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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Causes of the defeat of Gen. Lee's Army at the battle of Gettysburg-opinions of leading Confederate soldiers. (search)
s report. Your third proposition, that the way in which the fights of the 2d of July were directed does not show the same coordination which ensured the success ottle before crossing the Potomac. 3d. The way in which the fights of the 2d of July were directed does not show the same co-ordination which insured the success panied his movement, and I did not reach Gettysburg until the afternoon of the 2d July, going into line on the extreme left of our army, and fighting the enemy's cavo obtain opportunities for partial blows. 3d. ---- says that the fights of July 2d does not show the same co-ordination which insured to the Confederates successer side; had more fighting and incessant hard riding until the evening of the 2d of July, second day's fight, when it joined General Lee. The infantry was reduced by of the Federal Army. He did not join General Lee until the evening of the second of July. On approaching Gettvsburg, where General Lee had directed a concentration
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Causes of the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg. (search)
driven steadily back, and the lines occupied by Rodes' division. McLaws, Hood, and the artillery are now moving up and Pickett is ordered from Chambersburg. July 2D and 3D.-See Battle Reports of General Longstreet. July 4TH.-After the disasters of yesterday the morning opens very quietly, our troops occupying their originand 5th questions of--'s letter, the 1st and 2d having been previously discussed. The 3d question relates to the lack of co-ordination between the attacks of the 2d July; and a similar lack of co-ordination is equally patent in the attacks on the 3d. I attribute it partially to the fact that our staff organizations were never sufish display less valor in Spain or in the Crimea than they would have done in England under their favorite leaders? 3d. The way in which the fights of the second of July were directed does not show the same co-ordination which ensured the success of the Southern arms at Gaines' Mill and Chancellorsville. 4th. I do not under
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Second paper by Colonel Walter H. Taylor, of General Lee's staff. (search)
rode back to meet General Longstreet, and urge him forward; but, then, there was considerable delay in putting the troops to work after they reached the field and much time was spent in discussing what was to be done, which, perhaps, could not be avoided. At any rate, it would be unreasonable to hold General Longstreet alone accountable for this. Indeed, great injustice has been done him in the charge that he had orders from the Commanding-General to attack the enemy at sunrise on the second of July, and that he disobeyed these orders. This would imply that he was in position to attack, whereas General Lee but anticipated his early arrival on the second, and based his calculations upon it. I have shown how he was disappointed, and I need hardly add that the delay was fatal. General Lee determined to renew the attack upon the enemy's position on the third day of July. In his report of the campaign, in speaking of the operations of the second day, he says: The result of t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Leading Confederates on the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
ter a hard march, we reached before or at sunrise on the 2d of July. So imperative had been the orders to hasten forward wily about two hours, during the night from the 1st to the 2d of July. I arrived with my staff in front of the heights of aybreak, as I have already stated, on the morning of the 2d of July. My division soon commenced filing into an open field noin General Lee at Gettysburg until late in the evening of July 2.112,000 Hooker telegraphs to Staunton, June 27, 1863: Ss' Mill and Chancellorsville; whether the fight on the second of July should have been at all; whether the attack on the thi Army of Northern Virginia, being late in the evening of July second. It is thus evident that so far as deriving any assistance from his cavalry from the — of June to the evening of July 2, it might as well have had no existence. Every officer who tally stumbled into this fight. Longstreet's attack on July 2 was, in my judgment, made entirely too late in the day. If
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official Reports of the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
