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Medal of Honor Ceremony for Alonzo H. Cushing6 11 2014
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Pvt. Theodore Reichardt, (Reynolds) Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, On the Battle6 01 2014
Thursday, July 15. – Great excitement in camp; order was received to get ready for a forward movement; ammunition packed; haversacks and canteens were issued.
Tuesday, July 16. – The morning of that day found us marching across the Long ridge, directly through Fort Runyon, on the Virginia side; did not march over seven miles; after which we formed in line of battle and prepared to camp for the night, this being the first night in the open air. All quiet during the night.
Wednesday, July 17. – Resumed our march soon after break of day, and entered Fairfax Court House, contrary to our expectations, towards one o'clock, at mid-day, the rebels having evacuated the town shortly before our entrance. Their rear guard could be plainly seen some distance off. Our battery formed in park near the court house. Some of the boys were lucky in finding a good dinner served on a table in one of the houses, besides some articles of value, undoubtedly belonging to some confederate officers. Some picket firing during the night.
Thursday, July 18. – Advance at daylight. A part of the Union army, Gen. Tyler's troops, engaged. This conflict the rebels call battle of Bull Run. While the contest was raging, our division halted two miles to the left of Fairfax Court House, at a place called Germantown. We could plainly hear the distant booming of artillery, and were impatiently waiting for the order, "forward." Towards four o'clock P. M., we advanced again; preparations were made to get in action; sponge buckets filled with water, and equipments distributed among the cannoniers. But when we approached Centreville, intelligence came that our troops got worsted and the contest was given up. Our division went to camp within a mile and a half of Centreville. Strong picket lines were drawn up.
Friday, July 19. – Camp near Centreville. The troops remained quiet all day. Fresh beef as rations.
Saturday, July 20. – Quiet during the day. About six o'clock in the evening the army got ready to advance; but after council of war was held by the chief commanders, they concluded to wait till the next day.
Sunday, July 21. – Battle of Manassas Plains. This battle will always occupy a prominent place in the memory of every man of the battery. They all expected to find a disorganized mob, that would disperse at our mere appearance; while, to the general surprise, they not only were better disciplined, but also better officered than our troops. We started by tow o'clock in the morning, but proceeded very slowly. Passed Centreville before break-of-day. When the sun rose in all its glory, illuminating the splendid scenery of the Blue Ridge mountains, though no sun of Austerlitz to us, we crossed the bridge over Cub Run. By this time, the report of the 30-pounder Parrott gun belonging to Schenck's command, who had met the enemy, was heard. Our division turned off to the right, and marched some miles through dense woodland, to the Warrenton road. Towards ten o'clock, nothing could be seen of the enemy yet, and the belief found circulation that the enemy had fallen back. Experience proved that, had we remained at Centreville, the rebel army would undoubtedly have attacked us; but hearing of our advance they only had to lay in ambush, ready to receive us. At the aforesaid time, the Second Rhode Island infantry deployed as skirmishers. We advanced steadily, till arriving at the Bull Run and Sudley's Church, a halt was ordered to test the man and the horses. But is should not be; the brave Second R. I. Regiment, coming up to the enemy, who was concealed in the woods, their situation was getting critical. The report of cannon and musketry followed in rapid succession. Our battery, after passing Sudley's Church, commenced to trot in great haste to the place of combat. At this moment Gen. McDowell rode up in great excitement, shouting the Capt. Reynolds: "Forward with your light battery." This was entirely needless, as we were going at high speed, for all were anxious to come to the rescue of our Second regiment. In quick time we arrived in the open space where the conflict was raging already in its greatest fury. The guns were unlimbered, with or without command; no matter, it was done, and never did better music sound to the ears of the Second Regiment, than the quick reports of our guns, driving back the advancing foe. For nearly forty minutes our battery and the Second Regiment, defended that ground before any other troops were brought into action. Then the First Rhode Island, Seventy-first New York, and Second New Hampshire, with tow Dahlgren Howitzers, appeared, forming on the right and left. The enemy was driven successfully in our immediate front. Our battery opened on one of the enemy's light batteries to our right, which left after a short but spirited engagement, in a rather demoralized state. Griffith's, Ayre's and Rickett's batteries coming up, prospects really looked promising, and victory seemed certain. The rebel line gradually giving way. Gen. McDowell, seeing the explosion of perhaps a magazine or a caisson, raised his cap, shouting, "Soldiers, this is the great explosion of Manassas," and seemed to be highly pleased with the work done by our battery. Owing to different orders, the battery, towards afternoon, was split into sections. Capt. Reynolds, with Lieuts. Tompkins and Weeden, off to the right, while the two pieces of the left section, to the left; Lieuts. Vaughan and Munroe remaining with the last mentioned. Firing was kept up incessantly, until the arrival of confederate reinforcements, coming down from Manassas Junction, unfurling the stars and stripes, whereby our officers were deceived to such a degree as to give the order, "Cease firing." This cessation of our artillery fire proved, no doubt, disastrous. It was the turning point of the battle. Our lines began to waver after receiving the volleys of the disguised columns. The setting sun found the fragments of our army not only in full retreat but in complete rout, leaving most of the artillery in the hands of the enemy. Our battery happened to be the only six gun volunteer battery, carrying all the guns off the battle-field, two pieces in a disabled condition. A battery-wagon and forge were lost on the field. Retreating the same road we advanced on in the morning. All of a sudden the cry arose, "The Black Horse Cavalry is coming." The alarm proved to be false; yet it had the effect upon many soldiers to throw away their arms. But the fears of many soldiers that the enemy would try to cut off our retreat, were partly realized. Our column having reached Cub Run bridge, was at once furiously attacked on our right by artillery and cavalry. Unfortunately, the bridge being blocked up, the confusion increased. All discipline was gone. Here our battery was lost, all but one gun, that of the second detachment, which was carried through the creek. It is kept at the armory of the Marine Artillery, in Providence. At the present time, guns, under such circumstances, would not be left to the enemy without the most strenuous efforts being made to save them. We assembled at the very same camp we left in the morning. Credit is due to Capt. Reynolds, for doing everything possible for the comfort of his men. At midnight the defeated army took up its retreat towards Washington. Our battery consisting of one gun, and the six-horse team, drove by Samuel Warden.
