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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 144 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 142 2 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 134 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 126 2 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 114 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 89 3 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 77 3 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 36 2 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 3.25 (search)
eade; the Sixth by Sedgwick; the Eleventh by Howard; the Twelfth by Slocum, and the cavalry corps by Stoneman. In each corps the badge of thessession of Banks's Ford, foreshadowed in the instructions given to Slocum, would accomplish all that at present could be wished. There werly pushed out on the left over the Banks's Ford and turnpike roads, Slocum and Howard on the right along the Plank road, the left to be near B Hooker that their positions could be held; at least so said Couch, Slocum, and Howard. Until after-dark on May 1st the enemy confined his the extreme right flank. At 9:30 A. M. a circular directed to Generals Slocum and Howard called attention to this movement and to the weakneo know the enemy's strength in front of the Twelfth Corps, advanced Slocum into the thicket, but that officer found the hostile line too well il. Meade, Sickles, Howard, Reynolds, and myself were present; General Slocum, on account of the long distance from his post, did not arrive
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville. (search)
l day General Hooker was at Chancellorsville. Slocum and Hancock were just in his front, infantry aleventh, the right. Sickles connected me with Slocum. Our lines covered between five and six milesnstituted the right wing of the army, Meade's, Slocum's, and mine, had crossed from the north to theeached the vicinity of Chancellorsville, where Slocum, who was the senior commander present, establie Chancellorsville House. There I reported to Slocum. He said that the orders were for me to cover3], and said, Establish your right there. General Slocum promised, with the Twelfth Corps, to occupening his front and his right flank.--editors. Slocum went forward to the aid of Sickles, and Hancocmy come. General Hooker's circular order to Slocum and Howard neither reached me, nor, to my knowrs. From some confused notion it was issued to Slocum and Howard, when Slocum was no longer within ts after Hooker's arrival at Chancellorsville. Slocum, naturally supposing that I had a copy, would [2 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Hooker's comments on Chancellorsville. (search)
movement upon my right. I immediately dictated a dispatch headquarters, army of the Potomac, Chancellorsville, Va., May 2d, 1863, 9:30 A. M. Circular.Major-Generals Slocum and Howard: I am directed by the Major-General commanding to say that the disposition you have made of your corps has been with a view to a front attackHoward states he did not receive at the time. See p. 196. In the Official Records the word circular does not appear, and the address is Major-Generals Howard and Slocum.--editors.] to Generals Slocum and Howard, the latter commanding the Eleventh Corps, which stood upon the extreme right, saying that I had good reason to believe Generals Slocum and Howard, the latter commanding the Eleventh Corps, which stood upon the extreme right, saying that I had good reason to believe that the enemy was moving to our right, and that they must be ready to meet an attack from the west. This was at 9:30 in the morning. In the course of two hours I got a dispatch from General Howard, saying that he could see a column of the enemy moving westward, and that he was taking the precautions necessary to resist an attack
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in the Chancellorsville campaign. (search)
T. Lockman; 75th Pa., Col. Francis Mahler; 26th Wis., Col. William H. Jacobs. Brigade loss: k, 36; w, 219; m, 153 =408. Unattached, 82d Ohio, Col. James S. Robinson. Loss: k, 8; w, 48; m, 25 = 81. Artillery: I, 1st Ohio, Capt. Hubert Dilger. Artillery loss: k, 1; w, 10 = 11. Reserve artillery, Lieut.-Col. Louis Schirmer: 2d N. Y., Capt. Hermann Jahn; K, 1st Ohio, Capt. William L. De Beck; C, 1st W. Va., Capt. Wallace Hill. Reserve artillery loss: w, 3. Twelfth Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. Henry W. Slocum. Staff loss: w, 1. Provost Guard: 10th Me. (battalion), Capt. John D. Beardsley. Loss: w, 2; m, 1 = 3. First division, Brig.-Gen. Alpheus S. Williams. Staff loss: m, 1. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Joseph F. Knipe: 5th Conn., Col. Warren W. Packer (c), Lieut.-Col. James A. Betts, Maj. David F. Lane; 28th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Elliott W. Cook (c), Maj. Theophilus Fitzgerald; 46th Pa., Maj. Cyrus Strous (k), Capt. Ed. L. Witman; 128th Pa., Col. Joseph A. Matthews (c), Maj. Cephas
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The first day at Gettysburg. (search)
ograph. Chambersburg to Carlisle, he ordered, for the next day's moves, the First and Eleventh corps to Gettysburg, under Reynolds, the Third to Emmitsburg, the Second to Taneytown, the Fifth to Hanover, and the Twelfth to Two Taverns, directing Slocum to take command of the Fifth in addition to his own. The Sixth Corps was left at Manchester, thirty-four miles from Gettysburg, to await orders. But Meade, while conforming to the current of Lee's movement, was not merely drifting. The same aft, and to post Steinwehr's division and two batteries on Cemetery Hill, as a rallying-point. By 1 o'clock, when this corps was arriving, Buford had reported Ewell's approach by the Heidlersburg road, and Howard called on Sickles at Emmitsburg and Slocum at Two Taverns for aid, to which both these officers promptly responded. It was now no longer a question of prolonging Doubleday's line, but of protecting it against Ewell whilst engaged in front with Hill. Schurz's two divisions, hardly 6000 e
