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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 5: the week of flying fights. (search)
ccounts of the affair of Miles at Sutherland's Station given by General Badeau, General Grant, General Sheridan, and General Humphreys involve perhaps unintentional, testimony of a most competent witness. General Badeau, Grant's military secretary, in his Military History of U. S. Geep things clear in their minds are liable to lose their bearings. Badeau bothers matters very much; as when he says (vol. III., p. 520), At as a direct participator in the victory at Sutherland's. He allows Badeau to speak to this effect. And he himself says in his Memoirs (vol. for Sheridan the glory of whatever was achieved on the left, or as Badeau says, in that quarter of the field, when all came to the very fieldorts which Sheridan relied upon were true. This decision of Meade, Badeau says, was much to Sheridan's mortification. Still all he could do icant the more one ponders it. We have the high authority of General Adam Badeau that this is the stuff of which commanders are made. That i
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 6: Appomattox. (search)
ust be a battle, a destructive and decisive one. Indeed, in the present situation of our Second and Sixth Corps, this battle is imminent. Still, at this very juncture,--Lee being now in his immediate presence, so to speak, close upon Humphreys' skirmish line,--for reasons which he has not made fully apparent but which we of the White Oak Road could without difficulty surmise, General Grant deems it proper to transfer his own personal presence, as he says, to the head of the column, or, as Badeau puts it, to join Sheridan's column. This was now fighting Gordon's command and Lee's cavalry at Appomattox Court House. Accordingly, General Grant, having sent this suggestive answer to General Lee, took a road leading south from a point a mile west of New Store, for a good twenty-mile ride over to Sheridan, leaving great responsibility on Humphreys and Wright. Lee was repeatedly sending word to Humphreys asking for a truce pending consideration of proposals for surrender. Humphreys answ