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T. J. Gorie (search for this): chapter 33
ere can be no doubt that General Lee deeply deplored it as a mistake. His remark, made just after the battle, It is all my fault, meant just what it said. It adds to the nobility and magnanimity of that remark, when we reflect that it was the utterance of a deep-felt truth, rather than a mere sentiment. In a letter written to me by General Lee, in January, 1864, he says: Had I taken your advice at Gettysburg, instead of pursuing the course I did, how different all might have been. Captain T. J. Gorie, of Houston, Texas, a gentleman of high position and undoubted integrity, writes to me upon this same point as follows: Another important circumstance which I distinctly remember was in the winter of 1864, when you sent me from East Tennessee to Orange Court-House with dispatches for General Lee. Upon my arrival there, General Lee asked me in his tent, where he was alone with two or three Northern papers on his table. He remarked that he had just been reading the Northern official r
Robert Early (search for this): chapter 33
Before this report could be investigated by Lieutenant T. T. Turner, of my staff, and Lieutenant Robert Early, sent to investigate it, and Johnson placed in position, the night was far advanced. Gs sometimes justified in a mere retreat. It is the accepted principle of action in a rout. General Early, in his report of this day's work, says the enemy had been routed. He should, therefore, ha(Napier Bartlett, Esq.), in the account of this rout, he says: Hays had received orders, through Early, from General Ewell (though Lee's general instructions were subsequently the reverse) to halt atferred 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 the battle, that he could have seized the heights without the loss of ten men. Here we see General Early adhering to orders when his own conviction told him he should not do so, and refusing to all
Pender (search for this): chapter 33
fficial report of General R. H. Anderson: Upon approaching Gettysburg, I was directed to occupy the position in line of battle which had first been vacated by Pender's Division, and to place one brigade and battery of artillery a mile or more on the right. Wilcox's Brigade and Captain Ross' battery, of Lane's battalion, were posted in the detached position, while the other brigades occupied the ground from which Pender's Division had first been moved. We continued in position until the morning of the 2d, when I received orders to take up a new line of battle, on the right of Pender's Division, about a mile and a half further forward. In taking the Pender's Division, about a mile and a half further forward. In taking the new position, the Tenth Alabama Regiment, Wilcox's Brigade, had a sharp skirmish with the body of the enemy who had occupied a wooded hill on the extreme right of my line. * * * Shortly after the line had been formed, I received notice that Lieutenant General Longstreet would occupy the ground on my right, and that his line would
Barksdale (search for this): chapter 33
d 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 my force, numbering hardly thirteen thousand men, encountered during that three and a
George G. Meade (search for this): chapter 33
should move around by our right to the left of Meade, and put our army between him and Washington, carried the heights in front of us, and drove Meade out, we should be so badly crippled that we coes. Our army was fifty-two thousand infantry; Meade's was ninety-five thousand. These are our higas not appreciated until after my attack. General Meade seems to have alluded to it as a point to ed a less cool and watchful commander than General Meade. It did not confuse him. With the calcula, or rather held by one single brigade (as General Meade's testimony before the Committee on the Cout will go over to Gettysburg and see what General Meade is after. Orders had then been issued to ks captured by Stuart the evening before. General Meade, in his official report, says: On the mornward to prevent this effort on the part of General Meade, and we succeeded in clearing the way and etter to be done than to endeavor to bring General Meade out and use our efforts to crush his army [11 more...]
Kershaw (search for this): chapter 33
rit 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 my force, nu
E. P. Alexander (search for this): chapter 33
charge. Our artillery was in charge of General E. P. Alexander, a brave and gifted officer. Colonel Walton was my chief of artillery; but Alexander, being at the head of the column, and being first in position, and arrangements were completed about one o'clock. General Alexander had arranged that a battery of seven eleven-pom to make a hopeless charge. I had instructed General Alexander, being unwilling to trust myself with the entithe charge, that I wrote the following note to General Alexander: If the artillery fire does not have the effecto General Pickett (who was standing near me) from Alexander, which, after reading, he handed to me. It was as orward, sir. I spurred my horse to the wood where Alexander was stationed with artillery. When I reached him, and brilliant programme of assault planned by General Alexander, and without the knowledge of that officer. (See narrative of General Alexander in the Southern historical Monthly for September, 1877.) General Early broke
Hancock (search for this): chapter 33
shot, volley for volley, almost death for death. Still the enemy was not restrained. Down he came upon our left with a momentum that nothing could check. The rifled guns that lay before our infantry on a knoll were in danger of capture. General Hancock was wounded in the thigh, General Gibbon in the shoulder The Fifth Corps, as the First and Second wavered anew, went into the breach with such shouts and such volleys as made the rebel column tremble at last. Up from the valley behind, anotht as Hays, but declined to disobey orders. At the urgent request of General 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 General Early adhering to orders when his own conviction told him he should not do
Wharton (search for this): chapter 33
ell says: Just before the time fixed for General Johnson's advance, the enemy attacked him to regain the works captured by Stuart the evening before. General Meade, in his official report, says: On the morning of the 3d,. General Geary, having returned during the night, attacked, at early dawn, the enemy, and succeeded in driving him back, and reoccupying his former position. A spirited contest was maintained along this portion of the line all the morning, and General Geary, reinforced by Wharton's Brigade, of the Sixth Corps, maintained his position, and inflicted very severe loss on the enemy. Now to return to my end of the line. At about sunrise General Lee came to me and informed me that General Pickett would soon report to me, and then ordered that his troops were to be used as a column of assault, designating the point of assault, and that portions of the Third Corps were to be used in support. About seven o'clock General Pickett rode forward and stated that his troops woul
A. P. Hill (search for this): chapter 33
15th, and with a view of covering the march of Hill and Ewell through the Valley, moved along the ee movement toward the enemy was begun at once. Hill marched toward Gettysburg, and my corps followen, the road in front of my corps was blocked by Hill's Corps and Ewell's wagon train, which had cut or four miles, when we heard heavy firing along Hill's front. The firing became so heavy that Generth Hood on the extreme right, and McLaws next. Hill's Corps was next to mine, in front of the Federte by a direct attack on the enemy's right, and Hill to threaten his centre, and attack if opportuniuch a force-full forty-five thousand men, under Hill and Longstreet-even though it threatened to piee by a vigorous movement against his right, and Hill should have moved against his centre. Had this can, without distressing your men or animals. Hill and Ewell have sharply engaged the enemy, and ear Chambersburg, information was received that Hill and Ewell were about to come into contact with [8 more...]
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