Monday, July 22. – Arrived at, and effected our passage across the Long Bridge, by ten o'clock, and found ourselves once more at Camp Clark, where we had a day of rest after our debut on the battle-field yesterday, under the scorching sun of Virginia.
Wednesday, July 24. – Lieut. Albert Munroe addressed the battery in regard to the battle, and attributed our defeat to the want of discipline. The men felt very indignant at his remarks. "We had to come down the regulations, the same as in the regular army, and should consider ourselves almost as State prison convicts." We have since seen that he meant no insult towards the battery; but have found out to our satisfaction that he spoke the truth, for we have seen the time that put us almost on the same level with convicts.
Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery (Kindle Version, location 66 to 123)
Theodore Reichardt at Ancestry.com
While the above was published as a diary, it is apparent from the text that it was at least edited in retrospect.
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Hains Related Questions Answered?24 06 2013
As I've no doubt mentioned before, I've been s-l-o-w-l-y annotating a 1911 Cosmopolitan article written by Peter Conover Hains, The First Gun at Bull Run. Fresh out of West Point, at First Bull Run Lieutenant Hains was in command of a 30-pdr Parrott rifle, detached from Company G of the 1st U. S. Artillery. The gun, generally referred to as Long Tom, was chosen to fire the opening shot of the battle of July 21st, and did so right around 6 A. M. (accounts of the precise time vary.) While just about every study of the battle written after 1911 relies to varying degrees on Hains's memoir, there's a lot wrong with it; some things just don't jive with the facts. So I've decided to not take anything Hains writes in this piece at face value. Including this:
I was assigned to train a gun-crew over at what is now known as Fort Meyer, Virginia, just across the river from Washington. It was a great gun – a thirty-pounder Parrott rifle, drawn by ten horses as green as could be, horses from the farm that had not been trained even to pull together. There were five riders or drivers, one man to each pair, and six men rode the caisson and limber as cannoneers. Two wagons followed, carrying the ammunition. Some two hundred men were attached to the gun to escort it, to help it along, and to render whatever aid I needed. In all two hundred and fifty men filed out with the gun in July when I received orders to report to General Tyler at Alexandria, Virginia.
Two hundred men attached as escort? Why so darn many? Well, it's not as odd as it may sound, all things considered:
We sallied forth. The roads promised much, and at first the gun behaved very well indeed. But we soon came to a hill. The ten horses threw themselves into their collars. The gun started up a bit, then the pace slowed, paused, and – then the giant gun began slowly to drift backward down the grade. We quickly blocked the wheels , and there were no brakes. I rode up and down the line, cheering on the men. The drivers yelled, and lashed their horses; the ten animals strained and tugged – but the gun remained motionless.
"Get out the prolonges ," I ordered, and these lines, of about three-inch rope and knotted together to about a hundred feet in length, were quickly hooked to the axle of the gun. Two hundred men instantly trailed onto them. With wild yells and cheers they started that gun forward, the ten horses and two hundred men soon dragging it upward to the crest. It was great. And most of us were very young indeed.
That makes sense. But, who were these 200 men (though I can't figure out how you get 200 men to pull on a 100 foot rope)? It's likely they were infantry. So, from what regiments were they detached? I've been keeping an eye out in letters for some mention of the detachment here and there of small groups, or even one or two large ones. But I did stumble across one reference, in Alan Gaff's history of the 2nd Wisconsin at First Bull Run, If This is War pp. 186-187:
Captain Ayres' battery unlimbered well in front of Captain Stevens' Company A behind a screen of bushes and trees, while the thirty-pound Parrott rifled cannon, manned by a detachment under Lieutenant Peter C. Hains, was positioned right in the road. The Parrott gun had proved to be almost impossible to manage, requiring large detachments of horses and men to manhandle it over the hills and valleys. While the Wisconsin regiment occupied the position in support of the artillery, Lieutenant Tom Bishop and thirty men from Company I were detailed to assist Hains and did not serve with the main body during the remainder of the day.
Gaff cites the Daily Wisconsin 8/21/1861; Milwaukee Sentinel 7/30/1861; Wisconsin State Journal 7/30/1861; Mineral Point Tribune, 8/6/1861; a letter in a manuscript collection; and Tyler's report (which doesn't mention the detachment) for the above. I'll try to find the two newspaper letters, maybe in the Quiner Collection. But it would appear that detachments of infantry were assigned to assist Hains at various points. But in the case of the 2nd WI, it was as support.
Also in If This is War I found a reference to another nickname for the 30-pdr Parrott, The Baby-Waker. I first heard the term during a tour years ago, but haven't run across any other use except for this in Gaff, p. 187:
"At precisely 6 o'clock" Lieutenant Hains ordered his gunners to fire the monster Parrott rifle, dubbed "President Lincoln's Baby-waker" by the Badgers.
The sources for the above paragraph are the Wisconsin State Journal of July 30, 1861 and the Milwaukee Sentinel of the same date, and a letter in a manuscript collection. More work to do!
UPDATE: Reader Jonathan Soffe, who hosts a great site on First Bull Run, contributes the following:
Two companies of the 11th Massachusetts Infantry, under the command of Captain J H Davis, Company B, were assigned to escort Hains on the march to Centreville on 16 July, 1861.
[This is from] A Narrative of the Formation and Services of the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers, from 15 April, 1861, to 14 July, 1865, by Gustavus B Hutchinson [p. 22]
"When the regiment arrived at the road leading to Fairfax, Companies A and G were left, under the command of Capt. Davis, to escort a detachment having in charge a thirty-pound Parrott gun, which, on account of the bad road, they were unable to bring up until the next morning."
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"Sergeant", 2nd Rhode Island Battery, On the Battle14 09 2011
Letter from the Second Battery
Camp Clark, Washington
July 27, 1861
Messrs. Editors: – With your permission I will endeavor to give some account of the part taken by our battery in the battle of Bull Run.
