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Dunovant (search for this): chapter 1.31
utler, to send Major General Ransom with the field force he had for the protection of Richmond. In addition to his high military capacity, his minute knowledge of the country in which they were to operate made him specially valuable. He reported to General Beauregard at noon on the 15th, received his orders for the battle which was to occur the next day, and about 10 P. M. was, with a division of four brigades and a battery of light artillery, in position in front of the breastworks. Colonel Dunovant, with a regiment of cavalry not under Ransom's orders, was to guard the space between his left and the river, so as to give him information of any movement in that quarter. General Whiting, with some force, was holding a defensive position at Petersburg. General Beauregard proposed that the main part of it should advance and unite with him in an attack upon Butler wherever he should be found between Drewry's and Petersburg. To this I offered distinct objection, because of the hazard
McIlhenney (search for this): chapter 1.31
nsisting of about two hundred twenty of the armory men under command of their major, Ford. This small body was driven back until it joined a battalion of the Treasury Department clerks who, in the absence of their major, Henly, were led by Captain McIlhenney. The officers and men were all clerks of the Treasury Department, and, like those of other departments and many citizens of Richmond who were either too old or too young to be in the army, were enrolled and organized to defend the capital in the absence of troops. Captain McIlhenney, as soon as he saw the enemy, promptly arranged to attack. This was done with such impetuosity that Dahlgren and his men were routed, leaving some eighteen killed, twenty to thirty wounded, and as many more prisoners. About a hundred horses, with equipments, a number of small arms, and one three-inch Napoleon gun were captured. Our loss was one captain and two lieutenants killed, three lieutenants and seven privates wounded—one of the latter mort
Dahlgren (search for this): chapter 1.31
ginia expeditions of Custer, Kilpatrick, and Dahlgren for the destruction of railroads, the burning while Generals Custer and Kilpatrick and Colonel Dahlgren were to attack it and enter on the west a and the James River and Kanawha Canal by Colonel Dahlgren, would have isolated that army from its bners and more than one hundred horses. Colonel Dahlgren started with General Kilpatrick, but at Sck. This was done with such impetuosity that Dahlgren and his men were routed, leaving some eighteee fallen expressed the public lamentation. Dahlgren now commenced his retreat. To increase the c with negroes, horses, etc. On the body of Dahlgren was found an address to his officers and men,. Photographic copies of the papers found on Dahlgren's body were taken and sent to General Lee, wih question was then made, and the denial that Dahlgren's conduct had been authorized was accepted. warrantable malignity toward the deceased Colonel Dahlgren. The fact was that his body was sent to [2 more...]
R. H. Chilton (search for this): chapter 1.31
l of care, and that he would prepare it as soon as he could. I arose to take leave, and he courteously walked down the stairs with me, remarking as we went that he was embarrassed for the want of a good cavalry commander. I saw in the yard Colonel Chilton, assistant adjutant and inspector general, and said, There is an old cavalry officer who was trained in my old regiment, the First Dragoons, and who I think will answer your requirements. Upon his expressing the pleasure it would give him to have Colonel Chilton, I told him of General Beauregard's want, and asked him if the service would be agreeable to him. He readily accepted it, and I left, supposing all the preliminaries settled. In the next forenoon Colonel Samuel Melton, of the adjutant and inspector general's department, called at my residence and delivered a message from General Beauregard to the effect that he had decided to order Whiting to move by the direct road from Petersburg, instead of by the Chesterfield route,
Ford (search for this): chapter 1.31
he line of railroad as far as Hanover Junction. Thence he moved toward the James River and Kanawha Canal, which he reached twenty-two miles west of Richmond. Thence his command moved toward the city, pillaging and destroying dwelling houses, outbuildings, mills, canal boats, grain, and cattle, and cutting one lock on the canal. The first resistance met was by a battalion of General G. W. C. Lee's force, consisting of about two hundred twenty of the armory men under command of their major, Ford. This small body was driven back until it joined a battalion of the Treasury Department clerks who, in the absence of their major, Henly, were led by Captain McIlhenney. The officers and men were all clerks of the Treasury Department, and, like those of other departments and many citizens of Richmond who were either too old or too young to be in the army, were enrolled and organized to defend the capital in the absence of troops. Captain McIlhenney, as soon as he saw the enemy, promptly a
W. H. Stevens (search for this): chapter 1.31
