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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 27: (search)
at an extent destroyed; indeed, when the disclosure would have been inconvenient, no return at all was made. No cause in history ever had more ingenious or more unscrupulous adherents in camp or civil life, than the Slaveholders' great rebellion. The enemy lost in prisoners alone more than that number. His killed and wounded, Lee, as usual, failed to report. On the 27th, Lee sent the following despatch, which was withheld from print, and has not found its way into any rebel history: General Hill reports that the enemy crossed Rowanty creek below Burgess's mill, and forced back the cavalry. In the afternoon General Heth attacked and at first drove them, but found them in too strong force. Afterwards the enemy attacked and were repulsed. They still hold the plank road at Burgess's mill. Heth took colors and some prisoners. The despatch given by McCabe and other rebel writers is not on file at Washington. This whole movement, it has been shown, was based on the belief that
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 31: (search)
their resources to the point of danger. With proper alacrity in this respect, I would have no objection to seeing the enemy get through. On the 25th, he said: Deserters from the rebel lines north of the James say it is reported among them that Hill's corps has left, or is leaving, to join Beauregard. . . . If such a movement is discovered, we must endeavor to break a hole some place. This expectation of Grant was not without foundation. The rebels were contemplating every contingency, an remembered, that Grant had already directed Sheridan to proceed. On the 24th of February, Lee called attention to the alarming number of desertions now occurring in the army. . . . Since the 12th inst., he said, they amount in two divisions of Hill's corps . . . to about four hundred. There are a good many from other commands. . . . It seems that the men are influenced very much by the representations of their friends at home, who appear to have become very despondent of our success. They
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 33: (search)
rom every direction towards Petersburg; cavalry, artillery, and infantry, all in rout and confusion. Gordon on the left was driven back by Parke; the centre under Hill had been pierced and broken and almost destroyed by Wright; while Heth and Wilcox, further to the west, were cut off by Humphreys and Ord. Pickett in the night hamy would be killed or captured then and there; and after a while he showed something of his ancient energy. Gordon was ordered, if possible, to force back Parke; Hill, Mahone, and Lee himself exerted themselves to stem the tide of flight and chase; the fragments of regiments were gathered up to man the yet uncaptured forts; and orning, and later in the day gave orders for the concentration of all his forces for a night march. But first he was present at the burial of a comrade. General A. P. Hill, one of the ablest of his corps commanders, had fallen in the assaults of the morning, and soon after dark Lee with his staff attended the hurried funeral.
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 34: (search)
s immediate presence, and enclosing a captured letter which had just been brought to his Headquarters by a negro. The letter was from a rebel officer to his mother, and in these words: Amelia court-house, April 5th. Dear Mamma,--Our army is ruined, I fear. We are all safe as yet. Byron left us sick. John Taylor is well; saw him yesterday. We are in line of battle this morning. General Robert Lee is in the field near us. My trust is still in the justice of our cause and that of God. General Hill is killed. I saw Murray a few minutes since. Bernard Perry, he said, was taken prisoner, but may get out. I send this by a negro I see passing up the railroad to Mecklenburg. Love to all. Your devoted son, Wm. B. Taylor, Colonel. Meanwhile, Grant had advanced with the head of Ord's column, and by six o'clock he had arrived at a point half way between Nottaway court-house and Burksville. He gave the road to the troops, according to his custom, and was riding with his staff in a piec
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Appendix to Chapter XXXII. (search)
,1794,178 Total127136881751119285112,1645989961208986208111915,80516,4246259,2462733,57930,14716,509 Maj-General J. B. Gordon commanding. Staff Gordon's Div121951311261432,30928440183006582273,1073,3342665,3903704,16013,5203,372 Rodes's Div24951221863,0222649235700101002824,3144,5961683,3891773,84612,1764,445 Early's Div2426411121292,2929287193555771853,0113,196872,2521652,3108,0102,991 Total169224143621664587,6236312197213552123569410,43211,12652111,03171210,31633,70610,808 Lt-General A. P. Hill commanding Staff121621221220202018 Mahone's Div2314613232623,88053651305877343865,1525,5382944,8751581,98912,8545,489 Heth's Div132113714262944,32434508831310313875,1765,5622093,5402032,33811,8525,543 Wileox's Div4321253143095,88334544540615393976,8726,7691792,591921,78011,4116,822 Total11910445203123110986514,087121170343130632104118916,70017,88968211,0064536,10736,13717,872 Lt.-Gen. R. H. Anderson, Johnson's Division125118715364316,505172642149015595287,3187,8462103,343521,1
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Index (search)
y Northern democrats, III., 169. Hawe's shop, battle of, II., 269. Hayes, General Rutherford B., service in West Virginia, III., 101-103. Hazen, General, Wm. B., at Brown's ferry, i., 446; at Fort McAllister, III., 295, 296. Helena, Miss., Washburne's movement from, i., 131, 132; Yazoo pass expedition, 168. Henry, Fort, position of, i, 23, 28; expedition against, 28-30; capture of, 32. Herron, General F. J., arrival of, at Vicksburg, i., 352; operations during siege, 353. Hill, General A. P., at battle of Wilderness, II., 11, 95, 101, 109; death and burial of, III., 532. Hoke, General, in command in North Carolina, III., 312; at Wilmington, 317; at Fort Fisher, first expedition, 320; second expedition 334-343. Holly Springs, Grant at, i., 127; capture of by rebels, 138. Hood, General J. B., supersedes J. E. Johnston, II., 539; assaults on Sherman, 540-542; sends cavalry against Sherman's rear, 544; evacuation of Atlanta, 546; sends Wheeler to cut Atlanta a