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Michel-Alexandre Cardin
Saik Hay Fong
Daniel Krob
Pao Chuen Lui
Yang How Tan Editors
Complex Systems
Design &
Management Asia
Smart Nations – Sustaining and
Designing: Proceedings of the Second
Asia-Pacific Conference on Complex
Systems Design & Management,
CSD&M Asia 2016
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume 426
Series editor
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: kacprzyk@ibspan.waw.pl
About this Series
The series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” contains publications on theory,
applications, and design methods of Intelligent Systems and Intelligent Computing. Virtually
all disciplines such as engineering, natural sciences, computer and information science, ICT,
economics, business, e-commerce, environment, healthcare, life science are covered. The list
of topics spans all the areas of modern intelligent systems and computing.
The publications within “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” are primarily
textbooks and proceedings of important conferences, symposia and congresses. They cover
significant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character.
An important characteristic feature of the series is the short publication time and world-wide
distribution. This permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results.
Advisory Board
Chairman
Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
e-mail: nikhil@isical.ac.in
Members
Rafael Bello, Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba
e-mail: rbellop@uclv.edu.cu
Emilio S. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
e-mail: escorchado@usal.es
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
e-mail: hani@essex.ac.uk
László T. Kóczy, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary
e-mail: koczy@sze.hu
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA
e-mail: vladik@utep.edu
Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
e-mail: ctlin@mail.nctu.edu.tw
Jie Lu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
e-mail: Jie.Lu@uts.edu.au
Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico
e-mail: epmelin@hafsamx.org
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
e-mail: nadia@eng.uerj.br
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
e-mail: Ngoc-Thanh.Nguyen@pwr.edu.pl
Jun Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
e-mail: jwang@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
Editors
Complex Systems
Design & Management Asia
Smart Nations – Sustaining and Designing:
Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific
Conference on Complex Systems Design &
Management, CSD&M Asia 2016
123
Editors
Michel-Alexandre Cardin Pao Chuen Lui
Department of Industrial and Systems National Research Foundation
Engineering Singapore
National University of Singapore Singapore
Singapore
Singapore Yang How Tan
Defence Science & Technology Agency
Saik Hay Fong Singapore
ST Engineering Singapore
C/o Singapore Technologies Dynamics
Pte. Ltd.
Singapore
Singapore
Daniel Krob
CESAMES
Paris
France
v
vi Foreword
that this conference will inspire researchers and engineers to take up the challenge
of achieving engineering feats which can create a positive and lasting impact for the
future of the world.
A warm welcome to Singapore!
Introduction
1
CESAMES is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to the organization of CSD&M conferences,
which was created by the Ecole Polytechnique—Dassault Aviation—DCNS—DGA—Thales
“Engineering of Complex Systems” chair.
vii
viii Preface
To make the CSD&M Asia conference a convergence point for academic, gov-
ernment, and industrial communities interested in complex industrial systems, we
based our organization on a principle of complete parity between academics,
Preface ix
The CSD&M Asia 2016 edition received 43 submitted papers, of which the pro-
gram committee selected 17 regular papers to be published in these proceedings,
which corresponds to about a 39 % acceptance ratio which is fundamental for us to
guarantee the high quality of the presentations. The program committee also
selected 7 papers for a collective presentation during the poster workshop of the
conference that intends to encourage presentation and discussion on other inter-
esting, emerging issues.
Each submission was assigned to at least two program committee members, who
carefully reviewed the papers, in many cases with the help of external referees.
These reviews were discussed by the Program Committee co-chairs during a
meeting held at DSTA in Singapore on October 8, 2016, and managed using the
EasyChair conference management system. Our sincere thanks go also to Dr.
William Yue Khei Lau from DSO National Laboratories, whose help was precious
during this evaluation step.
We also invited 15 outstanding speakers from various industrial, governmental,
and scientific backgrounds, who gave a series of invited talks covering the entire
spectrum of the conference on the theme of “Smart Nations: Sustaining and
Designing,” mainly during the two first days of CSD&M Asia 2016. The first and
second days of the conference were especially organized around this common topic,
following up on the discussions from the 2014 edition focusing on “Designing
Smart Cities.” This theme gave coherence to all invited talks and between the two
editions organized so far. The last day was dedicated to special “thematic open
x Preface
Finally, we would like to thank all members of the Program and Organizing
Committees for their time, effort and contributions to make CSD&M Asia 2016 a top
quality conference. A special thank is addressed to the CESAMES team (see http://
www.cesames.net/), the DSTA Academy team and to the Singapore University of
Technology and Design team who managed permanently with a huge efficiency all the
administration, logistics and communications of the CSD&M Asia 2016 conference.
