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Chambersburg, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
directed at the Confederate army and towards Richmond. The completion of this work, including the furnishing of transportation, clothing, supplies, etc., required upwards of a month, and during this period no military movement occurred, with the exception of a raid into Pennsylvania by Stuart. About the middle of October, that enterprising officer, with twelve or fifteen hundred troopers, crossed the Potomac above Williamsport, passed through Maryland, penetrated Pennsylvania, occupied Chambersburg, where he burnt considerable government stores, and after making the entire circuit of the Union army, recrossed the Potomac below the mouth of the Monocacy. He was all the way closely pursued by Pleasonton with eight hundred cavalry, but though that officer marched seventy-eight miles in twenty-four hours, he was unable to intercept or overtake his fast-riding rival. On the recrossing of the Potomac by Lee after Antietam, McClellan hastened to seize the debouche of the Shenandoah Val
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
en removal from the command of the Army of the Potomac, while on the march to Warrenton. Late on the night of November 7th, amidst a heavy snow-storm, General Buckingham, arriving post-haste from Washington, reached the tent of General McClellan at Rectortown. He was the bearer of the following dispatch, which he handed to General McClellan: General orders, no. 182. War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, November 5, 1862. By direction of the President of the United States, it is ordered that Major-General McClellan be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac, and that Major-General Burnside take the command of that army. By order of the Secretary of War. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. It chanced that General Burnside was at the moment with him in his tent. Opening the dispatch and reading it, without a change of countenance or of voice, McClellan passed over the paper to his successor, saying, as he did so: Well, Burnside
Shenandoah Valley (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ment, menacing Pennsylvania by the Cumberland Valley, he hoped to draw the Union army so far towards the Susquehanna as to afford him either an opportunity of seizing Baltimore or Washington, or of dealing a damaging blow at the army far from its base of supplies. His first movement from Frederick was, therefore, towards the western side of that mountain range which, named the Blue Ridge south of the Potomac, and the South Mountain range north of the Potomac, forms the eastern wall of the Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys—the former his line of communications with Richmond and the latter his line of manoeuvre towards Pennsylvania. Sketch of manoeuvres on Antietam. Now, at the time Lee crossed the Potomac, the Federal post at Harper's Ferry, commanding the debouteh of the Shenandoah Valley, was held by a garrison of about nine thousand men, under Colonel D. H. Miles, while a force of twenty-five hundred men, under General White, did outpost duty at Martinsburg and Winchester. T
Hagerstown (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
with which Lee was to move to Boonsboroa or Hagerstown. Up to the time of Lee's leaving Fredericain, and had already moved to Boonsboroa and Hagerstown to await Jackson's operations. But when thed instructed Longstreet to countermarch from Hagerstown to Hill's support. McClellan, by his know left, and posted between D. H. Hill and the Hagerstown road.—Lee: Reports of the Army of Northern Va considerable clearing on both sides of the Hagerstown road. This movement across the Antietam orve in the woodland on the west side of the Hagerstown road. His entire force present numbered fouadvanced his centre under Meade to seize the Hagerstown road and the woods beyond. In attempting toing a point of woods on the west side of the Hagerstown road. At the same time, Greene's division ohim out of the woods on the west side of the Hagerstown road, and back across the open field and inthundred men were rallied on a crest near the Hagerstown road. This slight array formed the whole Co[4 more...]
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
meet him. The advance was made by five parallel roads, and the columns were so disposed as to cover both Washington and Baltimore; for the left flank rested on the Potomac, and the right on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The right wing consisted . This plan was simple, but highly meritorious. Lee did not propose to make any direct movement against Washington or Baltimore with the Union army between him and these points, but aimed so to manoeuvre as to cause McClellan to uncover them. Witalley, he hoped to draw the Union army so far towards the Susquehanna as to afford him either an opportunity of seizing Baltimore or Washington, or of dealing a damaging blow at the army far from its base of supplies. His first movement from Frederlan; for Virginia had been lost, and Maryland was invaded, and his army was all that stood between Lee and Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. The conduct of a commander should be judged from the facts actually known to him; and these were
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
27. Never, says General Jones, who commanded Jackson's old Stonewall division, had the army been sy moved to Boonsboroa and Hagerstown to await Jackson's operations. But when the news of McClellanHood's two brigades were placed on the left. Jackson's command was placed in reserve near the lefto assailed the Confederate left, now held by Jackson's force. The ground on which the battle openimbered ground around the Dunker church where Jackson's line lay could not have been held fifteen mredible though this return of the strength of Jackson's two divisions may appear, it is vouched forhat attended the march through Maryland, that Jackson's old (Stonewall) division numbered but one t the Antietam had secured an enfilade fire on Jackson's advanced and reserve line, and, together withe troops came under a very severe fire from Jackson's reserve division, which, joined by the two artial success. Hooker, after driving one of Jackson's divisions, was in turn forced back by the o[1 more...]