cure, and we beg our friends to aid us by sending on at once any which may not have been published. The following will be read with the interest which attaches to every thing connected with the great battle: Report of Brigadier-General Robertson. Headquarters Texas brigade, near Bunker's Hill, Va., July 17th, 1863. Major W. H. Sellers, A. A. Gen. Hood's Division: Major: I have the honor to submit through you my report of the action of my brigade in the Battle of Gettysburg, on the 2d and 3d of July. I have been too much occupied with the duties imposed by the marches and manoeuvres we have gone through to allow me to make this report at an earlier time. The division arrived on the ground in front of the position of the enemy that we were to attack but a few minutes before we were ordered to advance. I, therefore, got but a glance at the field on which we had to operate before we entered upon it. I was ordered to keep my right well closed on Brigadier-General Law's le
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of General H. L. Benning. (search)
Report of General H. L. Benning. Headquarters Benning's brigade, 3rd August, 1863. Major: In obedience to an order from the headquarters of this division, I have the honor to submit to you the following report of the operations of this brigade since it left Culpeper Courthouse for the other side of the Potomac: About 2 or 3 o'clock P. M., on the 2nd of July ultimo, I was informed by Major-General Hood that his division, as the right of Lieutenant-General Longstreet's corps, were about to attack the left of the enemy's line, and that in the attack my brigade would follow Law's brigade at the distance of about four hundred yards. In order to get to the place they assigned me, in the rear of General Law, it was necessary to move the brigade five or six hundred yards further to the right. Having done this, I advanced in line of battle. A wood intervened between us and the enemy, which, ~though it did not prevent their shells from reaching us and producing some casualties,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Colonel E. P. Alexander's report of the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
Colonel E. P. Alexander's report of the battle of Gettysburg. camp near Orange C. H., August 10th, 1863. Colonel G. M. Sorrell, Adjutant-General First Corps: Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of the artillery operations on the field of Gettysburg conducted under my command: On arriving on the field on the 2d of July, about 10 A. M., I was ordered by Lieutenant-General Longstreet to accompany the movements to the right, then being commenced by Hood's and McLaw's divisions, and to take command of the three battalions of artillery accompanying them, viz: my own battalion, of twentysix guns (commanded in my absence by Major Frank Huger), Colonel Cabell's, of eighteen guns, and Major Henry's, of eighteen guns. About 4 P. M. the enemy's position having been defined and preparations for an assault upon him made, I placed in position against him the eighteen guns of Cabell's battalion and eighteen of my own battalion, to fire upon the Peach Orchard position,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Leading Confederates on the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
on the night of the 28th of June, that the Federal army, then under Hooker, had crossed the Potomac. Those brigades crossed the Potomac at Williamsport, on the 2nd of July, (see Schenck's telegram, 1st vol. Congressional Report on the Conduct of the War, 2nd series, p. 489,) and arrived near Gettysburg on the 3rd of July, too lateof his cavalry. The absurd estimate of Professor Bates that the 105,000 reported by Hooker had been reduced to only 72,000 between the 27th of June and the 2nd of July, if true, would furnish a curious commentary on the loyalty and patriotism of the North, and on the morale of the soldiers who had rallied to the Standard of thithout fighting, that would have equally been a failure of the campaign as a decisive one. I may go further and say, that even a capture of those heights on the 2nd or 3rd of July would have been of no avail to us, unless we could have inflicted on the enemy a decisive an'd crushing defeat. If we had merely been able to dri
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Supplement to General Early's Review.-reply to General Longstreet. (search)
al Longstreet to attack at sunrise on the morning of the 2d of July at Gettysburg, those familiar with the controversy that was General Lee's intention to attack the enemy on the second of July as early as practicable; and it is my impression that ning of the first and very early on the morning of the second of July. See also General Long's letter to me in the Augus, with regard to Gen. Lee's battle order on th-, 1st and 2nd of July at Gettysburg, was duly received. I did not know of anyh order was issued by General Lee. About sunrise on the 2nd of July I was sent by General Lee to General Ewell to ask him whaybreak, as I have already stated, on the morning of the 2d of July. My division soon commenced filing into an open field n Had the conflict been renewed by it at daylight on the 2nd of July, with the First and Eleventh corps exhausted by battle, neral Early broke up General Lee's line of battle on the 2d of July, by detaching part of his division on some uncalled — fo