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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 23 (search)
ir, separate from the following battles. Col. Hall thinks there were about 10 killed and about 28 wounded. O. O. Howard, Brig. Gen., Commadg. Div. Report of Gen. O. O. Howard Commanding 2d Div. 2d Corps, dated Dec. 19th, 1862 to Corps. H. Q. I think the Seventh Michigan Regiment, also the Nineteenth and Twentieth Massachusetts, deserve honorable and public mention for gallantry in crossing the river and securing a foothold in the town of Fredericksburg on the evening of the 11th instant. The crossing of the river in the boats gave rise to one of the poems written during the war by George H. Boker of Philadelphia. They leaped into the rocking shallops— Ten offered where one could go; And the breeze was alive with laughter Till the boatmen began to row. And many a brave, stout fellow Who sprang in the boats with mirth Ere they made that fatal crossing Was only lifeless earth. Cheer after cheer we sent them As only Armies can,— Cheers for old Massachusetts.— Cheers for <
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 33: the advance to Culpepper and Bealton. (search)
econd Corps had been relieved by the Sixth Corps on October 5 and had returned to Culpepper, encamping near the town. Here it remained until the 11th, when the entire army was withdrawn to the North bank of the Rappahannock. At daylight on the 11th, the regiment recrossed the river, rejoined the Second Corps and halted at Rappahannock Station. During the day it lay quietly in bivouack, while other troops went hurrying North. It was here erroneously reported that Lee had begun his march upowhich many trees had been felled. Many groups of prisoners, on their way to the rear, were passed. Gen. Francis A. Walker in his History of the Second Corps, says: The Second Corps, which had marched from near Culpepper to Bealton on the 11th, and on the 12th had marched from Bealton to Brandy Station, again took the route for Bealton, at 11 o'clock that night. As the column approached Bealton there was heard what seemed to be a rapid and persistent tire of skirmishers, and the troo
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 38: the North Anna battles. (search)
as entered into for the purpose of burying the dead, killed in the charge of four days previous. Firing ceased and both Yanks and Rebs met, shook hands, exchanged papers, tobacco, coffee, sugar, etc. The evening and night were spent quietly and on the following day the regiment received 11 recruits. The truce was kept up until the morning of the 9th, when firing was resumed with spirit, the regiment losing six men wounded. On the 10th it lost two men by the enemy's sharpshooters. On the 11th the regiment kept up a galling and continuous fire on the enemy who were unable to return it. During the day about 100 recruits joined the regiment and were placed in the rear line under charge of Lieut. McGinnis. For the next few days he had a circus with his Army of all Nations, as they were dubbed, for not half of them could speak or understand the English language, and Lieut. McGinnis had to use a form of kindergarten system in teaching them the manual. He would go through the motio