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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 87 9 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 87 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 78 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 64 8 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 43 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 12 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 30 4 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 28 0 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. 24 4 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 20 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
ily handle all the troops which composed it by himself. He neglected to send 4,000 troops to keep open the navigation of the Potomac, which the report says "caused the President manifest disappointment." After his army got to the Peninsula, Gen. Heintzelman received information that the rebels had only 10,000 troops at Yorktown, and the place might be taken. He advanced to make a heavy reconnaissance, but was recalled by McClellan, who "hoped that nothing had been done (by H.) to give the enemthe 4th Between ten and eleven o'clock Gen. Stonemen, with the cavalry and some light horse artillery, started in pursuit. About one o'clock Gen. Hocker, with his division, left York town with orders to support General Stoneman--Gens. Sumner, Heintzelman, and Keyes, also moved out during the day with the whole or portions of their corps. In the battle of Williamsburg which followed, Hocker, after losing 1,700 men, was so hard pressed by the rebels that he sent Gov. Spragne for reinforceme