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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 32: (search)
service as Brevet Second Lieutenant of Infantry, July first, 1850; was Captain Seventh Infantry, March third, 1855; and appointed Captain Assistant Quartermaster, March eighth, 1858. This gentleman's labors are beyond all praise. When we were appointed to our several posts, what did these much-abused doctors find? Hundreds of sick, lying on the bare ground; no hospitals, but simple tents to withstand the weather; and oftentimes not a grain of medicine of any kind on hand, nearer than Richmond! And how stood matters in the capital? All in confusion, and short of supplies. In the hurry of the first months, hundreds of so-called doctors thronged the city in quest of preferment, and to my own knowledge — either from incapacity or carelessness — the heads of the Medical Department appointed scores of men who could scarcely write their own names, or tell the difference between salts and strychnine — impostors who brought disgrace upon an honorable profession, and were unfitted to a<
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 33: (search)
Chapter 33: June twenty-sixth commencement of the week's campaign before Richmond battles of Mechanicsville, Beaver Dam Creek, and Ellison's Mills terrific battle scene preparations for a further advance. The reader may picture t the force of Milroy, Shields, Banks, Fremont, and McDowell, which were primarily intended to advance from the west upon Richmond, and cooperate with McClellan on the east in reducing our capital, are scattered up and down the Valley, strategically, grand action was inevitable, for Jackson's movements from Gordonsville were rapid, and fully known to half the people of Richmond. On Wednesday, June, twenty-fifth, it was rumored that he had reached Hanover Court-House, fifteen miles to the right a thicket and bush to our front. Ambulances, carriages, and litters were busy in collecting and conveying the wounded to Richmond; prisoners were collected, spoil secured, and various divisions put in proper order and position for Friday's operations
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 34: (search)
Chapter 34: The week's campaign before Richmond, continued battle of Gaines's Mill sketches of the Generals previous to the battle position of Jackson advance of Wilcox, Featherstone, and Pryor the centre under Ambrose Hill the Texan brigade brought into action McClellan's infantry charge defeat of his right not more than a mile distant, with camp-fires burning; while rockets ascending in the star-lit sky, were communicating with Heintzelman and the left wing before Richmond on the south bank. The field was rich in booty. I myself counted fifteen magnificent brass and bronze field-pieces, pointed south-west and north-west, with the poor fellows for securing clothing of some kind; the greater number of them were ragged and dirty, and wearing-apparel could not be obtained at any price in Richmond. It was grotesque to wee a tall, well-developed Southerner attired in clothes much too small, but the men themselves were delighted with the change, and strutt
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 35: (search)
d stores during the action public feeling at Richmond McClellan begins his retreat to the James rie, and will undoubtedly retreat towards the James River. Such was the current of my thoughts wh waiting for McClellan's triumphal entry into Richmond to transport their stocks, and philanthropicamany large houses sent confidential agents to Richmond to effect sales a few days before the time as nearly choked with vexation when arrested in Richmond, and compelled to see hundreds of Federal priamp again as soon as possible. The people of Richmond, however, seemed perfectly easy in their mindity and Darbytown roads in the direction of James River, so as to come up with the enemy in that quled Frazier's Farm, about eighteen miles from Richmond, (three miles from James River and their gunboated in triumph over the captured capital at Richmond! While our troops were thus cautiously ad rumors that reenforcements have arrived in James River. We doubt much, however, whether effectual[10 more...]
