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Title: Ball's Bluff
An Episode and its Consequences to some of us
Author: Charles Lawrence Peirson
Release Date: February 18, 2010 [EBook #31319]
Language: English
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Surgeon Henry Bryant · Lieutenant Colonel Francis W. Palfrey · Quartermaster Charles W. Folsom · Major Paul J. Revere · Adjutant Charles L. Peirson · Colonel William Raymond Lee · Assistant Surgeon Nathan Hayward
FIELD AND STAFF OF TWENTIETH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 1861.
A Monograph.
BALL'S BLUFF
AN EPISODE AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES TO
SOME OF US.
A paper written for the
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts
By Charles Lawrence Peirson
Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General.
Privately printed by The Salem Press Company
with permission from the
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Charles Peirson Lyman, of Massachusetts
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THE EPISODE OF BALL'S BLUFF:
AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
TO SOME OF US.
This subject, like many of the periods of the Civil War, has been often described, and is familiar to the passing generation, but has, I believe, never before been placed upon your records, nor by an eye witness. Therefore, I venture to present it here.
The Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, in which I had the honor to be a First Lieutenant and Adjutant, left Boston in the Autumn of 1861, for active service with the army. It was commanded by William Raymond Lee, as Colonel,—a West Point graduate. Paul J. Revere was the Major. It had been, before the date of the Ball's Bluff engagement, but a few weeks in the service, and was stationed first at Washington, where I remember calling with Colonel Lee, who knew them, upon General Scott, then commanding the Armies of the United States, and upon General McClellan, then Commander of the Army of the Potomac.
The men of the Regiment, like all of the troops in the East at that time, were untrained by battle, never having heard the sound of a hostile bullet, and were of no more value as soldiers than were the Militia Regiments. Soldiers are not soldiers until they have been long enough together to have acquaintance with
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