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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
tered the entire character of the campaign. After numerous delays, the time of advance of this column was at length fixed for the 26th of May, a date closely coincident with the arrival of the Army of the Potomac on the Chickahominy. The head of McDowell's column had already been pushed eight miles south of Fredericksburg; and McClellan, to clear all opposition from his path, sent forward Porter's corps to Hanover Junction, where he had a sharp encounter with a force of the enemy under General Branch, whom he repulsed with a loss of two hundred killed and seven hundred prisoners, and established the right of the Army of the Potomac within fifteen miles, or one march, of McDowell's van. McDowell was eager to advance, and McClellan was equally anxious for his arrival, when there happened an event which frustrated this plan and all the hopes that had been based thereon. This event was the irruption of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley. The keen-eyed soldier at the head of the
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
t commanders, 321; refusal to abandon Maryland Heights, 822. Hancock, report on, at battle of Fredericksburg, 251; at Gettysburg, 334; report of battle of the Wilderness, 423; details of battle of the Wilderness, 425; report of fifth epoch, campaign of 1864, 505; at Reams' Station, 535; movement towards Southside Railroad, 541; report of operations on Boydton plankroad, 546; leaves to organize new First Corps, and never rejoins his old command, 547. Hanover Junction, Porter's defeat of Branch at, 124. Harper's Ferry, United States arsenal abandoned in 1861,26; topography of, 206; the first Confederate camp at, 28; Lee's advance against, 200; Jackson's movement towards, 205; completely invested by Confederate occupation of the heights round, 206; surrendered by General Miles, 205: the surrender of and death of Miles, 207; occupied by McClellan, 226; see also South Mountain. Heintzelman, General, evidence on siege of Yorktown, 110. Heth, Confederate General, on battle of H