The organizers of the conference are also grateful to all the following sponsors
and partners without whom CSD&M Asia 2016 would simply not exist:
Founding Partners
• Center of Excellence on Systems Architecture, Management, Economy and
Strategy (CESAMES),
• Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Academic Sponsors
• Ecole Polytechnique,
• National University of Singapore (NUS).
Professional Sponsors
• Accenture Technology Labs Beijing,
• Dassault Systemes,
• DSO National Laboratories,
• Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA),
• Electricité de France (EDF),
• International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE),
• IRT SystemX,
• JTC Corporation,
• Mega International,
• Obeo,
xi
xii Acknowledgments
Supporting Partners
• Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN),
• Data Analytics Technologies & Applications Research Institute (Taiwan),
• Dassault Systèmes Singapore,
• French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore,
• French Embassies in Asia,
• Gumbooya Pty Ltd.,
• INCOSE Asia-Oceania Sector,
• Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA),
• Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES),
• Land Transport Authority (Singapore),
• Ministry of Defence of Singapore (MINDEF & SAF),
• Ministry of Home affairs (Singapore),
• National Research Foundation (Singapore),
• National Instruments South East Asia (Singapore),
• PUB-Singapore National Water Agency,
• Singapore Power,
• Systematic (France),
• Veolia Environment (France/Singapore),
• Vinci Constructions (France/Singapore).
Conference Chairs
General Chair
Daniel Krob, Institute Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Pao Chuen Lui, Advisor, National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office,
Singapore
Organizing Committee Chair
Yang How Tan, President, Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA)
Academy, Singapore (Chair)
Program Committee Co-chairs
Michel-Alexandre Cardin, National University of Singapore, Singapore (academic
co-chair)
Saik Hay Fong, ST Engineering, Singapore (industrial co-chair)
Yang How Tan, DSTA Academy, Singapore (governmental co-chair).
Program Committee
xiii
xiv Organization
Co-chairs
• Michel-Alexandre Cardin, National University of Singapore, Singapore (aca-
demic co-chair)
• Saik Hay Fong, ST Engineering, Singapore (industrial co-chair)
• Yang How Tan, DSTA Academy, Singapore (governmental co-chair).
Members
• Erik Aslaksen, Gumbooya Pty Ltd., Australia
• Petter Braathen, Memetor, Norway
• Aaron Chia, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Lynette Cheah, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Stefano Galelli, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Nuno Gil, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• Paulien Herder, TU Delft, Netherlands
• Joseph Kasser, Temasek Defense Systems Institute at NUS, Singapore
• Serge Landry, Thales Group, Singapore/France
• Erick Lansard, Thales Group, Singapore/France
• William Yue Khei Lau, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
• Grace Lin, Technologies and Applications Research Institute, Taiwan
• Udo Lindemann, TU Munich, Germany
• Kelvin Ling, Sembcorp, Singapore
• Dong Liu, Accenture Technology Labs Beijing, China
• Xiao Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Chandran Nair, National Instruments South East Asia, Singapore
• Karthik Natarajan, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• William Nuttall, The Open University, United Kingdom
• Jean-Claude Roussel, Airbus Group Innovations, France
• Seiko Shirasaka, Keio University, Japan
• Afreen Siddiqi, MIT, United States of America
• Eun Suk Suh, Seoul National University, Korea
• Fei Yue Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China
• Erik Wilhelm, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Kristin Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Laura Wynter, IBM Research Collaboratory, Singapore
• Maria Yang, MIT, United States of America.
Organizing Committee
Chair
• Yang How Tan, DSTA Academy, Singapore (chair).
Members
• Samuel Chan, Land Transport Authority, Singapore
• Jimmy Khoo, Singapore Power, Singapore
• Bernard Koh, PUB-The National Water Agency, Singapore
• Erick Lansard, Thales Group, Singapore /France
• William Yue Khei Lau, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
• Yew Weng Lee, Surbana Technologies Pte. Ltd., Singapore
• Grace Lin, Data Analytics Technologies & Applications Research Institute,
Taiwan
• David Long, INCOSE & VITECH, United States of America
• Nicolas Marechal-Abram, Veolia City Modeling Center, Singapore/France
• Chandran Nair, National Instruments South East Asia, Singapore
• Chee Seng Tan, MINDEF & SAF, Singapore
• Su Chern Tan, JTC Corporation, Singapore
• Philippe Vancapernolle, Vinci Construction, Singapore/France
• Pablo Viejo, Electricité De France, Singapore/France.
