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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 68 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 306 36 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 182 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 5.21 (search)
count, the march of the rear column northward in retreat from the town was being delayed all day on the 5th by impassable roads, and he ordered fresh troops from time to time to countermarch to the field at Williamsburg, relieving those whose ammunition was exhausted in this unexpected engagement. After Hooker had been forced back from Fort Magruder, the threatening position of Hancock on the Confederate left was noted by the enemy, and D. H. Hill went forward with Early's brigade, Early and Hill in person leading, toward the crest where Hancock's infantry was posted. The Confederates were met by a severe musketry fire, and at length by a counter charge, led by Hancock, in which the bayonet was used in open field. Generals Sumner, Keyes, and Smith all mentioned Hancock's victory, which was brilliant and decisive. General Smith said in his report, The brilliancy of the plan of battle, the coolness of its execution, the seizing of the proper instant for changing from the defensive
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Confederate use of subterranean shells on the Peninsula. (search)
ed warfare to take life with no other object than the destruction of life. . . . It is admissible to plant shells in a parapet to repel an assault, or in a wood to check pursuit, because the object is to save the work in one case and the army in the other A copy of the New York Herald, containing General McClellan's report on buried torpedoes at Yorktown, reached General Johnston, who, in a letter dated May 12th, requested General D. H. Hill to ascertain if there was any truth in it. General Hill referred the matter to Rains, who on May 14th reported in part as follows: I commanded at Yorktown for the last seven months, and when General McClellan approached with his army of 100,000 men and opened his cannons upon us, I had but 2500 in garrison, and our whole Army of the Peninsula, under Major-General Magruder, amounted to but 9300 effective men; then at a salient angle, an accessible point of our works, as part of the defenses thereof, I had the land mined with the weapons all
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Manassas to Seven Pines. (search)
was it mentioned by our cavalry which followed Hill's division. Such an occurrence would have beense there engaged [II., 98]. But one regiment of Hill's division was engaged. In the Federal repors near. On receiving this information from General Hill, I informed him that he would lead an attacn marching; yet those of Smith, Longstreet, and Hill were in position quite early enough. But the sombined attack upon the Federal left, under General Hill's direction, by Rodes's brigade in front anegiments of R. H. Anderson's brigade reinforced Hill's troops, and the Federals were driven back to three divisions were so vigorously attacked by Hill that they were broken and driven from their int left, however, fled to White Oak Swamp. General Hill pursued the enemy a mile; then, night beingger's divisions, coming up, were formed between Hill's line and Fair Oaks. For some cause the disd to the front, and two of his regiments joined Hill's troops near and approaching Seven Pines. W
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 5.26 (search)
Here, at a farm-house, Huger met Longstreet and Hill, and a discussion was had as to the movements ohe position on the Williamsburg road from which Hill's division was to advance to the attack. Gener The Federals stubbornly held their ground, and Hill now detached General Rains to make a wide flank Whilst these operations were in progress on Hill's left, the state of affairs at the second abatrson were engaged at the second abatis, and General Hill, having resolved to drive the Federals out ng north; Longstreet's and Huger's divisions on Hill's left, parallel to the railroad and extending ward the east. But Pickett's instructions from Hill required him in person to go north in search of 1886: At the moment I was reporting to General Hill, some person rode up and excitedly stated torth side of the [Williamsburg] road. . . . General Hill said: General Mahone, take your brigade inwent to the redoubt in search of him. . . . General Hill gave me orders to cover [the] withdrawal of[43 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Hanover Court House and Gaines's Mill. (search)
uch disorder that Longstreet was ordered up to relieve the pressure by a feint on the right, which he converted into an attack in force. Thus, up to 4 o'clock, the Confederate assault was mainly on the Union left center and left. About this hour D. H. Hill's division got fully into action, and Jackson's corps (consisting of Ewell's, Whiting's, and Jackson's divisions) was thrown in where needed from the direction of Old Cold Harbor. Major Dabney, Jackson's chief-of-staff, in a letter to General Hill, thus describes the movements of Jackson's corps: The column, he says, came on the eastern extension of Gaines's Mill road at Old Cold Harbor, and, passing the old tavern a little way, soon ran afoul of McClellan's right wing, with infantry and artillery in position. Your division had taken the lead, and became, therefore, the left of our whole line of battle. Jackson put Ewell in position on your right. He seemed to think that A. P. Hill was to drive the enemy into his corps. But in
