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Marylander (search for this): chapter 18
outrages that have been inflicted upon the citizens of a commonwealth allied to the States of the South by the strongest social, political, and commercial ties, and reduced to the condition of a conquered province. Under the pretence of supporting the Constitution, but in violation of its most valuable provisions, your citizens have been arrested and imprisoned, upon no charge, and contrary to all the forms of law. A faithful and manly protest against this outrage, made by an illustrious Marylander, to whom, in better days, no citizen appealed for right in vain, was treated with contempt and scorn. The Government of your chief city has been usurped by armed strangers; your Legislature has been dissolved by the unlawful arrest of its members; freedom of speech and of the press has been suppressed; words have been declared offences by an arbitrary decree of the Federal Executive, and citizens ordered to be tried by military commission for what they may dare to speak. Believing th
Stonewall Jackson (search for this): chapter 18
battle of Cedar Run. Banks again deceived by Jackson. a rapid and severe engagement. Gen. Lee mo. Gen. Lee retires to Sharpsburg. meanwhile Jackson completes the reduction of Harper's Ferry. bshed forward five miles south of the town. Gen. Jackson, who was anxious to meet his old acquaintansevere penalty of pursuit. The next day, Gen. Jackson remained in position, and, becoming satisfiwhich was at the time engaged, and rejoined Gen. Jackson at Manassas Junction, having first destroyekened the approaching contest. The troops of Jackson and Longstreet maintained their positions of enemy having massed his troops in front of Gen. Jackson, advanced against his position in strong foHarper's Ferry. On the 14th of September Gen. Jackson had succeeded in investing Harper's Ferry, nesboroa, secured sufficient time to enable Gen. Jackson to complete the reduction of Harper's Ferry. Under the direction of Col. Crutchfield, Gen. Jackson's chief of artillery, ten guns, belonging t[36 more...]
George B. McClellan (search for this): chapter 18
ment. New measures of violence in the war. McClellan's ideas of the conduct of the war. his Harrthe battle the next day. why he retreated. McClellan's claim of victory. how it was an afterthou the great Federal army under the command of McClellan from before Richmond to the James River, cauonfederate capital, was busily used to throw McClellan into the shade, to disparage his career, andn Virginia were early developed. Several of McClellan's generals of division asked relief from dutry respectfully, your obedient servant, George B. McClellan, Major-General Commanding. His Excelleno declare that he would deplore a victory of McClellan, because ( the sore would be salved over, anle, to units with Gen. Pope, and a part of Gen. McClellan's army was believed to have left Westover , at Warrenton Junction. Another portion of McClellan's army, transported from Westover, consistin Federal host with about forty thousand men. McClellan's force was certainly not less than ninety t[15 more...]
Brockenbrough (search for this): chapter 18
able Gen. Jackson to complete the reduction of Harper's Ferry. On the afternoon of the 14th, when he found that the troops of Walker and McLaws were in position to cooperate in the attack he ordered Gen. A. P. Hill to turn the enemy's left flank, and enter Harper's Ferry. Gen. A. P. Hill observing a hill on the enemy's extreme left occupied by infantry without artillery, and protected only by abattis of felled timber, directed Gen. Pender with his own brigade, and those of Archer and Col. Brockenbrough, to seize the crest, which was done with slight resistance. At the same time he ordered Gens. Branch and Gregg to march along the Shenandoah, and taking advantage of the ravines intersecting its steep banks, to establish themselves on the plain to the left and rear of the enemy's works. This was accomplished during the night. Under the direction of Col. Crutchfield, Gen. Jackson's chief of artillery, ten guns, belonging to Ewell's division, were posted on the east side of the Shenan
Lawton (search for this): chapter 18
e next morning, the 29th, the enemy had taken a position to interpose his army between Gen. Jackson and Alexandria, and about ten o'clock, opened with artillery upon the right of Jackson's line. The troops of the latter were disposed in the rear of Groveton, along the line of the unfinished branch of the Manassas Gap Railroad, and extended from a point a short distance west of the turnpike towards Sudley Mill-Jackson's division, under Brig.-Gen. Starke, being on the right, Ewell's, under Gen. Lawton, in the centre, and A. P. Hill on the left. The Federal army was evidently concentrating upon Jackson, with the design of overwhelming him before the arrival of Longstreet. The latter officer was already approaching the critical field of battle on a rapid march. The preceding day he had reached Thoroughfare Gap — a wild, rude opening through the Bull Run Mountains, varying in width from one hundred to two hundred yards. The enemy held a strong position on the opposite gorge, and had
J. B. Hood (search for this): chapter 18
, with his division, and two brigades, under Gen. Hood, were ordered to proceed to Gordonsville. Aenemy from his position on the mountain. Brig.-Gen. Hood, with his own and Gen. Whiting's brigade,ngstreet took position on the light of Jackson, Hood's two brigades, supported by Evans, being deplochanged his front, so as to meet the advance of Hood and Evans. However, about two o'clock in the alace on Jackson's left, Gen. Longstreet ordered Hood and Evans to advance, but before the order could be obeyed, Hood was himself attacked, and his command at once became warmly engaged. Reinforced be command against the Federal centre and left. Hood's two brigades, followed by Evans, led the attason's division came gallantly to the support of Hood, while the three brigades under Wilcox moved foivisions of Gens. McLaws, Walker, Anderson, and Hood; and a division under Gen. D. H. till, which ust raged with great fury and alternate success. Hood's two brigades were moved to the support of Jac[1 more...]