Invited Speakers
Panel 1 led by Peter HO, Senior Adviser, Centre for the Strategic
Futures, Singapore
Industrial Challenges
• Peng Yam Tan, Chief Executive, Defence Science & Technology Agency
(DSTA), Singapore
xvi Organization
Tutorial
xix
xx Contents
Part II Posters
Modelling Resilience in Interdependent Infrastructures: Real-World
Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Mong Soon Sim and Kah Wah Lai
Contents xxi
Sridhar Adepu iTrust, Center for Cyber Security Research, Singapore University
of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Hatim Adli Dassault Systèmes, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
Helene Bachatene Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau, France
Mohd. Faisal Bin Zainal Abiden Thales Solutions Asia, Singapore, Singapore
Mihal Brumbulli PragmaDev, Paris, France
Lynette Cheah Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of
Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Waqas Cheema Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of
Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Stephen Kheh Chew Chai Thales Solutions Asia, Singapore, Singapore
Eng Seng Chia Temasek Defence Systems Institute, National University of
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Christopher Choo Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of
Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Zhongwang Chua Temasek Defence Systems Institute, National University of
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Matteo Convertino HumNat Lab, Division of Environmental Health Sciences and
PH Informatics Program, School of Public Health, Institute on the Environment and
Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN,
USA
Daniel Dahlmeier SAP Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Jitamitra Desai Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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xxiv Contributors
Richard de Neufville
Abstract The modern mature state is necessarily responsible for designing and
managing complex systems. These frequently involve both technological and
political issues simultaneously. The modern state therefore requires cadres of
professionals cognizant and skilled in technology and policy. Yet many countries,
in particular those that have recently transitioned to the state of being modern states,
traditionally educate their prospective leaders exclusively in either technical or
social expertise. The conclusion is that modern mature states need educational
research programs that prepare cadres for leadership in Technology Policy. An
example makes the point. As suggested by the case of Singapore, coherent policy
formation for “big data”, for the collection and use of massive data on individuals
and collective enterprises, requires leadership that is both sensitive to the political
issues, and knowledgeable about the technological potential.
1 Overall Argument
This presentation argues that modern mature states need to establish and nurture
programs in Technology and Policy. The role of these programs would be to
prepare future leaders for intelligent, thoughtful, and effective formation and
implementation of policies in the wide range of societal issues that necessarily
involve advanced technologies in some fashion.
This paper develops this conclusion through logical analysis using syllogisms.
A syllogism is the process of proceeding from a major premise A, through a minor
premise B, to a conclusion C. For example:
• Major premise: “All human beings are mortal.”
R. de Neufville (&)
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
e-mail: ardent@mit.edu
While many thinkers have discussed the issues associated with the torrents of
information that now flow into databases, common lore attributes the creation, or at
least the popularization, of the “big data” term to industry analyst Douglas Laney.
Mature states necessarily oversee the design and management of complex systems.
Their societies expect that they will be able to switch on lights, obtain potable water
The Need for Technology Policy Programs … 5
from a tap, communicate electronically with their friends, manage human services
and so on. They expect their governments to make sure that there is the proper
organizational structure to fulfill these expectations.
The emphasis here is on overseeing the functioning of these complex systems to
serve societal expectations, in contrast to providing for these needs directly. Indeed,
mature governments have evolved a wide range of organizational structures to
provide expected services to the public. These cover a broad range, for example as
regards the provision of water services:
• Direct provision of services through some governmental agency such as the
Singapore Public Utilities Board that supplies water nationally;
• Self-sufficient special purpose independent public agencies, such as the East
Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) that supplies a range of cities in the
San Francisco Area;
• Concession agreements for a limited period, as for the Metropolitan Waterworks
and Sewerage System of Greater Manila; and
• Private companies that the government regulates, as through the Water Services
Regulation Authority (Ofwat) in England and Wales.
The point is that in every case the government has, as it must, some degree of
control over the provision of these complex systems, either directly or indirectly
through appointments of the managers, contractual obligations, or regulatory
processes.
Typically, the management of the complex systems falls within the domain of
either technical professionals or leaders with some formation in the social sciences.
