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Common terms and phrases1st Lieut 1st Serg't 2d Lieut adjutant advance army artillery attack battalion battery Bayard Bottom's Bridge Brandy Station Brodrick Bugler camp Capt Captain captured carbines charge Charles Colonel column command Company Corp'l Court House cover crossing dashed dismounted division duty Edward enemy enemy's engaged Farrier field fight fire flank force Ford Fredericksburg front George Gregg ground guard guns halted Henry hill Hobensack horses hurried infantry Jacob James Jersey Cavalry John Joseph Karge Kester Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle M's Serg't Major Janeway Malvern Hill Michael miles morning moved negro neighborhood night officers party passed Pennsylvania Peter picket position Potomac prisoners Priv Private railroad Rappahannock rear rebel cavalry regiment rest retired retreat river road Robbins rode sabre Samuel Second Brigade sent Serg't Major Sergeant shot skirmish line Smith soldiers Spencer carbines squadron Station Thomas troopers troops wagons Warrenton whole William H wood wounded Popular passagesPage 177 - Time after time, as a rebel trooper would strike at a cannoneer, he would dodge beneath a horse or a gun-carriage, and coming up on the other side, discharge his revolver at his assailant, and spring once more to his work. At length, from mere exhaustion, Hart, Hobensack and Beekman, with their comrades were forced back a little way from the guns; and while they were forming the men afresh, the rebels rode again upon the cannoneers. As one of the gunners was ramming home a charge, a rebel officer... Page 176 - Kilpatrick's brigade, which had charged on our right and rear, had beaten the rebels opposed to it, the First Maine bearing off a battle-flag, but it was now formed on our flank, some distance from the field, to cover us from being entirely cut off. The enemy were indeed terribly demoralized, and the charge of a dozen of our men again and again routed a hundred of the rebels ; but now there were not a dozen horses that could charge — not a man who could shout above a whisper. Page 108 - Karge emptied the chambers of his revolver into their ranks, and then, throwing the weapon at their heads, dashed among them with his sabre, followed by the men around him. Page 172 - Hobensack led the left squadron of the first line down the steep bank of the cutting and up the other side— a steep descent and rise of nine feet each way, taken by the whole body without a waver or hesitation. While the right squadrons of the other battalions followed Broderick against Stuart's headquarters, the left wings, under Lucas and Malsbury, accompanied Hobensack and dashed at the hill on which stood the other battery. So rapid was the advance of both columns that the batteries of the... Page 11 - ... war of the rebellion, and was one of the last to leave it. According to the official report of the Adjutant-General, this gallant regiment was engaged in no less than ninety-seven actions, including many of the most noted battles of the war, and this flag was carried through ninety-two of them. The regiment was recruited three times to the full maximum, and as often melted away before the enemy's fire. The flag of a regiment that performed continuous service, and whose record is one of brilliant... Page 173 - Pleasonton hurled his division, in column of regiments, against the shaken enemy. By the same orderly who carried off Stuart's official papers, Wyndham ordered up a section of his battery and the regiment of Pennsylvanians. Leaving the artillery to the support of the First Maryland, the noble Pennsylvanians came to the attack. It was time that they did so ; for a fresh brigade of rebels was charging the hundred men of Broderick. Gallantly did the Lieutenant-Colonel meet the charge. As the enemy advanced,... Page 332 - ... the regiment crossed. Captain Hick, with Companies L and M, now formed the rear guard. Arriving at Painesville, the regiment was ordered to remain there one half hour and hold the road while the captured property was being taken off. The enemy now began to show himself in large numbers in our front and on both flanks. I was directed by Colonel Janeway to take Company H, and strengthen and assume command of the rear guard. The enemy pressed us vigorously, making several charges, which were, with... Page 333 - ... General Davies to support two other regiments in a charge; these regiments were repulsed in the charge and driven back to their support. Colonel Janeway immediately ordered a charge, in leading which our brave, gallant colonel was shot through the head and died almost instantly. This cast a gloom over the whole regiment. His superior we never knew; a brave, skillful officer; a courteous gentleman; a true, earnest patriot — qualities which have endeared him to every officer and man of the regiment.... Page 175 - ... making a complete circuit of the position, returned again toward Brandy Station. In the meantime, the left wing of the regiment had directed its efforts upon the other battery of the rebels. Keeping to the trot, their unbroken ranks moved steadily against the hill, on whose top stood the cannoniers and a few horsemen observing their approach. As they came nearer, all these men disappeared except one, who maintained his position ; and as they came within two hundred yards of the summit, this man... Page 276 - ... wood, crackling with shot and splintered by shell, Bayard's old troopers pushed onward at a run, chasing the enemy across the open ground beyond. In this there was a double ditch lined by fencing, with another of the same character facing it, about as distant as the width of an ordinary Northern road. As Captain Beekman, heading his men, sprang across the first fence at charging speed, they were met by a desperate volley from the second line of the rebels lying in the other cover. Instinctively... References from web pagesNew Jersey National Guard Bibliography James River Publications - New Jersey Regiments - mosocco.com/jreb ... Bibliographic information
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