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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 1.1 (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan 's Richmond raid. (search)
Sheridan's Richmond raid. by Theo. F. Rodenbough, Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. A.
The Army of the Potomac had been hibernating on the left bank of the Rapidan River, when as the season for active operations was about to open (April, 1864) there arrived a lieutenant-general commanding and a chief of cavalry.
The one was not unknown to fame; the other was almost an entire stranger to his new command.
During the first two years of the war the Union cavalry lacked the paternal care essential to its proper development.
Its first father was General Hooker, who organized a multitude of detachments into a compact army corps of 12,000 horsemen; transforming that which had been a by-word and a reproach into a force that, by its achievements in war, was ultimately to effect a radical change in the armament and use of mounted troops by the great military powers.
The winter of 1863-64 brought little rest to the cavalry.
While the artillery and infantry were comfortably quartered,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cavalry operations in the West under Rosecrans and Sherman . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of New Market , Va. , May 15th , 1864 . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Operations South of the James River . (search)
Operations South of the James River.
I. First attempts to capture Petersburg.
By August V. Kautz, Brevet Major-General, U. S. A.
The Cavalry Division of the Army. of the James was organized in the last days of April, 1864.
Through the personal application of Lieutenant-General Grant I was selected and promoted to be Brigadier-General of Volunteers to organize and command it. I found the troops of which it was to be made up encamped in rear of Portsmouth, Va., picketing the line of the expeditions of the enemy.
This was accomplished at a cost in my division of 719 killed, wounded, and missing. . . .
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Repelling the first assault on Petersburg.
By R. E. Colston, Brigadier-General, C. S. A.
at the end of April, 1864, I was transferred from the Department of Georgia to that of Virginia and was assigned by General H. A. Wise to the provisional command of the post of Petersburg, which I had already held from January to March, 1863. General Wise returned to P