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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 9 (search)
s., Commanding Thirteenth Army Corps. Official Copy. C. A. Nichols, Assistant Adjutant-General. General Washburn's report. headquarters detachment Thirteenth army corps, Vermillion bridge, November 7, 1863. Major William Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant-General: Major: I inclose herewith report of Brigadier-General Burbridge, in regard to the battle of Grand Coteau, on the third instant. Also of Lieutenant-Colonel Robinson, commanding Seconds Louisiana cavalry, and statements of Captain Simms, Sixty-seventh Indiana, and Lieutenant Gorman, Second Louisiana cavalry, who were wounded and taken prisoners, but who were supposed to be privates, and were delivered over, under a flag of truce, with other wounded. On the twenty-seventh instant, the First division of this corps, under Brigadier-General Lawler, moved from Opelousas back to New-Iberia, with a view of being where they could be moved rapidly to Brashear City, should circumstances require it. That left at Opelousas the Thi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 18 (search)
numbering together about five hundred men. They were lying down in a ditch on the lower side of a plantation road in the edge of woods at Georgia Landing, and immediately on the left of the battery. I ordered skirmishers at once in tire woods to secure prisoners. Carruth arrived about this time, and I sent him with one section and Perkins's cavalry in pursuit. They pursued about four miles, Carruth firing upon the retreating forces on both sides of the bayou. I have since learned that Simms's battery of six pieces, supported by Col. Clark's (tile Thirty-third) regiment of Louisiana volunteers, was in front on the left bank. I lost eighteen killed and seventy-four wounded. Lieut. Francis, of the Twelfth Connecticut, was taken prisoner before the fight. We have buried five of the enemy, and have seventeen wounded in our hospital, but I have proof that their loss was greater. I took one hundred and sixty-six of the enemy prisoners the day of battle, and forty-two of them sinc
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 115 (search)
leg amputated Patrick Mulholland, Co. E, Seventy-fifth New-York; Peter Richards, Co. A, Twelfth Connecticut, finger, slightly. On board the Diana I afterward met and conversed with a rebel lieutenant, who was made prisoner. He told us that their forces did not consist (independently of the Cotton) of more than one thousand one hundred, namely, Four, net's Yellow jacket battalion, of some three hundred men, of which he was a member, and eight hundred of the Twenty-eighth Louisiana; also, Simms's battery and the Pelican battery of Parrott guns, the same who fought us at Donaldsonville and Lapataville. Colonel Gray was commander of the post, a man of some social consideration, who once run for Senator against Benjamin. The rebel loss is not known; but two women who came to Brashear under flag of truce, say they knew of fifteen buried. Although the ostensible object of this expedition was carried out as clearly and prettily as any one could desire, and bravery was shown there eq
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 77 (search)
efficiency of the Virginia. If conduct such as his — and I do not know that I have used adequate language in describing it — entitles an officer to promotion, I see in the case of Lieutenant Jones one in all respects worthy of it. As flag-officer I am entitled to some one to perform the duties of flag-captain, and I should be proud to have Lieutenant Jones ordered to the Virginia as Lieutenant Commandant, if it be not the intention of the department to bestow upon him a higher rank. Lieutenant Simms fully sustained his wellearned reputation. He fired the first gun, and when the command devolved upon Lieutenant Jones, in consequence of my disability, he was ordered to perform the duties of executive officer. Lieutenant Jones has expressed to me his satisfaction in having had the services of so experienced, energetic and zealous an officer. Lieutenant Davidson fought his guns with great precision. The muzzle of one of them was soon shot away; he continued, however, to fire it,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battle of Hampton roads--Confederate official reports. (search)
efficiency of the Virginia. If conduct such as his — and I do not know that I have used adequate language in describing it — entitles an officer to promotion, I see in the case of Lieutenant Jones one in all respects worthy of it. As Flag-Officer I am entitled to some one to perform the duties of flag captain, and I should be proud to have Lieutenant Jones ordered to the Virginia as Lieutenant-Commandant, if it be not the intention of the Department to bestow upon him a higher rank. Lieutenant Simms fully sustained his well-earned reputation. He fired the first gun, and when the command devolved upon Lieutenant Jones, in consequence of my disability, he was ordered to perform the duties of Executive Officer. Lieutenant Jones has expressed to me his satisfaction in having had the services of so experienced, energetic and zealous an officer. Lieutenant Davidson fought his guns with great precision. The muzzle of one of them was soon shot away; he continued, however, to fire it,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 249 (search)