Saturday, July 20, we were encamped near Centreville, with the regiments of the brigade. In the evening we received orders to march at half past one o'clock the next morning. We were ready at that time and proceeded to the encampment of the Second Regiment, where we halted until Col. Slocum's voice was heard forming the regiment into line, and in a few moments we were on the march for the battle field. The road was very rough indeed, and quite hilly – so much so that we had to chain the wheels on the gun carriages as we descended. When we came to the bridge over Bull Run Creek, the order was given for one carriage to pass at a time, as it was very weak. Soon after daylight we left this rough and dusty road, and turned to the right in through the woods, and came out upon a large field or plain. Here the cavalry advanced and the picket guard extended some half a mile to the right and left of us. While we were crossing this plain, or soon after entering upon it, we heard the report of a large gun, and the explosion of a shell, as many thought a signal. The cavalry galloped alongside the wood, on the opposite side of the plain and pointed out the path for us to pursue.
After marching some four or five miles we seemed to bear to the left towards Manassas Junction, and soon entered the woods again and marched in a Southerly direction some two or three miles. I heard no one caution us that we were near the battle field; but was somewhat startled by two reports of cannon and then by volleys of musket bullets flying all around us. I looked ahead for orders, thinking that it was time we should receive them. I saw our General and the Engineer Corps as I supposed coming as fast as their horses would carry them, and soon one of them said "Forward, Battery." I heard Capt. Reynolds ask "In what position," and again came the order "Forward, Battery." I cautioned my men to keep cool, and whip their horses into a run, for it looked like warm work. In going some ten or twelve rods, we came out into the main road; our men dismounted, and tore down the fence and turned to the left into an open field amid the shower of bullet and cannon balls. Then came Capt. Reynolds' order, "Forward into line of action, front." We got into action very quick, some twenty yards from the edge of the woods on an elevation, and within thirty yards of several regiments of the rebels, (who were firing upon us as fast as possible) and a battery about one and half miles directly in front of us on a high elevation of land.
My lead horses on the guns were somewhat frightened when we came on to the field, and I took the reins of my lead horse to get him at his post. About the same time a cannon ball went through my blanket that lay across the shoulders of my own horse, and entered the breast of my leader, killing him instantly, and about the same time, the driver, Joshua Brown, was shot, one ball entering his thigh and another the calf of his leg. He was left on the field, but not dead. Before I could get my horses in position three of them were killed, my own horse shot in the hind leg by the explosion of a shell, but as for myself I did not get a scratch. I dismounted my own horse and ran to the fun. Within twenty yards of us were the rebels, advancing. I thought for a moment our Battery was lost; but the 2d Rhode Island Regiment made a fearful charge and gave a most hideous scream, and never will I forget how that rebel flag looked as it bobbed out of sight under the hill.
We opened fire first upon the rebel infantry and then upon their battery. The latter was silenced in something less than an hour. Again a reinforcement of the enemy's infantry advanced, and the day looked dark. But a regiment from Maine was ordered to protect our battery, and came up to the rear of our caissons in the utmost confusion. I ran up and asked for the Colonel. No one knew where he was. I asked for the Captains of companies but there were none in front. I said your officers are cowards. Why don't you come support our battery? Some of them said they would if they had any one to lead them. I then said, "Follow me," and they did so. As we came near our guns on the right, the Colonel came running up and said, "Halt, Maine regiment; I have command here." I said "Why don't you take it then." He gave the order to march to the right flank. Then came Gen. Burnside and ordered to march to the left flank and support the Rhode Island men.
Gov. Sprague was foremost in the fight, and inspired the men with coolness and courage. When asked about the character of several regiments that were coming up on the left, he said, "Give them a shot and make them show their colors." The shot and shell were falling around him thick and fast, and his horse was shot under him as he was leading his men into the battle.
The loss of our brave Colonel Slocum, Major Ballou, Captain Tower and Lieutenant Prescott, enraged the soldiers so much that we gained our position and held it. After we ceased firing, Col. Hunter came up with the blood running down his neck, and said, "Well done, Rhode Island, you shall be remembered forever." We thought we had won the battle, but the enemy were reinforced, and we were ordered to assist Ricket's Battery, some twenty rods to the right. Here we were so much exposed that we were ordered to a concealed position some sixty rods nearer. We soon silenced the masked battery to which we were opposed.
It was soon discovered that our army was falling back. I asked a regiment of Regulars that lay flat on the ground in the rear of our Battery to relieve my men, who were perfectly exhausted. I begged and entreated them, but it was of no use. We fixed the last shot of shell, when the Colonel of the Regulars marched them from the field. We did not leave this position with the Battery until our support was gone. We fell in the rear of the retreat. Regiment after regiment and other batteries passed us. The field and the road were strewn with provisions, muskets, blankets, pistols, swords, axes, shovels, wagons overthrown, and everything you can imagine, while the wounded were begging in vain for a chance to ride. The enemy here brought their artillery to bear upon our rear. On arriving at the bridge they commenced to shell us. One horse was killed near me, and several men, and I told my command to get away as best they could. There were about forty killed at the bridge. The rebel cavalry charged on Sergeant Hammond, as he was bearing a wounded man, but he escaped them with the loss of his cap. We arrived at our camp of the night before about 8 o'clock and, after resting awhile, took up our march to Washington. The streets were crowded with citizens, although it rained hard as we marched through, and many eyes were dimmed with tears for the loss of the Rhode Islanders.
