Our Campaigns: Or, The Marches, Bivouacs, Battles, Incidents of Camp Life and History of Our Regiment During Its Three Years Term of ServiceJ.E. Potter, 1865 - 354 páginas |
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afternoon Antietam army arrived artillery attack bank battery BATTLE OF ANTIETAM BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG bivouacked boys bridge Bucktails Bull Run camp Captain captured cavalry Centreville Chickahominy Colonel Colonel McCandless column command commenced Company Corps Court House creek crossed discharged for disability division Drainesville eight encamped enemy enemy's field fire Fitz John Porter flag flank force Fredericksburg front gallant George Glendale ground guard guns halted heavy Hill Honorably discharged hundred infantry James John June Keedysville Killed laid line of battle loss Malvern Hill marched McCall McClellan Meade Mechanicsville ment miles morning moved night noon o'clock officers opened ordered passed Pennsylvania Reserves picket pike Porter position Potomac railroad Rappahannock rear received Reënlisted regiment Reynolds Richmond river road round shot Second Lieutenant sent Sergeant Sharpsburg skirmishers soldiers soon South Mountain Spottsylvania Court House Station Thomas thousand tion took troops wagons Warrenton William William McCandless woods Woodward
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Página 160 - of mankind, that this army shall enter the capital of the so-called Confederacy; that our national Constitution shall prevail, and that the Union, which can alone insure internal peace and external security to each State, 'must and shall be preserved/ cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood. "GEOKGE B. McCLELLAN.
Página 313 - time is very much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle> while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers." * * * * During the night, the position of the corps were changed, Hancock, finding himself in front of the
Página 160 - attack you. We are prepared to meet them. I have personally established your lines. Let them come, and we will convert their repulse into a final defeat. Your Government is strengthening you with the resources of a great people. On this our Nation's birthday, we declare to our foes, who are rebels against the
Página 211 - with the enemy as they drove them back, their ammunition nearly expended, and their commander, General Meagher, disabled by the fall of his horse shot under him, the brigade was ordered to give place to General Caldwell's, which advanced to a short distance in its rear. The lines were passed by
Página 211 - division, and the attack made by the Fifty-third Pennsylvania volunteers sent further to the right to close this gap in^ the line, and the movement of the One hundred and thirtysecond Pennsylvania and Seventh Virginia Volunteers of French's division, before referred to, drove the enemy from the cornfield and restored the line. The brigade of
Página 215 - and Sharpsburg road, and as it was intended the attack on the right should be supported by an attack on the left, General McClellan ordered him at eight o'clock to carry the bridge, gain possession of the heights beyond, and to advance along their crest upon Sharpsburg and its rear. After
Página 214 - Towards the middle of the afternoon, General McClellan found that Sumner's, Meade's and Mansfield's Corps had met with serious losses, that several general officers had been carried from the field severely wounded, and the aspect of affairs was anything but promising. Orders were given to reinforce this portion of the line with two brigades
Página 210 - Ehode island artillery. Having been under an almost continuous fire for nearly four hours, and the ammunition nearly expended, the division now took position immediately below the crest of the heights on which they had so gallantly fought, the enemy making no attempt to regain their lost ground. On the left of General French, General
Página 313 - some slight skirmishing took place. General Grant in an official report to the Secretary of War, dated this day, says : " We have now ended the sixth day of very 'heavy fighting. The result to
Página 153 - portion of the transportation of .the army having been started for Harrison's Landing during the night of the 30th of June and the 1st of July, the order for the movement of the troops was at once issued upon the final repulse of the enemy at Malvern Hill.