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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The cavalry battle near Gettysburg. (search)
oon on July 2d. The regiments were closed up, and we halted in a field to allow the men and horses some much-needed rest. About 3 o'clock the 10th New York cavalry of the Third Brigade was ordered forward and directed to occupy Brinkerhoff's Ridge and relieve some infantry of the Eleventh Corps, who were in possession of the ridge and were keeping up a skirmish fire with the enemy in their front. General Gregg took two guns, a section of Battery H, 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Captain W. D. Rank (serving as Light Artillery), and placed them on the Hanover road opposite the leever house, about three miles east of Gettysburg. Near 6 o'clock some mounted men, who seemed to be making observations, appeared in the road on the top of Brinkerhoff's Ridge, about three-fourths of a mile distant, whereupon Gregg ordered Rank to send them a feeler, which he did in the most approved style — the two shells bursting in their midst and scattering the party like chaff in a wind storm. The
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st-3d, 1863. (search)
eutenant Nicholas Nolan, Captain Ira W. Claflin. Brigade loss: k, 13; w, 55; m, 223 = 291. Second division, Brig.-Gen. David McM. Gregg. Headquarters Guard: A, 1st Ohio, Capt. Noah Jones. First Brigade, Col. John B. McIntosh: 1st Md., Lieut.-Col. James M. Deems; A, Purnell (Md.) Legion, Capt. Robert E. Duvall; 1st Mass., Lieut.-Col. Greely S. Curtis; 1st N. J., Maj. M. H. Beaumont; 1st Pa., Col. John P. Taylor; 3d Pa., Lieut.-Col. E. S. Jones; Section Battery H, 3d Pa. Art'y, Captain William D. Rank. Brigade loss: w, 26; m, 9 = 35. Second Brigade, At Westminster, etc., and not engaged in the battle. Col. Pennock Huey: 2d N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Otto Harhaus; 4th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Augustus Pruyn; 6th Ohio, Maj. William Stedman; 8th Pa., Capt. William A. Corrie. Third Brigade, Col. J. Irvin Gregg: 1st Me., Lieut.-Col. Charles H. Smith; 10th N. Y., Major M. Henry Avery; 4th Pa., Lieut.-Colonel William E. Doster; 16th Pa., Lieut.-Colonel John K. Robison. Brigade loss: k, 6; w, 12;
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Relative strength of the armies. (search)
54 12,509 Sixth Army Corps 124 1,039 14,516 15,679 Eleventh Army Corps 52 644 9,197 9,893 Twelfth Army Corps   396 8,193 8,589 Cavalry Corps 12,653 491   13,144 Artillery Reserve   2,211 335 2,546 Aggregate 12,978 7,183 77,208 97,369 Between June 30th and July 3d, the reinforcements that joined the army may be estimated as follows: Stannard's brigade to First Corps 2,500 Lockwood's brigade to Twelfth Corps 1,700 Duvall's company Maryland cavalry to Gregg's cavalry division 60 Rank's Pennsylvania artillery to Gregg's cavalry division 50   Total reenforcements 4,310 This number, added to the strength as per returns of June 30th, makes a maximum of 101,679 effectives of all arms. The severe marches following the roll-call of June 30th considerably reduced by sickness and straggling the strength of the commands, but a satisfactory computation of the shrinkage front these causes does not seem possible. It may have ranged from five to ten per cent. The field retur