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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Hooker's comments on Chancellorsville. (search)
y observation preparatory to ordering Humphreys's division forward. But it is evident that General Burnside never forgave me for counseling him on that occasion as I did, for on January 23d he drew und it was generally believed by the people at the North that I had not faithfully supported General Burnside in this battle, and that I was aiming thereby to supplant him. If these brave men who are sin the public prints, is referred to in the correspondence between Halleck and Franklin, and in Burnside's testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War. editors. were prepared on the 23d of January, 1863, and would have been immediately promulgated had not General Burnside been counseled first to lay them before President Lincoln, of whom he asked that they be approved, as drawn, or ttious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him as much as
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Sedgwick at Fredericksburg and Salem Heights. (search)
t Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. V. From our encampment on the Stafford Heights, the bright camp-fires of the enemy and the scenes of the terrible encounters under Burnside were daily presented to our sight from December, 1862, until the following April. During this period, with the exception of a futile movement on the right knownd to move with great caution through the streets and in the outskirts of the town. As the morning dawned, Marye's Heights, the scene of the fierce attacks under Burnside in the previous December, were presented to our view. Several regiments were speedily moved along the open ground in the rear of the town toward the heights, an on the line of the upper windows toward the road, showing that many Union soldiers aimed high. This church was a refuge for many Fredericksburg families during Burnside's battle.--editors. forces, throwing either flank with much confusion on opposite roads, and it seemed as though a regiment of cavalry might not only have captu
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Hooker's appointment and removal. (search)
Potomac. The fourth attempt mentioned by General Burnside has passed into history as the Mud march.succeeded the disaster of Fredericksburg, General Burnside, in a fit of humiliation, telegraphed to sending an outsider to take the command from Burnside. Subject to this conclusion, General Halleckat Sedgwick was ever proposed as successor to Burnside, and I cannot believe it, knowing the limiteditions for the attack on Marye's Heights, General Burnside, who at that time could have had no valida friend in Chase's own circle. As soon as Burnside's tenure of the command had become a questionnt in the matter of appointing a successor to Burnside, the Treasury faction had grown so powerful tcommanding general, as McClellan had sent for Burnside Meade was mistaken in thinking that McClellan had sent for Burnside when the command was turned over to him.--C. F. B. and Burnside for HookerBurnside for Hooker. Meade proposed to Hardie that he should telegraph to Stanton to be relieved from taking the comma[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania. (search)
from Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War. That was my first meeting with the famous scout, Harrison, who in his unpretending citizen's dress passed unmolested from right to left through the Federal army, visited Washington City, ate and drank with the Federal officers, and joined me at Chambersburg with information more accurate than a force of cavalry could have secured. While my command was at Suffolk, engaged in collecting supplies from the eastern coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, General Burnside was relieved and General Hooker put in command of the Federal Army of the Potomac. General Lee was not expecting Hooker to move so early, and gave me no warning until the Federals moved out to turn his left by Chancellorsville. He then sent urgent demand for me, but it so happened that all my trains were down on the eastern coasts, and I could not move my troops with-out leaving the trains to the enemy. I made haste to get them back as quickly as possible, and the moment we got them w