Yours, truly,
Providence Evening Press 7/31/1861
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Unknown, 2nd Rhode Island Battery, On the Battle (1)14 09 2011
The Second Battery
The following extract from a letter of a member of the second battery tells very clearly the part that battery played in the battle. Having described their march to the forest beyond Centreville, the writer says:
"The axmen of the 2nd New Hampshire regiment, some 25 strong, led the way; then followed the 2nd Rhode Island regiment, the light battery being immediately in the rear of the regiment, and the 1st regiment in our rear. We marched slowly but steadily, gradually working around to the left and rear of their batteries at Sutter's Mills, till 11 o'clock, when upon the head of the column appearing through a grove, they were greeted with the compliments of a 10 gun battery on a hill to their left. 'Forward' was the word now, and forward we went, the horses on the jump, and came into 'battery' in a field on the left of our line of march, under a heavy fire from their battery and from a body of infantry concealed in a wood just to the left of our position. It was rather nervous business for one who had never seen anything but 'muster day' encounters to find the balls flying round his head, perfectly regardless of whom they might hit, and to see one of our horses shot dead before the gun he was harnessed to could be turned round and brought into position. The 2d regiment deployed and drove the enemy's riflemen from the wood, so that we could confined our attention to the battery in front, which we silenced after firing some 250 shell into it. Gen. McDowell came up just as they stopped firing, and said 'Well done, Rhode Island boys!'. We were next sent to an open field on the right to engage another battery, and after firing a short time, the left section, under Lieut. Monroe, was sent to the extreme right to support Griffin's and Rickett's batteries, while the right and centre sections were ordered to the front to support the battery of Captain R. Arnold.
When the left section reached its position, they were within 40 yards of the enemy's lines, and their men and horses completely exhausted. Capt. Reynolds seeing the enemy were about to charge, and the artillery being without support, ordered a retreat, and brought off both guns and one caisson. The other caisson was taken, the horses being killed. Our boys were particularly fortunate in saving their guns, for Griffin's and Rickett's batteries were both taken at this time, and our guns were placed between theirs.
The other sections were busily engaged all this time with a battery of much heavier calibre, until their ammunition was nearly expended, when they were ordered to fall to the rear. One of our gun carriages was shattered, and we were obliged to have the piece slung under the limber to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy. We then formed our battery in regular column of sections, and moved off in the rear of the regiment. At this time our troops had been driven back at every point, and the order was given to retreat. Our column moved back over the road they had travelled so proudly in the morning, in great confusion. Lieut. Col. Wheaton rallied the 2d, and Col. Burnside the 1st, and marched them off in good style.
When we reached the bridge across the Bull Run, the enemy opened on us a terrible fire of shot, shell and musketry, which caused a perfect stampede among the troops. The teamers on the government baggage wagons upset their wagons across the bridge and entrance to the ford, and we were obliged to abandon our guns. We only saved one piece, which was carried over just before the fire commenced. I was at the rear of the column when they opened their battery. The second shot they fired took off the head of a soldier who had his hand on the bridle of my horse. From the bridge we moved on the 'double quick' to Centreville, where we met the reserve column under Gen. Runyon, who protected the retreat of the flying troops. At Centreville I took —— on my horse and rode 'double' to our old camping ground, where we rested for a couple of hours and then turned towards Washington. We found our baggage wagons, three in number, at Utterbachs, and throwing out all the baggage, put our men in them, and so brought them through in quite good shape. I was glad enough to get some sleep when I reached camp. Twenty-six hours in the saddle and four on the battlefield is rather harder work than I have been accustomed to.
Lieut. Weeden had his horse shot under him. The ball struck about six inches from his leg. I was hit four or five times by spent balls. One dented my field glass so that the lower slide won't work.
All our men worked like heroes, and one of their officers, who was carried to our hospital to have his wounds dressed, said 'that Rhode Island battery cut up our men terribly.'
We are ready for another dash at them, and to morrow we start for Harper's Ferry to take the place of the first battery."
Providence Journal 7/31/1861
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Capt. James B. Ricketts's Capture by the 7th GA13 09 2009
Capt. Maddoe letter*
The 7th Ga. Inf. was the regiment that took the first battery of the enemy on position in the field – capturing the battery of Capt., since Mag. Gen'l., Rickett, U.S.A. It was stationed near the Henry house. Gen'l. Bartow was leading the regiment at that time, and was shot through the heart while he had the colors of the 7th Ga. in his hand.
We (illegible word) found Capt. Rickett in the rear, shot through the leg & very much frightened, thinking that we would kill him, as he had reportedly told his men we serve them, if we captured any of them.
He immediately denounced his own cause & justified ours by saying he was an honest man, because he belonged to the Regular army and was honor-bound to obey orders, no matter what the cause.
"Have you had any water, sir?"
"Yes thank you, I am an honest man."
Others came up
"Gentlemen, I am an honest man."
An old comrade came up, dressed in Confederate uniform.
"Why Cap't. Rickett! How do you do, sir?"
"You know I am an honest man."
The Capt. Was nearly frightened to death & in momentary expectation of being bayoneted.
From South Carolina Department of Archives & History, Columbia SC.
Misc. Records
1864-1903 Box 9
[Contributed by Dr. Thomas Clemens, Keedysville, Md]
[*The writer may be Captain Charles K. Maddox of the 7th Georgia]
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JCCW – Gen. James B. Ricketts12 09 2009
Testimony of Gen. James B. Ricketts
Report on the Conduct of the War, Vol. 2, pp. 242-246
WASHINGTON, April 3, 1862.
General JAMES B. RICKETTS sworn and examined.
By the chairman:
Question. What rank and position do you hold in the army?
Answer. I am at present a brigadier general of volunteers.
Question. What was your rank on the 21st of July last, the day of the battle of Bull Run?
Answer. I was a captain of the first regiment of artillery.
Question. In whose brigade?
Answer. General Franklin's brigade.
Question. Will you please give us an account, in your own way, of what you saw of the battle?
Answer. I saw very little except what concerned myself. You must know that any one who has charge of six pieces of artillery has as much as he can attend to to manage them and obey orders. I went on the field at Sudley's Spring, in General Heintzelman's division, General Franklin's brigade. After crossing the stream, where I watered my horses, my first order was to take to the right into an open field, to effect which I had to take down the fences. I then came into action about a thousand yards from the enemy, I should judge. There was a battery of smooth-bores opposed against me, doing some damage to us; it killed some horses and wounded some few of my men; I myself saw one man struck on the arm. My battery consisted of six rifled Parrott guns, consequently I was more than a match at that distance for the smooth-bore battery. It is difficult to judge of the passage of time under such circumstances, as we never look at our watches then. But after firing, I should judge, twenty minutes or a half an hour, I had orders to advance a certain distance. I moved forward, and was about to come into battery again, when I was ordered to proceed further on, up on a hill near the Henry House.