For example, engineers typically plan and design the systems that provide water
services, electric power, or communication networks. Complementarily, lawyers,
politicians, and social scientists generally manage the range of social services the
public expects of the state. It is thus easy to think that in the modern state the
management of complex systems is split between two cultures: that of science and
technology on the one hand, and that of the liberal professions on the other [1].
However, although we might characterize the management of each of these
complex systems as either ‘technical’ or ‘social policy’, each inevitably combines
elements of the other. For example, much of the rationale for the provision of
potable water is a matter of social policy concerned with public health and the fear
that high rates would encourage the use of contaminated supplies. Conversely, the
effective delivery of social services depends strongly on the use of technological
means to identify members of the public requiring these services, and to deliver the
intended support to them.
The conclusion is that the modern state does oversee complex systems that
jointly, to some degree, combine a mixture of technological and social dimensions
and concerns. This validates the major premise.
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be carried without great exposure and loss. As the artillery had
nearly exhausted their ammunition, he deemed it prudent to
withdraw his force, which was done without any molestation from
the enemy.
The entire Federal loss was but eight killed and thirty-two
wounded, while that of the enemy was about double this number,
principally in the skirmish outside of their entrenchments. Thirteen
of the rebels were captured.
DEFENCE OF LEXINGTON, MISSOURI.
One of the most exciting events of the war in the West was the
defence of Lexington, Missouri, by Federal troops, commanded by
Colonel James B. Mulligan, consisting of the Chicago Irish Brigade,
eight hundred strong, four hundred Home Guards, and a part of the
Missouri Eighth, under Colonel White; the Missouri Thirteenth, six
hundred and fifty men, Colonel Peabody; Illinois First Cavalry, four
hundred men, Colonel Marshall. In addition to these, Captain
Graham, Lieutenant-Colonel White, Lieutenant-Colonel Given, and
Major Wright had also small commands—in all, 2,780 men.
Lexington is the capital of Lafayette county, and contains a
population of about five thousand. It is on the right bank of the
Missouri river, one hundred and twenty miles west of Jefferson City,
and three hundred miles from St. Louis. The heights on which the
town is built command the river, and to a considerable extent the
back country. Old Lexington, an earlier settlement, is situated east of
the new town, back of the river, on the hills, where the main body of
Price’s army was posted, while the attack was made from different
points. Colonel Mulligan’s fortifications were between the two towns,
and consisted of heavy earthworks, ten feet in height, with a ditch
eight feet in width.
On the 1st of September, Colonel Mulligan, whose regiment was
then encamped at Jefferson City, received orders to march to the
relief of Lexington, then threatened by the enemy, and in six hours
the regiment was on its way, and in nine days after entered the town,
which they found occupied by Colonel Marshall’s cavalry, and a body
of Home Guards. On the 10th a letter was received from Colonel
Peabody, saying that he was retreating from Warrensburg, twenty-
five miles distant, and that Price was pursuing him with ten
thousand men. A few hours after, Colonel Peabody, with the
Thirteenth Missouri, entered Lexington.
On the 12th, as the enemy drew near the city, two companies of the
Thirteenth Missouri were ordered out as skirmishers, who
recognized General Price (by the aid of glasses), leading on the
advance guard of his men. Company I of the Irish Brigade held them
in check until Captain Dillon’s company of the Thirteenth Missouri
drove them back. Subsequently six companies of the Missouri
Thirteenth and two companies of the Illinois cavalry were dispatched
in search of the retreating enemy.
They engaged them in a cornfield, fought with them gallantly, and
harassed them to such an extent as to delay their progress, in order
to give time for constructing intrenchments around the camp on
College Hill. This had the desired effect, and the Federals succeeded
in throwing up earthworks three or four feet in height. This
consumed the night, and was continued during the next day, the
outposts still opposing the enemy, and keeping them back as far as
possible. At three o’clock in the afternoon of the 14th the engagement
opened with artillery. A volley of grapeshot was thrown among the
officers, who stood in front of the breastworks. The guns within the
entrenchments immediately replied with a vigor which converted the
scene into one of the wildest excitement. At seven o’clock the enemy
withdrew and the engagement ceased for the night.
Next morning General Parsons sent in a flag of truce, asking
permission to bury his dead. The request was cheerfully granted, and
the Federal troops willingly assisted in burying the fallen foe. On
Tuesday the work of throwing up intrenchments went on. It rained
all day, and the men stood knee-deep in the mud, building them.
