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Little Round Top (search for this): chapter 33
as they were forced from point to point, availing themselves of the stone fences and boulders near the mountain as rallying points, so annoyed our right flank that General Hood's Division was obliged to make a partial change of front so as to relieve itself of this galling flank fire. This drew General McLaws a little further to the right than General Lee had anticipated, so that the defensive advantages of the ground enabled the Federals to delay our purposes until they could occupy Little Round Top, which they just then discovered was the key to their position. The force thrown upon this point was so strong as to seize our right, as it were, in a vice. Still the battle on our main line continued to progress. The situation was a critical one. My corps had been fighting over an hour, having encountered and driven back line after line of the enemy. In front of them was a high and rugged ridge, on its crest the bulk of the Army of the Potomac, numbering six to one, and securel
William Mahone (search for this): chapter 33
there, following up, as near as possible, the direction of the Emmetsburg road. My corps occupied our right, with Hood on the extreme right, and McLaws next. Hill's Corps was next to mine, in front of the Federal centre, and Ewell was on our extreme left. My corps, with Pickett's Division absent, numbered hardly thirteen thousand men. I realized that the fight was to be a fearful one; but being assured that my flank would be protected by the brigades of Wilcox, Perry, Wright, Posey, and Mahone, moving en echelon, and that Ewell was to co-operate by a direct attack on the enemy's right, and Hill to threaten his centre, and attack if opportunity offered, and thus prevent reinforcements from being launched either against myself or Ewell, it seemed possible that we might possibly dislodge the great army in front of us. At half-past 3 o'clock the order was given General Hood to advance upon the enemy, and, hurrying to the head of McLaws' Division, I moved with his line. Then was fairl
Law (search for this): chapter 33
the extreme right. It was fully eleven o'clock when General Lee arrived at this conclusion and ordered the movement. In the meantime, by General Lee's authority, Law's Brigade, which had been put upon picket duty, was ordered to rejoin my command, and, upon my suggestion that it would be better to await its arrival, General Lee d were mostly Georgians, as follows: The four Georgia brigades of Generals Benning, Anderson, Wofford, and Semmes, General Kershaw's South Carolina Brigade, General Law's Alabama Brigade, General Barksdale's (afterward General Humphrey's) Mississippi Brigade, and General Robertson's Texas Brigade. Our men had no thought of retreat. orders fro m General Lee to attack until about eleven o'clock on the 2d; that I immediately began my dispositions for attack; that I waited about forty minutes for Law's Brigade, by General Lee's assenting authority; that by especial orders from General Lee, my corps marched into position by a circuitous route, under the direction
Semmes (search for this): chapter 33
dauntless spirit of these men, that when General Humphreys (of Mississippi) was ordered to withdraw his troops from the charge, he thought there was some mistake, and retired to a captured battery, near the swale between the two ridges, where he halted, and, when ordered to retire to the new line a second time, he did so under protest. The troops engaged with me in the fight of the 2d were mostly Georgians, as follows: The four Georgia brigades of Generals Benning, Anderson, Wofford, and Semmes, General Kershaw's South Carolina Brigade, General Law's Alabama Brigade, General Barksdale's (afterward General Humphrey's) Mississippi Brigade, and General Robertson's Texas Brigade. Our men had no thought of retreat. They broke every line they encountered When the order to withdraw was given, a courier was sent to General Lee, informing him of the result of the day's work. Before pursuing this narrative further, I shall say a word or two concerning this assault. I am satisfied that
J. E. B. Stuart (search for this): chapter 33
the 4th and 5th of June. Hood's Division and Stuart's cavalry moved at the same time. On the 8th,cross the Rappahannock, and sent to attack General Stuart. They were encountered at Brandy Station,by's gaps, and the line of the Blue Ridge. General Stuart was in my front and on my flank, reconnoitI was leaving the Blue Ridge, I instructed General Stuart to follow me, and to cross the Potomac at s from General Lee; whereupon I withdrew. General Stuart held the gap for a while, and then hurried eyes shut. General Lee says of his orders to Stuart: General Stuart was left to guard the passes oGeneral Stuart was left to guard the passes of the mountains and to observe the movements of the enemy, who he was instructed to harass and impedempt to cross the Potomac. In that event, General Stuart was directed to move into Maryland, crossi's statement) by the deplorable absence of General Stuart and the perplexity occasioned thereby. Wiopportunity for an effective blow. Third, General Stuart should not have been permitted to leave th[10 more...]
