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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Morale of General Lee's army. (search)
superior to others of our army in morale) it would be impossible to pick out of any community in the land a nobler body of men than they were. Our colonel was A. P. Hill, who, by gallantry and skill, and solid merit, rose to the rank of lieutenant general; achieved a reputation for the highest qualities of the soldier, and on th missionaries with the greatest courtesy and respect. I can testify that, in constant intercourse with our officers, from Generals Lee, Jackson, Ewell, Stuart, A. P. Hill, Early, J. B. Gordon, J. A. Walker, and others of highest rank down to the lowest rank, I was never treated otherwise than with marked courtesy, kindness, and rthe rank of colonel of artillery (he refused a tender of promotion to the command of an infantry brigade), upon more than one occasion elicited high praise from A. P. Hill, Jackson, and Lee, arid, at the early age of twenty-two, fell on the ill-fated field of Five Forks, gallantly resisting the overwhelming odds against him. His l
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), General Meade at Gettysburg. (search)
humiliation of the Union cause. Accordingly, on the 22d of June, after a series of bold movements in Virginia, he ordered the advance of his army, under Ewell, into Maryland; and on the 24th and 25th, his two remaining corps, under Longstreet and Hill, crossed the Potomac at Williamsport and Shepherdstown, and followed Ewell, who had already advanced into Pennsylvania as far as Chambersburg. The Army of the Potomac crossed on the 25th and 26th, at Edwards' Ferry, and was concentrated in the neune 29th, Lee learned that the Army of the Potomac, which he thought was still in Virginia, was advancing northward, threatening his communications. He therefore suspended the movement on Harrisburg, which he had ordered, and directed Longstreet, Hill, and Ewell to concentrate at Gettysburg. On the night of the 30th, after the Army of the Potomac had made two days marches, General Meade heard that Lee was concentrating his army to meet him, and being entirely ignorant of the nature of the coun
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), A campaign with sharpshooters. (search)
lm, courteous, unselfish, gallant, patriotic A. P. Hill. Surrounded by his staff, this beloved gene and was at this time crowded with troops. General Hill and General Lee both occupied this positionls of this description. Turning sharply to General Hill, he exclaimed: Here are your troops and yonr you. And with these words he rode away. General Hill that night ordered the sharpshooters of Wilr most singular circumstances that Lieutenant General A. P. Hill, an officer whose name will ever btended his left flank to envelop our right, General Hill's Corps was massed at and beyond Hatcher's r knows, as having obtained permission from General Hill himself to return to Petersburg, and havingeir pickets in the direction of the river. General Hill, apprised of this state of things at his heiers. Accompanied only by Sergeant Tucker, General Hill continued on his way till, on reaching a poounted Confederates, took cover behind a tree. Hill, without hesitation, called to Tucker to ride t[5 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The campaign in Pennsylvania. (search)
Maryland and advanced into Pennsylvania. General A. P. Hill, whose corps was the last to leave the lhed Cashtown, and stopped to confer with General A. P. Hill, whose corps was concentrating at that psoon heard in the direction of Gettysburg. General Hill hastened to the front. General Lee followe of the 1st of July, General Ewell learned that Hill's Corps was moving toward Gettysburg, and, on at having been engaged. Anderson's Division, of Hill's Corps, was also now up. With this force Genery the corps of Lieutenant Generals Ewell and A. P. Hill, the day previous, had taken a strong positigades of Lane and Scales, of Pender's Division, Hill's Corps; and as our extreme right was comparatias not strong enough for the movement, that General Hill was called on to reinforce him. Orders weree rode along the portion of the line held by A. P. Hill's Corps, and finally took position about theat only Pickett's Division, and the troops from Hill's Corps had taken part in the movement, and wit[6 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Union men of Maryland. (search)
m in Annapolis, of which, however, I had not the slightest apprehension, we discussed the question of convening the Legislature. I begged him to adhere to his former and often-repeated resolution not to call it, but he was manifestly inclined to think the time had come to share his great responsibility with that body. On Sunday night he made up his mind, and on Tuesday he issued his proclamation, fixing the 26th as the day of meeting. On Monday, the 22d, the Governor came up State House Hill, looking composed and seeming to be quite cheerful. I inquired his conclusion about the Legislature; he replied he should call it, and would prepare his proclamation immediately. The wish was then expressed that the State might as speedily as possible be filled with Federal bayonets. There were several gentlemen standing around, and the Governor, putting his hand on my shoulder, whispered: That is exactly what I wish. Yet, the day before, he would not grant General Butler, who was in — A