ing whatever injury might be possible. He moved rapidly, destroying railroads and depots and plundering the country, but found no obstacle except in being closely harassed in his rear by Colonel Bradley T. Johnson with his sixty Marylanders, who, with extraordinary daring, activity, and skill, followed him until he reached the line of the defenses of Richmond. There, while attacked in the rear by Colonel Johnson and his pickets driven in, he was at the same time opposed in front by Colonel W. H. Stevens, who, with a detachment of engineer troops, manned a few sections of light artillery. After an engagement of thirty minutes, Kilpatrick's entire force began to retreat in the direction of the Meadow Bridge on the Central Railroad. At night his campfires were discovered by General Wade Hampton, who dismounted one hundred men to act as infantry, and, supported by the cavalry, opened his two-gun battery upon the enemy at short range. He then attacked the camp of Davies's and of a par
Benjamin F. Butler (search for this): chapter 1.31
olonel Bradley T. Johnson, who hung close upon his rear, finally reached the defenses of Richmond. There, out of respect to the field artillery he encountered, he turned off to cross the Chickahominy, and that night he was routed by the cavalry command of our gallant cavalier General Wade Hampton. Thus ended the combined movement with which Northern papers had regaled their readers by announcing as made with instructions to sack the rebel capital. During the first week in May, Major General B. F. Butler landed at Bermuda Hundred with a considerable force, and moved up so as to cut the telegraph line and reach by a raiding party the railroad at Chester, between Richmond and Petersburg. General Ransom, then in command of the defenses at Richmond and those of Drewry's Bluff, with a small force attacked the advance of General Butler, and after a sharp skirmish compelled him to withdraw. Meantime, because of the warning which Stuart had sent, General Ransom was summoned to Richmond
G. W. Custis Lee (search for this): chapter 1.31
st resistance met was by a battalion of General G. W. C. Lee's force, consisting of about two hundre night the clerks and citizens, under General G. W. Custis Lee, had formed a thin line along part ofs army toward Spotsylvania Court House, and General Lee made a corresponding movement. At this timled to us, was to continue his movement against Lee's army, and if, as experience had taught him, h supplies, we can hold out against the whole of Lee's army. At this time Major General Robert Rag that he should be heavily reenforced from General Lee's army, so as to enable him to crush Butlerrom General Lee's army, that he should join General Lee, overwhelm Grant, and march to Washington. I knew that General Lee was then confronting an army vastly superior to his in numbers, fully equin given. I could not therefore expect that General Lee would consent to the proposition of Generalrwarded with the usual formal endorsement. General Lee's opinion on the case was shown by the inst[1 more...]
Sheridan (search for this): chapter 1.31
utler's raid from Bermuda hundred advance of Sheridan repulsed at Richmond Stuart Resists SheridanSheridan Stuart's death remarks on Grant's plan of campaign movement of General Butler Drewry's Bluff b entirely unsupported, repulse the advance of Sheridan. During the night the clerks and citizens, uimes their number of well-appointed cavalry. Sheridan showed no purpose to attack, but withdrew fro made a corresponding movement. At this time Sheridan, with a large force of United States cavalry,mander—fearless, faithful Stuart—soon knew of Sheridan's movement, perceived its purpose, and, with such of his troops as were near, and pursued Sheridan. He fell upon Sheridan's rear and flank at BSheridan's rear and flank at Beaverdam station, where a pause had been made to destroy the railroad, some cars, and commissary's spreparation for defense, made a detour around Sheridan, and by a forced march got in front of him, t Stuart's staff, was, Stuart, eleven hundred; Sheridan, eight thousand. While engaged in this despe[2 more...]<
H. B. McClellan (search for this): chapter 1.31
renowned Murat, like him was always a leader when his cavalry charged. On this occasion he is represented when he was wounded to have been quite in advance, to have fired the last load in his pistol, and to have been shot by a fugitive whom he found cowering under a fence, and ordered to surrender. The heavy battalions at last prevailed, our line was broken, and our chieftain, though mortally wounded, still kept in his saddle, invoking his men to continue the fight. Address of Major H. B. McClellan before Army of Northern Virginia Association. Our gallant chieftain was brought wounded into Richmond, a noble sacrifice on the altar of duty. Long accustomed to connect him only with daring exploits and brilliant successes, there was much surprise and deeper sorrow when the news spread through the city. Admired as a soldier, loved as a man, honored as a Christian patriot to whom duty to his God and his country was a supreme law, the intense anxiety for his safety made us all shr
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