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1864 AD (search for this): chapter 1
Sea page 421, volume I. Major Lacey owned the land on which the battle of the Wilderness was fought by Grant and Lee, in 1864. infantry and artillery, with four hundred guns, and a well-equipped cavalry force thirteen thousand strong. The leader mmand was Moseby's most. dreaded enemy in the region of Upper Virginia, east of the Blue Ridge, during the years 1863 and 1864, a large number of Moseby's men were volunteers from the regular Confederate cavalry, whose love of adventure and, lust foo the Headquarters of General Warren, and other officers, when the army under Grant was in that vicinity, in the spring of 1864. the movement, for Lee, while watching the visible enemy in front of him, was not aware of the passage of the Rappahannoc 1868), did not give an account of his losses, and it is only from those of his subordinates, published with his report in 1864, that the number, above given, has been ascertained. A Confederate surgeon at Richmond reported their loss, immediately a
Stonewall Jackson (search for this): chapter 1
e near Chancellorsville Lee foiled, 26. the opposing leaders in council Hooker on the defensive bold project of Stonewall Jackson, 27. flank movement by Jackson the Nationals deceived Jackson's attack on Hooker's right, 28. Hooker's right crJackson the Nationals deceived Jackson's attack on Hooker's right, 28. Hooker's right crumbles into fragments, 29. flight and pursuit of disordered troops, 30. attack on Hooker's left and center death of Stonewall Jackson, 31. Hooker's new line of battle, 32. the battle of Chancellorsville, 33. Lee takes Chancellorsville, 34. thStonewall Jackson, 31. Hooker's new line of battle, 32. the battle of Chancellorsville, 33. Lee takes Chancellorsville, 34. the Heights of Fredericksburg captured, 35. battle at Salem Church Sedgwick in peril, 36, 37. the National Army recrosses the Rappahannock, 38. another raid by Stoneman, 39, 40. National troops at Suffolk fortifications there, 41, 42. the siegeted men. Lee's army was composed of two corps, the First commanded by General Longstreet, and the Second by Stonewall Jackson. Of these General T. J. Jackson's entire corps, comprising the divisions of A. P. Hill, D. H. Hill, Trimble, and Early,
D. H. Hill (search for this): chapter 1
General T. J. Jackson's entire corps, comprising the divisions of A. P. Hill, D. H. Hill, Trimble, and Early, and the divisions of Anderson and McLaws, of Longstreet'aken Peck's command. It was reported that he had gone to South Carolina, and D. H. Hill was sent to attack Little Washington, and menace New Berne, in North Carolina page 315, volume II. had ordered Peck to send three thousand soldiers to oppose Hill. Being in readiness, Longstreet at once crossed the Blackwater on pontoon bridgply, reluctantly, with a summons from Foster for three thousand troops to oppose Hill, when a Confederate mail, captured by General Viele, who was in command at Norfolk, informed him of Longstreet's plans,.and the important fact that Hill's was only a co-operating movement. Viele had ascertained that Longstreet was in possessiothe land troops in a siege which continued twenty-four days. Longstreet recalled Hill from North Carolina, and the besiegers numbered about forty thousand. Gallant a
Brackett (search for this): chapter 1
from injury. During the raid Stoneman and his command disabled but did not destroy Lee's communications, but they captured and paroled over 500 Confederate officers and soldiers; destroyed 22 bridges, 7 culverts, 5 ferries, 3 trains of railroad cars, and 122 wagons; burned 4 supply trains, 5 canal boats, 2 store houses, 4 telegraph stations, and 3 depots; broke canals in three places, and railways in 7 places; cut the telegraph wires in 5 places, and captured 356 horses and 104 mules. See Brackett's History of the United States Cavalry, page 311. The damages to the railways were repaired by the time the raiders had recrossed the Rappahannock. Had Stoneman's. forces been concentrated, and their destructive energies been applied to the single object of Lee's direct communications, the Confederate army might, after its success at Chancellorsville, have fallen into the hands of the Nationals, for at that time its supplies came from Richmond, and it had not more than a few days' rations
A. P. Hill (search for this): chapter 1
's entire corps, comprising the divisions of A. P. Hill, D. H. Hill, Trimble, and Early, and the divs in the rear of Rodes, and back of this was A. P. Hill. Two pieces of Stuart's horse-artillery movelosed followed by Generals R. E. Colston and A. P. Hill. General Devens was severly wounded, and oneal artillery, halted, and sent a request for A. P. Hill to be ordered to the front to take the advanStates Ford. While awaiting the arrival of General Hill to the front, he pushed forward with his stexhausted by pain and loss of blood, fell. General Hill presently rode up, jumped from his horse, achkiss), he cried out in his delirium, Order A. P. Hill to prepare for action-pass the infantry to tckson had ordered a forward movement so soon as Hill should reach the front, and it was at the momenlished that the notable leader was prostrated. Hill, also, was disabled by a contusion caused by thrd movement in the night. General Stuart, whom Hill called to the command, agreed with him, and the[1 more...]
