Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . usand men, [one authority says thirty-five thousand] of whom, five companies were mounted. On the21st of July, the Federal army moved forward, and aboutsix oclock in the morning, the action became general andcontinued until about two oclock, P. m., when Johnstonsarmy reaching the field, a panic seized our troops and astampede took place all along the line. On the 21st of October, the country was again disheartenedby the disaster at Balls Bluff, a position opposi
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . usand men, [one authority says thirty-five thousand] of whom, five companies were mounted. On the21st of July, the Federal army moved forward, and aboutsix oclock in the morning, the action became general andcontinued until about two oclock, P. m., when Johnstonsarmy reaching the field, a panic seized our troops and astampede took place all along the line. On the 21st of October, the country was again disheartenedby the disaster at Balls Bluff, a position opposite HarrisonsIsland, on the upper Potomac and near Leesburg, this action a splendid regiment of Massachusetts men[Fifteenth] under command of Colonel Charles Devens, Jr.,suffered severely, and Colonel Baker, a senator of Oregon,commanding a California regiment, lost his life. The resultof the battle of Balls Bluff cast a gloom over the loyal Statesand was a terrible affliction to the people of Worcester county,whose sons fell dead or wounded upon that Potomac cliff, orfound a grave in the waters of the flowing CHAPTER I. TWENTY-FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS CAMP LINCOLN FIELD, STAFF AND LINE OFFICERS BAND WARRANT OFFICERS—MARCHING ALONG !
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