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William M. Dame (search for this): chapter 18
des differ radically as to this — I mean the more intelligent, observant and thoughtful of them, those whose views upon such a subject should be worth most. Willy Dame, one of the best men of the old battery,--No. 4 at the fourth gun, now the Rev. William M. Dame, D. D., of Baltimore, Md.,who has written a charming reminiscence othis new order of things did not affect the resolution of the men, but that it did affect their spirits. I can only say I believe he is exactly correct. Willy Dame, in his reminiscences above mentioned, gives a graphic account of the break up on the 4th of May of the winter camp of the Howitzers at Morton's Ford, in the cours and an oil cloth. We slept together, lying on his oil cloth, he wearing his overcoat when cold, and both of us covered with my cape. Another feature of Willy Dame's account of the Howitzer good-by to winter quarters, at the opening of the campaign of 1864, is well worthy of record. He says that the very last public and gene
Gouverneur Kemble Warren (search for this): chapter 18
to be quiet until the two generals advanced together to the front of the box, when Hancock said: Ladies and Gentlemen — I have the pleasure of presenting to you my friend, General Longstreet, a gentleman to whom I am indebted for an ungraceful limp, and whom I had the misfortune to wing in the same contest. Both sides suffered severely in the Wilderness, but except perhaps upon the basis of Grant's mathematical theory of attrition, the Confederates got decidedly the best of the fighting. Next came the race for Spottsylvania Court House, and the checkmate of Warren's corps by Stuart's dismounted cavalry. Such were the prominent features of the entire campaign. It was a succession of death grapples and recoils and races for new position, and several times during the campaign the race was so close and tense and clearly defined that we could determine the exact location of the Federal column by the cloud of dust that overhung and crept along the horizon parallel to our own advance
Longstreet (search for this): chapter 18
Gen. Ewell in the forest Ewell and Jackson-Longstreet struck down. Without recanting the statemd less acquaintance and association with General Longstreet than with any other of the more prominenrightly remember, that the relations between Longstreet and his staff were exceptionally pleasant, aave been generally observed that Jackson and Longstreet were both struck down in the Wilderness, jusnes, and pressing toward it I heard that General Longstreet had just been shot down and was being pu ambulance and looked in. They had taken off Longstreet's hat and coat and boots. The blood had palhich brought this scene vividly to my mind. Longstreet, at the Wilderness, was wounded in the shouleviously been wounded in the thigh, fighting Longstreet's. One evening while Hancock was in command in New Orleans, he and Longstreet entered Hancock's theatre box together. The entire audience rose pleasure of presenting to you my friend, General Longstreet, a gentleman to whom I am indebted for a
Fitzhugh Lee (search for this): chapter 18
is rough chivalry his imperturbable grit his theory of attrition its effect upon the spirit of Lee's Army an artilleryman of that Army in Campaign trim sundown prayer-meetings the Wilderness anet struck down. Without recanting the statement that Chancellorsville is the most brilliant of Lee's single battles, I do not hesitate to say that in my opinion — that is, if and so far as I am enect — the campaign of 1864, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, inclusive, is the greatest of all Lee's campaigns-incomparably the greatest exhibition of generalship and soldiership ever given by the soldier, both as to character and capacity. We all felt that he behaved handsomely, both to General Lee and to his men, at Appomattox, and that, later, in standing between Lee and his leading officLee and his leading officers and the threatened prosecutions for treason, he exhibited strong manhood and sense of right. Many of us, too, have heard of other instances in his career of a rough chivalry always attractive to
Benjamin Franklin Butler (search for this): chapter 18
ed home. I cannot forbear mentioning that Billy was one of these latter, and my youngest brother, who had joined us from Georgia some months before, another. Some of these men arrived before we left camp at Morton's Ford; and others walked many hours, following the solemn sound of the firing, and found us in the midst of the sombre Wilderness, and two at bloody Spottsylvania. One of these two, a Petersburg boy, was delayed because of having fought at home one day under Beauregard against Butler. To this I may add the fact that another man of the battery, wounded during the campaign, apologized humbly to the captain for the imprudence which led to his wound, because, as he said, he well understood what the loss of one man meant to us now. Upon the whole, while not formally deciding, as the Supreme Court of Texas recently did in a telegraph case,--as to the inherent difference between Willy and Billy, --yet I am inclined to think in this particular that Billy is rightthat in the