l by a shot from a foe concealed either behind a fence or in a house; some say the assailant fired from behind a wagon; others that Col. Kelly was pressing him hard with a view of capturing him, when he wheeled and fired. This is not substantiated. At any rate, the shot was fired after the engagement was over, and was just such a piece of assassination as that by which fell the loved and lamented Ellsworth. The assassin was an assistant quartermaster in the Confederate force. His name is Simms, and he hails from Chesterfield, across the river from Richmond. He was immediately seized, and it is a great wonder that they did not make mincemeat of him instanter. The pistol with which he shot Kelly is an old-fashioned, old Virginia horse-pistol, carrying a very large ball and inflicting a most dangerous wound. The ball entered the left breast, and passing clear through lodged beneath the skin, just underneath the shoulder blade. It has been extracted, and every attention of the hig
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
emiah 1st Sergt. 22, sin.; boatman; Cincinnati, O. 28 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Reported dead. Russell, Henry 21, sin.; laborer; Oxford, O. 28 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Scott, William 42, —— —— Rutland, Vt. 2 Dec 63; 30 May 65 St Andrews Parish, S. C; dis. —— Shrewsbury, John 21, mar.; boatman; Cincinnati, O. 28 Apl 63; 25 Feb 64 Portsmouth Grove, R. I.; dis. Wounded 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Simmons, John Corpl. 24, mar.; foundry man; Kalamazoo, Mich. 23 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Simms, Abram C. Corpl. 20, sin.; farmer; Oxford, O. 28 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Oxford, O. Slider, John 21, sin.; laborer; Mercersburg, Pa. 22 Apl 63; died 28 Jly 65 Charleston, S. C. Diarrhea. $50. Smith, Baltimore 41, sin.; carpenter; Cincinnati, O. 28 Apl 63; missing 18 Jly 63 Ft Wagner. $50. Smith, Grimms Z. 23, mar.; artist; Boston. 7 Sep. 63; deserted 11 Jly 65 Charleston, S. C. $50. Smith, Henry 22, sin.; farmer; Niles, Mich. 23 Apl 63; died 27 Dec 63 Morris Id. S. C. of dis
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: sword in hand. (search)
carry the engine house was repulsed with the loss of two men killed and six wounded. The attacking party was fifty strong. During the day three trains had been detained outside of the town; reinforcements were constantly arriving from the surrounding counties; the telegraph and railroad tracks were under repair; and the Cabinet at Washington, the Governor of Virginia, and the City of Baltimore, had ordered troops to hasten on to subdue the Liberators. The last militia force, under Captain Simms, from Maryland, arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon; and with the other companies already there, completely surrounded the Armory buildings. He arrived in time to prevent another cowardly murder; for the Virginia gentlemen, afraid to attack the engine house, and fresh from the murder of Thompson, were exhibiting the nature of their valor by yelling for the blood of the wounded Stevens. The united forces were placed under the command of Colonel Baylor. An offer made by Captain B
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: the defence. (search)
e were treated kindly, but were compelled to stay where we didn't want to be Samuel Snider, the next witness, corroborated the evidence of Mr. Dangerfield; asserting that the prisoner honestly endeavored to protect his hostages, and wished to make peace more for their sake than his personal safety. Mr. Hoyt's sudden indisposition caused the Court to adjourn for an hour. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the testimony was resumed, and the examination conducted by Mr. Griswold. Captain Simms, commander of the Frederick Volunteers, was the first witness. Brown complained, he said, that his men were shot down like dogs while bearing a flag of truce. I told him that they must expect to be shot down like dogs, if they took up arms in that way. What an appalling declaration for an American citizen to make — that men who interfere in behalf of the heavily oppressed, the despised poor, for whom Jesus suffered on the Cross of Calvary, but whom Virginia converts into mere arti
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
. Sixty-fourth Mounted Infantry regiment (formed from Twenty-first [Pound Gap] battalion): Gray, Harvey, major; Pridemore, Auburn L., lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Richmond, James B., major, lieutenant-colonel; Slemp, Campbell, colonel. Sixty-fourth Militia regiment: Dillard, John L., colonel. Sixty-seventh Militia regiment: Cunningham, John F., major; Robinson, Israel, lieutenant-colonel; Sencendiver, Jacob, colonel. Seventy-seventh Militia regiment: McDonald, Edward H., colonel; Simms, Gilmore F., lieutenant-colonel; Smith, Abraham, major; Vandiver, Joseph L., major. Eighty-second Militia regiment: Blankenbeker, E. Finks, major; Carpenter, Simeon, lieutenant-colonel; Troyman, James W., colonel Eighty-fourth Militia regiment: Dennis, Thomas C., colonel. Eighty-seventh Militia regiment: Gresham, Thomas Robert, colonel; Saunders, William A., major. Eighty-eighth Militia regiment: Antrim, C. W., major; Carver, D. C., lieutenant-colonel; McKennie, M., colonel. E
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