Sigel (search for this): chapter 18
en. Jackson, reinforced by A. P. Hill, determined to assume the offensive against Pope, whose army, still superiour in numbers, lay north of the Rapidan. Only a portion of Gen. Pope's army was at Culpepper Court-House. The forces of Banks and Sigel, and one of the divisions of McDowell's corps, had been concentrated there; Banks' corps being pushed forward five miles south of the town. Gen. Jackson, who was anxious to meet his old acquaintance of the Shenandoah Valley, resolved to attack t Warrenton road, and thence in an oblique direction towards the southwest. The disposition of the enemy's forces was, Gen. Heintzelman on the extreme right, and Gen. McDowell on the extreme left, while the army corps of Gen. Fitz-John Porter and Sigel, and Reno's division of Gen. Burnside's army, were placed in the centre. For a good part of the day, the action was fought principally with artillery. But about three o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy having massed his troops in front of Ge
G. B. Anderson (search for this): chapter 18
merous batteries, under which our troops held their position with great coolness and courage. The attack on our left was speedily followed by one in heavy force on the centre. This was met by part of Walker's division, and the brigades of G. B. Anderson and Rodes, of D. H. Hill's command, assisted by a few pieces of artillery. The enemy was repulsed, and retired behind the crest of a hill, from which they kept up a desultory fire. Gen. R. H. Anderson's division came to Hill's support, and formed in rear of his line. At this time, by a mistake of orders, Gen. Rodes' brigade was withdrawn from its position. The enemy immediately pressed through the gap thus created, and G. B. Anderson's brigade was broken, and retired. The heavy masses of the enemy again moved forward, being opposed only by four pieces of artillery, supported by a few hundreds of men, belonging to different brigades. The firm front presented by this small force, and the well directed fire of the artillery, un
Pryor (search for this): chapter 18
th from one hundred to two hundred yards. The enemy held a strong position on the opposite gorge, and had succeeded in getting his sharpshooters in position on the mountain. Brig.-Gen. D. R. Jones advanced two of his brigades rapidly, and soon drove the enemy from his position on the mountain. Brig.-Gen. Hood, with his own and Gen. Whiting's brigade, was ordered, by a footpath over the mountain, to turn the enemy's right, and Brig.-Gen. Wilcox with his own and Brig.-Gen. Featherstone's and Pryor's brigades, was ordered through Hopewell Gap, three miles to our left, to turn the right and attack the enemy in rear. The movement was so successful that the enemy, after a brief resistance, retreated during the night. Early the next morning, Longstreet's columns were united, and the advance to join Gen. Jackson was resumed. The noise of battle was heard before Longstreet reached Gainesville. The march was quickened. The excitement of battle seemed to give new life and strength to hi
July 13th (search for this): chapter 18
d to transport most of his forces to the Rappahannock, and form a junction with Pope. But it was necessary to be very careful in making any movement between the two forces, and to await, as far as possible, the full development of the enemy's designs. To meet the advance of Pope, and restrain, as far as possible, the atrocities which he threatened to perpetrate upon defenseless citizens, Gen. Jackson, with his own and Ewell's division, was ordered to proceed towards Gordonsville, on the 13th of July. Upon reaching that vicinity, he ascertained that the force under Gen. Pope was superiour to his own, but the uncertainty that then surrounded the designs of McClellan, rendered it inexpedient to reinforce him from the army at Richmond. He was directed to observe the enemy's movements closely, and to avail himself of any opportunity to attack that might arise. McClellan, who was still at Westover, on James River, continuing to manifest no intention of resuming active operations, and
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