Three brigades of Second division are covering the three roads from Aldie and Gum Springs.
My principal aim in these operations was to get information for Stuart, and, by harassing the communications of the Federal army, to neutralize with my small command Stahel's three brigades of cavalry in Fairfax.
It was with feelings of bitter regret and disappointment that I received this order, inasmuch as I was just crossing the Rappahannock with three brigades of cavalry and a battery of horse artillery, who were just fresh from camp, etc.
Three such regiments would compose a brigade, three brigades a division, and three divisions a corps.
The enemy was composed of French's division of three brigades, variously reported from four to five thousand strong.
Tuttle, was composed of three brigades, led by Brigadier-Generals J.
The Fourth, commanded by Brigadier-General Hugh Ewing, was composed of three brigades, led by Brigadier-General J.
As columns of dust rose from the direction of Springfield, betokening the advance of Warren's three brigades, the camp at Spearman's Farm showed signs of activity.
Three brigades of infantry, six batteries of artillery, and almost all the cavalry and mounted infantry were concentrating upon this point.
At Springfield the main force was concentrated--three brigades strong, with six batteries, under the command of Sir Charles Warren.
The Army of the Kanawha, Loring's three brigades, with the batteries attached, came into view a long way off, grey streaks upon the road.
The battle fell almost entirely upon the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps and two Divisions of the Fifteenth Corps, three Brigades of the Sixteenth being absent.
The three corps of Hooker, Mansfield and Sumner were engaged in these battles with Jackson and Hood, while the latter were reinforced from time to time by three brigades from D.
Three brigades moved up in beautiful order against Drayton and the men were soon beaten.
A sharp engagement took place between these three brigades of cavalry and the enemy's infantry, but the latter was repulsed.
General William Nelson, on reporting at Louisville after his Eastern Kentucky campaign, was placed in command of the Fourth Division, consisting of three brigades.
The Fifth Division, consisting of three brigades, was placed under the command of General Thomas L.
Wood from the command of the Fifth Brigade, assigned him as commander of this division, which consisted of three brigades.
Torbert was in command of the First Division, which was composed of three brigades; Brigadier-General D.
Blenker's division, composed of three brigades of German volunteers, was detached from the Army of the Potomac in March, 1862, to assist Fremont in his operations against Jackson.
But at the moment when the Federal charge was about to end in success, three brigades of A.
Colonel McMaster, of the Seventeenth South Carolina, gathered the remnants of General Elliott's brigade and held back the Federals massing at the Crater until General Mahone arrived at the head of three brigades.
French, near Brandy Station, several ladies being present; it was composed of three brigades, numbering six thousand men.
The division was composed of three Brigades; the first consisting of the 151st N.
Cleburne, with a front of a mile, filled by three brigades, had suddenly burst upon Thomas's left.
Three brigades only of the former had taken part with Hood in the first day's fight.
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