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Allan Pinkerton (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
e Camps at Antietam, October 8, 1862. Yearning for the speedy termination of the war, Lincoln came to view the Army of the Potomac, as he had done at Harrison's Landing. Puzzled to understand how Lee could have circumvented a superior force on the Peninsula, he was now anxious to learn why a crushing blow had not been struck. Lincoln (after Gettysburg) expressed the same thought: Our army held the war in the hollow of their hand and they would not close it! On Lincoln's right stands Allan Pinkerton, the famous detective and organizer of the Secret Service of the army. At the President's left is General John A. McClernand, soon to be entrusted by Lincoln with reorganizing military operations in the West. he determined to withdraw from Maryland. On the night of the 18th the retreat began and early the next morning the Confederate army had all safely recrossed the Potomac. The great mistake of the Maryland campaign from the standpoint of the Confederate forces, thought General
Alpheus S. Williams (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
The harvest of bloody Lane Brigadier-General Caldwell and staff his corps across the Antietam after dark the night before. Mansfield, however, a gallant and honored veteran, fell mortally wounded while deploying his troops, and General Alpheus S. Williams, at the head of his first division, succeeded to the command. There was a wood west of the Sharpsburg and Hagerstown turnpike which, with its outcropping ledges of rock, formed an excellent retreat for the Confederates and from this And the experience of this body of the gallant Second Corps during the next hour was probably the most thrilling episode of the whole day's battle. Sedgwick's troops advanced straight toward the conflict. They found Hooker wounded and his and Williams' troops quite exhausted. A sharp artillery fire was turned on Sedgwick before he reached the woods west of the Hagerstown pike, but once in the shelter of the thick trees he passed in safety to the western edge. Here the division found itself
D. R. Cross (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
be poured upon the Confederates in the sunken road. Meagher's ammunition was exhausted, and Caldwell threw his force into the position and continued the terrible combat. When the Confederates executed their flanking movement to the left, Colonel D. R. Cross, of the Fifth New Hampshire, seized a position which exposed Hill's men to an enfilading fire. (In the picture General Caldwell is seen standing to the left of the tree, and Colonel Cross leans on his sword at the extreme right. Between Colonel Cross leans on his sword at the extreme right. Between them stands Lieut.-Colonel George W. Scott, of the Sixty-first New York Infantry, while at the left before the tent stands Captain George W. Bulloch, A. C.S. General Caldwell's hand rests on the shoulder of Captain George H. Caldwell; to his left is seated Lieutenant C. A. Alvord.) The harvest of bloody Lane Brigadier-General Caldwell and staff his corps across the Antietam after dark the night before. Mansfield, however, a gallant and honored veteran, fell mortally wounded while dep
W. S. Walker (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
e two at the apex formed by the junction of the two rivers. As Jackson approached the place by way of Bolivar Heights, Walker occupied Loudon Heights and McLaws invested Maryland Heights. All were unopposed except McLaws, who encountered Colonel East and entering the West Woods. This is near where the Confederate General Ewell's division, reinforced by McLaws and Walker, fell upon Sedgwick's left flank and rear. Nearly two thousand Federal soldiers were struck down, the division losing duhe western edge. Here the division found itself in an ambush. Heavy Confederate reenforcements--ten brigades, in fact — Walker's men, and McLaws', having arrived from Harper's Ferry — were hastening up, and they not only blocked the front, but workree hours against the assaults of the Federal troops. The Confederates had been weakened at this point by the sending of Walker to the support of Jackson, where, as we have noticed, he took part in the deadly assault upon Sedgwick's division. Toomb
Wilcox (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
er 17, 1862. First at the Federal right around the Dunker church; then at the sunken road, where the centers of both armies spent themselves in sanguinary struggle; lastly, late in the day, the struggle was renewed and ceased on the Sharpsburg road. When Burnside finally got his troops in motion, Sturgis' division of the Ninth Corps was first to cross the creek; his men advanced through an open ravine under a withering fire till they gained the opposite crest and held it until reinforced by Wilcox. To their right ran the Sharpsburg road, and an advance was begun in the direction of the Sherrick house. General A. P. Hill, C. S. A. The fighting along the Sharpsburg road might have resulted in a Confederate disaster had it not been for the timely arrival of the troops of General A. P. Hill. His six brigades of Confederate veterans had been the last to leave Harper's Ferry, remaining behind Jackson's main body in order to attend to the details of the surrender. Just as the Federa
