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1864 AD (search for this): chapter 11.81
rt, says it was without success. And he adds these words: Later in the day attacks were made by the Fifth and Ninth corps with no better results. The truth is that, despite the over-whelming odds against us, every Federal assault, on the 18th, was met with most signal defeat, attended, says Mr. Swinton, the Federal historian, with another mournful loss of life. This was, in fact, very heavy, and exceeded ours in the proportion of nine to one. General Humphreys, in his Virginia campaign, 1864 and 1865, places the Union losses from the 15th to the 18th of June at 9964 killed, wounded, and missing.--editors. My welcome to General Lee was most cordial. He was at last where I had, for the past three days, so anxiously hoped to see him — within the limits of Petersburg! Two of his divisions had preceded him there, and his whole army would be in by evening of the next day, namely, the 19th of June. I felt sure, therefore, that, for the present at least, Petersburg and Richmond we
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 11.81
it was without success. And he adds these words: Later in the day attacks were made by the Fifth and Ninth corps with no better results. The truth is that, despite the over-whelming odds against us, every Federal assault, on the 18th, was met with most signal defeat, attended, says Mr. Swinton, the Federal historian, with another mournful loss of life. This was, in fact, very heavy, and exceeded ours in the proportion of nine to one. General Humphreys, in his Virginia campaign, 1864 and 1865, places the Union losses from the 15th to the 18th of June at 9964 killed, wounded, and missing.--editors. My welcome to General Lee was most cordial. He was at last where I had, for the past three days, so anxiously hoped to see him — within the limits of Petersburg! Two of his divisions had preceded him there, and his whole army would be in by evening of the next day, namely, the 19th of June. I felt sure, therefore, that, for the present at least, Petersburg and Richmond were safe.
1888 AD (search for this): chapter 11.81
forces. Although the result of the fighting of the 15th had demonstrated that 2200 Confederates successfully withheld nearly a whole day the repeated assaults of at least 18,000 Federals, If the strength of Smith's corps as given by Genera] Badeau (Vol. II., Chap. XX., p. 354) be the correct one, and not my own computation of 22,000.-G. T. B. [More probably 18,000.--editors.] it followed, none the less, that Hancock's corps, being now in our front, with fully 28,000 A later estimate (1888), based on official returns, places Hancock's corps at 20,000.--editors. men,--which raised the enemy's force against Petersburg to a grand total of 46,000, More probably 38,000.--editors.--our chance of resistance, the next morning and in the course of the next day, even after the advent of Hoke's division, was by far too uncertain to be counted on, unless strong additional reenforcements could reach us in time. Without awaiting an answer from the authorities at Richmond to my urgent r
April 2nd, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 11.81
t least as much exhausted as ours, and that their ignorance of the locality would give us a marked advantage over them; that their spirits were jaded, and ours brightened just then by the fact of the junction of his army with my forces; and that the enemy was not yet intrenched. But I was then only second in command, and my views did not prevail. The evening of the 18th was quiet. There was no further attempt on the part of General Meade to assault our lines. He was satisfied, as he said in his report, that there was nothing more to be gained by direct attacks. The spade took the place of the musket, and the regular siege was begun. It was only raised April 2, 1865. No event of our war was more remarkable than the almost incredible resistance of the men who served under me at Petersburg, on the 15th, 1 6th, 17th, and 18th of June, before the arrival of Lee. The approach to the crater as seen from a Point South-east of the mouth of the mine. From a sketch made in 1886.
1886 AD (search for this): chapter 11.81
ke into part of our line and effected a lodgment. The View of the Confederate line taken up by General Beauregard, June 18. from a Point on the Union picket line to the front and left of Fort Haskell. [see map, P. 538.] from a sketch made in 1886. contest, with varying results, was carried on until after nightfall, with advantage to us on the left and some serious loss on the right. It then slackened and gradually came to an end. In the meantime Warren's corps, the Fifth, had also come uin his report, that there was nothing more to be gained by direct attacks. The spade took the place of the musket, and the regular siege was begun. It was only raised April 2, 1865. No event of our war was more remarkable than the almost incredible resistance of the men who served under me at Petersburg, on the 15th, 1 6th, 17th, and 18th of June, before the arrival of Lee. The approach to the crater as seen from a Point South-east of the mouth of the mine. From a sketch made in 1886.
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