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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
aird. Captain Ringwalt, a Chester County farmer, has been assigned to me as quartermaster. He is said to be a most respectable and wealthy farmer of Chester County. Tenallytown, September 26, 1861. Yesterday, Baldy Smith Brigadier-General William F. Smith, commanding a division, and an old. Detroit friend of the Meade family. made one of his reconnoissances, and our division was held in readiness all day to move at a moment's notice to support him, in case of emergency. He returned, not attack us. The country is becoming impatient at the apparent inactivity of our troops, and I have no doubt, if the enemy afford McClellan any chance which he deems favorable, he will attack them. I went over to-day to see our friend W. F. Smith, commanding the division next to us. Madame was there, and I went over by invitation to luncheon and to see her. She asked where you were, and I said in Philadelphia, at which she expressed a little surprise, when I told her you had a brigade
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 5 (search)
had heard was Lee's point of concentration, at Shippensburg, but he hoped to intercept some portion of Ewell's force and accompany it to the main army. With this purpose in view, he deemed that the best plan for him to accomplish it would be to push on from Jefferson to Carlisle. On the morning of July 1 he arrived at Dover. Passing through Dillstown, he reached Carlisle on the afternoon of July 1, only to find all Ewell's troops gone and the town occupied by a Federal force under General W. F. Smith, who had been sent forward from Harrisburg by General Couch. Stuart was by this time short of supplies, and both men and horses were thoroughly worn out from constant marching. Carlisle seemed to present an inviting opportunity of obtaining rations for his troops, of which he was not slow to attempt to avail himself. But, unfortunately for him, the presence of the force under Smith at once presented a serious obstacle to his intentions. He demanded the surrender of the town, but
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
s luck has now turned. Headquarters army of the Potomac, 10 P. M., July 20, 1864. I am a good deal amused at your fear that I will become entangled with politicians. You may make your mind easy on that point, as, with the exception of what you write, I have never heard a word breathed on the subject. I rather fancy I should be considered too independent and too intractable for the purposes of any of these gentlemen. Much excitement was created to-day by the announcement that General W. F. Smith, who returned last evening from his sick leave, was this morning relieved from his command of the Eighteenth Corps and ordered to New York. It was only the other day he was assigned by the President to this command, and Butler sent to Fortress Monroe. It appears now the tables are turned—Butler remains and Smith goes. We have had a little rain, which has added greatly to our comfort and allayed somewhat the dust which has been such an annoyance. We are waiting the return of the
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 30 (search)
And about the 12th of July, I should think, in connexion with a brigade of infantry, and some cavalry which I had left to follow the retreat of the enemy through Fairfield pass, and who joined me about that time, I also received under General William F. Smith a portion of General Couch's command, charged with the defences of the Susquehanna, and which General Couch had sent forward after the enemy evacuated Carlisle. General Smith arrived at Boonsboroa with a force of from 4,000 to 5,000 menGeneral Smith arrived at Boonsboroa with a force of from 4,000 to 5,000 men; but he reported to me that those men were entirely new and totally undisciplined, and when I offered to attach him as a division to one of my corps, and put him in the front he advised so strongly against it that I left him in the rear at Boonsboroa. The foregoing are all the re-enforcements which I can now remember of receiving, unless there may have been one or two regiments under General Gordon, which were old and efficient regiments, and which arrived about the 12th or 13th of July. So
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
, 121, 125, 140, 249, 324, 353, 357, 360, 363, 380, 385, 386, 389-391, 393, 394, 398, 401, 409, 410, 413, 417, 419. Smith, Dr., Ashbell, I, 105. Smith, Major, II, 252. Smith, Chas. F., I, 194, 263. Smith, Charles R., I, 336, 377. Smith, G. W., I, 324. Smith, Harrison, I, 220. Smith, J. E., II, 326. Smith, J. L. Kirby, I, 212, 324. Smith, Persifor F., I, 90, 106. Smith, Procter, I, 324, 380. Smith, Wm., II, 50, 54, 57, 61, 79, 81, 84, 99, 102, 122, 129. Smith, Wm. F., I, 220, 224, 229, 248, 277, 284, 328, 329, 341, 346, 353, 360, 362; II, 61, 144, 201, 214, 215, 309, 310, 338, 366. Smyth, Major, II, 270. South Mountain, battle of, Sept. 14, 1862, I, 310; II, 314. Spottsylvania C. H., battle of, May 8-18, 1864, II, 194-197. Sprague, Senator, II, 197. Stahl, J., II, 8. Stanley, Lord, II, 191. Stannard, Geo. J., II, 59. Stanton, Edwin M., I, 243, 244, 265, 271, 327, 338, 344, 388; II, 150, 160, 169, 178, 183-186, 189, 196, 203,