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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 8 : (search)
Chapter 8:
March to Leesburgh
fertility and beauty of London
we are subjected to manwho mass heavy forces, and endeavor to shell Leesburgh from their superior position.
Within a shettled that we should move up the country to Leesburgh — a stone's throw from the Potomac and Marylwas known, therefore, that we had orders for Leesburgh, London County — the most fertile and richesistance by the river (unnavigable here) from Leesburgh to the Ferry was about forty miles; the landnings!
The whole aspect of the country from Leesburgh to the river, north and east, and far in Mars still standing in the old camp-ground near Leesburgh; next day would find us in some other directlfilled to the letter.
The possession of Leesburgh was, in truth, of paramount importance to us than any other in the State.
The people of Leesburgh had been somewhat disaffected to our cause, ntly shelled, in the vain hope of destroying Leesburgh, which they had not manhood enough to attemp
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 9 : (search)
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 10 : (search)
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 11 : (search)
Chapter 11:
What the enemy did when our forces had left Leesburgh
Plots of Union traitors during our absence
threatened approach of the enemy from Dramy to Maryland
our reenforcements arrive.
While our brigade was away from Leesburgh, and pickets were no longer at the river, many negroes crossed the stream, anhomestead, and was neither insulted nor annoyed by any one.
Our return to Leesburgh caused some speculation, but the answer to all inquiries was, that we were torossed a few days previously, and seeing only a few tents on the outskirts of Leesburgh, had reported that three companies held the town.
About three A. M., Sundetrayed little, yet sufficient to reveal that it was designed to draw us from Leesburgh along the Drainsville road, while Stone crossed-and occupied the town.
Evanssquadron of cavalry were sent out to reconnoitre.
They galloped gaily toward Leesburgh, and passed a company of the Eighteenth ensconced in the woods.
The gay-look
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 12 : (search)
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 13 : (search)
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 14 : (search)
Chapter 14:
The battle of Belmont, on the Mississippi, described in a letter from a friend
the forces of General Pillow surprised by Grant
the Southern troops narrowly escape a defeat
reenforcements from General Polk and Columbus
arrival of Polk on the field
the Federal troops defeated and spoils taken
characters of General Pillow and General Polk compared
misrepresentations of the Northern press.
I had only just returned to my regiment at Leesburgh when I received a letter from a Kentucky friend, serving under General Polk, at Columbus, descriptive of the engagement at Belmont, which had been fought some time before at the village of that name in Missouri:
Columbus, Ky., Nov. 10th, 1861.
Dear Tom: You will, ere this reaches you, have heard more than one account of the late fight at Belmont; but this will satisfy you that I am all right, and ready to have another shake with the Great Anaconda, so much talked of in the North.
In my former letter, I full
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 19 : (search)
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 23 : (search)
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 27 : (search)