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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 75 75 Browse Search
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 26 26 Browse Search
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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
ering the roads from Richmond, and covering also Savage Station on the railroad. Upon learning definitely the withdrawal of the army, Lee, on the morning of the 29th, put his columns in motion in pursuit. Magruder and Huger were ordered to follow up on the Williamsburg and Charles City roads, while Longstreet and A. P. Hill wethe retreat; and Jackson, making the passage at Grape-vine Bridge, was to sweep down the south bank of the Chickahominy. Now, when Sumner, on the morning of the 29th, learnt that the enemy was recrossing the Chickahominy and advancing in the direction of Savage Station, he moved his corps from the position it had held at Allen of Heintzelman's retirement, was surprised to find the enemy debouching on his front at Savage Station. Such were the circumstances that, on the afternoon of the 29th, brought on the action known as the battle of Savage Station,—an action that forms the second of the series of blows dealt by Lee on the retreating army in its ard
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, V. Pope's campaign in Northern Virginia. August, 1862. (search)
ithdrew to Manassas. Thus affairs went from bad to worse. Iv. The Second battle of Manassas. By the morning of the 29th, General Pope had learnt the real position of the adversary who had hitherto so adroitly eluded him; but his troops had bedley Mill. It was mainly along the unfinished excavation of this unfinished road that my line of battle was formed on the 29th: Jackson's division, under Brigadier-General Starke, on the right; Ewell's division, under Brigadier-General Lawton, in thfor not turning Jackson's right. Says Pope: I believe—in fact, I am positive—that at five o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th, General Porter had in his front no considerable body of the enemy. I believed then, as I am very sure now, that it was eal D. R. Jones, who commanded the rear division of Longstreet's corps is still more explicit. Early on the morning of the 29th, I took up the march in the direction of the old battle-ground of Manasses, whence heavy firing was heard. Arriving on th
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 8 (search)
h Corps. As soon as the column destined to make the turning movement was well under way, Sedgwick was ordered to cross the river in the vicinity of Fredericksburg for the purpose of making a direct demonstration. Accordingly, before dawn of the 29th, while the flanking force was passing the Rappahannock thirty miles above, ponton-boats, borne noiselessly on men's shoulders, were launched three miles below the town, near the point at which Franklin had made his crossing on the occasion of the s the Rappahannock on the right of the infantry, and cut Lee's communications at the same time that the infantry was operating on his army, had been so delayed by the rise of the river that it did not cross the Rappahannock till the morning of the 29th, and had thus far made very insufficient progress. But, instead of ingloriously flying, Lee preferred to come out of his defences and give battle to Hooker; and, unhappily for that general, the circumstances under which he chose to receive batt
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
cticable, which was to move his army by the inner line from Frederick towards Harrisburg, continuing the movement until he should meet Lee, or make him loose his hold on the Susquehanna. He therefore put his army in motion on the morning of the 29th, taking a course due northward, and keeping east of the South Mountain range. The army moved in three columns, covering, as it advanced, the lines of approach to Baltimore and Washington. The First and Eleventh corps were directed on Emmettsburghe divisions of Heth and Pender of Hill's corps, and the divisions of Early and Rodes of Ewell's corps. As it has been seen that the columns of Hill and Longstreet moved from Chambersburg and Fayetteville towards Gettysburg on the morning of the 29th, and as the distance is not above twenty miles, it is evident that the march was conducted much more slowly than was usual with Lee, and this he attributes to his ignorance of the movements of his antagonist—an ignorance due to the absence of Stua
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 10 (search)
nd Custer's cavalry had made a demonstration on Lee's left. Crossing the Rapidan at Ely's Ford, beyond the Confederate right flank, the force marched thence to Spottsylvania Courthouse. Here Colonel Dahlgren, with five hundred picked men, assuming the most daring part of the expedition, diverged from the main body and pushed forward by way of Frederickshall towards the James River. The column under General Kilpatrick at the same time moved rapidly southward, and on the following night, the 29th, struck the Virginia Central Railroad at Beaver Dam Station, whence parties were sent out to damage the road. While engaged in this work, a train of troops arrived from the direction of Richmond; but after some skirmishing these retired. Another party was dispatched to destroy the bridge of the Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad across the South Anna—a purpose that was foiled by the presence of a small observing force. The main column then advanced with insignificant opposition, and on
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
semblance of offensive efforts ceased; Blacks and Whites tumbled pell-mell into the hollow of the exploded earthworks— a slaughter-pen in which shells and bombs, rained from the enemy's lines, did fearful havoc. The most destructive fire came from a gun in a work south of the mine, which was covered from the Union batteries by a fringe of trees on their front, that the chief of artillery had required should be felled. This work having been delayed by the Ninth Corps until the night of the 29th, it was then objected to by General Burnside that the noise of chopping would alarm the enemy.—Hunt: Report of Siege Operations. Failing to advance, it soon proved almost equally difficult to retreat, though parties of tens and twenties, crawling out, ran back as best they could. The enemy then made a sally towards the crater, but was repulsed. A second assault, however, shook the disjointed structure of the hapless mass, which, without head or direction, obeyed the instinct of sauve qui pe
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
ised by the lieutenant-general, I give, in the accompanying note, the text of the order then drawn up. City Point, Va., March 24, 1865. General:—On the 29th instant the armies operating against Richmond will be moved by our left for the double purpose of turning the enemy out of his present position around Petersburg, and t against which the turning column of infantry was directed, it was necessary to pass to the west side of Hatcher's Run. Breaking camp early on the morning of the 29th, the corps of Warren and Humphreys moved by the rear and left (that is, to the southwest), so as to make the movement without observation. Hatcher's Run was passeoads. But the lieutenant-general now altered his plan with respect to the cavalry. I now feel, wrote General Grant to Sheridan, at Dinwiddie, on the night of the 29th, I now feel like ending the matter, if it is possible to do so, before going back. I do not want you, therefore, to cut loose and go after the enemy's roads at pr