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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
d proved unfriendly to his movements, as well as to those of the Union army. Smith and Huger were long behind the designated time in reaching their respective positions. At noon they had not appeared, and Hill and Longstreet moved to the attack of Keyes, without waiting for their expected diversion. The attack was sudden, vigorous, and overwhelming. Keyes was forced to retire, abandoning his camp, and losing many guns. The enemy pressed forward, encountering and overcoming a brigade of Couch's division, which sought to arrest the Rebel advance. Affairs looked very discouraging; a fresh column of the enemy was now moving against the right; and along the railroad, a heavy force, which had been held in reserve, was directing its march upon Fair Oaks. In this critical condition of affairs, General Sumner was ordered to march rapidly to the scene of conflict; his corps lay on the opposite or north side of the Chickahominy, there being two hastily-constructed bridges for communica
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
ttempt to carry the heights beyond Fredericksburg, the first thing necessary was to throw pontoon-bridges across the Rappahannock. Hall's brigade, consisting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Massachusetts and Seventh Michigan, volunteered, as General Couch reports, as a forlorn hope, for a perilous scheme now resolved upon. They were three of those five regiments of Sedgwick's division who had routed the enemy at Fair Oaks. This brigade was sent down the steep bank unsupported, and at its fooarried the town and the bridge was laid. The brigade commander reported that he cannot presume to express what is due to the Twentieth Regiment for its unflinching bravery and splendid discipline. Next day the regiment held the extreme right of Couch's corps, in the murderous charge up Marye's Heights; and a cross-fire of artillery and musketry ploughed lanes in the ranks of the column. The Twentieth lost sixty of about two hundred men; and many supporting regiments broke and fled from the f
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
Choate, C. F., II. 199. Choate, R., Lieut., II. 186. Christ, Col., I. 100. Clark, D., Hon., I. 90. Clarke, J. F., Rev., I. 72; II. 13,14. Clarke, J. J., I. 380. Clay, Henry, Hon., I. 82. Codman, O., II. 262. Cogswell, J. G., I. 29. Cogswell, Wm., Col., I. 412, 413;; II. 85,146, 147, 148, 448, 449. Colcock, Col. (Rebel service), II. 381. Cooke, J. P., Prof., II. 209, 277;, 281, 375. Copeland, R. M., Maj., I. 319, 321;. Cotting, B. E., Dr., I. 133. Couch, D. N., Maj.-Gen., I. 214, 426;, 427. Coulter, Col., II. 222. Cozzens, F. S., I. 94. Cradlebaugh, J., Colonel, II. 438. Crane, E., Maj.-Gen., II. 374. Crane, Peter, Major, I. 72. Crane, P. M., Dr., II. 374. Crane, Susan H. D., II. 374. Crane, W. D., Capt., Memoir, II. 364, 365;, 366. Also, II. 368, 370;, 371. Crawford, S. W., Brig.-Gen., II. 87. Crittenden, E. W., Brig.-Gen., II. 138. Crosby and Nichols, I 42. Crowninshield, Caroline M., II. 433. Crown