Alexander, Edward P. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander.
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The following day Couch had cleared the ford and was marching toward Chancellorsville.
After the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863, Catto helped raise a company of black volunteers for the state's defense; their help, however, was refused by the staff of Major General Darius N. Couch on the grounds that the men were not authorized to fight.
At the start of the Civil War, he became adjutant of the 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and later aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Darius N. Couch.
Darius Milhaud | Darius | The Big Comfy Couch | Darius N. Couch | Darius III | Darius the Great | Darius Perkins | Darius I | Arthur Quiller-Couch | Adam Darius | Steponas Darius | Darius Gray | Couch | couch | Xerxes' father Darius | Tim Couch | Johnny Couch | Jason Couch | Hystaspes (father of Darius I) | Dick Couch | Darius Žutautas | Darius Walker | Darius Lakdawalla | Darius Khondji | Darius Hill | Darius (Highlander) | Darius Draudvila | Darius Dhlomo | Darius de Haas | Darius Brubeck |
He took command of John J. Peck's 3rd Brigade, (55th New York, 62nd New York, and the 93rd, 98th, and 102nd Pennsylvania regiments) Couch's 1st Division, Keyes's IV Corps during the Seven Days Battles, after Peck was promoted to command of Silas Casey's Division of the same corps.
The II Corps, commanded during the war by Sumner, Darius N. Couch, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Andrew A. Humphreys, had the deserved reputation of being one of the best in the Eastern Theater.