Troops were sent out to forage on the three succeeding days, and
returned with large quantities of provisions and fodder.
All this time the pickets were constantly engaged with the enemy,
well aware that ten thousand men were threatening them, and
knowing that the struggle was to be a desperate one. Earthworks had
been reared breast-high, enclosing an area of fifteen to eighteen
acres, and surrounded by a ditch. Outside of this was a circle of
twenty-one mines, and still further down were pits to embarrass the
progress of the enemy. During the night of the 17th they were getting
ready for the defence, and heard the sounds of preparation in the
camp of the enemy for the attack on the morrow. At nine o’clock on
the morning of the 18th, the drums beat to arms, and the terrible
struggle commenced. The enemy’s force had increased to twenty
thousand men and thirteen pieces of artillery. They came as one dark
moving mass of armed men, as far as the eye could reach. Two
batteries were planted by them in front, one on the left, one on the
right, and one in the rear, and opened with a terrible fire, which was
answered with the utmost bravery and determination. The batteries
opened at nine o’clock, and never ceased to pour deadly shot upon
the garrison. About noon the hospital was taken. It was situated on
the left, outside of the intrenchments. They besieged it, took it, and
from the balcony and roof their sharpshooters poured a deadly fire
upon the Federal troops. The hospital contained the chaplain and
one hundred and twenty wounded men. But it could not be allowed
to remain the possession of the enemy. The Montgomery Guard,
Captain Gleason, of the Irish Brigade, was brought out, and the word
to “charge” given. They stormed up the slope to the hospital, took it,
and drove the enemy in wild confusion down the hill. The fire of the
rebels was for the time lessened, only to be increased towards
evening, and word was sent that if the Federal troops did not
surrender before the next morning, the black flag would be hoisted
and no quarter given.
The next morning the fire was resumed and continued all day. A
fierce bayonet charge was made by the garrison, that served to show
the enemy that the Union troops were not yet worn out. All that day
the soldiers in that little band stood straining their eyes and
searching the distance in hopes that some friendly flag might be
coming to their assistance. But no welcome flag came in sight, and
with the energy of despair they determined to do their duty at all
hazards. It was intensely hot—the lips of the men were parched and
blistering. They were without water, and yet no word of murmuring
was heard. That night two wells were dug. The morning of the next
day, the 20th, dawned sadly upon them, and still the battle raged
furiously. The rebels had constructed moveable breastworks of hemp
bales, rolled them up the hill, and advanced their batteries so as to
command the fortifications. Heated shot were fired at them but
without avail, they having been thoroughly water-soaked. The outer
breastworks were soon carried by a charge from the enemy, the
Federal lines broken, and the rebels rushed in. At point after point
they were repulsed, but the cartridges of the Union troops had given
out, and it was evident that the struggle could not be protracted. Of a
sudden the firing ceased, and it was subsequently ascertained that
the Home Guards had hoisted a white flag. It was taken down, but
again raised by the same hands from the centre of the fortifications—
when the fire of the enemy slackened and ceased. Under this state of
affairs, Colonel Mulligan, calling his officers into council, decided to
capitulate, and Captain McDermott went out to the enemy’s lines,
with a handkerchief tied to a ramrod, and a parley took place. Major
Moore, of the brigade, was sent to General Price’s headquarters, at
New Lexington, to know the terms of capitulation. These were soon
made known; the officers to be retained as prisoners of war, the men
to be allowed to parole, with their personal property, surrendering
their arms and accoutrements.
Reluctantly this was acceded to, and the surrender took place. At
four P. M. on Saturday, the Federal forces, having laid down their
arms, were marched out of the intrenchments to the tune of “Dixie,”
played by the rebel bands. They left behind them their arms and
accoutrements, reserving only their clothing. Many of the men wept
on leaving their colors behind, as each company in the brigade had
its own standard presented by its friends. At the surrender, the
muster-rolls of the companies were taken to General Price’s
headquarters, the list of officers made out, and they ordered to
report themselves as prisoners of war.
The scenes at the capitulation were extraordinary. Colonel
Mulligan shed tears. The men threw themselves upon the ground,
raved and stormed; well nigh frenzied, demanding to be led out
again and “finish the thing.” In Colonel Marshall’s Cavalry regiment,
the feeling was equally intense. Much havoc had already been done
among their horses during the siege, and but little more than half of
them remained. Numbers of the privates actually shot their own
horses dead on the spot, unwilling that their companions in the
campaign should now fall into the enemy’s hands.
