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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 769 5 Browse Search
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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 11: religious life of Lee's Army (search)
throughout the army, including our battery. He attended some of these wonderful services and we were together as much as possible. I felt the greatest yearning and the strongest hope for him. Suddenly Chancellorsville burst upon us, and as Hooker's really great plan was disclosed we all felt that the next few days were indeed big with fate. Hooker had crossed an immense force at the upper fords of the Rappahannock and Sedgwick was crossing in front of Fredericksburg. All of us were deepHooker had crossed an immense force at the upper fords of the Rappahannock and Sedgwick was crossing in front of Fredericksburg. All of us were deeply stirred; and when night fell and our lines began to grow still, I proposed to Billy that we should walk out to the point of the hill overlooking the wide river bottom and hear, if we could not see, the Federal army getting into position. We did so, and no previous hour of our lives had ever proved as impressive as that which followed. We passed beyond our pickets and continued to walk until we got where the murmur of our lines could no longer be heard, while every movement of Sedgewick's g
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 12: between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville (search)
he Army telegraph President Lincoln's letter Hooker's plan really great, but Lee's audacity and hi or removal of Burnside and the appointment of Hooker as his successor, late in January, and we had n, Washington, D. C., January 26, 1863. Major-General Hooker: General:--I have placed you at the to Chancellorsville, the position selected by Hooker as the base of his main operations and where hck, near Fredericksburg, was confronted by General Hooker, with the Army of the Potomac, one hundredeanwhile, with great celerity and secrecy, General Hooker, with the bulk of his army, crossed at theward so as to put his army between that of General Hooker and the Confederate capital; but leaving G Meanwhile two more army corps had joined General Hooker, who had now about Chancellorsville ninetytle of Fredericksburg, and all during that day Hooker's plan of operations was becoming more and mor developed, and with Sedgwick in our front and Hooker in overwhelming force in the rear of our left
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 13: Chancellorsville (search)
d brother William and Marse Robert Sedgwick Hooker his battle orders his compliment to Lee's A undertook to hold, and did hold, the front of Hooker's 92,000, while Jackson, with the balance of od a part of the thin Confederate line covering Hooker's front, and a most peculiar position it was. e present at least, no more dangerous fight in Hooker, had ridden through to General McLaws' positios to communicate with him; that Lee had beaten Hooker and his calm and self-reliant bearing clearly y and vigorously supported and cooperated with Hooker's plans in this campaign. Both Hooker and WarHooker and Warren reflect seriously upon him for failure to do so, and Early and Fitzhugh Lee, on the Confederate perations, and it may well be, after all, that Hooker's lieutenant has suffered in general estimatioin this the most brilliant of his battles. Hooker's own part in these operations would seem to hated to blind us to the admirable character of Hooker's general plan and his creditable maneuvers in
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 14: from the Rappahannock to the Potomac (search)
the offensive defensive his Army organized into three corps he turns Northward and maneuvers Hooker out of his position on the Rappahannock the battle of Winchester fine work large captures sccance of his two invasions of Northern territory, is what occurred after Chancellorsville. When Hooker retired across the Rappahannock and reoccupied his former position it would manifestly have beens and resourceful leader would have done, gloating over his victory, conceding the initiative to Hooker, and awaiting developments. On the contrary, he proceeded to maneuver his adversary out of a poe drew away from the line of the Rappahannock, leaving Hill, however, for a short time, to watch Hooker, proceeded northward, by way of Culpeper and the Valley of Virginia,--the Second Corps in advanc mountains, to cover their operations. It was about this time that President Lincoln and General Hooker had their famous serpentine telegraphic correspondence: Where is the Rebel army?
