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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Ohio Volunteers. (search)
ember, 1865. Service. Duty at Paw Paw Tunnel and Great Cacapon Creek till March 10, 1862. Advance on Winchester, Va., March 10-15. Reconnoissance to Strasburg March 18-21. Battle of Winchester March 22-23. Strasburg March 27. Woodstock April 1. Edenburg April 2. March to Fredericksburg, Va., May 12-21, thence to Front Royal May 25-30. Battle of Port Republic June 9 (cover retreat). Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula June 29. Harrison's Landing July 3-4. Westover July 3. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe August 16-23, thence moved to Suffolk, Va., and duty there till December 31. Moved to Norfolk, Va., December 31, thence to Beaufort and New Berne, N. C., January 4, 1863. Moved to Port Royal, S. C., January 25. At Hilton Head February 9, and at St. Helena Island, S. C., till April. Occupation of Folly Island, S. C., April 3-July 10. Attack on Morris Island July 10. Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morr
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, United States--Regular Army. (search)
l 5-May 4. Battle of Williamsburg May 5. Hanover Court House May 27. Operations about Hanover Court House May 27-29. Ashland May 28. Operations against Stuart June 13-15. Old Church, Hanover Court House, and Haw's Shop, June 13. Haw's Shop June 15. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Operations at White House June 26-July 2. Sycamore Church and White Oak Swamp Bridge July 3. White Oak Swamp Bridge July 4. Malvern Hill July 5. Reconnoissance from Westover July 16. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Sugar Loaf Mountain near Frederick September 10-11. Antietam September 16-17. Shepherdstown Ford September 19-20. Charlestown October 6 and 16. Kearneysville and Shepherdstown October 16-17 (Detachment). Bloomfield and Upperville November 2-3. Manassas Gap and Markham Station November 4. Manassas Gap, Barbee's Cross Roads, Chester Gap and Markham November 5-6. Waterloo Bridge November 7. Little Washington November 8
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 172 (search)
eing on the Long bridge road, disappeared during the night. It was probably advanced to cover the movement of the main body, most of which, as far as I can learn, crossed the Chickahominy at Long bridge and below, and has reached James river at Westover and Wilcox's landing. A portion of General Grant's army upon leaving our front, at Cold Harbor, is reported to have proceeded to the White House, and embarked at that place. Everything is said to have been removed, and the depot at the White Hretty definitely ascertained that Grant, or at least the greater portion of his army, had crossed over to the south side. We heard of no official intelligence of this, but from information we received last night we see no reason to doubt it. Westover, where General Lee in his despatch above states the enemy to have moved, is immediately on the James river, not far from Bermuda Hundred, where Butler is, and the river at that point is narrow and well situated for the laying down of pontoons.
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 8: eagerness of the soldiers to hear the Gospel. (search)
rovidence for the men at this time, and I am simply acting on the doctrine when I direct them to avail themselves of these Special Providences. Major Nelson was convinced, and accepted the doctrine of Special Providence as Dr. Dabney expounded it. I remember that, remaining for a season with the wounded in the field hospitals after Cold Harbor and Gaines's Mill, I rejoined the command just after the line of battle was formed in front of General McClellan's position at Harrison's Landing (Westover), and General Ewell said to me pleasantly: I have not seen you preaching, or heard the songs of your prayer-meetings for several days, and I have missed them. I explained that I had been back in our hospitals looking after our wounded, and that my regiment had more men back there than in front just then, but that I was going to have a service as soon as I could assemble the men. And so we soon had a very tender, precious service in full hearing of the enemy's lines. Some of the meeting
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 15: the rest at Harrison's Landing. (search)
ers' schooners helped to swell the flotilla and now that the army was likely to remain some time, the Sutlers came ashore with their molasses ginger cakes and their lively cheese. They had suffered with the army in losses of their supplies and had seen them either taken by the enemy or destroyed, rather than be left behind. The Paymaster also came, and the men were paid off. The headquarters of the quartermaster and subsistance departments were located at a beautiful plantation called Westover, but three miles down the river. Here the wagon trains reported for rations and forage which once more were issued with regularity. The supply boats of the government and the Christian Commission furnished a limited supply of potatoes and onions. On July 3, the day after the arrival at Harrison's Landing, General McClellan came through the camps, making a short speech to each brigade. General Dana, commanding the third brigade, called for three cheers for the new campaign and they wer
