. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . iments,battalions, and batteries into the Federal Second Infantry was organized and led to thefield by Colonel R. B. Mitchell, a veteran of theMexican War. At the first battle in the West,Wilsons Creek, Mo. (August 10, 1861), he waswounded. At the battle of Perryville, Brigadier-General Mitchell commanded a division in Mc-Cooks Corps and fought desperately to hold theFederal left flank against a sudden and des-perate assault by General Braggs Confederates. CROSS, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE New Hampshire supplied twenty-nine militar
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . iments,battalions, and batteries into the Federal Second Infantry was organized and led to thefield by Colonel R. B. Mitchell, a veteran of theMexican War. At the first battle in the West,Wilsons Creek, Mo. (August 10, 1861), he waswounded. At the battle of Perryville, Brigadier-General Mitchell commanded a division in Mc-Cooks Corps and fought desperately to hold theFederal left flank against a sudden and des-perate assault by General Braggs Confederates. CROSS, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE New Hampshire supplied twenty-nine militaryorganizations to the Federal armies. To thGranite State belongs the grim distinction of fur-nishing the regiment which had the heaviest mor-tality roll of any infantry organization in thearmy. This was the Fifth New Hampshire, com-manded by Colonel E. E. Cross. The Fifth servedin the Army of the Potomac. At Gettysburg, Col-onel Cross commanded a brigade, which includedthe Fifth New Hampshire, and was killed atthe head of it near Devils Den, on July 2, [102]
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