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Hancock and Howard in the first day's fight. (search)
my dispositions having been completed, Major-General Slocum arrived on the field, and, considering neral Sickles, commanding Third Corps, and General Slocum, commanding Twelfth, informing them of the time, about 1 P. M., near Emmitsburg, and General Slocum reported to be near Two Taverns, distant bexcellent service. I now sent again to General Slocum, stating that my right flank was attacked and several times sent urgent requests to General Slocum to come to my assistance. To every applicssible, a while longer, for I am expecting General Slocum every moment. At this time General Doublespatched Major Howard, my aide-de-camp, to General Slocum, to inform him of the state of affairs, reponsibility of that fight. In justice to. General Slocum, I desire to say that he afterward expressengagement that evening. About 7 P. M. Generals Slocum and Sickles arrived at the cemetery. A f Hancock in command of the left wing. But General Slocum being present, and senior, I turned the co
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.42 (search)
ill. 13. Ziegler's Grove. 14. Meade's headquarters on the Taneytown Road. 15. Slocum's headquarters on Power's Hill. 16. Codori's. 17. Cemetery Ridge. 18. Little s on the alert; and further, from a captured dispatch from General Sykes to General Slocum, that the Fifth Corps was on the Hanover road only four miles off, and woulssigned to places on the line: the Twelfth Corps, General A. S. Williams,--vice Slocum, commanding the right wing,--to Culp's Hill, on Wadsworth's right; Second Corpsnd that the battle would commence before our troops were up. There was a gap in Slocum's line awaiting a division of infantry, and as some demonstrations of Ewell abo. Still there was no hostile movement of the enemy, and General Meade directed Slocum to hold himself in readiness to attack Ewell with the Fifth and Twelfth, so soon as the Sixth Corps should arrive. After an examination Slocum reported the ground as unfavorable, in which Warren concurred and advised against an attack there. T
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.43 (search)
Fifth; Sedgwick, who had arrived during the day with the Sixth, after a long march from Manchester; Howard, Eleventh; and Slocum, Twelfth, besides General Meade, General Butterfield, chief of staff; Warren, chief of engineers; A. S. Williams, Twelfthlf, Second. It will be seen that two corps were doubly represented, the Second by Hancock and myself, and the Twelfth by Slocum and Williams. These twelve were all assembled in a little room not more than ten or twelve feet square, with a bed in onications are cut. 3. Can't wait long; can't be idle. Sedgwick:1. Remain. [2.] and wait attack. [3.] At least one day. Slocum:Stay and fight it out. [On the back, or first page of the sheet]: Slocum stay and fight it out. Newton thinks it Slocum stay and fight it out. Newton thinks it a bad position; Hancock puzzled about practicability of retiring; thinks by holding on inviting The words in italics, noted as illegible in the Official Records, have been deciphered on a careful examination of the original document deposited by C
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The breastworks at Culp's Hill. (search)
eeded in repulsing all the efforts of the enemy to dislodge him. Also, on the same day, in reply to a letter from General Slocum on the subject, General Meade wrote in part: I am willing to admit that, if my attention had been called to thle brigade was this: Map. When Meade ordered the whole of the Twelfth Corps from Culp's Hill to reenforce his left, Slocum ordered my brigade to remain and occupy the breastworks thrown up by the corps. The rest of the corps moved off just befulp's Hill about 1 A. M., long after the fighting had ceased. General Williams, who commanded the Twelfth Corps, and General Slocum, who commanded the right wing, having been advised of the enemy's position, the artillery was placed in position befoker's — the latter being the famous Stonewall Brigade, first commanded by Stonewall Jackson. To the discernment of General Slocum, who saw the danger to which the army would be exposed by the movement ordered, and who took the responsibility of mo
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.53 (search)
orced by that of Rittenhouse's six rifle-guns from Round Top, which were served with remarkable accuracy, enfilading Pickett's lines. The Confederate approach was magnificent, and excited our admiration; but the story of that charge is so well Slocum's headquarters, power's Hill. known that I need not dwell upon it further than as it concerns my own command. The steady fire from McGilvery and Rittenhouse, on their right, caused Pickett's men to drift in the opposite direction, so that the been unsuccessful and would have resulted disastrously. This opinion is founded on the judgment of numerous distinguished officers, after inspecting Lee's vacated works and position. Among these officers I could name Generals Sedgwick, Wright, Slocum, Hays, Sykes, and others. The idea that Lee had abandoned his lines early in the day that he withdrew, I have positive intelligence is not correct, and that not a man was withdrawn until after dark. I mention these facts to remove the impress
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