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
............................................249, 262 Wells, John J........................................................ 208 Welsh, Michael....................................................... 293 Westacott, Lewis........................................ 105 Westacott, Richard.................................................... 188 Weston, Ira, wagoner.................................................. 286 West Point................................................ 16, 67, 69, 77 Westover, Va.................................................... 110 Weymouth, H. G.O., 1, 2, 5, 7, 50, 51, 151, 152, 165, 179, 180, 181, 189, 193, 201, 223 Wheeling, John....................................................... 292 Wheelock, Henry I................................................... 353 White, George R.,..................................... 105 White, Joseph, A............................ 292 White, William...................................................... 293 Whitehouse
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 18: (search)
to avail himself of any opportunity to attack that might arise. McClellan, who was still at Westover, on James River, continuing to manifest no intention of resuming active operations, and Gen. PoJames River, was directed to threaten his communications, by seizing favourable positions below Westover, from which to attack the transports in the river. That officer selected Coggin's Point, opposite Westover. On the night of the 31st of July, Gen. French, accompanied by Brig.-Gen. Pendleton, chief of artillery, placed forty-three guns in position within range of the enemy's shipping in the r battle, to units with Gen. Pope, and a part of Gen. McClellan's army was believed to have left Westover for the same purpose. In this condition of affairs it was promptly decided by Gen. Lee, that td 27th of August, at Warrenton Junction. Another portion of McClellan's army, transported from Westover, consisting of the corps of Franklin and Sumner, were at Alexandria, intending to reinforce Pop
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and explorers, 1583-1763 (search)
warming pan. From the first stopping place, where she found the other guests tyed by the Lipps to a pewter engine, and the next day's guide, whose shade on his Hors resembled a Globe on a Gate post, there was scarcely a stage of her journey which did not provide its subject for entertaining comment. An equal appreciation of the fact that mileage and food are not the only things worth recording by those who go abroad gives permanent value to the diaries kept by the second William Byrd of Westover in 1732 and 1733, when he followed the course of Edward Bland in searching for the likeliest Virginian land-holdings. Byrd was a model for all who journey in company, for he broke not the Laws of Travelling by uttering the least Complaint at inopportune torrents or an impertinent Tooth . .. that I cou'd not grind a Biscuit but with much deliberation and presence of mind. He contriv'd to get rid of this troublesome Companion by cutting a Caper, with a stout cord connecting the tooth and th
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 3: (search)
Chapter 3: The Seven days campaign cross the Chickahominy sojourn in the swamp Gaines' Mill Savage's Station Fraser's Farm or Charles City cross roads Malvern Hill down the James to Westover intrenching humors of the camp comrades answer the last roll call Abraham Lincoln in camp Nothing unusual occurred until the middle of the week, when Boots and saddles! sounded, and, the camp being speedily broken up, we found ourselves moving down the river toward Cold Harbor. During the previous weeks, the engineer corps of the army had been busy in performing various works which the wisdom and skill (conceded by the military world to be profound) of the chief of engineers had planned. One phase of this work was the trestlework bridges, rendered indispensable because the wings of our army were separated by the morass of the Chickahominy. There were now eleven of them, seven being available for heavy teams. One of these, constructed by the engineer brigade under
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 4: (search)
Chapter 4: Confederate northward movement retreat from Westover embarkation at Hampton road arrival at Alexandria last days of Pope's campaign The first weeks of August found us still lingering here. Newspapers had given us Pope's somewhat grandiloquent address to the army of Virginia, and their version of the battle at Cedar Mountain, in Culpepper County; from which it would seem that the ubiquitous Jackson is again near his old stamping-ground. Where is Lee? It must have been as late as the 20th of the month when the Sixth Corps commenced its march across the peninsula towards Williamsburg. We made speed as if it were a forced march. To drop from the column was to be left behind; yet excessive thirst compelled men to hasten through wood or field to fill canteens. 'T was pitiful in the extreme to see some fever-stricken comrade from a wagon beckoning to the bearer of a canteen. So saw we oft during the day poor Knowles making the sign. We reached the lower C
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