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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 5: (search)
y was before him, strengthened by French's division and by part of Couch's militia, which had reported at Gettysburg and joined the army at Boonesboroa. The 12th having been spent in getting our troops into position, Gen. Meade called a council of his corps commanders to consider the expediency of attacking next morning. The council sat long and debated earnestly. Gens. Howard, Pleasanton, and Wadsworth (in place of Reynolds, killed), urged and voted to attack; but Gens. Sedgwick, Slocum, Sykes, French, and Hays (in place of Hancock, wounded at Gettysburg), opposed it. Gen. Meade having heard all, stated that his judgment favored an attack—that he came there to fight, and could see no good reason for not fighting. Still, he could not take the responsibility of ordering an assault against the advice of a majority of his corps commanders—four of them ranking officers of the army next himself. . . . At all events, he did not take it; so our army stood idle throughout the following da
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 6: (search)
th a very interesting setting of details. Never having heard the incident before, it came as new matter and was forgotten; but while looking up material for this campaign we found his story fully corroborated in all essential points, and that Stuart did, on that very night after his interview with the Third Corps, find himself thus involved. Lossing says between the Third and Second corps, but he is wrong, as the whole of the former encamped at or near Greenwich that night. Swinton says Sykes's Fifth Corps and Warren's Second, which is more probable. His first resolve was to abandon his guns, and get out the best way he could, hoping to escape under cover of darkness with little loss; but this idea he relinquished, and hid his forces in a thicket of low pines that are wont to spring up from the exhausted soil of old fields. Feeling uncertain what the issue of his complicated situation might be, he fitted out three of his men with muskets and Union uniforms, with instructions to
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 9: (search)
longer in its membership, whose very blood and sinew were incorporated with the imperishable name it had won under Gen. Sickles. The authorities paid deference to this feeling by allowing the Diamond badge to be retained after the troops were merged in other corps. The First Corps was consolidated into two divisions and added to the Fifth. The first and second divisions of the Third Corps were added to the Second, and the third division to the Sixth Corps. By this reorganization Major Generals Sykes, French, and Newton, and Brigadier Generals Kenly, Spinola, and Meredith, were relieved and sent elsewhere. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock now resumed command of the Second Corps, having been absent from it since Zzz Gettysburg; Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren was placed in charge of the Fifth; and Gen. John Sedgwick, the Sixth. Gen. Hunt, Chief of Artillery of the Army, having left Capt. Sleeper to elect which corps he would go into, much to our gratification the latter selected the Second
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Index (search)
nsburg, 193, 195, 208. Stearns, John A., 28, 29. Stone, Gen. A. P., 52. Stowell, David R., 44, 83, 84, 85, 148, 200, 201, 205, 206, 207, 208, 255, 359, 405, 409, 426. Strand, T. W., 202, 407, 441. Strang, Capt., 302, 305, 348, 351, 398, 401, 426. Strickland, Geo. H., 28. Strong, Capt. J., 202, 203, 205, 207. Strout, Jonas W., 255, 256. Sulham, Jacob B., 200, 202, 349. Sullivan, John F., 349, 401. Sulphur Springs, 115, 118, 121, 125, 126, 132, 141. Sumner. Gen. E. V., 101. Sykes, Gen. Geo., 107, 142, 191. T. Robertson's Tavern, 171, 173, 181, 182, 184, 217. Todd's Tavern, 214, 216, 217, 218, 225, 226, 228. Burgess' Tavern, 357, 364, 372, 373, 412. Globe Tavern, 353. Yellow Tavern, 353, 366. Taylor, Col. W. H. 425. Temple, Lyman W., 406, 407. Tent, Sibley, 20, 43, 55. Tent, Bell, 20. Tent, A, 39, 43. Tent, Shelter or Dog, 120, 187. Terbriggen, Peter A., 351, 397, 399, 405, 406. Thayer, J. L. W., 47, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 148, 149, 204, 302, 303, 3