The privates, numbering some one thousand five hundred strong,
were first compelled to take the oath not to serve against the
Confederate States, when they were put across the river, and in
charge of General Rains marched on Saturday night to Richmond,
sixteen miles, whence on Sunday they marched to Hamilton, a
station on the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, where they were
declared free to go where they pleased.
No reliable statement of the casualties at the siege of Lexington
seems to have been published. Of the irregular army of General
Price, large numbers of whom were not enrolled, but were outside
volunteers, many were killed and buried on the spot, no record being
made of their loss. One hundred and forty Federals were left in the
hospital, many of whom were suffering from sickness, and not from
wounds. Colonel Mulligan lost probably two hundred in killed and
wounded, while the rebel loss could not have been less, and
according to some estimates must have reached three or four times
that number. General Price’s force was estimated at numbers varying
from twenty to thirty thousand, the lowest being probably nearest
the actual number, with twenty-one pieces of artillery.
General Price, in his official report to Governor Jackson,
inventoried his acquisitions as follow:—“Three thousand five
hundred prisoners, including the colonels, and one hundred and
eighteen commissioned officers, five pieces of artillery and two
mortars, over three thousand stand of infantry arms, a large number
of sabres, about seven hundred and fifty horses, many sets of cavalry
equipments, wagons, teams, ammunition, more than a hundred
thousand dollars’ worth of commissary stores, and a large amount of
other property.”
For daring and patient suffering—fighting day after day without
water, the battle of Lexington stands almost without a rival in
history. It was stubbornly contested, and evinced in the most striking
manner the devotion and faithfulness of the adopted citizens of our
country.
ATTACK ON SANTA ROSA ISLAND.
October 9, 1861.
Down the hill they came, in every direction and without order,
hotly followed by the rebels to the very edge of the descent. Then the
pursuers paused, too cautious to meet the chance of volleys from
Harrison’s Island, but throwing a plunging fire upon the retiring
loyalists, and aiming ruthlessly at the hundreds trying to swim the
rapid river channel. The tumult and agony of that headlong descent,
the clamor and crowd along the shore, the rush into one wretched
skiff, already over-laden with wounded men, which forced it beneath
the surface and brought the horror of death by water upon men who
had already so fairly faced the battle-field are beyond description.
Who can depict the wild struggle with those turbid waters, and the
desperate calmness with which each wretched soldier went down at
last? Who can tell of those who, struck down by the fire from above,
slipped in their own blood upon the clayey river bank; of those who
wasted too feeble strength in swimming half way across the cruel
stream; of the shouts for help where no help came. A few, more
fiercely courageous than the rest, dragged the cannon to the edge of
the hill and plunged them over, thus rendering them useless to the
enemy. The colonels who had fought so steadily still refused to
surrender, but guarded the retreat, so far as desperate courage could
do it, to the end. Led by Coggswell and Lee, several organized
companies charged up at their tormentors, once and again returning
dangerous volleys. They kept the enemy at bay till long after nightfall
closed upon the scene. All who could pass over to the island had
escaped, and midnight was close upon them before the two colonels
and the other field officers still on the shore saw that their duty was
accomplished, and surrendered themselves and the remnant of their
commands to the enemy.
A most painful scene transpired at the sinking of the launch, in
which were some sixty wounded men, and twenty or thirty members
of the California First. The launch had been safely taken half way
across the river, when, to their utter consternation, it was discovered
that it was leaking, and the water gradually, but surely, gaining upon
them. The wounded were lying at the bottom, suffering intolerably
from their various dislocations, wounds and injuries, and all soaking
in water, which at the very start was fully four inches deep. As the
water grew deeper and rose above the prostrate forms of the
wounded, their comrades lifted them into sitting postures that they
might not be strangled by the fast rising stream. But the groans and
cries, screams and moanings of the poor fellows who were thus
tortured, were most distressing and indescribable. Despite all that
could be done, the fate of the launch, and all that were in it, with the
exception of a few expert swimmers, was sealed; suddenly, and like a
flash of lightning, the fragile craft sunk, carrying with it at least fifty
dying sufferers, and some twenty or thirty others, who had trusted
their lives to its treacherous hold.
