The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-27


cheer the skirmish line responded to the
Cling enemy.
formed a respectable column, and with one
accord the entire line, headed by Dalziels
flag and the Jersey skirmishers, swept over
the ground, scattering Rosser's squadrons,
riding down his platoons and swarming
over the barricades where the cannon and
dismounted carbineers had thrice put
stop to the Jerseymen's wild career. II
cost the Jerseys 81 dead and % wounded in
the three squadrons engaged to rally on the
nag that day, but Stuart was driven of,
and Hancock marched on to the Wilderness.
Dalxiel won promotion by his gallantry.
The Wilderness cavalry fight known as
Todd's Tavern was the eleventh pitched
battle after Harri sonburg where the First
Jersey lost men shot dead out of the sad
die. Among these were Cedar Mountain,
where 1t charged under the knightly Bay
ard; Brandy Station, where 1t attacked one
of Stuart's brigades and captured his head
quarters, dispatches and all; Sulphur
Springs, where eight were killed outright,
and Mountain Run, where the dead num-
bered Ia
Three days after the combat at the Will
derncss the regiment started with Sheri-
dams 10, 900 on the notable raid to Rich
mond. The principal battle was at Hawe's
Shop, near Richmond, on the 2Sth of May
The regiment went In there in two battal-
lonesome under Colonel Kester, the other
led by Major Hugh H. Janeway. Their an
tagonists were a fresh brigade of South
Carolinians, under General Butler, and
were armed with Enfield rifles. The fight
Ing was terrific. Janeway's battalion bur
led 1913 Of the enemy on its narrow front
and Kester's battalion 90. Besides, there
were many Confederate wounded taken
from the Geld. The Jerseys lost 90 killed
and wounded, IL of them officers. The
killed numbered 81, the same as at the
Wilderness.
The regiment continued to march and
eight with Sheridan until IL was trans
ferred to the Shenandoah valley. In Sep
tember, 1854, the term of service expired,
and many Of the original members were
mustered out. Among these was Colonel
Kester, and Major Janeway, who entered
the service In 1851 at the foot of the ladder
stepped to the front as colonel. The di-
vision in which the Jerseys served re-
manned with the army at Petersburg and
bore the brunt Of the cavalry fighting on
the lines until Sheridan returned there
with his whole command in March, 1865.
Janeway was II possible bolder than his
predecessors. In the battle of Bellefeld,
Dec. 10, he led charge upon Confederate
rifle pits, and having captured them val
iantly offered to charge upon some Confed-
crate batteries lying beyond which swept
the works his men occupied with murder
Gus fire. The commanding general refused
10 sanction the project Colonel Janeway
was wounded i'm February in a fierce battle
at Hatcher's Run, but he recovered in time
To ride out at the head Of his men In Sheri-
dams last campaign. In the first encounter
Major Hart, one Of the Wilderness heroes,
was shot dead from the saddle while lead
ing his battalion in forlorn charge such
as turned the tide at the Wilderness. Five
days later Colonel Janeway led the whole
regiment in mounted charge where two
Union regiments had met with a bloody
repulse. He was shot through the head AZ
he rode forward-the last officer killed ir
the regiment and the only colonel to die at
The head Of IL.
Four field officers, l2 line officers and lle
men were killed in the ranks OF this regi-
ment. The grand total of killed and wound
ed was 457. The colors were fiaunted in the
teeth OF the enemy for the last time at APP
pomattox Court House on April o. The regi-
pent was In the front line OF cavalry that
headed off Lees retreating columns, and the
men were reforming ranks after successful
charge in support OF the skirmishers then
briskly engaged with the enemy who want
ed TO cut their way through, when the sig
nal was given that ended hostilities forever
The real cavalry fighting Of the war In
snid TO have begun at Brandy Station June
., 1853. where the First Jersey helped give
deb Stuart bis first defeat. IL ended at
Appomsttox. The Jerseys missed no con-
hict that came between worthy the name
OF battle, and wherever they rode the same
old nag led them. GEORGE L. KI.MKR
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