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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of Olustee, or Ocean Pond, Florida. (search)
report from the advanced cavalry picket that the enemy had halted for the night and taken a position (subsequently ascertained to be incorrect). General Colquitt says he sent repeated orders to Colonel Smith of the cavalry to continue the pursuit, but only two companies on the left, and those but for a short distance, followed the enemy. Smith was relieved from his command, and he requested a court of inquiry. Finegan was relieved by Gardner. General Beauregard, reporting to Richmond, March 25th, says the fruits of the victory were comparatively insignificant, laying the blame on the cavalry commander, through whose lack of energy and capacity for the service no serious attempt was made to pursue with his command, while the exhaustion of the infantry . . . and our want of subsistence supplies and ammunition made an immediate pursuit by them impracticable. It was a fair, square, stand — up fight in pine woods, just there not very thick, and having little undergrowth, save about
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Gordon's attack at Fort Stedman. (search)
cting colonel, Major George M. Randall, had command. Captain Charles H. Houghton, of Company L, commanded at Fort Haskell. About 3 o'clock on the morning of March 25th Lieutenants C. A. Lochbrunner and Frank M. Thomson, who were on night duty at Fort Stedman, informed Major Randall of an unusual commotion in front of the worksd the breast-works adjoining, came in and were posted on the rear works by Captain George Brennan, of Company From Sketches made in 1886. On the morning of March 25th, General Gordon's column (advancing from Colquitt's salient) moved over the level ground shown on the left, in the lower picture. Fort Stedman was located in frigade, of Willcox's division, commanded by Colonel Ralph Ely. Between Battery Ix and Fort McGilvery ran the City Point and Petersburg road. On the morning of March 25th, before daybreak, the soldiers of the 2d and 20th Michigan learned that Fort Stedman was in the hands of the enemy, and the former retired within Battery Ix, an