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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 2: the battle of Bull Run (July, 1861） (search)
n the upper Potomac threatening Winchester, under Patterson; at Alexandria under McDowell; and, at Fortress Monroe, under Butler. These armies were mostly raw troops, but among them were the 75,000 three-months men, first called out in April, and thich was destroyed just before opening fire. After that masked batteries figured on every field and in every event. When Butler was repulsed at Big Bethel it was a masked battery which did it. When Schenck's railroad reconnoissance from Alexandria o not to attack. I had recently read accounts of the affair at Big Bethel, Va., June 10, in which Magruder had repulsed Butler, whose troops fell back to Fortress Monroe in a panic, though entirely unpursued. I noted two facts: (1) That Magruder'shat though victorious, Magruder retreated to Yorktown the same afternoon, though perhaps with less haste than was used in Butler's return to Fortress Monroe. It seemed to me now that peremptory orders not to attack might result in another such scand
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 20: battle of the Wilderness (search)
neMcGowanScalesThomas cavalry. Stuart, Hampton HamptonYoungRosserButlerChew Lee, F.LomaxWickham20 Guns Lee, W. H. F.ChamblissGordon Oty and frankness of character. We had, perhaps unwisely, outlawed Butler, and Grant's trick consisted in making him Commissioner for exchangey were to move upon Lynchburg and thence upon Richmond. Fourth. Butler, at Fortress Monroe, was organizing the Army of the James, to move Valley and in the S. W. Va., about 9000 men and 24 guns. To meet Butler, Beauregard brought to Petersburg, from various points in the South infantry, about 2500 men. Beauregard, on May 16, had also defeated Butler at Drury's Bluff, allowing Lee to send for Pickett's division, abouward Richmond. Hampton, with his own and Fitz-Lee's divisions, and Butler's brigade of cavalry, recently arrived from S. C., were attacked byeys, and lost Willis and two of his colonels, killed. Meanwhile, Butler having been defeated, and, as said by Grant, bottled at Bermuda Hun
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 21: the movement against Petersburg (search)
position on the north bank of the James at Malvern Hill, adjoining Butler on the south bank at Bermuda Hundreds. This would unite the two arupon Petersburg with his whole army. He would thus pass in rear of Butler and attack the extreme right flank of the Confederate line, which, ng some of Beauregard's troops taken to Petersburg from in front of Butler. But for this, Longstreet's corps might have manned the intrenchis, in its turn, had arisen from the political necessity of placing Butler in command of the Army of the James. Smith's corps was a part of t and Grant, feeling that secrecy was essential to success, visited Butler on the 14th, and at his quarters prepared the orders for Smith's adcovered the next day, was supposed to mean only a drawing nearer to Butler's position, where the narrowness of the river would permit the easyas halted there. We reached the ground in time to drive off one of Butler's brigades which had come out to the railroad and begun to tear it
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 22: the Mine (search)
de of the James. At suitable points, he had already built signal-towers overlooking our lines, and some of our most important roads; and now the artillery officers were directed to prepare specially to concentrate fire upon every gun in our lines which could be used for the defence of Elliott's Salient. In obedience to these instructions, Humphreys reports, heavy guns and mortars, 81 in all, and about the same number of field-guns, were prepared with abundant ammunition. At Deep Bottom, Butler maintained two pontoon bridges across the James, with part of the 10th corps on the north side, under cover of his gunboats and ironclads. Of course, we had to maintain a moderate force in observation, which, under Gen. Connor, was located near Bailey's Creek. Grant could cross both the Appomattox and the James and go from his lines around Petersburg to Deep Bottom by a march of 12 miles, all of it entirely concealed from our view. Lee could only send troops to meet him by a march of 20 m
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 23: the fall of 1864 (search)
Gen. Weitzel. It was never contemplated that Butler should even accompany it. In the expressive lapen air, indicating their very limited range. Butler was notoriously a military charlatan, who had iminary correspondence, indicating a doubt how Butler would relish any interference with himself, Haaccount of the interview: — Dana describes Butler as entering the general's presence with a flushis mind by what he saw while present was that Butler had in some measure cowed his commanding offic place neither he nor Mr. Dana has ever said. Butler's book, however, contains what purports to be disposition of command was still in force when Butler butted in to the Fort Fisher expedition, takin fort, whose garrison remained in ignorance of Butler's plans until published afterward. On the 2, and on Jan. 4, he wrote to Halleck demanding Butler's official head. With a celerity indicative oers No. 1, By direction of the President, Maj.-Gen. Butler was relieved from command and ordered to [3 more...]