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Life in Pennsylvania. (search)
15th, and with a view of covering the march of Hill and Ewell through the Valley, moved along the ee movement toward the enemy was begun at once. Hill marched toward Gettysburg, and my corps followen, the road in front of my corps was blocked by Hill's Corps and Ewell's wagon train, which had cut or four miles, when we heard heavy firing along Hill's front. The firing became so heavy that Generth Hood on the extreme right, and McLaws next. Hill's Corps was next to mine, in front of the Federte by a direct attack on the enemy's right, and Hill to threaten his centre, and attack if opportuniuch a force-full forty-five thousand men, under Hill and Longstreet-even though it threatened to piee by a vigorous movement against his right, and Hill should have moved against his centre. Had this can, without distressing your men or animals. Hill and Ewell have sharply engaged the enemy, and ear Chambersburg, information was received that Hill and Ewell were about to come into contact with [8 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The campaign of Gettysburg. (search)
cupy it first. I, therefore, ordered Buford, with the first division of cavalry, to move from Middletown by the way of Emmettsburg to Gettysburg, and to hold that position at all hazards until the army could support him. In obedience to these orders, Buford arrived at Gettysburg on the afternoon of June 30th, and obtaining information that Lee was in force on the Cashtown road, he moved out on that road some four miles beyond Gettysburg, and encamped for the night. Early next morning General A. P. Hill attacked him in force, but the nature of the ground was such that Buford, with his splendid fighting, restrained the superior force against him until Reynolds and Howard and others came up, and saved the position to the Army of the Potomac. General Longstreet states that this rencontre was totally unexpected on both sides. The above statement shows that the General is mistaken in supposing the rencontre was unexpected on our side. Buford's judgment in believing he would be attacked
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Lee and Grant in the Wilderness. (search)
while on the Rapidan, General Lee's troops --A. P. Hill's Corps — extended up the river as far as Light near Locust Grove. Anderson's Division, of Hill's Corps, remained behind to guard certain fords, after reaching the plank road, in the rear of Hill. The army, that had been much separated, for c Swinton states this to have been at 8.20 A. M. Hill's two divisions were at least eight or nine milcked the night of the 4th nearer the enemy than Hill had, and, resuming the march early the morning and would have been within a short distance of Hill's two divisions and in rear of Ewell's right. in less than two hundred yards of Generals Lee, Hill, and Heth. Seeing these officers and the soldie southward, and fall upon the flank and rear of Hill. As there was about one and a half miles betwembers present on the Union side, both Ewell and Hill could have been attacked in flank and rear at tontest the whole hostile front was carried, and Hill's Divisions under Wilcox and Heth were driven f[9 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Confederate negro enlistments. (search)
time. The rebels being thus driven to their earthworks, the grand colored division advances at the pas de charge, singing a Methodist refrain, to storm the enemy's position, and to carry the crest at all hazards. Of a sudden, the artillery of A. P. Hill's command belches forth a hurricane of shell and shrapnell. There is a rising of wool, as of quills upon the fretful porcupine, under the caps of dusky brigadiers and sooty major generals; there is a simultaneous effusion of mellifluous perspirn army lies prostrate in the field, asphyxiated by the insufferable odor bequeathed to the atmosphere by the dead, departed host. For a like cause, the rebel army is in full retreat to Richmond. Solitary and alone, with his nose in his hand, A. P. Hill surveys the silent scene. The Examiner to the contrary, notwithstanding, the negroes stood fire pretty well, and made tolerably good subsidiary troops in the Federal army-much better than ordinary militia-and they did most valuable work by
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), How Jefferson Davis was overtaken. (search)
; it is not known that a single man in the South desired, or would have dared, to undertake his release, although that region was thronged with thousands of rebel soldiers on their way home. No accident, or delay of any kind, occurred during the trip to Savannah, where a gunboat was already in waiting. The prisoners were taken on board at once, and delivered at Fortress Monroe, for safe keeping, on the 22d of May. My command had also arrested Mr. Mallory, the rebel Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Hill, Senator, and Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia. Breckenridge and Toombs managed to escape, by traveling alone, and as rapidly as possible — the former having passed through Tallahassee, Florida, only a few hours before the arrival of General McCook at that place. Both of his sons were captured, and, after a few days' detention, were paroled. When Davis arrived at Macon, he looked bronzed, but hardy and vigorous, and had entirely recovered his equanimity and easy bearing. After he
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