By Mr. Chandler:
Question. About what time was it when you first came into action?
Answer. We had marched twelve miles. I should judge my first coming into action must have been somewhere about noon. That, of course, is a mere guess. I received this order to move forward. I told the officer that he must indicate the spot, so that there should be no mistake about it. I saw at a glance, as I thought, that I was going into great peril for my horses and men. But I did not hesitate to obey the order, merely asking to name the spot clearly indicated to me. The ground had not been reconnoitred at all, and there was a little ravine in front that I had to pass. As I marched at the head of my company with Lieutenant Ramsay, he said to me, "We cannot pass that ravine." I told him that we must pass it. As we were under fire, to countermarch there would be fatal. The confusion consequent upon turning around there would expose us to great danger. As it was, we dashed across, breaking one wheel in the effort, which we immediately replaced. I called off the cannoniers and took down the fence and ascended the hill near the Henry House, which was at that time filled with sharpshooters. I had scarcely got into battery before I saw some of my horses fall and some of my men wounded by the sharpshooters. I turned my guns upon the house and literally riddled it. It has been said that there was a woman killed there by our guns. It was in that house that she was killed at the time I turned my battery on it and shelled out the sharpshooters there. We did not move from that position—that is, we made no important movement. We moved a piece one way or the other, perhaps, in order to take advantage of the enemy's appearance at one point or another. But our guns were not again limbered up. In fact, in a very short time we were not in a position or a condition to move, on account of the number of our horses that were disabled. I know it was the hottest place I ever saw in my life, and I had seen some fighting before. The enemy had taken advantage of the woods and the natural slope of the ground, and delivered a terrible fire upon us.
Question. Was that the place where your battery was lost?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. And where you yourself was wounded and fell?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Who gave you the order to march forward there?
Answer. Lieutenant Kingsbury, of General McDowell's staff, brought me the order. Lieutenant Snyder was also near, and I told him I wanted him to bear in mind that I had received that order, although no point was indicated.
Question. Had you a sufficient infantry support for your battery?
Answer. At that time I knew of no support. I was told a support was ordered. One regiment, the Fire Zouaves, I know came up to support me, and, when I saw them in confusion, I rode up to them and said something cheering to them. I had not much time to speak to them, but I thought I would say a little something cheering to them, as it might have some effect upon them.
Question. How long did you continue to operate your guns after you took that position?
Answer. Somewhere between a half an hour and an hour, I should judge.
Question. Was Griffin's battery near you?
Answer. I do not know, except from what I have heard. I know there was a battery a little to the rear on my right, and from all accounts I suppose that to be Griffin's battery. They were on my right in my first position, and moved up with me and took a position a little on my right.
By the chairman:
Question. How came they to order you to advance without infantry to support you? Is not that unusual?
Answer. The infantry came up directly afterwards. I do not know where the position of the infantry was. All I saw were the Fire Zouaves, who came up on my right to support me.
Question. In what number?
Answer. I should suppose, when my attention was called to them, that there were from two hundred to three hundred men.
Question. What number of infantry is supposed to be sufficient to support a battery?
Answer. To go into such a place as that, I should say there should have been two full regiments to have supported my battery.
By Mr. Odell:
Question. Was the smooth-bore battery of the enemy supported?
Answer. Yes, sir; and we drove them away. They retired some distance as we advanced. They must have had a heavy support, judging from the amount of lead they threw from their muskets, for long after I was down the hail was tremendous. The ground was torn up all around me, and some bullets went through my clothes. I never expected to get off at all.
By Mr. Chandler:
Question. How many of your men were hit?
Answer. I do not know. I was five months in Richmond as a prisoner. I, of course, made no report, and have made none yet. No report has been made, though I think it should have been made by the next officer, as I was virtually lost; was away from the battery, and knew nothing of what occurred to the men.
By Mr. Odell:
Question. Who was in command of the artillery—the chief of artillery?
Answer. Major Barry—now General Barry.
By Mr. Chandler:
Question. Did he direct the movements of the artillery?
Answer. I did not see him.
By the chairman:
Question. Was the place where you were posted before you were ordered to advance more advantageous than the one to which you did advance?
Answer. I think it was, up to the time that I left it; and I think it would have been for a little longer time, considering that I had longer range guns than the enemy had.
Question. Could you have sustained yourself in your first position?
Answer. I think so. Yes, sir.
Question. From whom did the order to advance emanate?
Answer. General McDowell's aid brought it to me. Major Barry had no aid. Whether it was Major Barry's order or not, I could not tell. He had charge of the artillery, and was supposed to have directed its movements.
Question. Was it good generalship to order you to advance with your battery without more support than you had?
Answer. Do you mean the one regiment?
Question. Yes, sir; the Fire Zouaves you speak of.
Answer. No, sir; I do not think it was. I desire to state here that I have seen it mentioned that I made some mistake as to the enemy. Captain Griffin and myself are coupled together as having made some mistake on the field as to the character of the enemy. I wish to say that I made no mistake in regard to the enemy.
By Mr. Chandler:
Question. You refer to mistaking a regiment of the enemy for one of our own troops?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. You are not connected with that in our testimony.
Answer. I am very glad to hear it. I had noticed that, among other things, in the papers; and when I came back from Richmond, I saw the President, and he said to me: "You thought you were going to certain destruction in going up there, so you said," referring to our last position. I replied, "That is a mistake, I made no remark at all, except that I wanted the place clearly indicated to which I was to move."
By the chairman:
Question. Were you present at the council of war the evening prior to the battle?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. At what time on the day of the battle did you learn that Johnston's troops were coming down from Winchester?
Answer. Well, sir, I heard before we left little Rocky Run, this side of Centreville, that there was danger of meeting Johnston's men on that day. I cannot tell you who told me.
