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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.14 (search)
9th of July I received the following from General Grant at City Point: General Ord can be assit on the following day, and it is manifest General Grant up to that moment had not changed the opino impair the confidence in me expressed in General Grant's communication of the 9th. I sought anrmont] should not think that the reason of General Grant relieving me from duty was brought about bort leave of absence, on the 19th of July, General Grant sent for me to report to him, and then toltten, before the campaign began, to two of General Grant's most devoted friends, urging upon them tsion, Washington, April 30, 1864. Lieutenant-General Grant: Not expecting to see you again beforuch way Mr. Lincoln's letter was mislaid. General Grant had forgotten its existence, until in 1866ther to the Government or to the family of General Grant. Adam Badeau. New York, November 10,gh against my wishes. The words used in General Grant's report, dated July 22d, 1865, are these:[2 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. (search)
the superior strength of his antagonist. General Grant's bold movement across the lower fords int rear, back across the river. Meanwhile General Grant was not idle elsewhere. He had commenced the enemy had suffered more severely, and General Grant was delayed in his turning movement for twe's purpose to offer any serious resistance to Grant's passage of the river at the points selected.icho Mill and joined Warren. The two wings of Grant's army were safely across the river, but therehe battle of Cold Harbor was over, and with it Grant's overland campaign against Richmond. When part at least of his own men thought about General Grant's methods was shown by the fact that many ure after the arrival of the armies of Lee and Grant than it had been before. Nor can these resulterness on the 5th and 6th of May, and that General Grant's constant hammering with his largely supetore, from the Lacy House, the headquarters of Grant, Meade, and Warren. From a sketch made at the[23 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., General Grant on the Wilderness campaign. (search)
General Grant on the Wilderness campaign. Extract from his report as Lieutenant-General, dated July 22d, 1865. General Grant Whittling during the battle of the Wilderness. From a sketch made at the time. The movement of the Army of tave whipped to-day, killing and wounding many, and taking many prisoners, after a severe and well-contested fight. General Grant will not be troubled with any further reinforcements to Lee from Beauregard's force. Benj. F. Butler, Major-General.redericksburg, and a few paces in front of it the Hill drops abruptly to the sunken telegraph road and stone wall. General Grant and staff at Bethesda Church, North of Cold Harbor. From a War-time photograph. General Grant is sitting with his bGeneral Grant is sitting with his back to the smaller tree. zeal and efficiency displayed by them. Under the general supervision of the chief quartermaster, Brigadier-General R. Ingalls, the trains were made to occupy all the available roads between the army and our water-base, and
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Through the Wilderness. (search)
army another year. On April 9th, 1864, General Grant instructed General Meade that Lee's army wsimilarly disposed, would cover only 12 miles. Grant had a train which he states in his Memoirs wou men, and the number of field-guns 224. General Grant's aggregate over Lee was therefore 94 gunshe outset, his position in the Wilderness, and Grant did not know at that time, as did General Mead intended to move with his whole force against Grant's right flank as soon as Grant was far enough Grant was far enough advanced into the Wilderness on the road to Richmond. As for the Wilderness, it was uneven, withad toward the Brock road. Thus at 8 A. M. General Grant and General Meade had developed the presen Germanna Plank road, due north from where General Grant was standing. Shaler's brigade was close Corps. General Burnside had reported to General Grant on the 9th that he had met the enemy on thn. On the 11th It was at this time that General Grant sent his famous all summer dispatch, in th[10 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Hand-to-hand fighting at Spotsylvania. (search)
e to Hancock's movement, and about 10 o'clock he put his troops in motion, marching to a point on the left of the Sixth Corps' former position in the neighborhood of the Brown house, massing his troops in that vicinity. [See map, p. 167.] General Grant's orders to Hancock were to assault at daylight on the 12th in cooperation with Burnside on his left, while Wright and Warren were held in readiness to assault on his right. The Confederate army was composed of three corps--Longstreet (now Rtroops to Ewell from Hill on the right and Anderson on the left, and these were sprung upon our victorious lines with such an impetus as to drive them hastily back toward the left of the salient. Of the Union troops on the left of Hancock, General Grant ( Personal memoirs, p. 231) says: Burnside on the left had advanced up east of the salient to the very parapet of the enemy. Potter, commanding one of his divisions, got over, but was not able to remain there. . . . Burnside accomplished
