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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 3 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
; 80th N. Y. (20th Militia), Col. Jacob B. Hardenbergh; 68th Pa., Col. Andrew H. Tippin, Lieut.-Col. Robert E. Winslow; 114th Pa., Maj. Edward R. Bowen. cavalry, Maj.-Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. Army of the Shenandoah, Brig.-Gen. Wesley Merritt. first division, Brig.-Gen. Thomas C. Devin. First Brigade, Col. Peter Stagg: 1st Mich., Lieut.-Col. George R. Maxwell, Capt. Edward L. Negus; 5th Mich., Lieut.-Col. Smith H. Hastings; 6th Mich., Lieut.-Col. Harvey H. Vinton; 7th Mich., Lieut.-Col. George G. Briggs. Second Brigade, Col. Charles L. Fitzhugh: 6th N. Y., Maj. Harrison White; 9th N. Y., Maj. James R. Dinnin; 19th N. Y. (1st N. Y. Dragoons), Maj. Howard M. Smith; 17th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Coe Durland; 20th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Gabriel Middleton. Third (Reserve) Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Alfred Gibbs: 2d Mass., Col. Casper Crowninshield; 6th Pa. (6 co's), Col. Charles L. Leiper; 1st U. S., Capt. Richard S. C. Lord; 5th U. S., Capt. Thomas Drummond, Lieut. Gustavus Urban; 6th U. S., Maj. Robert
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 18.114 (search)
six hundred yards. . . . General Long's report . . . states that the number actually engaged in the charge was 1550 officers and men. The portion of the line assaulted was manned by Armstrong's brigade, regarded as the best in Forrest's corps, and reported by him at more than 1500 men. The loss from Long's division was 40 killed, 260 wounded, and seven missing. General Long was wounded in the head, Colonels [A. O.] Miller and [C. C.] McCormick in the leg, and [Lieutenant] Colonel [Jonathan] Briggs in the breast. . . . The immediate fruits of our victory were 31 field-guns and one 30-pounder Parrott, which had been used against us; 2700 prisoners, including 150 officers; a number of colors, and immense quantities of stores of every kind. Generals Forrest, Armstrong, Roddey, and Adams escaped, with a number of men, under cover of darkness, either by the Burnsville and River roads, or by swimming the Alabama River. A portion of Upton's division pursued on the Burnsville road until long