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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 15: (search)
Sending back this intelligence to Gen. Crook, Gen. Thoburn was directed to form a line with his brigades and await the arrival of a division of the Sixth Corps Infantry. Before its arrival, however, the cavalry was attacked by Breckenridge and Rodes, and forced back upon the east side of the river with a loss of over 400. When the Third Division of the Sixth came up, the division commander did not think it prudent, under the circumstances, to cross his men, and the remaining troops fell bacthe Shenandoah justified this last retrograde movement. The enemy perceiving from Three Top that Sheridan had retired, pursued. A sharp engagement occurred on the 21st. Our cavalry pickets on the Opequon having been driven in, the divisions of Rodes and Ramseur fell upon the Sixth Corps, gaining, however, no permanent advantage, while Anderson, who had later moved from Winchester, was repulsed by Merritt and Wilson.. The next day the army was established at Halltown, with one flank on the
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 16: (search)
woods, whence proceeded the enemy's cannonade during the formation of our lines. In front of the Nineteenth Corps was Gordon, and before the Sixth, Ramseur and Rodes. Confronting Wilson's cavalry on our extreme left was the Confederate cavalry of Lomax. Here the Federal troop first held its adversary in check, and then forced. From the first onset of our infantry, the struggle for the possession and defence of the ground became desperate. The Sixth Corps drove back the divisions of Rodes and Ramseur, and the Nineteenth, having attacked Gordon's force, pressed it back through the wood, following to within musket shot of Braxton's Confederate batteryeteenth, at their junction, causing a temporary wavering of our line, and gaining a temporary advantage, purchased, however, with the loss of the brave and able Gen. Rodes. Now the first division of the Sixth was brought into the front line. The brigades of Edwards, Campbell, and Upton moved into the gap caused by the Confeder
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., Alphabetical Index. (search)
lle .........162 Prisoners, 77, 126, 138, 152, 153, 155, 177, 179, 183, 88. Rations .......... 42 Raids ........155, 159 Rappahannock River, 93, 99, 102,109, 110 Rappahannock Station..... 136 Rappahannock Ford.. 138 Rapidan ...... 42, 149 Refugees .........182 Reminiscences, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 74, 85, 89, 134, 138, 139. Reynolds, Gen. John F ... 93, 97 Reno, Gen. ......... 78 Return ........ 182, 185 Right Grand Division ... 89 Rockville .......... 72 Rodes, Gen.....165, 171, 175 Rosters .....13, 42, 47, 105, 128 Russell, Gen. D. A ... 138, 175 Salem ...........87 Salem Church ....... 109 Scouse ......... 68 Second Corps .... 124, 143, 153 Sedgwick, Gen. John . 39, 111, 112, 152 Seven Pines ........40 Sharpsburg .......78, 81 Shenandoah Valley ... 165, 176 Sheridan, Gen. P. H. 155, 168, 169, 170, 172, 189. Sickles, Gen. Daniel ..106, 107, 122 Signal Station ........ 170 Slave Pen .......... 31 Slocum, Gen. H.