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan's Richmond raid. (search)
patrol duty and reconnoissances. Upon his arrival, Grant seems to have noted this mal-administration and to hme a pail o‘ water, and promptly disappeared. General Grant states in his Memoirs that on the 8th of May he d that movement. It happened that on the 8th of May Grant, Meade, and Sheridan were together at army headquartOn the 21st Sheridan, continuing his march to rejoin Grant, crossed the Pamunkey near White House, on the ruinsmile night march we had the good fortune to find General Grant near Chesterfield Station, where on the 25th thexty prisoners. Having secured the desired position, Grant directed Sheridan to regain the touch with Lee's mai the Second Division as one of its severest. General Grant adds: But our troops had to bury the dead, a Northern Virginia seemed to have hidden itself, and Grant's infantry moved cautiously to the left and front. a suitable camping-ground, Sheridan was directed by Grant to return to Cold Harbor and hold it at all hazards.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.27 (search)
morning, a succinct account of the last engagements between General Lee and General Grant, up to the 12th, and of the relative position of their two armies. Nor, inmy and my forces were on nearly a right line passing through Richmond, with General Grant's army on the left, and Butler's on the right, we still held the interior lfirst, to attack and defeat Butler, and next, to turn our entire forces against Grant. I hurriedly formed a plan to that effect, and sent Colonel Map of operatiooss the James after disposing of Butler, and by a concerted movement strike General Grant on his left flank, while General Lee should attack him in front. Generals presence at Bermuda Hundred, and his expected cooperation, later on, with General Grant. General Whiting joined me on the 17th near midday. He was thoroughly dr pursuit. He was successful in that, if in no other feature of his plan. General Grant, who fully understood Butler's actual position with respect to mine, took i
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Butler's attack on Drewry's Bluff. (search)
otograph. On the 31st of March, 1864, General Grant left Washington on a steamer to go and maklated overland movement against Richmond. General Grant arrived at Fort Monroe on the morning of At in the hands of General Butler. Just as General Grant was about to leave Fort Monroe to return tand the next day. On the morning of the 2d General Grant went ashore, and General Butler then develould be for Petersburg. On April 2d, when General Grant came ashore, Butler got out his maps and sn Butler's presence, I did not go, but thought Grant would have some talk with me about it. He did .--W. P. S. The plan was at once adopted. General Grant returned to Washington, leaving a letter o and the work of intrenching called for by General Grant's letter of April 2d was begun, but not inte. Had the instructions of April 2d of General Grant been strictly carried out, and had Petersbd him on his return to the headquarters of General Grant to say to him for me that, in my opinion,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cold Harbor. (search)
raphic correspondence followed, and at last came a circular order to the corps commanders, understood to be from Lieutenant-General Grant. It directed, in substance, that the three corps should advance and attack with their entire forces the enemy'sain facts. Two years before, this same army had been placed much nearer Richmond with comparatively little loss. During Grant's advance from the Rapidan he had the advantage, of which he freely availed himself, of ordering troops to his assistancermy, of fighting battles by watch and wire, it is useless to inquire and difficult to determine. Cold Harbor, said General Grant, is, I think, the only battle I ever fought that I would not fight over again under the circumstances ( Around the world with General Grant, by John Russell Young, Vol. II., ch. XXXIV., p. 304); and again, in his Memoirs, p. 276, Vol. II., I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made. A bomb-shell in an artillery camp-fire — an
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Eighteenth Corps at Cold Harbor. (search)
ceived the following autograph letter from General Grant: headquarters, armies of the United From Bassett's an aide was sent to inform General Grant of the position occupied by the Eighteenthne 1st I received from the headquarters of General Grant an order to proceed at once to New Castle in Francis U. Farquhar of the Engineers to General Grant to say that there must have been some miste so engaged a staff-officer arrived front General Grant to say that there had been a mistake in myr Colonel Comstock, an engineer officer of General Grant's staff, and to-day a distinguished officeto me and said that he had been ordered by General Grant to go over my lines. This visit was but ty satisfied and has gone back to report to General Grant. What Colonel Comstock reported I never kwas tired of it, and was determined to let General Grant plan his own battles. I have no knowledge July following, I had a conversation with General Grant about the campaign, in which I expressed t[4 more...]
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