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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 8: commands the army defending Richmond, and seven days battles. (search)
ief, and on July 11th ordered that Major-General Henry W. Halleck be assigned to command the whole ltes were re-enforced by these appointments of Halleck and Pope. If the latter was, as Swinton, thetention was drawn to him by his past record. Halleck graduated at the United States Military Acade war path, and again produced consternation. Halleck hurried to McClellan, and had a personal inte Pope. McClellan finally agreed to attack if Halleck would send him twenty thousand more troops, all that Halleck could promise. McClellan would not say, says Halleck, that the probabilities of suHalleck, that the probabilities of success were in his favor, but there was a chance, and he was willing to try it; that the force of thg an attack on Richmond. Five days before Halleck's visit General Lee's army numbered 57,328. mporary respect, confidence, and friendship. Halleck writes McClellan a few days afterward that thLee left, McClellan telegraphed (August 16th) Halleck: Movement has commenced by land and water. A[2 more...]
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 9: Second battle of Manassas. (search)
my was posted on the heights of Centreville. Halleck telegraphed him on that day from Washington: ared the total destruction of the army; while Halleck, in a dispatch from Washington on August 29thy next day, however, at Centreville, he wires Halleck that his troops were in position there, thougtant-General Kelton, who had been sent out by Halleck, puts the number at thirty thousand. Much unsound of the firing of his men, and asked General Halleck on the night of the 30th of August for peuld stake his life to save the city, but that Halleck and the President said it would, in their jud had been assigned to take the field with it. Halleck had intimated that McClellan would not be all planned to show that McClellan was right and Halleck wrong, though it involved a change of his oriven o'clock on the night of the 13th informed Halleck that an order of General Lee's, addressed to mns arrived west of the mountains he informed Halleck that his enemy was making for Shepherdstown i[4 more...]
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 10: Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg. (search)
sed the Potomac. At 1.20 P. M., during the battle, he telegraphed Halleck: We are in the midst of the most terrible battle of the war-perhapth-thirty-six hours after the fighting was over — that he informed Halleck that we may safely claim a complete victory. General Lee's Marypressing his regret that every dispatch from his general in chief, Halleck, was fault-finding; he asked him to say something in commendation ful, and we had all we could do to win the day. On the other side Halleck was, with Mr. Lincoln's assistance, putting hot coals on his back.iminish. As soon as Lincoln returned to Washington he directed Halleck to order McClellan to cross the Potomac and give battle to the ene Not a man should be permitted to return to Virginia, telegraphed Halleck to McClellan in informing him that Stuart was at Chambersburg, Pa. being closeted with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, and General Halleck. I suppose we shall have a new programme next week. You had
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 11: Chancellorsville. (search)
as at Culpeper Court House, some thirty miles distant in another direction. Mr. Lincoln and Halleck would not let Hooker attack Hill, as General Lee supposed, because it was perilous to allow Leehile your army is attacking an intrenched position on the other side of the Rappahannock, wrote Halleck. If left to me, said Mr. Lincoln, I would not go south of the Rappahannock upon Lee's moving nander was in the saddle. Fighting Joe Hooker had fought his last battle as an army commander. Halleck, after the battle of Chancellorsville, did not want to trust Hooker with the management of anotnded that one man should command all the troops whose operations could be combined against Lee. Halleck not consenting, the difficulty culminated when Hooker requested that Maryland Heights, the gate to Harper's Ferry, be evacuated, that he might mobilize the ten thousand troops there. Halleck refused, and Hooker, now at Frederick, Maryland, finding he was not allowed to manceuvre his army in t
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 12: Gettysburg. (search)
as 3 P. M. on the 2d, and before he was attacked, he telegraphed in cipher to Halleck that if his enemy did not attack, and he finds it hazardous to do so, or is sa Army of the Potomac left the battlefield of Gettysburg. Meade telegraphed Halleck on the 6th that if he could get the Army of the Potomac in hand he would attacorce would reach Washington and, with what was already there, make it secure. Halleck, from his office in Washington, urged him to Push forward and fight Lee before 13th. All his corps commanders opposed attacking except two. Later that day Halleck telegraphed him to call no council of war. It is proverbial that councils of er battle has created great dissatisfaction in the mind of the President, said Halleck, and it will require an energetic pursuit on your part to remove the impressioss to the Confederates, the appreciation of which would have been increased if Halleck had been appointed his successor. The season of repose which now followed
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 13: campaign in Virginia.-Bristol Station.-mine Run.-Wilderness. (search)
nside, Hooker, and Meade, had now to measure swords with Grant. Sheridan, too, made his first bow in Virginia at this time. He had served with distinction under Halleck in the West, and when Grant asked for the best officer that could be found to be his chief of cavalry, Halleck suggested Sheridan, and his suggestion was instantlHalleck suggested Sheridan, and his suggestion was instantly adopted. This officer graduated in 1853 at West Point, was a classmate of McPherson, Schofield, and Hood, had served in the Fourth Infantry-Grant's old regiment-and was thirty years of age when he first drew his sabre in Virginia in 1864. The Federal Government laid at the feet of Grant its unbounded treasures. His Virginia Union troops were hurled back in the charge that followed and the line re-established. Grant again had no alternative but to flank-or fall back. He had written Halleck, addressing him as Chief of the staff of the army, that he was sending back his wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and proposed to fight it o
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)
rt navy yard, 139. Grace Church, Lexington, Va., 411. Grace Darling, Lee's horse, 181. Graham, William, mentioned, 405. Grant, Ulysses S., mentioned, 46, 48; character, 326; crosses the Rapidan, 328; in the Wilderness, 332; dispatch to Halleck, 336; crosses the Pamunkey, 340; at Cold Harbor, 341, 342; attacks Petersburg, 346; at City Point, 349; orders assault, 377; enters Petersburg, 382; proposes surrender, 388; sends second letter, 389; his third note, 391; final note to Lee, 392; Gray, General, William, 10. Greene, General, Nathanael, 10, 14, 15, 16, 410. Gregg, General, killed at Fredericksburg, 233. Gregg's cavalry division, 270, 284, 298, 315, 343; captured, 386. Griffin's division in the Wilderness, 329- Halleck, General William H., mentioned, 175, 179, 180, 194, 195, 196, 200, 202, 216, 218, 219, 220, 239, 262, 268, 305, 306. Hamilton's Crossing, 226, 227. Hampton, General, Wade, mentioned, 181, 183, 205, 219, 224, 241; wounded at Gettysburg, 298;