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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
nch Church; but no hostile force was met. Nov. 17.—The third expedition into the rebel neighborhood began; a slight skirmish took place, but the artillery soon drove the enemy. Dec. 5.—A new company-ground was occupied on the front; it received the name of Camp Misery, but it was soon so improved that it became healthy and pleasant. On the 11th, a large force, including the Sixth, was sent to a ford of the Blackwater, to rout a rebel force. The regiment lost a gallant officer,—Lieutenant Barr, of Company I, Lawrence, who was shot through the heart. At midnight, Jan. 29, the regiment fell in, under General Corcoran, a part of a force of four thousand three hundred men, and marched towards Blackwater; the Sixth supporting our Seventh battery, who were under fire for the first time. The position of the regiment was on the edge of a swamp, and was very exposed. The engagement lasted two hours under close range,—eight hundred yards. The day following, another engagement occ