James A. Seddon (search for this): chapter 33
t Suffolk as soon as possible, and hurried my troops forward. Passing through Richmond, I called to pay my respects to Mr. Seddon, the Secretary of War. Mr. Seddon was, at the time of my visit, deeply considering the critical condition of Pemberton'Mr. Seddon was, at the time of my visit, deeply considering the critical condition of Pemberton's army at Vicksburg, around which General Grant was then decisively drawing his lines. He informed me that he had in contemplation a plan for concentrating a succoring army at Jackson, Mississippi, under the command of General Johnston, with a viewcause, and would inevitably result in drawing Grant's army from Vicksburg to look after and protect his own territory. Mr. Seddon adhered to his original views; not so much, I think, from his great confidence in them, as from the difficulty of withd in my judgment, was the time to have done so. While at Culpepper, I sent a trusty scout (who had been sent to me by Secretary Seddon, while I was at Suffolk), with instructions to go into the Federal lines, discover his policy, and bring me all the
Round Top (search for this): chapter 33
ints that exposed the troops to the view of the signal station on Round Top. At length the column halted. After waiting some time, supposingling under view of the Federal signal station. Looking up toward Round Top I saw that the signal station was in full view, and, as we could was stretched in an elliptical curve, reaching from the front of Round Top around Seminary Ridge, and enveloping Cemetery Heights on the lefe sweeping fire of the large bodies of troops that were posted on Round Top. The importance of Round Top, as a point d'appui, was not apprRound Top, as a point d'appui, was not appreciated until after my attack. General Meade seems to have alluded to it as a point to be occupied, if practicable, but in such slighting ma just then, divined from effect the cause, and threw a force into Round Top that transformed it, as if by magic, into a Gibraltar. These two you in front of the peach orchard when Hood began to move toward Round Top. General Hood was soon wounded, and I removed him from the field
Hays (search for this): chapter 33
siana (Napier Bartlett, Esq.), in the account of this rout, he says: Hays had received orders, through Early, from General Ewell (though Lee'se no further in case he should succeed in capturing that place. But Hays now saw that the enemy were coming around by what is known as the Baget them at the time referred to, was a matter of vital importance. Hays recognized it as such, and presently sent for Early. The latter thought as Hays, but declined to disobey orders. At the urgent request of General Hays, however, he sent for General Ewell. When the latter arrGeneral Hays, however, he sent for General Ewell. When the latter arrived, many precious moments had been lost. But the enemy, who did not see its value until the arrival of Hancock, had not yet appeared in force. General Hays told me, ten years after the battle, that he could have seized the heights without the loss of ten men. Here we see Generaln conviction told him he should not do so, and refusing to allow General Hays to seize a point recognized by him as of vast importance, becaus
W. N. Pendleton (search for this): chapter 33
ld be made. The assertion first made by General Pendleton, and echoed by his confederates, that I th Pickett, at the head of his line, but General Pendleton, from whom the guns had been borrowed, rue to the historian. It was asserted by General Pendleton, with whom the carefulness of statement speak, nor have I ever seen any copy of General Pendleton's address; indeed, I have read little orack you were to have made, as charged by General Pendleton. If such an order was given you I never0th ultimo, referring to an assertion of General Pendleton's, made in a lecture delivered several ymorning. Here, I will state, that until General Pendleton mentioned it about two years ago, when h Having thus disproved the assertions of Messrs. Pendleton and Early in regard to this rumored ordens of their chief on the field of battle. Mr. Pendleton robbed Pickett's Division of its most impo, that after I had proved the fallacy of General Pendleton's and General Early's idea of a sunrise
Burnside (search for this): chapter 33
e truth cannot now, as it might have done then, injure the cause for which we fought the battle. The request that I furnish this history to the weekly times comes opportunely, for the appeal just made through the press by a distinguished foreigner for all the information that will develop the causes of the failure of that campaign, has provoked anew its partisan and desultory discussion, and renders a plain and logical recital of the facts both timely and important. After the defeat of Burnside at Fredericksburg, in December, it was believed that active operations were over for the winter, and I was sent with two divisions of my corps to the eastern shore of Virginia, where I could find food for my men during the winter, and send supplies to the Army of Northern Virginia. I spent several months in this department, keeping the enemy close within his fortifications, and foraging with little trouble and great success. On May 1st, I received orders to report to General Lee at Freder
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