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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 5: Seven Pines or fair Oaks (search)
Chapter 5: Seven Pines or fair Oaks Drury's Bluff. the situation. attack planned. Johnston's plan changed. Johnston's problem. battle of Seven Pines or fair Oaks. a misunderstanding. Longstreet's mistake. Huger delayed. Huger unjustly blamed. signal given. Hill's battle in brief. losses. Reenforcements. reports. Wilcox's report. Couch's position. Johnston's battle. Whiting's advance. a second attack. Johnston wounded. G. W. Smith in command. Smith's battle, JunSeven Pines or fair Oaks. a misunderstanding. Longstreet's mistake. Huger delayed. Huger unjustly blamed. signal given. Hill's battle in brief. losses. Reenforcements. reports. Wilcox's report. Couch's position. Johnston's battle. Whiting's advance. a second attack. Johnston wounded. G. W. Smith in command. Smith's battle, June. the Confederates withdraw. Lee placed in command. Resume. staff and organization. artillery service. Davis and Johnston. Meanwhile, Norfolk had now been evacuated by our forces, which were withdrawn at first to Petersburg and then to Richmond. Our ironclad, the Virginia (the old Merrimac), drawing too much water to ascend the James, had been blown up. This river was now open to the Federal fleet, except for some hurriedly built batteries at Drury's Bluff, about six miles below Rich
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, chapter 8 (search)
ght now to bear the brunt of the fighting. The italics are mine. This last expression is but another form of a rumor which, to my knowledge, had private circulation at the time among the staff-officers of some of the leading generals. It was reported that Jackson had said that he did not intend that his men should do all the fighting. Jackson's troops (his own and Ewell's divisions) had had a sharp campaign in the Valley, but the rest of the army at Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Seven Pines had suffered just as many hardships, and done even more severe fighting, as the casualties will attest. There were no arrears to be made up. The total killed and wounded of Jackson's six brigades in the Valley campaign from Kernstown (March 23) to Port Republic (June 9) were but 2311. Three brigades—Rodes's, Garland's, and G. B. Anderson's of D. H. Hill's division—had had killed and wounded the first day at Seven Pines 2621. During the Seven Days they lost 2277 more, while Jackson's six
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 13: Sharpsburg or Antietam (search)
tly withdrawn and added to McLaws's division. McLaws's four brigades, about 3000 strong, were directed to the woods behind the Dunker Church, under the guidance of Hood, who was acquainted with the ground. At the time of this lull in the firing, it was, perhaps, a little after nine o'clock. Sumner had been impatient at the three hours delay imposed upon his corps, and, as he listened to the tremendous musketry and artillery of the two first combats, he doubtless recalled the field of Seven Pines, where he had arrived in time to save the battle. His corps had not fought at 2d Manassas, and consequently it was large, numbering in its nine brigades over 17,000 men. It came upon the field led by Sedgwick's three brigades in column of brigade front. Sumner rode with this division. French's and Richardson's divisions followed in echelon to the left and rear. Before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, Sumner afterward testified as follows: — On going upon the field I found