C FROM BULL RUN TO CHANCELLORSVILLE The Story of the Sixteenth New York By NEWTON MARTIN CURTIS, LL.D. BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL U. S. VOLS. "Our Federal Union; it must be preserved BOSTON-LIBI G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS TO THE Noble Women WHO GAVE THEIR HUSBANDS AND SONS TO THE ARMY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED. M PREFACE Y intention had been to tell the story of my first regiment, the Sixteenth New York Infantry Volunteers, in the Civil War; but the collection of material for that purpose brought out so much, that I determined to include the other military organizations from Northern New York which, for any portion of the two years' term of the Sixteenth, formed part of the Army of the Potomac. Hence mention is made of the Eighteenth, the Thirty-fourth, the Sixtieth, the Ninety-second, the Ninety-sixth and Ninetyeighth Infantry regiments, of Captain Riley Johnson's Company K, Sixth New York Cavalry, and of Captain Thomas W. Osborn's Battery D, First New York Light Artillery; together with some account of the battles of Bull Run, West Point, Fair Oaks, Gaines' Mill, Savage's Station, Glendale, Crampton's Pass, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Salem Heights, in which one or more of these commands participated. The narrative is based on my personal experience, on the official reports, and on the statements and writings of officers and prominent participators on both sides of the struggle. In tracing the operations of corps, and the movements of minor organizations, in reviewing battles, and in characterizing commanders, I have endeavored to give due credit for successes, and to place the responsibility for defeats where it belongs. Above all, my purpose has been to commemorate the devotion, the valor, and the endurance of the men of both armies. The unanimity with which the Confederacy was supported shows that its uprising was not the outgrowth of the personal ambition of any man, " |