Showing posts with label 100th NY INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100th NY INF. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Journal of Major Wilder Dwight: Noon, Sunday, June 1, 1862

We have been listening two hours to the sound of cannon in the direction of Strasburg or Front Royal. A report comes in, that Milroy camped at Wardensville Friday night. Another now comes, that Shields and Milroy are between Middletown and Newtown, and Gustavus Smith is in their rear. Quien sabe? What a week of rumor it has been! First Ewell was at Bunker's Hill to cut off Banks; then our troops had crossed the river; Wheat was in Hagerstown; the bridge at Harper's Ferry was burned; then Cooper and Dix were in Charlestown with large force; then Shields was at Front Royal; then Richmond was taken ; then we were repulsed; then Banks was within four miles of town; then Fremont was in their rear, &c., &c., &c. We speculate, discuss, study the map, &c. This morning a scout has been sent out towards Martinsburg, to General Banks, to say that nothing but a thin veil of Stewart's cavalry covers this town. We wait the “careful” advance of some Federal flag from somewhither.

SOURCE: Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, Editor, Life and Letters of Wilder Dwight: Lieut.-Col. Second Mass. Inf. Vols., p. 265

Monday, March 17, 2008

From Charleston

Captain Paine of the 100th New York, with nine of his men were captured by the rebels on the night of the 4th, while on a scout near Light House Creek.

Sunday week there was a terific engagement between the gunboat Ottawa, a monitor, The Ironsides, and our works on Morris Island and the rebel forts. The rebel guns were finally silenced. The boat belonging to the Ironsides, on picket duty last Wednesday night was run down by a rebel steamer and part of the crew drowned.

- Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, August 15, 1863