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ign had been remarkable. From the front of Richmond the theatre of operations had been transferred to the front of Washington; the Union armies had been reduced to a humiliating defensive, and the rich harvests of the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia were the prize of the victors. To crown and consolidate these conquests, Lee now determined to cross the frontier into Maryland. The prospective advantages of such a transfer of the theatre of war to the north of the Potomac seemed stroence of the hostile force would detain McClellan on the frontier long enough to render an invasion of Virginia during the approaching winter difficult, if not impracticable. Lee: Report of the Maryland Campaign, in Reports of the Army or Northern Virginia, vol. i., p. 27. Yet, if the enterprise had promised only such military gain, it is doubtful whether the Richmond government would have undertaken a project involving the renunciation of the proved advantages of their proper defensive;
Pleasant Valley (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
3th, at which time they were very feebly guarded, and then debouching into Pleasant Valley, the Union commander might next morning have fallen upon the rear of McLawged in the investment of Harper's Ferry. Crampton's Pass debouches into Pleasant Valley directly in the rear of and but five miles from Maryland Heights, oppositewo, and the corps rested on its arms, with its advance thrown forward into Pleasant Valley. During the night, the Confederates at Turner's Gap withdrew, and the Unold Turner's Pass. He therefore withdrew Longstreet and D. H. Hill across Pleasant Valley and over Elk Ridge into the valley beyond—the valley of the Antietam. In away the adverse force, passed through Crampton's Pass and debouched into Pleasant Valley in the rear of McLaws. This seemed a favorable opportunity to destroy thaception of a single regiment, and formed his troops in battle order across Pleasant Valley to resist any sudden attack, and before Franklin could make his dispositio
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Lee now determined to cross the frontier into Maryland. The prospective advantages of such a tran that the presence of the Confederate army in Maryland would induce an immediate rising among the cihan what is indicated above: The condition of Maryland encouraged the belief that the presence of ou ill-concealed hostility. Of the citizens of Maryland a large number (and notably the population ofidge, running north and south across parts of Maryland and Virginia, is rifted in twain by the Potomat straggling that attended the march through Maryland, that Jackson's old (Stonewall) division numbmid the picturesque hills and vales of Southwestern Maryland. Iii. Close of McClellan's career.he Potomac above Williamsport, passed through Maryland, penetrated Pennsylvania, occupied Chambersbu, finding the door open, would again cross to Maryland. But this danger being removed by the oncomig accomplished his work of expelling Lee from Maryland, he entered, after a brief repose, on a new c[15 more...]
Sumner (search for this): chapter 6
Burnside's old force, was under General Reno. Sumner continued to command his own (Second) corps, aive. It was in this situation of affairs that Sumner's force reached the ground; and it seemed at f little available fight in them; so that, when Sumner threw Sedgwick's divisions on his right across of these divisions that decided the action on Sumner's right is plainly marked by the time of theirin all the Confederate reports at ten o'clock. Sumner's corps had arrived at nine. A considerable inhaving yet passed the Antietam. The left of Sumner's command was sustained by Pleasonton's cavalrts against that still loose-jointed portion of Sumner's harness, between his right and centre. Geneturnpike—the woods Hooker had striven for, and Sumner had snatched and lost. But Sumner having commSumner having command on the right, now intervened to postpone further operations on that flank, as he judged the reputhe arrival of these divisions served to check Sumner in his career of victory, and hurl back Sedgwi[15 more...]
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