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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 2 (search)
of retreat, and if cut off from that, his only chance of escape was by difficult roads over the mountains, eastward. Five miles below Garnett's main position at Laurel Hill, a road from the west passes through this spur at a defile known as Rich Mountain, and strikes the main road. To guard this approach against any menace directed upon his line of retreat, Garnett had placed here his second in command, Colonel Pegram, with a force of about one thousand men. McClellan, whose line of march wae the enemy the impression that the main attack was to be made by him. The 8th, Mc-Clellan, with the brigades of Rosecrans and Scheich, moved eastward from Buchanon, and on the following afternoon came within two miles of Pegram's position at Rich Mountain. Having reconnoitred it, he resolved, instead of making a direct attack, to hold one of his brigades in front, while he sent Rosecrans by a detour by the right and southward, to lay hold of the enemy's main line of retreat, the turnpike, and
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
t, 386. Kilpatrick's raid towards Richmond, 399. Kinglake, Mr., on English public sentiment on the Crimean war, 68. Laurel Hill, Virginia, Garnett's position at, 35; McClellan's plan of attack, 37; abandoned by Garnett, 38; see also Rich Mountain. Lee, General Robert E., appointed major-general, and commander of the Virginia forces, 26; defence of West Virginia, 34; on the poor discipline of the army, 67; appointed to Army of Northern Virginia, 142; withdraws Jackson from Shenandoa Appomattox Courthouse, 617; Lee's attempt to cut through Sheridan's lines at Appomattox Courthouse, 617; Lee's surrender, 618; Lee's surrender, opening of correspondence between Grant and Lee, 618. Reynolds, General, the death of, 330. Rich Mountain, Pegram defeated by Rosecrans, 38. Richmond the objective point of the war, 17; the lines of advance to wards in 1861, 22; what a direct march on would have effected, 147; outer line of redoubts pierced by Kilpatrick, 400; merits of plans