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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), chapter 8 (search)
federate infantry eighty-three thousand two hundred and fifty men. The nine regiments of Stuart's cavalry could not count less than four thousand five hundred sabres, nor Pendleton's reserve less than one thousand five hundred artillerists, while the various staffs, escorts and detachments mustered between four and five thousand, making a total of about ninety-four thousand men. We also obtain this figure through another calculation. In the month of July, a few days after the battles of Gaines' Mill, Glendale and Malvern, the army reports exhibited a total of sixty-nine thousand five hundred and fiftyfour men present in the field. By adding the twenty thousand lost in killed, wounded and prisoners in those battles to the first figure, and five thousand crippled or sick incapacitated for active service after a week of forced marches, we still find the figure of ninety-four thousand men as the actual effective force of the Confederate army on the 26th of June. According to detailed
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
he River Road, from which it is only separated by a small ravine, and southward to the ridge that the Plank Road follows, and which it strikes again at the Aldrich house, between the points where the road to Catharine Furnace and the road to Todd's Tavern connect with the Plank Road. Just as Mahone's soldiers were reaching the summit of this hill, Sykes' troops were ascending it from the opposite side. The latter belonged to the regular brigade that we have seen fighting so valiantly at Gaines' Mill the preceding year. Without allowing their adversaries time to take possession of it, they rush upon them and capture the position before they have been able to receive any reinforcement. Sykes, seeing at the first glance the importance of this position, causes the rest of his division to advance at a rapid pace, and, deploying it across the road, takes possession of all the approaches to the hill on the side of Tabernacle Church. It is now about noon. The Confederate generals have
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
se of all the troops assembled in Maryland, without taking into consideration those imaginary divisions in departments which had so frequently embarrassed his predecessors. The first despatch he received from Halleck authorized him to remove at his pleasure the garrison of Harper's Ferry: the forces of Schenck and Couch were also placed under his command. His successor at the head of the Fifth corps was General Sykes, an energetic officer who had particularly distinguished himself at Gaines' Mill. Meade set to work at once on the 28th, without allowing the army time to feel the interregnum. Hooker had informed him that Lee, not having brought along his bridge-equipage, could certainly not think of crossing the Susquehanna with his army, and that, consequently, after having reached that river, his design must be to follow the right bank, so as to cut off Baltimore and Washington from the Northern States. While the enemy was describing this large arc of a circle, the Federal army
The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
aches, fortifying as he move. He takes care to have his front well propelled, and his works are said to be of the most formidable character. It will be seen from the telegraphic summary of Northern news that on Yankee newspaper has the honesty to acknowledge that Grant has been whipped in front of Richmond. The truth will gradually leak not withstanding the efforts of the authorities to conceal it from the people. [from our own correspondent.] Army of Northern Virginia, Near Gaine's Mill, June 12th, 5 P. M. Your readers want to know the situation and what has been done as well as what is likely to be done. Grant still confronts Lee without any essential modifications of his since my last letter. He is strongly fortified, and is at work night and day strengthening his front. His lines are not more than forty yards from ours in some places, and on two points of the lines are the two armies more than one hundred yards than each other. The artillery is occasionally
The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Judge Lyons Court, yesterday. (search)
fficers and men in the sword exercise. Let us hope that this defect will be supplied at as early a day as possible, and that steps be taken to instruct our officers, and through them our men. It is possible, we presume, to make our horsemen amenable to discipline, as well as our infantry. Unless it be done, we do not see that this war may not linger on for a century. Had General Lee had a body of ten thousand disciplined cavalry to throw upon McClellan after the rout at Cold Harbor and Gaines' mill, the Yankee force that fought that battle must have been utterly destroyed. So, after the first battle of Manassas, and the second, and Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness. Military writers in England and France are constantly expressing their surprise that our victories have never been more decisive. It has been because we have had no cavalry to complete a rout. It is disgraceful to us that such a state of things should continue. Let Congress take steps to put an end to it. The wan
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