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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Recollection from Hooker's history. (search)
en the effect? A.--It would have resulted in the capture and destruction of the enemy's army. Q — Do you know any reason why that could not have been done? A.--I do not. Q.--You were there when the enemy retreated from Yorktown? A.--I was within a mile and a half of there. The bully then goes on to state how be followed the retreating Confederates. When they reached Fort Magruder, where the Federals got their defeat, Hooker says: I supposed then that Gen. Heintzalman was there, but it turned out that he had left, and Gen. Sumner was in command with a large force, certainly not less than thirty thousand men. He could have advanced through the line of defences across the Peninenia, at Williamsburg, without losing ten men. The enemy could not fire, for I had him in a vise. I wanted him to advance, and until three o'clock of that day I expected he would advance and march through the line held by the enemy, and go to picking up prisoners. During this t