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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Kilpatrick's and Dahlgren's raid to Richmond. (search)
ard with the advance. In the darkness the column became scattered, and Captain Mitchell found himself in charge of the main portion, about three hundred strong, Dahlgren having moved with the remainder in a direction unknown to him. By-great exertions and with sharp skirmishing, Captain Mitchell broke his way through the enemy, and joined Kilpatrick the next day, the 2d, at Tunstall's Station, near White House. Meanwhile Dahlgren had crossed the Pamunkey at Hanovertown and the Mattapony at Aylett's; but late on Wednesday night, March 2d, he fell into an ambush near Walkerton, formed by Captain Fox with home guards of King and Queen County, furloughed men, and Magruder's squadron, and by Lieutenant Pollard with a company of the 9th Virginia. Dahlgren, at the head of his men, fell dead, pierced with a bullet. The greater part of his command was captured. On the second morning after Colonel Dahlgren's death, Lieutenant Pollard carried to General Fitzhugh Lee, in Richmond, some pape
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.14 (search)
all the supplies he wanted to be furnished. Sheridan had left the Army of the Potomac at Spotsylvania, but did not know where either this or Lee's army was now. Great caution therefore had to be exercised in getting back. On the 17th, after resting his command for three days, he started on his return. He moved by the way of White House. The bridge over the Pamunkey had been burned by the enemy, but a new one was speedily improvised, and the cavalry crossed over it. On the 22d he was at Aylett's on the Mattapony, where he learned the position of the two armies. On the 24th he joined us on the march from North Anna to Cold Harbor, in the vicinity of Chesterfield. Sheridan in this memorable raid passed entirely around Lee's army; encountered his cavalry in four engagements and defeated them in all; recaptured four hundred Union prisoners and killed and captured many of the enemy; destroyed and used many supplies and munitions of war; destroyed miles of railroad and telegraph,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate Army. (search)
ommanded at Petersburg. Ransom's division, Maj.-Gen. Robert Ransom, Jr. Gracie's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Archibald Gracie, Jr.: 41st Ala.,----; 43d Ala.,----; 59th Ala.,----; 60th Ala.,----. Kemper's Brigade, Col. William R. Terry: 1st Va., Maj. George F. Norton; 3d Va.,----; 7th Va., Capt. W. O. Fry; 11th Va.,----; 24th Va.,----. Barton's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Seth M. Barton: 9th Va., Col. James J. Phillips; 14th Va., Col. William White; 38th Va., Lieut.-Col. J. R. Cabell; 53d Va., Col. William R. Aylett; 57th Va., Col. C. R. Fontaine. Hoke's (old) Brigade, Lieut.-Col. William G. Lewis: 6th N. C.,----; 21st N. C.,----; 54th N. C.,----; 67th N. C.,----; 1st N. C. Batt'n,----. Artillery Battalion, Lieut.-Col. C. E. Lightfoot: Va. Battery, Capt. J. D. Hankins; Va. Battery, Capt. J. H. Rives; Va. Battery, Capt. T. R. Thornton. Hoke's division, Maj.-Gen. Robert F. Hoke. Corse's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Montgomery D. Corse: 15th Va., Lieut.-Col. E. M. Morrison; 17th Va., Lieut.-Col. Arthu
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan's Richmond raid. (search)
t. A. T. A. Torbert. James H. Wilson. Sheridan and some of his Generals. Fac-Simile of a photograph taken in 1864. of the railroad bridge, after six hours work at repairing it, two regiments at a time working as pioneers. The only incident of the crossing was the fall of a pack-mule from the bridge, from a height of thirty feet. The mule turned a somersault, struck an abutment, disappeared under water, came up and swam ashore without disturbing his pack. On the 23d the corps encamped at Aylett's, and at 5 P. M. I was sent with my regiment, 2d United States Cavalry, accompanied by Captains Wadsworth and Goddard of the staff, to open communication with the army, the sound of whose guns had been heard early in the day. After a forty-mile night march we had the good fortune to find General Grant near Chesterfield Station, where on the 25th the Cavalry Corps also reported, having fully performed its allotted task. It had deprived Lee's army, for the time, of its eyes and ears, damaged
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan's Trevilian raid. (search)
of the Virginia Central to Charlottesville, where it was expected he would meet Sheridan. That officer was again to cut loose from the army, and, after tearing up the Virginia Central near Gordonsville, to cooperate with Hunter, if practicable. In obedience to instructions Sheridan, with the divisions of Torbert and Gregg, numbering, exclusive of non-combatants, about eight thousand men, started (June 7th) from New Castle on the Pamunkey, crossed that river on pontoons, moved rapidly via Aylett's, Polecat Station, Chiles-burg, New Market, Mt. Pleasant, Young's Bridge, crossed the South Anna at Becker's Store, and bivouacked on the evening of the 10th at Buck Childs's, three miles from Trevilian Station. On the march, whenever the column passed near the railroad it was cut in several places. The weather was hot, and the roads heavy with dust, causing the weaker horses to drop out; in all cases where this occurred the disabled animals were shot by the rear-guard. As on the Richmon
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Petersburg and Richmond: December 31st, 1864. (search)
tioned were not in actual command on December 31st. General Robert E. Lee. Provost Guard, etc.: 1st Va. Batt'n, Maj. D. ]:. Bridgford; 39th Va. Batt'n Cav., Maj. John H. Richardson. Engineer Troops: 1st Reg't, Col. T. M. R. Talcott. first Army Corps, Lieut.-Gen. James Longstreet. Pickett's division, Maj.-Gen. George E. Pickett. Steuart's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. George H. Steuart: 9th Va., Col. J. J. Phillips; 14th Va., Col. William White; 38th Va., Col. George K. Griggs; 53d Va., Col. W. R. Aylett; 57th Va., Col. C. R. Fontaine. Corse's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Montgomery D. Corse: 15th Va., Col. T. P. August; 17th Va., Col. Arthur Herbert; 29th Va.,Col. James Giles; 30th Va., Col. R. S. Chew; 32d Va., Col. E. B. Montague. Hunton's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Eppa Hunton: 8th Va., Col. N. Berkeley; 18th Va., Col. H. A. Carrington; 19th Va., Col. Henry Gantt; 28th Va., Col. William Watts; 56th Va., Col. William E. Green. Terry's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. William R. Terry: 1st Va., Col. Frederick G.