Question. In your judgment, as a military man, after it was ascertained that Johnston would be down, was it prudent to fight that battle, unless you could have, for instance, Patterson's army to follow Johnston's down?
Answer. Yes, sir, I think so. I think we could have fought with the army we had. We had apparently as good men as ever were.
Question. Suppose that battle could have been fought two weeks before it was fought, what would have been the probable result?
Answer. I believe if we had fought it even two days before we would have walked over the field. I saw on the field of battle a number of officers who had resigned from our army, whom I had known; and while I was at Richmond some of them told me that at one time they were giving away, and that our panic was perfectly unaccountable to them. We gained the battle with the force we had. I believe there was a time when we had really won that battle, if we had only kept at it a little longer.
Question. As a military man, to what circumstances do you attribute our disaster on that day?
Answer. I impute it to the want of proper officers among the volunteers.
By Mr. Wright:
Question. Do you mean the colonels and generals?
Answer. I mean throughout. I cannot say particular colonels and particular captains, because some of them were excellent. But, as a general rule, many of the officers were inferior to the men themselves. The men were of as good material as any in the world, and they fought well until they became confused on account of their officers not knowing what to do.
By the chairman:
Question. Were you present and able to know the last charge of the enemy which was decisive?
Answer. Which charge was that?
Question. The same one that captured your battery, I believe. All the witnesses speak of a certain charge that was made there by the enemy.
Answer. My battery was taken and retaken three times. For a part of the time the struggle was going on over my body; and I think that for a part of the time I must have been insensible, for I bled very freely.
By Mr. Chandler:
Question. Which of our regiments fought over your body for the battery? Not the zouaves?
Answer. I did not know which regiment it was. It was not the zouaves. I saw a regiment, after I was down, move very near my battery, and I saw a shell explode among them, somewhere, I should judge, about the color company; and in speaking of it to Dr. Swan afterwards, the surgeon of the 14th New York regiment, who went over the field the next day, I concluded it was the 14th regiment, because he said he saw a great many of his regiment killed there. I therefore supposed that that was the regiment engaged in that struggle for the battery.
Question. Were you captured with your guns?
Answer. Yes, sir; I suppose I may say I was taken with my guns. When I was found I was asked my name, and I told them my name was Captain Ricketts. They asked if I was captain of that battery, pointing to one that was moving towards them, and I told them I was.
Question. Your guns were turned upon our troops after they were captured, were they not?
Answer. They say they were turned upon us; and I remember hearing one or two explosions.
By Mr. Julian:
Question. What kind of support did you receive from the Fire Zouaves?
Answer. Well, sir, these Fire Zouaves came up to the ground, but they soon got into confusion and left.
By Mr. Odell:
Question. Was that in consequence of want of proper directions from their officers?
Answer. I should judge, from the manner in which the men stood there, and from their not being properly in line, that it was from want of officers; either that their officers were ignorant of their duty at that time, or that they were not there. I cannot say how that was. Our men really behaved very gallantly up to a certain time.
Question. Did the 14th New York regiment support you at all while you were in position?
Answer. That I cannot tell you. They were in the woods on my right, I know; because a number of officers told me about them, though they took them for the Fire Zouaves on account of their red uniform.
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Redhuan D. Oon
This is following the thread here http://sourceforge.net/projects/adempiere/forums/forum/610548/topic/4805536 that has serious implications and repercussions that will doom the ADempiere project if not rectified. So far i don't think the silent PMC/CC will do so and thus been the founding father of this project it is in my unholy duty to act but i intend to leave it at the feet of the community - the silent majority.
There is clearly some gross misunderstanding about community software. I am trying to refresh my own reading of established words from Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond and also his subsequent articles titled The Magic Cauldron.
The magic of the bazaar is that software gets written and grow almost out of thin air due to the openness and high respect attributed to contributors. Linus Torvalds magic words were "Release Early, Update Often" coupled with a no nonsense sense of meritocracy and peerocracy of "Show me the code (and you are part of the release)" (brackets mine as when someone does show him the code, he promiscuously took and incorporate it inside Linux and respecting highly the contributor's name and thus Linus became the best thing to happen to the GNU project)
In tune, Linus is also a dictator, as many strong contributors who caused flames were thrown out. There are those who eventually returned. But there is always a dictator there until today. Linus is God in determining the kernel version and what goes into it or what stays outside.
Not so with the ADempiere project. When i was dictator here, i remembered many advice from people as far ago as Peter de Zutter (Goanookie) who first pointed me to the term "Benevolent Dictator" that tempered your words and deeds with strong sharing and humility. But eventually instead of the bad contributors leaving, it is the really good contributors leaving. And now today, it is like a last thread from the last best contributor in the market. Carlos is the only game in town (if some of you newbies do not know). If he is not that good, thieves would not have stolen from him all this while and all this much.
Wait a minute. How can someone steal something that is free under GPL? Yes there is such a thing because there is an immutable law that if you copied original text or code you respect and uphold the law of the license that goes with it. GPL license dictates that you do not remove the original lineage of credit that originates the code. And there are more rules such as backward compatibility and stability of the code. If you endangered the scheme of code you get reverted and thrown out after repeated attempts at destabilizing the code.
Yes Carlos is mad. But with a very strong reason. What he is more mad about is not the stealing but the silent majority. Many here took his code and enjoyed his fruits, earning money, yes in spite of been an anarchy and bazaar with no commercial front, people earned well here (including me). They are in a comfort zone (but not me damn it). Carlos has no control over that. But there is this principle of community voice and that in many instances the community speaks out and change history. It has done so in September 1, 2006 and extended the life of Compiere open source project under a rebranding requirement from Compiere not to use its name and so we gave it the name ADempiere. Jorg Janke at that time, reacted by branding this rebeliion as the 6th or 7th fork and would not last longer than six months. He is wrong. We did lasted and outlive his project which is now sold and open core (dual licensed commercialised open source). So is Openbravo which forked before us. They are themselves doomed because they took above 10 million euros in venture capital funding and now has to return the money by closing and selling of the code.
