22nd Georgia Infantry: The Rest of the War

Lt. Nesbit no longer served in the 22nd Georgia after his wounds on the second day at Gettysburg.  But the regiment continued to see action.

1863

July 23:  Manassas Gap     The regiment suffered 50 casualties.

October:  Bristoe Campaign

November-December:  Mine Run Campaign

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1864

May 5-6:  Battle of Wilderness     Lt. JosephW. Alexander captured

May 8-21   Battle of Spotsylvania Court House    Lt. Harrison Broadwell of Company A killed.

May 23-26:  Battle of North Anna

June 1-3:  Battle of Cold Harbor

--Old Secesh

May Civil War Events: Resaca, New Market, Vicksburg and North Anna

MAY 13, 1864

**  Battle of Resaca, Georgia, begins.

MAY 15, 1864

**  Battle of New Market, Virginia

MAY 16, 1863

**  Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi

MAY 19, 1863

**  First assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi

MAY 23, 1864

**  Battle of North Anna, Virginia, begins

MAY 25, 1864

**  Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia, begins

MAY 31, 1864

**  Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, begins

--Old Secesh

American Battlefield Trust Saving Acres of the Cold Harbor Battlefield

From the May 2022 American Battlefield Trust calendar.

COLD HARBOR, VIRGINIA

280 acres saved

Initiated on May 31,1864, Union General Ulysses S. Grant's multi-day assault at Cold Harbor, Virginia, ended as a bloody failure, with more than 12,700 Northern casualties.

Of that number, 7,000 Federals fell on June 3, the battle's bloodiest day.

The Trust, along with partners that include the Commonwealth of Virginia and the HTR Foundation, has saved 280 acres at this historic battlefield and persevere to protect even more in the future!

Preserving Our Heritage.  --Old Secesh

Edward S. Bragg-- Part 7: Command of the Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade

After the fighting on May 6, at the Wilderness, Bragg was placed in command of the division's 3rd Brigade which was made up of all Pennsylvania regiments, sometimes called the Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade, by General Lysander Cutler, who had been Bragg's original commander of the 6th Wisconsin.  Lysander had become division commander with the death of General  James S. Wadsworth.

Bragg was replacing  the Bucktails' commander Colonel  Roy Stone who had reportedly been drunk during the battle on May 5 and 6.  On both days, his brigade had performed poorly, reportedly marching and firing in disorganized manner and scattering in the face of Confederate skirmishers.  They even had accidentally wounded members of their own unit.

Stone had been removed after his horse  fell on top of him on May 6.

Bragg led the brigade for  most of the remainder of the Overland Campaign.  His leadership stabilized the brigade and they performed admirably at Spotsylvania Court House,  North Ana, Totopotomoy Creek and Cold Harbor.  After Cold Harbor, Bragg turned command of the brigade over to Gettysburg hero Joshua  Chamberlain.

--Old Secesh

Civil War Events in May: Battle of Cold Harbor

MAY 23, 1864:  Battle of North Anna, Virginia

MAY 25, 1864:  Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia, begins.

MAY 31, 1864:  Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, begins.

--Old Secesh

More on Robert E. Miles

Still in John Banks' Blog.

He has a photo of the grave of Robert E, Miles in Piedmont Cemetery, in Shawsville, Virginia, which has a marker  "Robert E. Miles.  Capt.  CS Army Civil War, Dec. 8, 1839  Dec. 6, 1942.

Here's hoping nothing happens to it July 1, 2020, when Virginia's law protecting Confederate monuments end.

There was also a comment of interest:

She said that Robert E. Miles were her husband's cousins twice removed.  Robert also had two brothers who also served in the Confederacy.

Private James  Henry Miles, 1832-1864  (Killed in Action at Cold Harbor).
Private John Henry Miles, 1836-1905.

All three brothers served in the same regiment at the beginning of the war, the 57th Virginia Infantry Regiment.

--Old Secesh

The 14th Connecticut Infantry in the Civil War-- Part 2: In the Thick of It

1864

June 1-12:  Battle of Cold Harbor

June 15-18:  First assault on Petersburg

June 16:  The Siege of Petersburg begins

August 25:  Reams Station.  The regiment was under fire from three sides and for some time from both sides of their earthworks.

October 27-29:  Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

December 13:  Encamped near Fort Clark.  The regiment now was reduced to just 180 men fit for duty and was issued Sharps rifles.

March 28-April 9:  The Appomattox Campaign

April 2:  Assault on and fall of Petersburg.

April 6:  Sailor's Creek

April 9:  Surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox.

