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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 2 (search)
gruder's main body at Yorktown, and was held by a force of eleven hundred North Carolina and Virginia troops, under Colonel D. H. Hill, then in command of the First North Carolina regiment. Hill Report of Big Bethel The position was rather advantaWhile he yet remained on the ground, the Confederates abandoned the position; and the reason for this step assigned by Colonel Hill is, that he feared re-enforcements would be sent up from Fortress Monroe. Hill: Report of Big Bethel. The affair ofHill: Report of Big Bethel. The affair of Big Bethel really proved nothing, except that an attempt, involving failure in its very conception, had failed. Yet it was magnified as a great victory by the South; was put forth as a test of what was called relative manhood; and produced throughout the North a deep feeling of mortification and humiliation. Colonel Hill, in a bombastic report published at the time, spoke of repulsing desperate assaults, and pursuing till the retreat became a rout, etc., etc.; while he himself was retiring
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
ton made the following dispositions for attack: Hill (D. H.), who had been covering the Williamsburg strike the left flank of the Union force which Hill and Longstreet should engage in front. G. W. S, greatly retarded the movement of the troops. Hill, Longstreet, and Smith, indeed, were in positior position. At length, at ten o'clock, Hill Hill was acting under Longstreet's orders during the day. went forward on the Williamsburg road, Hill's Report: Official Reports of Battles. Richmonich Casey's position was carried is as follows: Hill's brave troops, admirably commanded and gallanteantime, though the divisions of Longstreet and Hill had thus for three hours been vigorously pushin failing to hear the musketry of Longstreet and Hill, Owing to some peculiar condition of the atmosand next morning (29th), before Longstreet and Hill and Jackson could be sent across to the south sgnal, no advance by them was made; so that when Hill went forward, it was alone. Neither Whiting on [13 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, V. Pope's campaign in Northern Virginia. August, 1862. (search)
ng the object of this operation: In order to keep McClellan stationary, or, if possible, to cause hint to withdraw, General D. H. Hill, commanding south of James River was directed to threaten his communications by seizing favorable positions below W re-enforcements from McClellan, he ordered forward the remainder of his army from Richmond. This force consisted of D. H. Hill's and McLaws' divisions, two brigades under General Walker, and Hampton's cavalry brigade. Nevertheless, the stealthy mvision, under Brigadier-General Starke, on the right; Ewell's division, under Brigadier-General Lawton, in the centre; and Hill's division on the left—Jackson's Report: Reports of the Army of Northern Virginia, vol. II., p. 95. with his right restin Reno to assault the enemy's left. The attack was made with vigor, especially by Kearney, who struck Jackson's left under Hill, at a moment when the Confederates had almost exhausted their ammunition. The enemy prepared for a last and determined at
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
morning of the 14th, it was guarded only by D. H. Hill's division of five thousand men. Reno's corprly in the action. Garland's brigade, says General Hill, was much demoralized by his fall, and the during the forenoon, while yet defended only by Hill's small force; and not-withstanding the previoue details to be arranged by his lieutenant, General Hill (A. P.), the swift-footed Jackson turned hi the road from Sharpsburg to Boonsboroa, and D. H. Hill's command on the left. From Sharpsburg a tua very frank confession in the Report of General D. H. Hill: An artillery duel between the Washingtoeft became hotly engaged with three brigades of Hill's division, which were at this time closed up othe left to oppose the Confederate centre under Hill. Richardson had got handsomely to work, and Fy those of Colquitt, Ripley, and McRae; and General Hill mentions the following curious circumstance action here was of a very animated nature; for Hill, being re-enforced by the division of Anderson,[7 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 7 (search)
ng of the Yankees at or near that point.—General D. H. Hill: Report of Operations on the Rappahannocgstreet's command held the heights at the town; Hill remained at Port Royal, and the rest of Jackson's corps was so disposed as to support Hill or Longstreet, as occasion might require.—Lee: Report ofion under General Early, and the division of D. H. Hill, arrived after a severe night's march from t of Buckner's Neck and Port Royal—the troops of Hill being from fifteen to eighteen miles distant frin his front. This caused considerable loss to Hill, who held Jackson's advanced line; Hill's ReHill's Report: Reports of the Army of Northern Virginia, vol. II., p. 464. but the Confederates concealed inhad to be hastily withdrawn. The division of Hill which held Jackson's advanced line was thus dis The advancing columns of the enemy, says General Hill, Reports of the Army of Northern Virginits, agree substantially with this account. See Hill's Report: Reports of the Army of Northern Virgi<
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
17; at Mine Run, 391; death of, 603. Hill, General D. H., bombastic report of Big Bethel affair, base to James River, 147; error on position of Hill and Longstreet at Malvern Hill, 161; retreat a 0; battle of, 160; position of the armies, 161; Hill's advance alone by misconception, 162; the Conf93; Meade's plan to interpose between Ewell and Hill, 391; Lee's position at, 391; cause of delays oOrange plankroad, 425; Wadsworth sent to attack Hill's flank and rear, 426; close of the preliminary battle of Warren and Hill, 427; topography and character of the field, 428; Lee's demonstration on Union right, 430; Hancock drives Hill back, 431; Longstreet arrives and restores Hill's line, 431; LHill's line, 431; Longstreet's attack on Hancock interrupted by his fall, 433; Hancock again assaulted by troops of Longstreet and Hill, 436; cavalry action, 437; the character and results of the battle considered, 438; feeble defence, 318; entered, 318; occupied by Hill, 319; battle of, 556; Sheridan's and Early's di[4 more...]