The very skies were pitiless that evening. O the misery of the black,
tempestuous night, when the rain poured down upon that narrow
island where those who escaped the flood and field were bivouacked,
huddled together and bereft of their comrades-in-arms! Scores of the
dead were guarded by sullen watchers; the wounded were tended in
every possible shelter. The river swelled in a kind of savage triumph
over the havoc it had made, its current darkling and murmuring on
the east and west, while on the opposite shore lay their dead
comrades, whose white faces the rain beat in merciless fury, but all
unfelt, and far more harmless than it fell upon the living victims.
Next morning boat loads of dead and wounded were brought from
the battle-field under a flag of truce; and a dispatch had been
published in Washington stating that General Stone had successfully
thrown his force across the Potomac, and held his position secure
against any hostile force.
The statistics of this conflict show that the total number of Federal
troops that crossed the Virginia channel was about 1,853 officers and
men. Of these 653 belonged to the Massachusetts Fifteenth, 340 to
the Massachusetts Twentieth, about 360 to the Tammany regiment,
and 570 to the first battalion of the First California. The
Massachusetts Fifteenth lost in killed, wounded, and missing 322,
including a lieutenant-colonel (wounded), and 14 out of 28 line
officers who crossed. The Massachusetts Twentieth lost in all 159,
including a colonel, major, surgeon, and adjutant (prisoners), and 8
out of 17 line officers who crossed. The Tammany companies lost
163, including a colonel, and 7 out of 12 line officers who crossed.
The Californians lost 300, including their colonel (the general
commanding), lieutenant-colonel (wounded), adjutant, and 15 line
officers out of 17 who crossed. Total engaged in the fight, 1,853; total
losses, 953; field officers crossing, 11; returning uninjured, 3; line
officers crossing, 74; returning uninjured, 30.
The troops that were successful in reaching Harrison’s Island
remained there during the night of the 21st, and on the morning of
the 22d were all passed over in safety to the Maryland shore, no
attempt being made by the rebels to interfere with the movement.
The condition of many of the men was pitiful. Some of them in their
encounters with the enemy, and in struggling through the trees and
thorny undergrowth, or plunging down the rocky steep, having been
almost stripped of clothing. In a short time they were encamped in
comfortable quarters, and the wounded were provided for with the
greatest care.
Large bodies of rebel troops had been brought up to Leesburg after
the battle, to defend that point, and to make an offensive movement,
if deemed expedient. About four thousand Federals, under the
command of General Stone, occupied the Virginia shore immediately
opposite Edwards Ferry, and were in imminent danger of attack
from the now rapidly increasing force of rebels threatening their
front. Generals McClellan and Banks, who had repaired to Edwards
Ferry, on the Maryland shore, and were ready to furnish large
reinforcements in the event of a general engagement, watched with
anxiety the rebel movements on the opposite side of the river.
Becoming convinced that the means of transportation were entirely
inadequate to properly reinforce General Stone’s command, the
commander-in-chief ordered a withdrawal of all the Federal forces to
the Maryland shore, which was safely accomplished on the night of
the 23d.
Colonel E. D. Baker, whose death will make this battle-field
immortal, was born in England, early left an orphan, and emigrated
to this country. Few men have had a more eventful career, and few
men have done so much to win the admiration of the people. He was,
without question, one of the ablest speakers in the country; when he
addressed public audiences he thrilled them with the electricity of his
eloquence, and kindled them by his earnestness as a storm of fire
sweeps over the prairie. For many years, whether at the bar, in the
Congress of the nation, or before wild wood caucuses; in speaking to
citizens, jurors, statesmen or soldiers; on the slope of the Atlantic, in
the valley of the Mississippi, at the head of legions in Mexico, before
the miners of California, or upon the banks of the Columbia, he held
a place with the best men and finest orators in the land.
At the age of nineteen he was admitted to the bar in the State of
Illinois. Subsequently he twice represented that State in the lower
house of Congress. In 1846 he resigned in order to lead the Fourth
Illinois regiment to Mexico. At Cerro Gordo, after the fall of General
Shields, as senior Colonel he took command of the brigade, and
fought through the desperate battle in a manner that drew an
especial compliment from General Twiggs.
Returning home, he was, after his recovery from a severe wound
received on the Rio Grande, again elected to Congress. Later in life
he was connected with the Panama railroad; still later, in 1852, he
removed with his family to Oregon, where he was elected United
States Senator.
The struggle for the Union came, and he hastened to New York,
where his fiery eloquence stirred the heart of its people. When they
rushed impetuously to arms, he warned the country of the magnitude