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 36: (search)
by cannon, while all attempts to flank their left would meet with broadsides from the gunboats at Curl's Neck, in the James River, two and a half miles distant. Nothing daunted, Hill sent word to the rear for our artillery to hurry forward, andin April, 1862, according to orders, and served, as we have shown, at Seven pines, and during the week's campaign before Richmond. The army has spoken bitterly of his slowness, and he was removed from active operations, and appointed Chief of Ordnanment in the shade, and rushed together in the deadly shock of battle. Standing near Frazier's house and looking towards Richmond, the land gradually falls, but at this spot more abruptly; so that the enemy drawn up in battle array on the open farm, other, and close up with his rear-guard in the very face of his gunboats! Still they shout with stentorian lungs, On to Richmond! Victory! Victory! Another great battle! another big smash — up of the rebels! etc. Truly this battle was more tha
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 37: (search)
re he wanted them, and should be able to take Richmond much more speedily than before. They did notfor he intended to destroy us, and push on to Richmond. These prisoners told a doleful tale of affalearing of the rear, and of a speedy march to Richmond. When Porter's right wing was driven out of h at our right, feeble as it was, and capture Richmond in one day, before we had time to re-cross anand other generals began moving towards the James River on Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, and nk McClellan was fooling them, and that on to Richmond was a hoax! The consequence of this convictiniously marched them to his lines in front of Richmond! In a few days the week's campaign opened, ahat he had effected an inglorious flight to James River, there to embark for parts unknown. The Fiwhen an official telegram ordered him back to Richmond to answer a charge of drunkenness, etc., at Mhe south bank captured the former, who were immediately sent to the tobacco-warehouses of Richmond.
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 38: (search)
cent fatigue, business called me from camp to Richmond. I did not observe signs of any jubilation o coming up to form a grand army to advance on Richmond from the west. Jackson was at Winchester witture both standards! I saw them brought into Richmond by a cavalry escort, not less than two hundreent date we learn that since the battles near Richmond, certain Irishmen at Old Point have hauled upenty thousand men, he was considerably nearer Richmond than ever, and that his change of base would ense numbers of transports assembled in the James River, and it was determined to try our rifled arrkeley and operate on the south side of the James River. Our infantry were withdrawn a few miles iallow the gunboats to proceed up the river to Richmond. He was closely watched by Lee, who had alsos were entertained of Pope's movement towards Richmond, and that he had made extravagant boasts of hentions to turn the tide of fortune, and sack Richmond in an incredibly brief time. But as this [2 more...]
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 39: (search)
to harmless citizens. Driving in our pickets, they had occupied the northern end of the New-Orleans and Memphis Railroad; they had also seized Memphis, sunk our little improvised fleet of gunboats there, after a noble fight, in which we inflicted considerable loss; had pushed along the Charleston and Mississippi Railroad, the west end of which they occupied; and had camped about three miles from Corinth. This was a startling position for us truly! Our main railroad communication with Richmond, via Chattanooga, in the enemy's possession, and we obliged to travel many hundred miles round by way of Mobile, Alabama, and Georgia, to keep the communication open! As there are but two lines of railroad, both had been taxed to the utmost before this disaster. What could we do with but one, while the enemy had several outlets by land and river communication as well for advance as supplies? To add to our misfortunes, Corinth was a wretched site for a camp, utterly destitute of water, go
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 40: (search)
anks battle of Cedar Mountain. Despite the manoeuvring of McClellan's forces south of the James River, and the threatened advance of Burnside from Suffolk and Norfolk, as if to form a junction anrfectly known to us and the value of Gordonsville fully appreciated; for the only two routes to Richmond and the South united there, and, if. once strongly garrisoned by the enemy, they would circumscrs to move, some imagined merely a change of camps, or some such indifferent movement; yet when Richmond was left far to the south, and the column proceeded rapidly in a north-western direction, many fficers, and upwards of three hundred other prisoners, had been marched to the rear and sent to Richmond. The officers, indeed, were handcuffed and treated in the exact manner prescribed for the rebee over the Rapidan, and there await the main army, which all knew was now rapidly marching from Richmond to cooperate with him. McClellan, we were informed, had effected his — escape from Harrison's L
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 41: (search)
erest fighting had been done by them. They had been force-marched, they said, to get up in time, and though exhausted, were thrust into the most dangerous positions, and oftentimes left without supports. The loss among their field officers had been great, and whole brigades were so 10th to engage, that they broke up on the instant of confronting us. McClellan's men, we were told, were heartily sick of the war — all their hopes and ambition had been completely broken in the campaign before Richmond, and they possessed little heart to engage us again so soon, particularly under the leadership of such a granny as Pope. In fact, said an officer to me, this Manassas No. 2 bids fair to rival No. 1-the ground seems fatal to us-we have been led out by John Pope to-day for wholesale slaughter; unless McClellan comes to its instant relief with some additional corps, you may rely upon it, our retreat will turn into a perfect rout. Having orders to proceed from the centre to our right, I had
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