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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 5: the week of flying fights. (search)
de of the Appomattox, directing their course towards Amelia Court House on the Danville Railroad about equidistant from Richarning that Lee was trying to assemble his army near Amelia Court House, ordered the Fifth Corps to make all dispatch for Jeey had been heading off Lee from his nearest road to Amelia Court House, and precedence being given the cavalry in order, ound had he not been sent off by Grant and Sheridan to Amelia Court House whence Lee had already fled? For it was well known come habitual. Assured by him that Lee's army is at Amelia Court House, Grant orders Meade to move out in that direction ineight, when Griffin learns that Lee's army is not at Amelia Court House, having left there on the evening before, and being rmy corps. The passage reads: When the move towards Amelia Court House had commenced that morning, I ordered Wright's Corpsing more of detail. When Meade had been sent off to Amelia Court House on the morning of the 6th, Sheridan sent his cavalry
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 7: the return of the Army. (search)
e my name, which if braced with an aristocratic y in the last syllable stood high he said in that section. Much might have happened if my ancestors had not prided themselves in straight lines and in not striking below the belt. So they held to the simple iota in writing out their long name. Therefore I could not claim honors and he waived the demand, offering a fresh mint julep to settle accounts, but this exception did not prove the rule. The Second Corps had now come by way of Amelia Court House and the Danville Road, and on the morning of the sixth we prepared to pass through Richmond. These two corps were all; the Ninth had been set loose again from our army and was sent to Alexandria; the Sixth had been sent back to the Danville Road to take care of the North Carolina communications. Our corps was formed in numerical order of divisions; this gave me the head of the column although the junior commander. The artillery followed the infantry. No other wheeled vehicles were