Community is saviour in such instances to maintain magic cauldron at the price of none. If there is a community out here of which Carlos is saying there is none, it now has to speak itself into existence. I learnt from many holy scriptures and the prophets that human beings must go against injustice at three levels of strength: If s/he is strong, to remove evil with the hand. If s/he is weaker to do so with the tongue (speak out against evil). If s/he is weakest to feel it in the heart. And that is the weakest level of faith to enter paradise. If you are that weak, just say a prayer and let Dhamma do its job. If you are bit stronger just cast your vote after me below:
To support Carlos Ruiz and others such as Low Heng Sin continuing contribution to the ADempiere project and the restoration of stable code with full credit contributed by them please vote as you think about it (remember this is also call of vote of no confidence to the present CC/PMC and they should resign and leave it back to me to conduct a peaceful transition) and i am not forcing this as the freedom to choose is entirely at your hands, not mine, and mine has written for myself, a single voice/vote. I am just appealing for the continuation of the best game in town):
My vote,
Kindest regards
Redhuan D. Oon
Sorry, actually the final word from Carlos is not here http://www.adempiere.com/ADempiere_Debian_Installer which i thought was in
Note the installer is not uploaded to the usual sourceforge file repository because an abusive member of "Community" Council revoked my permissions to publish files there, but they are fast to copy my work at globalqss361 project - you can find more info about this issue at (link above)
but in a private email he sent to me which in the principle of open community i have to reveal without edit:
To (name withheld) although I'm interested in improving adempiere and idempiere - I'm tired of this situation. Be globalqss361 or idempiere, they're going to keep copying my work shamelessly, and what really annoys me at the same time the persecution and abuse doesn't stop.
Please note that copying is fine, and I'm glad to be copied, what is wrong is the copy without respect, stealing credit, prosecuting the contributor, I can't cope with such situation anymore.
Given this situation I'm more interested maybe in a temporary private project where the people that really deserves my level of attention can get it (you and Redhuan included), but I want to have a mechanism to stop the copycat work there until they show at least minimum respect for my work.
Carlos Ruiz
Alejandro Falcone
Hi community,
I agree all Red1's words.
I think the current situation will only lead to the project's death.
It isn't a personal issue with the CC members, but the abusive attitudes of some, and silence from them others.
So, my vote: +1
Best regards,
Emiliano Pereyra
Hi all,
Unfortunally, my english is no so good yet to express myself in a proper way, but I'm TOTALLY AGREE with red1.
I would like that ADempiere becomes again the project that was when I first met (early 2007)
My vote to:
To support Carlos Ruiz and others such as Low Heng Sin continuing contribution to the ADempiere project and the restoration of stable code with full credit contributed by them please vote as you think about it (remember this is also call of vote of no confidence to the present CC/PMC and they should resign and leave it back to me to conduct a peaceful transition) and i am not forcing this as the freedom to choose is entirely at your hands, not mine, and mine has written for myself, a single voice/vote. I am just appealing for the continuation of the best game in town)
Best regards,
Emiliano Pereyra
Jorge Vallejo
Alok Ranjan
My vote is +1.
Remember with power comes responsibility and by revoking permission without reason, we all know that we don't have responsible person taking care of the important job.
My vote
When Carlos was part of the CC was very strict in their decisions to maintain quality and stability of the releases.
He was also very respectful of the credit of the developers and contributors with lines code.
Mike Mckay
I totally disagree with this approach and find it to be extremely bad form.
The community recently accepted a process and a governance structure. I have full faith in these people and all the others in the community who are working for the success of the project.. The latest world conference was a great event with a large crowd of attendees full of positive enthusiasm. We have a new, well designed software development process that has solved the problems of the previous structure. We have a new release of the software with significant improvements on the way. There is much to be thankful for.
I want to constructively and actively work with the current structure and give my full support to the community, the technical and functional teams - which any one can join - and to the CC. I refuse to sit on the sidelines and complain. I urge everyone to get involved and make a positive difference.
The previous structure was flawed and ripped the community apart in 2010. I think it is a bad idea to go back there.
I have full confidence in the community and the current governance structure.
-1 for this vote.
Mark Ostermann
-1 for this vote/ approach
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Hi mjmckay:
I'm really newbie in this project but not at all in free software community.
I agree with you when exhort "everyone to get involved and make a positive difference".
But there are a lot of evidences that have be erased the name of , at last one, contributor in more than once. This is not a mistake, is a deliberate plagiarism!
This "mistake", to my knowledge, has not been repaired and there are not explanations about the future of this cases.
Taking these precedents, we can expect that the community collaborate in the future?
Excuse my bad English
Gustavo Vega
You are more involved about the procedure to do it this correctly is necesary to stop arbitrary, but follow the appropriate steps that in the future will not no objection from anybody or in context or in form.
We the community can should do and leave no doubt in this decision, the people must know is not a group ….is the community who wants be "open" and "transparent", and again … there be no doubt to anyone!
My vote
1) To support Carlos Ruiz and others such as Low Heng Sin continuing contribution ++1
2) ADempiere project and the restoration of stable code with full credit contributed ++1
3) CC/PMC should resign and leave ++1
4) Red1 conducts a peaceful transition ++1
Gustavo Vega
bring adempiere back to the original… stupid people want adempiere. :( beacuse think he is contribute more..
+1 return back…
Jorge Iván Tabares
I totally agree with the approach
I think that no one can ignore the work done by Carlos for the community, so the least we can hope is that he can continue to be active part of this without any censorship.
My vote: +1
Best regards,
Jorge Ivan Tabares
Totally agree with the approach
My vote : +1
I would like to point to Red1 (CR For life Cheerleader :) ) to follow a proper votation:
It is hilarious to see people such as:
Red1 is trashing all our community concept and structure.
Red1 if you and CR want to fork why don't you simply do it? Why don't you focus on Idempiere and leave Adempiere alone?
Every single month you return with the same argument.
Here we go again on a new flame war.
please find the answer of the CC Team here:
Best regards,
in behalf of the CC Team
Victor Perez Juarez
Dear citizens and follower of this community.
