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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
umerate here, show that the Confederate partisans were wide awake at all points in Virginia, resorting alternately to cunning and audacity in order to conceal the inferiority of their numbers. At Williamsburg, for instance, on the field of battle where so much blood had been shed the preceding year, they resorted to an expedient against their adversaries which was susceptible of frequent application. By means of false information conveyed to the Federal garrison of Yorktown, on the 7th of February, 1863, a squadron of the enemy was enticed into a narrow road bordered on both sides by a thick forest. The Unionists, who were advancing cautiously, suddenly espied a small band of Confederates, who, after firing a few shots, fled rapidly. A charge was immediately ordered, and the squadron rushed forward in pursuit. But they had scarcely broken into a gallop when they encountered a multitude of telegraph-wires reaching from tree to tree across the road. The horses stumble over each ot
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
artment had charge of furnishing all the materiel of the army: as we have described it in the first volume, it formed, at the outset of the struggle, a modest bureau, which it was found necessary to transform suddenly into a vast department. In each of the years 1861, 1862, and 1863 the Secretary of War is asking for the necessary funds to increase the personnel of this department by more than one hundred clerks, both men and women, and a special law is enacted to this effect on the 7th of February, 1863. Their number, however, is still insufficient, the number of accounts rendered exceeding the calculation. A statement of the materiel on hand in each body has to be furnished monthly by each brigade and regiment, and in every quarter by each company. Now, in November, 1862, there were 300 brigades, 1000 regiments, and 10,000 companies, which makes 55,600 accounts to verify for this year; in 1863 each company commander has to furnish monthly statements of the materiel declared unf