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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
rpose to witness the final blow that was to demolish the Army of the Potomac. The position occupied by the Pennsylvania Reserves being somewhat in advance of the general line of the army, they were the first troops encountered by the enemy, who, deploying his columns, directed his efforts to driving back this division and gaining the road beyond. This force of the enemy was composed of the divisions of Generals Longstreet and A. P. Hill. Crossing the Chickahominy at New Bridge on the 29th of June, they had passed over to the Darbytown Road and bivouacked that night at Atlee's Mills. Starting out early on the 30th, they continued down the Darbytown Road and thence into the New Market Road. Soon after getting into the latter, about noon, Jenkins' brigade of Longstreet's division, in the advance, reported the Federal skirmishers. These were the two regiments of McCall, sent out on the report of Generals Meade and Seymour. Longstreet continued to advance, pushing back these two re
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 5 (search)
also those of General Couch at Harrisburg. However, as on June 29, telegraphic communication was cut off by the enemy's cava Williams, Asst. Adjt. Gen'l. On the morning of the 29th of June, before leaving Frederick City, General Meade despatche the specified points. See Map No. 3, position night of June 29. The Second Corps, however, through delay in receiving itsuarters at Middleburg, where he passed the night of the 29th of June. During the day he had been in constant communicatio Not shown on map. and had encamped on the night of the 29th of June a few miles short of Fairfield. Moving forward very ead direct on Westminster, reaching that place at 5 P. M. on June 29, where it had a smart skirmish with a portion of the Fifthouacked for the night. See Map No. 8, position night of June 29, No. 2. On the same day, the 29th, that these two divisionntous; and, as General Meade expressed it in his letter of June 29, a battle will decide the fate of our country and our caus
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 30 (search)
old on the Susquehanna and meet me in battle at some point. It was my firm determination, never for an instant deviated from, to give battle wherever and as soon as I could possibly find the enemy, modified, of course, by such general considerations as govern every general officer—that when I came into his immediate neighborhood some manoeuvres might be made by me with a view to secure advantages on my side in that battle, and not allow them to be secured by him. On the morning of the 29th of June the army was put in motion. On the night of the 30th, after the army had made two days marches, I had become satisfied, from information which I had received from different sources, that the enemy was apprised of my movement; that he had relinquished his hold on the Susquehanna; that he was concentrating his forces, and that I might expect to come in contact with him in a very short time; when and where, I could not at that moment tell. Under those circumstances, I instructed my enginee