R. H. Anderson (search for this): chapter 1
ill, Trimble, and Early, and the divisions of Anderson and McLaws, of Longstreet's corps, were now pin motion toward Chancellorsville. It joined Anderson's (which, as we have observed, had fallen bacidge on the east of the Big Meadow Swamp, and Anderson continued the line to the left of McLaws. Sud because he would have only the divisions of Anderson and McLaw s left to oppose both Hooker and Seart to incline to the right, while McLaws and Anderson, under Lee's immediate command, should move tt was bearing heavily upon Sickles, Lee threw Anderson and McLaws upon Darius N. Couch. Slocuine of Hancock's division repulsed him, while Anderson, bearing heavily upon Slocum, succeeded in jocapture of the Heights of Fredericksburg; and Anderson's three remaining brigades were sent to re-enrces. against him. So he recalled McLaws and Anderson, to add strength to his main army, leaving Eatively by Generals Hood, French, Pickett, and Anderson. capturing the cavalry outposts of the Nation[3 more...]
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most the only mounted force the Confederates could then spare to oppose Stoneman's ten thousand, but he pressed forward through Culpepper to the Rapid Anna, and no further. He failed to protect the right of the main column, and was recalled. Stoneman weeded his army of weak materials, and, with his best men and horses, in light marching order, pressed forward Buford was sent out to the left, and, skirmishing frequently with small bodies of cavalry, reached the Rapid Anna on the night of the 30th, and encamped near Raccoon Ford. Stoneman marched cautiously on, crossed the Rapid Anna at the same ford, and the whole force reached a point on the Virginia Central railway, a mile from Louisa Court-House, at two o'clock on the morning of the 2d of May. 1863. Much of the railway in that vicinity was immediately destroyed, and at daylight Colonel Kilpatrick, with his regiment, dashed into the little village of Louisa Court-House, terrifying the inhabitants by his unexpected visit, and obtai
1863 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ne hundred and sixty-four Fredericksburg in the Spring of 1863. this is from a photograph by Gardner, taken from the Sts had been active for some weeks. On the 10th of February 1863. W. H. F. Lee, with his brigade, made an unsuccessful attemof Upper Virginia, east of the Blue Ridge, during the years 1863 and 1864, a large number of Moseby's men were volunteers fr railways in Lee's rear, and on Monday, the 27th of April, 1863. the turning column, composed of the corps of Meade (Fifth)dgwick, and at a little past midnight on the first of May, 1863. he put Jackson's column in motion toward Chancellorsville.on of the opposing forces on the morning of the 2d of May. 1863. Lee was satisfied that his situation was a perilous one,urt-House, at two o'clock on the morning of the 2d of May. 1863. Much of the railway in that vicinity was immediately destrition, and became the center of stirring scenes in 1862 and 1863. In September, 1862, Major-General John J. Peck was plac
February, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ce to the map on page 42, which is a careful copy, on a small scale, of one made by General Peck's engineers, and kindly lent by that commander to the writer. The authorities at Richmond, believing he was preparing a base of operations for a grand movement against that city, in co-operation with the Army of the Potomac, caused the adoption of countervailing measures. A series of fortifications were erected from the line of the Blackwater to Fort Powhatan, on the James River, and late in February, 1863, General Longstreet was placed in command of all the Confederate troops in that region. He had then full thirty thousand troops, including those already on the line of the Blackwater, so posted that he could concentrate them all near Suffolk in the course of twenty-four hours. Early in April, Longstreet prepared to make a sudden descent upon Peck. He determined to march with an overwhelming force, cross the Nansemond, capture or disperse the National garrison, and then, without furt
Fitzhugh Lee (search for this): chapter 1
neman, who was the chief of the mounted men. Lee's army was composed of two corps, the First comneral impression among the commanders was, that Lee's army was retreating toward Richmond, and Hookespecially to the Army of Northern Virginia, as Lee's troops were called, was irreparable. Jacks to the right, while McLaws and Anderson, under Lee's immediate command, should move to the left soparated from him by an army elated by victory. Lee, confident that he might capture or disperse thhis was the startling intelligence that reached Lee, just as he was about to attack Hooker in his nst below the ford; and on Tuesday May 5, 1863. Lee had only Hooker to contend with, and was free tven, including about two thousand prisoners, Lee, in his report of the Battle of Chancellorsvill on the Battle of Chancellorsville, at page 15, Lee said: The damage done to the railroad was smallellorsville. We have observed (page 21) that Lee had sent Longstreet to command the troops opera[58 more...]
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