Freemantle (search for this): chapter 18
ederate army in Virginia. Indeed I do not recall ever having spoken to him or having heard him utter so much as one word. True, he was several times sent off on detached service, upon which we did not accompany him, and while nominally of his corps we had just been for some five months under Ewell's command; yet, after making allowance for all this, I could not but feel that there must be something in the nature of the man himself to account for the fact that I knew so little of him. Colonel Freemantle, of the Cold Stream Guards, who wrote a very charming diary entitled, I think, Two months in the Confederate lines, says, however, if I rightly remember, that the relations between Longstreet and his staff were exceptionally pleasant, and reminded him more of those which obtained in the British service than any others he observed in America. In this Wilderness fight I was suddenly brought in contact with a scene which greatly affected my conception of the man under the regalia of the
Custis Lee (search for this): chapter 18
prisoner of war, I was standing on the roadside near General Custis Lee when he was shocked by a report of the death of histold that orders had been sent by General Grant that General Custis Lee should not be received as a prisoner of war, and he y fine smoke wreath or ring, and said quietly, If I beat General Lee I sha'n't want any pontoons; and if General Lee beats meGeneral Lee beats me I can take all the men I intend to take back across the river on a log. As to his capacity and our estimate of it, we dide did not wish to be reinforced from a source that must give Lee man for man with him; that it would be cheaper and more merc upon Him. If any think this is a fond fancy, we don't. Lee's ready acceptance of the gage of battle flung down by Grant upon an inner line was just what Grant desired and expected Lee to do, and would have been in exact furtherance of Grant's plans. In this instance, as usual, Lee's audacity meant the exercise of his unerring military instinct and judgment. As j
Hunter McGuire (search for this): chapter 18
d any objection to telling me his orders, and he answered briskly, No, sir; none at all-just the orders I like — to go right down the plank road and strike the enemy wherever I find him. It is glory enough for any man to have been Stonewall Jackson's trusted lieutenant. Ewell simply worshiped his great commander; indeed, it was this worship that led him to the highest. He worshiped Jackson, and yet they were not exactly kindred spirits. The following little story, which I quote from Dr. McGuire, but which I heard many times before reading it in print, well illustrates one of the points of difference between them. At the battle of Port Republic an officer commanding a regiment of Federal soldiers and riding a snow-white horse was very conspicuous for his gallantry. He frequently exposed himself to the fire of our men in the most reckless way. So splendid was this man's courage that General Ewell, one of the most chivalrous gentlemen I ever knew, at some risk to his own life
Stonewall Jackson (search for this): chapter 18
ss an infantry fight a cup of coffee with Gen. Ewell in the forest Ewell and Jackson-Longstreet struck down. Without recanting the statement that Chancellorsvilenemy wherever I find him. It is glory enough for any man to have been Stonewall Jackson's trusted lieutenant. Ewell simply worshiped his great commander; indeed, it was this worship that led him to the highest. He worshiped Jackson, and yet they were not exactly kindred spirits. The following little story, which I quote fever, the officer and the white horse went down. A day or two after, when General Jackson learned of the incident, he sent for General Ewell and told him not to do cers and the cowards will run away and take the men with them? I do not say Jackson was not right, but I do say that in this double picture dear Old Dick's is ther the regalia of the general. It may not have been generally observed that Jackson and Longstreet were both struck down in the Wilderness, just one year apart, e
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (search for this): chapter 18
to be quiet until the two generals advanced together to the front of the box, when Hancock said: Ladies and Gentlemen — I have the pleasure of presenting to you my friend, General Longstreet, a gentleman to whom I am indebted for an ungraceful limp, and whom I had the misfortune to wing in the same contest. Both sides suffered severely in the Wilderness, but except perhaps upon the basis of Grant's mathematical theory of attrition, the Confederates got decidedly the best of the fighting. Next came the race for Spottsylvania Court House, and the checkmate of Warren's corps by Stuart's dismounted cavalry. Such were the prominent features of the entire campaign. It was a succession of death grapples and recoils and races for new position, and several times during the campaign the race was so close and tense and clearly defined that we could determine the exact location of the Federal column by the cloud of dust that overhung and crept along the horizon parallel to our own advance
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