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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.58 (search)
The Meade-Sickles controversy. see also the preceding article.--editors. I. A letter from e against the charges and insinuations of Generals Sickles and Butterfield is to be found in my testjoined his corps. Now my first orders to General Sickles were to relieve the Twelfth Corps divisiok times of August 14th, 1886. revised by General Sickles for this work, June 26th. 1888.--editors.confidential letter to Colonel Benedict: When Sickles came to my headquarters about noon and said hill not last long. General Meade proceeds: Sickles's movement practically destroyed his own corpral Hunt, my chief-of-artillery, to accompany Sickles and examine and inspect such positions as GenGeneral Sickles thought good for artillery, and to give General Sickles the benefit of his judgment. General Sickles the benefit of his judgment. General Meade's general instructions to me were all verbal and extremely vague and indefinite. ACommittee on the Conduct of the War, that General Sickles did what he thought was for the best, but[15 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st-3d, 1863. (search)
33 = 714. artillery Brigade, Capt. John G. Hazard: B, 1st N. Y. (14th N. Y. Battery attached), Lieut. Albert S. Sheldon (w), Capt. James McKay Rorty (k), Lieut. Robert E. Rogers; A, 1st R. I., Capt. William A. Arnold; B, 1st R. I., Lieut. T. Fred. Brown (w), Lieut. Walter S. Perrin; I, 1st U. S., Lieut. George A. Woodruff (m w), Lieut. Tully McCrea; A, 4th T. S., Lieut. Alonzo H. Cushing (k), Sergt. Frederick Fuger. Brigade loss: k, 27; w, 119; m, 3 = 149. Third Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles (w), Maj.-Gen. David B. Birney. Staff loss: w, 2. First division, Maj.-Gen. David B. Birney, Brig.-Gen. J. H. Hobart Ward. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Charles K. Graham (w and c), Col. Andrew H. Tippin: 57th Pa. (8 co's), Col. Peter Sides (w), Capt. Alanson H. Nelson; 63d Pa., Maj. John A. Danks; 68th Pa., Col. Andrew H. Tippin, Capt. Milton S. Davis; 105th Pa., Col. Calvin A. Craig; 114th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Frederick F. Cavada (c), Capt. Edward R. Bowen: 141st Pa., Col. Henry
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
desire for the preservation of peace, that the people of the Free-labor States were ready to make every reasonable sacrifice for its sake. The most important of these conciliatory suggestions were made by Representatives John Cochrane and Daniel E. Sickles, of New York; Thomas C. Hindman, of Arkansas; Clement L. Vallandigham, of Ohio; and John W. Noell, of Missouri. Mr. Cochrane, who was afterward a general in the National Army, fighting the Slave interest in rebellion, and also a candidat coerce a Sovereign State into obedience to it would be levying war upon a substantial power, and would precipitate a dissolution of the Union. Proceedings of Congress, December 12, 17, and 24, 1860, reported in the Congressional Globe. Mr. Sickles, who afterward fought the secessionists in arms, as a commanding general, and lost a leg in the fray, proposed an amendment declaring that when a State, in the exercise of its sovereignty, should secede, the Government of the United States sho
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
people. Coincident with these manifestations were the strong convictions of Holt, Dix, and Attorney-General Stanton of his Cabinet. The secret history of these public demonstrations of a desire to hold Fort Sumter has been given by General Daniel E. Sickles, in a brief eulogy of Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War during a greater portion of Mr. Lincoln's Administration. Toward evening, on one of the gloomy days in the winter of 1861, says Sickles, the Attorney-General [Stanton] sent for onSickles, the Attorney-General [Stanton] sent for one of the representatives in Congress from New York, and informed him that unless the public opinion of the North was instantly manifested, the President would yield to the demand of South Carolina, and order Major Anderson back from Sumter to Moultrie. It was decided at once that an envoy should go to the principal Northern cities and announce that the President had decided to maintain Anderson in Sumter at all hazards. 4 Fire some powder, said Stanton; all we can do yet is to fire blank ca
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
e had extended and strengthened his fortifications in rear of Fredericksburg, and constructed a system of elaborate works along his whole front reaching from Banks's Ford to Port Royal, more than twenty-five miles. Chancellorsville, by Hotchkiss and Allan, page 15. Even with his superior force Hooker's army was composed of seven corps, and comprised twenty-three divisions. The First Corps was commanded by General J. F. Reynolds; the Second, by General D. N. Couch; the Third, by General D. E. Sickles; the Fifth, by General G. G. Meade; the Sixth, by General J. Sedgwick; the Eleventh, by General O. O. Howard, and the Twelfth, by General H. W. Slocum. The division commanders were Generals J. S. Wadsworth J. C. Robinson, A. Doubleday, W. S. Hancock, J. Gibbon, W. H. French, D. D. Birney, H. G. Berry, A. W. Whipple, W. T. H. Brooks, A. P. Howe, J. Newton, C. Griffin, G. Sykes, A. A. Humphreys, C. Devens, A. Von Steinwehr, C. Schurz, S. Williams, J. W. Geary, A. Pleasanton, J. Buford
