Put the Vermonters Ahead: The First Vermont Brigade in the Civil War

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"Put the Vermonters ahead" was the order of the Union's VI Corps commander, Major General John Sedgwick, to his chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Martin T. McMahon on the march to Gettysburg. Never driven from the field, the 1st Vermont Brigade always held its line and never lost its flags in battle. Marching more than two thousand miles in its many campaigns, this brigade had the greatest loss of life of all the brigades in the United States Army. In four long years of war, the Vermont Brigade held at Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Banks'
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"Put the Vermonters ahead" was the order of the Union's VI Corps commander, Major General John Sedgwick, to his chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Martin T. McMahon on the march to Gettysburg. Never driven from the field, the 1st Vermont Brigade always held its line and never lost its flags in battle. Marching more than two thousand miles in its many campaigns, this brigade had the greatest loss of life of all the brigades in the United States Army. In four long years of war, the Vermont Brigade held at Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Banks' Ford, Funkstown, and Charlestown. In the fierce fighting in Grant's 1864 overland campaign, this heroic unit suffered some of its heaviest losses and won some of its greatest victories. In 1864 the Vermonters were rushed to the defense of the capital during Jubal Early's raid on Washington. They were then sent on to the Shenandoah Valley. In the last months of the war, they were the first to break Lee's lines at Petersburg, going on to join the pursuit of Lee's dying army, which ended at Appomattox.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780942597974
  • Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/1/1996
  • Pages: 216
  • Product dimensions: 6.23 (w) x 9.27 (h) x 0.94 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Photographs
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ch. I The Beginning 1
Ch. II The Brigade 7
Ch. III The Brigade's First Battle 14
Ch. IV War on the Peninsula 22
Ch. V On with the War 33
Ch. VI Cold Mud and Battle 41
Ch. VII Storming the Heights and Holding the Line 47
Ch. VIII The Gettysburg Campaign 56
Ch. IX Keeping the Peace 64
Ch. X Stalemate at the Rappahannock 68
Ch. XI Holocaust in the Wilderness 74
Ch. XII Battles at Spotsylvania 87
Ch. XIII Assaults at Cold Harbor 98
Ch. XIV Disaster at Weldon Railroad 104
Ch. XV On to Washington - The Marching Campaigns 108
Ch. XVI Battles in the Shenandoah Valley 116
Ch. XVII Victory at Cedar Creek 126
Ch. XVIII Above and Beyond 137
Ch. XIX Final Battle and Victory 140
Epilogue 153
Postscript 155
App. A. Medal of Honor Recipients of the Vermont Brigade 157
App. B. Officers of the Vermont Brigade Who Were Brevetted to Higher Rank for Gallant and Meritorious Service 158
App. C. First Vermont Brigade Organizational Chart 160
App. D. Revised Roster, Vermont Volunteers, 1861-66 161
App. E. Statistics of Men from Regiments of the Vermont Brigade 189
Endnotes 191
Bibliography 201
Works Cited 206
Index 208
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