Miles (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
a force to dispute his ascent. Ford, however, after some resistance, spiked his guns and retired to the Ferry, where Colonel Miles had remained with the greater portion of the Federal troops. Had Miles led his entire force to Maryland Heights he cittle later the battle-flags of A. P. Hill rose on Bolivar Heights. Scarcely two hours had the firing continued when Colonel Miles raised the white flag at Harper's Ferry and its garrison of 12,500, with vast military stores, passed into the hands of the Confederates. Colonel Miles was struck by a stray fragment of a Confederate shell which gave him a mortal wound. The force of General Franklin, preparing to move to the garrison's relief, on the morning of the 15th noted that firing at the of the white flag. Near the top of the hill I met General White and staff and told him my mission. He replied that Colonel Miles had been mortally wounded, that the was in command and Antietam: the first to fall. This photograph was taken b
D. H. Hill (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
y a considerable portion of Lee's army under D. H. Hill and Longstreet. McClellan had come into posral advance, and also at the extreme left of D. H. Hill's line. The house had been fired by the Coner's Ferry. Lee now placed Longstreet and D. H. Hill in a strong position near Keedysville, but lposition of the Confederate center under General D. H. Hill when the battle opened at dawn. As the fighting reached flood-tide, Hill sent forward the brigades of Colquitt, Ripley, and McRae to the assistance of Jackson at the left. The men (says Hill) advanced with alacrity, secured a good positioRallied again at the sunken road, the forces of Hill now met the combined attack of the divisions of death; reenforced by the division of Anderson, Hill's men, in the face of the deadly fire poured ups troops were exposed to a galling fire from D. H. Hill's division and he called for reenforcements.desperate assault against the Southerners of D. H. Hill's division, stationed to the south of where
C. A. Alvord (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
Fifth New Hampshire, seized a position which exposed Hill's men to an enfilading fire. (In the picture General Caldwell is seen standing to the left of the tree, and Colonel Cross leans on his sword at the extreme right. Between them stands Lieut.-Colonel George W. Scott, of the Sixty-first New York Infantry, while at the left before the tent stands Captain George W. Bulloch, A. C.S. General Caldwell's hand rests on the shoulder of Captain George H. Caldwell; to his left is seated Lieutenant C. A. Alvord.) The harvest of bloody Lane Brigadier-General Caldwell and staff his corps across the Antietam after dark the night before. Mansfield, however, a gallant and honored veteran, fell mortally wounded while deploying his troops, and General Alpheus S. Williams, at the head of his first division, succeeded to the command. There was a wood west of the Sharpsburg and Hagerstown turnpike which, with its outcropping ledges of rock, formed an excellent retreat for the Confedera
Horace Greeley (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
e Confederates. Thus, with the approach of nightfall, closed the memorable battle of Antietam. For fourteen long hours more than one hundred thousand men, with five hundred pieces of artillery, had engaged in titanic combat. As the pall of battle smoke rose and cleared away, the scene presented was one to make the stoutest heart shudder. There lay upon the ground, scattered for three miles over the valleys and the hills or in the improvised hospitals, more than twenty thousand men. Horace Greeley was probably right in pronouncing this the bloodiest day in American history. Although tactically it was a drawn battle, Antietam was decisively in favor of the North inasmuch as it ended the first Confederate attempt at a Northern invasion. General Lee realized that his ulterior plans had been thwarted by this engagement and after a consultation with his corps commanders The mediator President Lincoln's Visit to the Camps at Antietam, October 8, 1862. Yearning for the speedy
John Sedgwick (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
ere halted. It was almost an hour later when Sedgwick's division, with Sumner at the head, crossed New York Colonel T. G. Morehead: a Hero of Sedgwick's charge Knap's battery, just after the blConfederate dead. Over this open space swept Sedgwick's division of Sumner's Second Corps, after pan, reinforced by McLaws and Walker, fell upon Sedgwick's left flank and rear. Nearly two thousand Fr reenforcements. General Sumner then sent Sedgwick's division across the stream and accompanied thrilling episode of the whole day's battle. Sedgwick's troops advanced straight toward the conflicausted. A sharp artillery fire was turned on Sedgwick before he reached the woods west of the Hagerd the front, but worked around to the rear of Sedgwick's isolated brigades. Sedgwick was wounded inSedgwick was wounded in the awful slaughter that followed, but he and Sumner finally extricated their men with The blundiced, he took part in the deadly assault upon Sedgwick's division. Toombs, therefore, with his one
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