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Charles City (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
at he was needed at the James River. At about 10:30 in the morning, as near as I can now recollect, I accompanied General McClellan to the intersection of the Charles City and Quaker roads, about two miles from the White Oak Bridge. I found General Slocum's division posted somewhat in rear of the intersection of those roads, andbattle of Glendale or Frayser's farm. The small force at Brackett's Ford defeated an attack at that point, some time during the day. At the junction of the Charles City and Quaker roads General McClellan had a conference with the corps commanders (Sumner, Heintzelman, and Franklin), and when it was ended he went toward the Jamtion seems to make it imperative that he should have done. A short time after I separated from General McClellan (as mentioned above) at the junction of the Charles City and Quaker roads, I bade farewell to the Prince de Joinville, who told me that he and his nephews were about to leave us and return to Europe. He had always b
Franklin (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
, which, however, was soon silenced. This day's operations of Smith's division were known as The action at Golding's [or Garnett's] farm. The position held by General Smith's division was about one and one-half miles from the Gaines's Mill field; and, possibly because the interval was The retreat from the Chickahominy. From a sketch made on the field at the time. The scene is near McClellan's headquarters at Dr. Trent's farm, before daylight on Sunday, June 29th; the Sixth Corps (Franklin's) is falling back; the fires are from the burning of commissary stores and forage; the artillery in position covers the approaches from the Chickahominy, the artillerymen resting underneath the guns. The regiment in the middle-ground is the 16th New York, who wore straw hats in this campaign, and were, partly in consequence, such conspicuous targets for the enemy that in the Severn Days' fighting they lost 228 men.--Editors. filled with dense timber, not a gun of the Gaines's Mill battle
White Oak Swamp (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
intzelman's, and then, on the extreme left reaching to White Oak Swamp, General Keyes's corpse. General Heintzelman's corpo part in holding the line on June 29th, as it crossed White Oak Swamp early in the day. The battle of Savage's Station. its exhaustion, General McClellan ordered it to cross White Oak Swamp at once, and it accordingly left its position. Througor the passage of trains, artillery, and troops across White Oak Swamp. The Confederate force engaged in this fight was cl at the river. The rear of the army also had crossed White Oak Swamp, leaving the way clear to the James River, while at thrapevine Bridge. On the north (the enemy's) side of White Oak Swamp, the road for more than a quarter of a mile approachesGeneral Sumner that I should move The rear-guard at White Oak Swamp — showing General W. F. Smith's division. Drawn by Juys: Jackson having been unable to force the passage of White Oak Swamp, Longstreet and A. P. Hill were without the expected s
Malvern Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
n, after an hour, to march. General Henry M. Naglee was to follow Smith's division. These instructions were carried out, and the command arrived at the James about daylight. The discovery of this road made the concentration of the troops at Malvern Hill a completed manoeuvre by noon of the 1st of July, and was due to the fertile brain of General Smith, who ordered the exploration. The military results of the defense of White Oak Bridge and the battle of Glendale were: (1) The enemy was repore than four thousand), the road along which they passed not having been molested by the enemy; (3) The troops arrived in good time at the river, so that they were all in the positions desired by the commanding general, to await the attack at Malvern Hill, long before that attack was made. General Jackson in his report intimates that his whole command, consisting of three divisions and D. H. Hill's division of five brigades, were all at White Oak Bridge on the 30th of June. He says: It was
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
uth of the railroad, and between it and the Williamsburg road, was another clearing, east of which wntzelman's troops to be; on the left of the Williamsburg road was timber also, and General Smith's ds took position in the clearing between the Williamsburg road and the railroad. Burns's brigade of at a point in the timber in front near the Williamsburg road, where the enemy's infantry had by thiood. A Confederate battery placed near the Williamsburg road was compelled to withdraw in haste. OCorps, moved forward, with its right on the Williamsburg road, against a force of the enemy that was me forward to occupy the space between the Williamsburg road and the railroad. Thinking that two rnts not enough to extend across between the Williamsburg road and the railroad. I sent an aide in h Minnesota on the left to extend across the Williamsburg road, the battle began. My right flank sweem into line (about 250 men), facing up the Williamsburg road, which was raked by the grape and cani[3 more...]