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 16: Gettysburg (search)
wn opinions upon most or all of the disputed points; but, while resting upon grounds satisfactory to himself, these opinions are not based upon such a thorough study of the battle as would alone justify the effort to influence the views of others, if indeed such an effort could be regarded as properly within the scope of such a work as this. As usual with great battles, it was not the plan or purpose of either side to fight this one when and where it was fought. Meade, who had succeeded Hooker, had selected a position on Pipe Clay Creek, where he would have concentrated his army-but for the capture of President Dayis' message to General Lee, revealing the fact that he feared to uncover Richmond by detaching Beauregard to threaten Washington as Lee had advised-and Lee had ordered the concentration of his army at Cashtown; but there was this great difference between the circumstances of the two armies. The battle was brought on by the advance of the Federal cavalry, in the discharg
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 17: between Gettysburg and the Wilderness (search)
od at his post in Herculaneum until the lava ran over him. It should be mentioned in his honor that when General Lee, with scant 14,000 muskets, held the front of Hooker's 92,000 at Chancellorsville, McLaws commanded one of the two divisions he had with him. He was a Georgian, and his division, consisting of two Georgia brigado, perhaps during the war, I mentioned to him an estimate of General Meade which I had heard General Lee express, about the time of Meade's appointment to succeed Hooker in command of the Army of the Potomac. I do not now quite see how I could have overheard the remark precisely at the time indicated, but I have no doubt the storhe succeeding autumn upon Virginia soil, in which Meade showed himself to be able and cautious, wary and lithe; incomparably superior to Pope or Burnside, or even Hooker. In October, at Bristoe Station, when we were attempting to outflank him, as we had done Pope, he not only escaped by giving such attention to his lines of retre
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 21: Cold Harbor of 1864. (search)
Chancellorsville in 1863, and again from the Rapidan to Cold Harbor in 1864, cannot but set opposite to the picture just sketched that of Lee holding the front of Hooker's 92,000 with scant 14,000 muskets, while with about one-third (1-3) his numbers he utterly crushed in the right flank and rear of Hooker's great host. It shouldHooker's great host. It should not be forgotten in this connection, and in endeavoring to form a just estimate of Lee's operations throughout this campaign of 1864, that in the death of Jackson, Lee had lost his great offensive right arm, to which, at Chancellorsville and theretofore, he had looked to carry into execution his confounding strategies and his ove, of which different Federal officers have spoken under different names, in expressing their high estimate of the Army of Northern Virginia. It is this which General Hooker terms discipline, in his remarkable testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, already quoted, in the course of which, speaking of Lee's army,
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 24: fatal mistake of the Confederate military authorities (search)
e colonel a lieutenant, on the spot. These incidents require not one word, by way either of explanation or of emphasis. It is easy to see, indeed it would seem impossible not to see, how such instant, responsive, public recognition and reward of merit and of service must inspire and develop an army. What I mean to assert is that the Confederate military authorities — that is, the governing authorities — did absolutely nothing, in this general direction; that we did not have, as General Hooker and other Federal generals testified, material originally inferior which we toned up by admirable training and discipline; but, on the contrary, that the material of our armies, the bulk of our rank and file, was as fine as the world ever saw, as full of military capacity and aptitude and ambition, and that we steadily toned down this superb material by habitual neglect of what is most essential to the development of the soldier. It is needless to say that the Army of Northern Virgin
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Index. (search)
thur James Lyon, 246 From the Rapidan to Richmond, 240- 44, 252-53, 288-89. Front Royal, Va., 192 Gaines, Dr., 303 Gaines' Mill, 303 Hill, Ambrose Powell: mentioned: 105-106, 188; troops of, 41, 168-69, 192, 208-10, 219 Hill, Daniel Harvey, 65-67, 69-72, 91, 158, 204 Hoge, Moses Drury, 318 Hoge, William James, 139 Hoke, Robert Frederick, 158, 270, 274-75, 287 Hollywood Cemetery, 42 Holmes, Theophilus Hunter, 101-102, 107 Hood's Brigade. See--Texas Brigade Hooker, Joseph, 18, 163-66, 174, 178- 80, 191-92, 227-28, 304, 306, 339 Horse supply, 86, 199-200, 210-11, 234-35. Houston, George Smith, 28-29. Huger, Benjamin, 101, 107 Hugo, Victor, 252 Humphreys, Benjamin Grubb, 64, 115, 261, 292 Hunter, David, 308 Hunter, James, 255 Hunter, John, Jr., 195-96. Hunton, Eppa, 62 I'm a good old Rebel, 18 The impending crisis of the South, 26 Irishmen, 160, 212-14, 229-30. Iuka, Miss., 117 Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison (Mrs. Thomas J.),