May 23:  Grand Review

May 30:  Mustered out.  Veterans and recruits transferred to 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery.

June 1:  Began journey home

June 3:  Regiment reaches Hartford, Ct.

One Hard-Fighting Regiment.  --Old Secesh

John G.B. Adams-- Part 2: Wounded at Gettysburg, Captured at Cold Harbor, Nine Months a Prisoner

The Medal of Honor that Adams won was one of 18 awarded Union soldiers at the Battle of Fredericksburg.  And seven soldiers in the 19th Massachusetts  received them as well.

John Adams was later commanded to captain and commanded Company I of the 19th at Chancellorsville and was severely wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2.  Returning in time o be at the battle of the Wilderness and then Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor, where the entire regiment was captured June 22, 1864.

Over the next nine months, he was held at Libby Prison and later Macon, Georgia, and Charleston, S.C., where he was placed on Morris Island to stop the naval bombardment.

The last place he was held at was Columbia, S.C., where he managed to escape, but was recaptured.  He was a prisoner for nine months.

Adams is buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn, Massachusetts.

--Old Secesh

Cornelius G. Attwood's Funeral-- Part 3: Fought In Many Battles

With rthis regiment in many of the telling engagements of the war, Roanoke Island, Newbern, Goldsboro, Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor among the rest.  In the last battle he was wounded during the famous charge of the 3rd of June, but the final engagement he took part in which he took part was that in the crater before Petersburg.

He was mustered out because of disability in August, 1864, and afterwards was breveted colonel of volunteers.

--Old Secesh

General Cornelius Attwood-- Part 4: The 25th Massachusetts

Attwood's 25th Massachusetts was in more than 25 battles and skirmishes.  Besides Roanoke Island, some of them were New Bern, N.C., Goldsboro, N.C., Drewry's Bluff, and Cold Harbor where Major Attwood was wounded and Petersburg.

Out if the 300 men mustering in for the assault at Cold Harbor, the regiment had 24 killed, including 6 officers and 142 wounded and 49 missing.

--Old Secesh

Firestorm At Peshtigo, Luther Noyes-- Part 4: Battle of Cold Harbor

After he recovered, Noyes volunteered again, this time joining Company D, of the 36th Wisconsin Infantry where he served as a first lieutenant during some very hard campaigning.

Probably the worst of it was at the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.  The night before the battle it rained very hard.  Noyes' men removed their blue coats and wrote their names and where they lived on scraps of paper and pinned them to the backs of the coats.  In case they were killed and face down, they wanted to be identified.

Noyes and his men managed to survive, though he was wounded severely in his left leg.

--Old Secesh

"Fighting Guy" Henry-- Part 2: His Medal of Honor

Continued from Tuesday, September 12, 2017.

He was in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and later in Puerto Rico, alongside of General Nelson Miles and is buried at Arlington Narlational Cemetery.

Guy Henry's Medal of Honor came while commanding the 40th Massachusetts at Cold Harbor on June 1, 1864 where he led assaults of his brigade upon the enemy's works.  he had two horses shot out from under him.

He had a son named Guy Vernor Henry, Jr. (1875-1967).  he became the third member of the family to graduate from West Point in the Class of 1898.  He earned a Silver Star in the Spanish-American War, was in the Puerto Rico Campaign, Philippines and in both world wars.  He spent a lot of time in the cavalry and even won a bronze medal in the Olympics.

--Old Secesh

Pennsylvania Tragic Prisoner Train Wreck-- Part 1

From the July 15, 2011, Pocono (Pa) Record "Prisoner train wreck during the Civil War near Shohola recalled as tragedy for both sides" by John Punola.

The Elmira, NY induction center had been converted into a prison for Confederates.

Confederate prisoners captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, mostly recruits, were sent by train to Jersey City, NJ and transferred to the Erie RR destined for Port Jervis, NY, and a final destination of Elmira.

They arrived at Port Jervis July 15, 1864 on locomotive No. 171, following the West 23 Train as an extra.  The train consisted of a mixture of passenger and freight cars, a locomotive, caboose, a Union guard detail and the prisoners.

They were running along a single track at 20 mph and had warning flags for other trains to give the right of way.  There were sharp curves along the Delaware River.  At Lackawaxen, a station where a branch railroad connected, the telegraph operator, Douglas Kent, noted that West 23 had flags showing that there was a train behind it.

At 2:30 PM, coal train Erie 237 arrived at the junction pulling 50 cars of coal.  Kent mistakenly gave the all clear sign, turned the switch and the coal train headed east.  The prisoner train and 237 collided at King & Fuller's Cut, a blind curve.

A Calamity.  --Old Secesh