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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 4: the balls Bluff disaster. (search)
nd in an hour. The first boat was launched and manned by men of Capt. Rice's company, Co. F., and they continued throughout the day and the night to work the boats between the Maryland shore and the island, which was about an eighth of a mile in width. Ropes, taken from canal boats, were finally stretched across the stream, and by this means the boats could be pulled across, hand over hand, and thus make more frequent trips. The First California regiment, Col. Baker, then acting Brigadier General, the New York (Tammany) Col. Coggswell, the Twentieth Massachusetts, Col. Lee, a section of Vaughn's battery and two mountain howitzers were poled across to the island. After some difficulty a fourth scow was hauled out of the canal and into the river, by Col. Baker's command, but in trying to get the artillery across on it, the current carried it too far down the stream, and for a long time that scow was useless but was eventually brought back to the landing. Finally the largest s