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
lvania Reserves, composed of his own (First), Sickles's (Third), and Howard's (Eleventh), to push ops, followed by Howard's, and having those of Sickles and Slocum within call. The sound of fire-ary for the cause, Howard had called early upon Sickles and Slocum for aid, and both had promptly resth of Reynolds, and the peril of the troops. Sickles was perplexed for a moment. It was full thressible. Sykes was tardy in sending help to Sickles. Birney sent an officer to him to urge him tat line. When it fell back, the remainder of Sickles's Corps (Humphrey's division and Graham's bri guns. In this onset Willard was killed, and Sickles had a leg so shattered that he lost it. Birne, simultaneously with Longstreet's assault on Sickles. But it was sunset before he began. Then henals the previous day, and also that on which Sickles offered battle. these partial successes, saihe Emmettsburg road, from which he had driven Sickles. Lee's General plan of attack was unchanged,[16 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
nder than McClellan was his competitor in the race for the prize of victory. His heavy columns pressed on near the mountain passes, and Buford, who, with his cavalry, had pushed well up into Manassas Gap, thought he discovered the presence of a greater part of Lee's army there and at Front Royal, and reported accordingly. Meade, believing it to be Lee's intention to press through the Gap, ordered a large part of his army to march upon it, at the same time directing French, with the Third (Sickles's) Corps, then guarding Ashby's Gap, to hasten forward to the support of Buford, who was calling for re-enforcements. This was done with so much rapidity, that the corps reached Piedmont before dark. Birney's division, temporarily under the command of General Hobart Ward, was sent immediately forward to Buford's aid, followed by the remainder of the corps, and on the following day July 24, 1863. there was a warm engagement at Wapping's Heights, where the Third and Fourth Maine--Kearney's
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
r army, the victor in the Shenandoah Valley was substantially rewarded by a commission to fill his place. The writer, with friends already mentioned (Messrs. Buckingham and Young), visited the theater of Sheridan's exploits in the Shenandoah Valley, from the Opequan and Winchester to Fisher's Hill, early in October, 1866. See page 400, volume II. We left Gettysburg in a carriage, for Harper's Ferry, on the morning of the first, and followed the line of march of the corps of Howard and Sickles, when moving northward from Frederick, in the summer of 1863. See page 59. We passed through the picturesque region into which the road to Emmettsburg led us, with the South Mountain range on our right, dined at Creagerstown, twenty miles from Gettysburg, and rode through Frederick toward evening, stopping only long enough to make the sketch of Barbara Freitchie's house. See page 466, volume II. Then we passed along the magnificent Cumberland road over the lofty mountain range west of
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
over the veto, repealing so much of an act of July 17, 1862, as gave the President power to grant amnesty and pardon to those who had been engaged in the Rebellion. A bill was also passed, with the same opposition from the President, for the military government of the disorganized States. Those States were divided into five military districts, and the following commanders were appointed: First District, Virginia, General J. M. Schofield; Second District, North and South Carolina, General D. E. Sickles; Third District, Georgia, Florida and, Alabama, General J. Pope; Fourth District, Mississippi and Arkansas, General E. O. C. Ord; Fifth District, Louisiana and Texas, General P. H. Sheridan. The Thirty-Ninth Congress closed its last session on the 3d of March, and the Fortieth Congress began its first session immediately thereafter. In view of the conduct of the President, which threatened the country with revolution, this action of the National Legislature was necessary for the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
e battle, 2.278-2.283; visit of the author to the battle-field of, 2.284-2.287; victory claimed by Beauregard,. 2.284; results of the battle of, 2.288. Shiloh Meeting-House, Sherman posted near, 2.263. Ship Island, the rendezvous of the New Orleans expedition, 2.325-2.328. Shreveport expedition under Gen. Banks, 3.251-3.269. Sibley, Col. Henry H., movements of in New Mexico, 2.186; compelled to surrender by Van Dorn, 1.272; sent against Sioux Indians in Minnesota, 3.225. Sickles, Daniel E., amendment to the Constitution proposed by, 1.88; at the battle of Chancellorsville, 3.30, 33; at the battle of Gettysburg, 3.68; severely wounded, 3.68. Sigel, Gen., his pursuit of Price in Missouri, 2.42; his retreat to Springfield, 2.44; at the battle of Wilson's Creek, 2.51; at the battle of Pea Ridge, 2.255; defeat of near New Market by Breckinridge, 3.314. Signaling, methods of (note), 3.547. Sioux Indians, troubles with in Minnesota, 3.224. Slave-Labor States, upris
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