The community has clear rules to call for a vote
http://www.adempiere.com/Community # Voting
Calling for a vote as it has been done in this forum, totally ignoring our community rules and principles can only be regarded as an opinion.
Therefore, my opinion as such is the following:
- I am on favor of freedom.
- I am on favor of innovation
- I am on favor of good products
- I am on favor of rules and civility.
- I am on favor of order.
- I am on favor collaboration.
Right up until today, I can say Adempiere project is now more organized, with legally binding rules and an institutional structure with committed members.
We have overcome any potential crisis with the release of version 3.7.0, where to say the least, a successful and inclusive development procedure was introduced, in such a way that it has been the most concurred ADempiere release we've had and the most thoroughly tested
This new 'Adempiere Way' of community collaboration is attracting new developers to join our project, which is nurturing new ideas and innovations that are evolving into additional contributions and a road map of future enhancements, thus I can assert today, this has been a historic year of accomplishments for our community. See
We have also had the commitment of some implementors to contribute their enhancements and this is scheduled for inclusion into the futures release, again a positive achievement not seen before on the project
Furthermore, the Adempiere conference held this year in Germany was a great success, with the highest record of attendance ever, of course we saw many of the familiar faces as the previous one, but there were also many new faces willing to help and collaborate.
Last, but not least, during the last months the ADempiere Foundation invested in infrastructure to keep our continuous integration servers running. On this note, It has also been determined to create ADempiere Test Suite will be reflected in more stable versions, with a wonderful demonstration the work at the conference.
We have procedures to evaluate, review and approve new contributions from a technical standpoint and an overseeing functional team that will allow for orderly growth and health of the product.
So this community has matured and is stronger than ever, thanks to the collaboration of many people.
Of course on the other hand I would like to thank first and foremost to Jorg Janke our top contributor, he is the most visionary of open source ERP contributors. If it werent becaus of his contributions we would not have today a product such as ADempiere, based on the rules and guarantees provided by GPL. again thank a lot by be our father Jorg!!!.
kind regards
Víctor Pérez
Nelson Chan
I am not going to vote for or against anyone but I want to say a few words about my observation of this open source project.
I have started looking at adempiere for about a year and things I notice:
- There is no direction of where the software is going. The roadmap has not been updated for years. As a user, I cannot tell what features are coming in the next release and what bugs will be fixed
- The release note of 3.70 is a little bit vague. Only a few words for each "feature/bugfix"
- Many of the documentations were outdated (most of them are applicable to 3.5)
- As stated by Carlos/Red1, it is very obvious that some people removed the original contributor names in the source codes (even I am not a developer, my programming experience is strong enough to tell if the codes were "copied and modified" or "newly written")
I have used many open-source software and I think someone in the "committee" should learn the approach of other open-source software. Here are a few suggestions:
- Decide and finalize all new features for each release. Cannot have a "running" goal
- Consider to introduce bugzilla or something to track the bugs and include the fixes in the release notes
- Have a more progressive release - alpha, beta, RC, and GA, etc.
- Tell the communities what is happening rather than working in a black box
Just my 2 cents
Nelson Chan
Agree with Nelson. and all this rules and process in place is are flawed. Some people using this words but not in action. People giving links but the question is it followed and practice?
Daniel Tamm
The restructuring of this project came because we wanted more structure. As I see it, what happened was that too much emphasis was placed on structure which killed the contributions.
How is it that I'm very reluctant to even consider contributing anything to current ADempiere but I would gladly submit contributions to Carlos? I think the current project leaders should ask themselves this question. Either the answer can be that anyone opposing are just ungrateful flame-throwers or the answer could be that it might…. just might be that contributors or contributions are not respected as they should in this project.
There's a question whether Carlos should be able to release files for his branch from where a lot of code for 3.7.0 is copied.
It's quite a simple question for the CC to handle. However, the CC doesn't handle this but refers to pages about how to go about to request permissions. Why don't CC just give Carlos permissions to release files? The question has undoubtfully been raised.
The Community Permission Rules says reasons to grant permission can be "you need permission to do your job". I don't see why CC just simply grants Carlos permissions. It doesn't have to be a big issue.
If the CC have a goal to be unpartial and respect all citizens of this community I think they should just grant permissions, and if they are not granted, motivate why not in this particular case. It's already a public issue and should be handled as such.
The way it's handled now (both permission rules and respect of contributors), I think CC deserves a vote of no confidence as outlined by red1.
If this way of voting is unproper, the CC should arrange a proper votation for everyone to participate. The question(s) must be carefully constructed to be unpartial (some votations here have had options where all options would make any answer to count as proof of support to the person calling the vote).
Best regards
/Daniel T
Germán Tabares
Dear community,
Totally agree with Red1. A true community must be based on respect for others and those who lead must ensure that we do so. It should return to a stable code approach with full recognition of who contributed, as proposed by Red1. This if we want a community worthy of the respect of all who have any interest in ADempire.
May vote: +1
Best regards,
Germán Tabares
Enrique Ruibal
Hi all,
I find your opinions valuable and I respect them, however the Adempiere Community established rules for taking decisions on important matters such as these.
There is no point on disqualifying anybody's work, as most of the actors in these discussion have made valuable contributions to Adempiere.
In my personal opinion a lot of things have improved during the last months, so I am agree with Victor's point of view, also by being a Citizen and member of the functional team.
I have learned that the best way to change things is to work as a team, even if you don't feel that close to some of the people within your team.
Enrique Ruibal
Kai Schaeffer
My vote a clear: -1
Red1, Carlos, if you want to help the project, attend the technical and functional team. They are open to anyone who wants to work constructively in this project. The only problem: you can't be the dictator there, it's democratic..
Hi community,
I agree all Red1's words.
My vote is +1.
Syed Zuhdi
I dream who speaks of democracy. You made a putch in this project and you had no right to do so. and you talk about democracy. you are still inflated
ADempiere belongs to the community and not to you (for you, I mean "ADempiere Deutschland eV" and "ABC ADempiere Business Consultants")
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