Europe (search for this): chapter 7.49
, and turning our force at the bridge by getting between it and Glendale. In fact, it is likely that we should have been defeated on that day had General Jackson done what his great reputation seems to make it imperative that he should have done. A short time after I separated from General McClellan (as mentioned above) at the junction of the Charles City and Quaker roads, I bade farewell to the Prince de Joinville, who told me that he and his nephews were about to leave us and return to Europe. He had always been very friendly, and now expressed many good wishes for my future. Holding my hand in his, he said, with great earnestness, General, advise General McClellan to concentrate his army at this point, and fight a battle to-day; if he does, he will be in Richmond to-morrow. I was much impressed by his manner and by what he said, and from the purely military point of view the advice may have been good; but it was impracticable for me to adopt the suggestion. General McClellan
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
o us his purpose to begin a movement to the James River on the next day, and each corps commander wrders to press forward to a position on the James River. This new line was about two miles nearethe road leading from the bridge toward the James River. The batteries of the division were alread in getting a large part of the army to the James River without serious opposition, and into a prop), and when it was ended he went toward the James River. A short time afterward I received an ordeof General Smith had explored a road toward James River about two miles in rear of that which the tby the Union league Club, New York. to the James River by that road. General Richardson, with Frend heavy artillery arrived in safety at the James River (except those wagons which were destroyed bl McClellan was then well on his way to the James River, and I had no right to leave my command. In defeated, the army would have reached the James River, it is true, but instead of getting there a[2 more...]
Jackson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
hat day early enough to give battle, and had it been possible to risk a general engagement there, it would have been contrary to General McClellan's views as to his responsibility connected with the safety of the army, views which were actuating him in the very movement then taking place. It is likely from what we know now, that had it been possible to follow the princess advice, his military forecast might have proved correct. But no one at that hour could have predicted the paralysis of Jackson's large force in our rear for the whole of that day, nor General Lee's ignorance of McClellan's intentions. Had a general engagement taken place, and had we been defeated, the army would have reached the James River, it is true, but instead of getting there as it did, with its morale unharmed, and with slight damage to its men and material, it would have been a disorganized mob, and as an army would have perished miserably. General McClellan believed that the destruction of the Army of th
Oak Grove (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
en, on the extreme left reaching to White Oak Swamp, General Keyes's corpse. General Heintzelman's corps, the 3d, advanced to the positions held by its outposts on the 26th, after a sharp engagement along the whole line on the 25th, known as Oak Grove, or King's School House. Oak Grove was the first of the Seven Days battles. The Union loss was 67 killed, 504 wounded, 55 missing. The Confederate reports show a total loss of 441. (For the strategy of this movement see General McClellan's arOak Grove was the first of the Seven Days battles. The Union loss was 67 killed, 504 wounded, 55 missing. The Confederate reports show a total loss of 441. (For the strategy of this movement see General McClellan's article, page 179.) The ground secured by this action varied in front of the different brigades, and was from a quarter of a mile to one mile in advance of the line that had been held by the Third Corps since the battle of Seven Pines.--Editors. On the 26th an epaulement was thrown up by the troops of the Sixth Corps in a wheat-field in front of our lines on Golding's farm, which was ready for guns on the morning of the 27th. During the night of the 26th five batteries of the Artillery Reserve,
Long Bridge (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.49
n the wood unseen from our side. The same range of hills continues up the stream, and approaches quite near it at Brackett's Ford, about one mile above White Oak Bridge. Both of these crossings were passable for artillery, but the bridges had been destroyed by our troops in the morning, after everything had crossed and before the appearance of the enemy. On our side of the swamp, the ground rises from the bridge, and the road passes along the right, or east, of a ravine and joins the Long Bridge road about one and a quarter miles from the swamp. On the left of the ravine was a cleared space about a half-mile long in the direction of the swamp and running back about the same distance. At the swamp the clearing was fringed with trees and underbrush, and about half-way up the clearing to the left of the ravine were a small farm-house and some slight out-buildings. On the right of the ravine was a similar clearing, extending from the swamp about a furlong back. All other ground i
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