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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 78 (search)
F. Butler, and Colonel John Owen, reported to have been murdered in Missouri, by order of Major-General Pope, were those referred to. I had the honor to be informed by Major-General McClellan that hefor the convenience and use of the army without compensation. A general order issued by Major-General Pope, on the twenty-third of July last, the day after the date of the cartel, directs the murdeanying general order, which I am directed by the President to transmit to you, recognizing Major-General Pope and his commissioned officers to be in the position which they have chosen for themselves our right of retaliation on the innocent, and will continue to treat the private soldiers of General Pope's army as prisoners of war; but if, after notice to your Government that they confine repressis it his desire to extend to any other forces of the United States the punishment merited by General Pope and such commissioned officers as choose to participate in the execution of his infamous orde
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 84 (search)
the mean time another Federal army under Major-General Pope advanced southward from Washington and curpose of cooperating with the movements of General Pope. To meet the advance of the latter, and istance was promised should the progress of General Pope put it in our power to strike an effectual determined to assume the offensive against General Pope, whose army, still superior in numbers, layithdrew. Learning that only a portion of General Pope's army was at Culpeper Court-House, Generalreenforce General Jackson, and advance upon General Pope. Accordingly, on the thirteenth August, Madirected to cut the railroad in the rear of General Pope's army, crossed the Rappahannock on the mor, part of which had already marched to join General Pope, and it was reported that the rest would soon follow. The captured correspondence of General Pope confirmed this information, and also disclossburgh. The armies of Generals McClellan and Pope had now been brought back to the point from whi[5 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
passing through the thicket and the ravines, halting and re-forming my line at different points, as I retired, to the point where our second line of battle was formed early in the afternoon. Here I deployed the remnant of my command as skirmishers, for the purpose of stopping tho scattered of the brigade, expressly those of my regiment, and intending to hold the enemy in check as best I could, should he advance at this point. After making these dispositions, I despatched my Adjutant, Captain T. J. Pope, to the rear, to report to any general officer he might find, in case he did not meet with either General Kershaw or General McLaws, the condition of things in front, and the position I had taken, and to request orders. He reported to General Pender, who ordered me to hold my position. Shortly afterward, General Kershaw came back to the same point with a portion of the Second South Carolina regiment. By his order, I still held my position, collecting and giving directions to many sc
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 87 (search)
on the nineteenth day of July. From information received respecting the strength of the opposing Federal army, under General Pope, I requested the commanding General to reenforce me. He accordingly sent forward Major-General A. P. Hill, with his digret to say that, during the engagement, Major Marshall was captured. Having received information that only part of General Pope's army was at Culpeper Court-House, and hoping, through the blessing of Providence, to be able to defeat it before reeder to avoid being attacked by the vastly superior force in front of me, and with the hope that, by thus falling back, General Pope would be induced to follow me until I should be reenforced. The conduct of officers and men during the battle merit is an outline of the part played by the Forty-seventh Alabama regiment, in the late action between Generals Jackson's and Pope's forces, near Culpeper Court-House. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. W. Jackson, Lieutenant
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
pturing many prisoners, personal baggage of General Pope, and his despatch book, containing informatand between Washington City and the army of General Pope, and to break up his railroad communicationaving just seen two intercepted despatches from Pope to McDowell, ordering the formation of his lines force was superior in numbers to ours; but as Pope had evidently, with his main body, reached the day, that Burnside had effected a junction with Pope before the retreat, and that the enemy had crosnd ascertained that the chief Quartermaster and Pope's Aid-de-camp, (Colonel L. H. Marshall,) narrow same fate. The men of the command had secured Pope's uniform, his horses and equipments money chess, and designs of the enemy, and disclosing General Pope's own views against his ability to defend ttain capture, as it has since appeared from General Pope's report that he had brought up his whole fwell had a brisk engagement with the advance of Pope's army, moving from Warrenton in the direction [5 more...]