Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-06

Co. F, LIST U. S. Artillery.
The Vermont Cavalry. - Official Re-
pert.

Boonsboro, Md, July TO-
# ? /. WAsHBURN,
Adjt. and ms. General of VT.
SrR:-l beg leave to make the follow
i ug report of engagements Of the LIST Yer
hnont cavalry with the enemy in Maryland
8and PENNSYLVANIA, from June 30, to July
Is, 1868. At Hanover, Penn, June 30,
salded in repellng an attack by General
FStuart's forces. Companies NJ and D,
under Captain Woodward and Cummings.
charged through the town. repulsing the
enemy and capturing MANY prisoners. The
rest of the regiment supported battery
su3ul the enemy were driven from the
irld
At Huntersville, Penn, July ,, in an
attack upon the left of Gen. Lees army,
his regiment was deployed as skIrmlsh-
ers, and subjected to a severe fire from the
enoEy's batteries,
July 8, IN the attack made by General
fitzpatrick on the right flank of the enemy
at Gettysburg this cavalry led the adj
vance. Co.'S A, d, + and |, dismounted,
were depoyed as sklrmishers and soon
drove the enemy's skirm.shers back of
&ther main lines. The contest was con
#tnued by the opposing batteries and dis
smounted carbneers until five o'clock p. NJ,
when General Farnsworth, commanding
the brigade, was ordered to charge the
Senemy, strongly posted behind stone walls
and in the woods, ana which proved to be
Major General Hoods division of infant
MIA, tho LIT N,,Sr,,,,,
the left, and the second battalion of the LIST
v Vermont, under Major Wells, on the
right, General Farusworth dashed for
ward closely followed by his men, leapng
one stone wall under a severe fire. Our
Storce drove the enemy in all directions
Cover still another stone wall and through
a field, swept by the rebel batteries and
succeeded in piercing the enemy's second
line, where many of our dead were found.
! moved to the support Of the I'd battalion
with the LIST under Captain Parsons, and
a part of the Sd under Capt. Grover. On
the hill between the two walls we encoun-
Tered a fresh regiment of the enemy, sent
in from the right to intercept the retreat
Of our first column and to re-establIsh
Their lines. The struggle for this hill be-
came most desperate but was at length
carried by our boys with severe loss, the
greater part of the enemy being captured.
Gu, loss this day, killed, wounded and
missing, IS men.
Jnlv 4th we marched so miles to the
rear of the enemy, and on the morning of
the 9th at Lightersville, Md, captured one
hundred prisoners, drove of cattle and
several wagons, and marched to Hagers-
town the same night II hours in advance
of Lees army.
July 9th our division attacked the re-
Treating enemy at Hagerstown. Co.'S. D
and L dismounted here, drove the enemy
from strong position and occupied it;
Cos. A and d held portion OF the town
against a superior force until ordered to
retire in the afternoon, when portion be-
ing cut off, were secreted by the Union
#ctizens until our forces re-occupled it on
the 18th.
q In the retiring of this division at night
on the Williamsport Road in the face of
b Lees army, this regiment formed part of
the rear guard, and suffe~ ed severely from
assaults made upon it by superior numbers
vice we were nearly surrounded. Capt.
Beaman, with the Sd squadron, whom I
ordered to hold strong position being cut
oil was ordered to surrender He coolly
replied, II don't see It," and leaped a
fence andby flank movement, escaped with
NEARLY his entire force. Capt. Woodward,
#of Co. M, a brave officer, was killed at
the head of his men, while stubbornly re-
sstng the advancing foe. The charge
was now made by Co. X, under Captain
1rover, upon the main column of the enc
my, which aided materially in checking
Their progress. A battery was now open
Iss Sc ppnf9lnHs by the enemy in the direction
-, ,ha eahSport, and being thus attacked
!. - "oiit and q drew off under