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Lee's attacks north of the Chickahominy. (search)
move on free from its terrific fire, when it was again retaken by the enemy. This refers to the battle around the McGehee house, the right of Porter's line under command of General George Sykes. The latter gives an account of the contest with Hill differing from that of the Confederate generals. He says: It was now 5:30 P. M. The enemy still continued to pour in fresh troops against 4500 men who had baffled him at every point since 11 o'clock in the morning. The excess of strength comect a position for a more obstinate defense, when at dark, under the pressure of our batteries,--which had then begun to play with marked effect upon the left,--of the other concurring events of the field, and of the bold and dashing charge of General Hill's infantry, in which the troops of Brigadier-General C. S. Winder joined, the enemy yielded the field and fled in disorder. I have always believed that this was the first break in the Federal line; it disposed of Sykes's division of regula
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., McClellan's change of base and Malvern Hill. (search)
es this account of the charge of my gallant division: Hill advanced alone against the Federal positions. . . . He had The latter joined its musketry fire to the cannonade when Hill's first line had come within range, and threw it back in diturn. The remembrance of Cold Harbor doubles the energy of Hill's soldiers. They try to pierce the line, sometimes at one s time, Whiting on the left, and Huger on the right, suffer Hill's soldiers to become exhausted without supporting them. Ne to make them march against the enemy. ... At seven o'clock Hill reorganized the debris of his troops in the woods; . . . hiy did not arrive in time to render the desired assistance. Hill was therefore compelled to abandon part of the ground that that part of the field we were then in. I suggested to General Hill the advantage of making an attack on this battery, and r of the darkness we could approach them undiscovered. General Hill did not seem inclined to make the movement. The chi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 8.58 (search)
wagons, 350 ambulances, 13,000 horses and mules; then 89,407 officers and men, 360 guns, and 13,000 artillery and cavalry horses, together with the baggage and stores in use; but in order to hasten the movement this routine was not rigidly observed, and the movement of Peck's division (ordered to move last) of 7581 men and 10 guns was countermanded by General Halleck.--Editors. at which date there was nothing of Lee's army, except D. H. Hill's corps, left in front of McClellan or near to him. Hill's corps could have opposed but little effective resistance to the advance of the Army of the Potomac upon Richmond. It seems clear, then, that the views expressed to the President and Secretary of War, as heretofore set forth, were sound, and that the enemy Retreat of the Union troops across the Rappahannock at Rappahannock Station. After a sketch made at the time. had left McClellan to work his will on Richmond, while they pushed forward against the small army under my command and to t
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Marching on Manassas. (search)
Marching on Manassas. by W. Roy Mason, Major, C. S. A. On the 23d of August, as our brigade (Field's, of Hill's division) was passing through an oak forest several miles from our starting-point in the morning, General Field and his staff riding leisurely at its head, we were hailed by General Fitzhugh Lee, who, with his staff, had alighted on one side of the road. He requested us to dismount, as he had something to show us. He then slipped behind a big oak-tree, and, in a moment or two, emerged dressed in the long blue cloak of a Federal general that reached nearly down to his feet, and wearing a Federal general's hat with its big plume. This masquerade was accompanied by a burst of jolly laughter from him that might have been heard for a hundred yards. We inquired as to what this meant, and he told us that the night before he had made a raid upon Pope's Headquarters, near Catlett's Station, with orders to capture him. He had surrounded his tent, but upon going in had found only
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The battle of South Mountain, or Boonsboro‘ (search)
rland's brigade when G. B. Anderson arrived at the head of his small but fine body of men. General Hill in his official report thus describes the posting of his forces after the defeat of Garland: William L. De Rosset, Colonel of the 3d North Carolina regiment, in which, after stating that General Hill disclaims any intention of reflecting on Ripley's brigade in this statement, the writer says: The facts are these: He [General Hill] correctly states Ripley's manoeuvres at Boonsboro' until we reached a position at the foot of the mountain,--on the west side,--when General Ripley said tthrough my neglect or carelessness. In a letter to the editors, dated February 24th, 1888, General Hill says: I went into Maryland under Jackson's command. I was under his command when Lee's order, 1.5,000. According to Colonel W. H. Taylor, adjutant-general of the Army of Northern Virginia, Hill had less than 5000 ; 6 brigades of Longstreet engaged numbered 4900,--total, 9900 (with 2 of Long
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