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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 62 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 39 9 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 33 3 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 29 3 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 27 1 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 24 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 23 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 2 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 21 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 21 1 Browse Search
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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
Maryland and Pennsylvania, was instructed to form his forces into two columns—the one, of ten thousand strong, under General Crook, to move for the Kanawha and operate against the Virginia and East Tennessee Railroad; the other, seven thousand strohickahominy. The expeditionary force in the Shenandoah Valley and West Virginia was divided into two columns—one under Crook, consisting of a force of infantry and a division of cavalry under General Averill, to move by the Kanawha to operate agarom the force in the valley to join the army confronting Grant. The 8th of the same month, Hunter formed a junction with Crook and Averill at Staunton, from which place he moved towards Lynchburg, by way of Lexington. Arriving before Lynchburg, itund at Meadow Bridge, five or six marches from Lynchburg, where a half-million rations had been left a few days before by Crook and Averill, under guard of two Ohio regiments of hundred days men. These troops, however, were stampeded by a contemptib
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
under his command, consisting of the Sixth and Nineteenth corps and the infantry and cavalry of West Virginia, under Generals Crook and Averill, were added two divisions of cavalry from the Army of the Potomac, under Torbert and Wilson. This gave hrd, and being favored by a heavy fog, had attained, unperceived, the rear of the left flank of the Union force, formed by Crook's corps. This position gained, the Confederates closed in upon and captured the Union pickets, and rushed into the camp—the troops awaking only to find themselves prisoners. To rally the men in their bewilderment was impossible, and Crook's corps, being thoroughly broken up, fled in disorder, leaving many guns in the hands of the enemy. As soon as this flank atta, emerged from behind the hills west of Cedar Creek, and crossing that stream, struck directly the troops on the right of Crook. This served to complete the disaster, and the whole Union left and centre became a confused mass, against which the Con
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
ive Forks, or White Oak road, and directed General Crook to send General Davies' brigade of his divpport of General Devin. Gregg's brigade, of Crook's division, was held on the Boydton plankroad,ion, he re-enforced it with Davies' brigade of Crook's division, while Crook, with his other two brCrook, with his other two brigades, under Smith and Gregg, were ordered to the left, and encountered a hostile cavalry force atttle west of Dinwiddie. With his two brigades Crook held this body in check, and Devin and Davies ridan made admirable dispositions. He ordered Crook's division to attack the train, and if the cov too strong, one of the divisions would, while Crook held fast to and pressed the enemy, pass him adivision gained the road, and the divisions of Crook and Devin coming up to its support, four hundrPrince Edward Courthouse, and a third, that of Crook, to Farmville. The bridges having been burnt was not able to make the passage until night. Crook struck a train on the north side of Appomattox