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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
aster of every gap and gorge in the Valley! Now this pretty scheme involved the converging movements of Fremont from the west, and McDowell from the east, upon Strasburg. The two columns moved rapidly; they had almost effected a junction on the 31st; but that very day Jackson, falling back from Harper's Ferry, slipped between the two, and made good his retreat up the Valley, leaving his opponents to follow in a long and fruitless Chevy Chase, all the time a day behind. The pursuers did theremained on the left bank. By the 28th, Sumner had constructed two bridges Known as Sumner's Upper Bridge and Sumner's Lower Bridge. for the passage of his corps; but up to the time when the Confederate commander assumed the initiative on the 31st, no provision was made for the crossing of the right wing, and the re-enforcement of that wing by the left involved a detour of twenty-three miles,— a distance quite too great for the possibility of re-enforcement in the fierce emergency of battle
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
lowing day. Here General Smith received orders from the headquarters of General Grant to move his command to New Castle, on the south side of the Pamunkey. General Smith's Report: Order from General Grant, dated Hanovertown May 28th. It will be observed that a movement on that point must throw Smith completely out of position in relation to the Army of the Potomac, then fronting the Chickahominy —a fact that was sufficiently evident to that officer on his arrival there, on the night of the 31st, after a long and fatiguing march. It was not, however, till the following morning that he learned from an officer of General Grant's staff that his orders had been wrongly worded—that instead of New Castle it was New Cold Harbor he was designed to reach, and that in consequence he had made an unnecessary march of ten or fifteen miles. Upon this, General Smith countermarched his column, and on the afternoon of that day (June 1st) reached Cold Harbor, where the Sixth Corps, detached, as alrea
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
skirmishing throughout the day. Sheridan: Report of Operations. Friday, the 31st, saw the ground still so unfavorable to movement that active operations were fordivision of Ayres being thrown forward to the west of it. But at daylight of the 31st, his right division under Griffin was relieved by the division of Miles of the St, which must have been made from erroneous information. On the morning of the 31st, General Warren reported favorably to getting possession of the White Oak road, ted by the failure of the attempt of the previous day, he, on the morning of the 31st, directed Devin's division again towards Five Forks. Finding that this body ending of troops to his succor. For this purpose Warren was, at nine P. M. of the 31st, ordered to send a divis on to Dinwiddie Courthouse by way of the Boydton plankrby Lee as soon as he could communicate with it, which was about ten P. M. of the 31st, and it fell back and took position at Five Forks, leaving only a cavalry picket