Volunteers,