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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 249 5 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 196 10 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 104 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 84 0 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 60 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 48 6 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 46 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 40 0 Browse Search
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. 38 0 Browse Search
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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 5 (search)
ps was in full retreat. At the same time that Howard had sent this order he had advanced as supporthe was materially assisted by the exertions of Howard, Buford, and Warren, who, lately arrived upon pting any serious demonstration. At 5 P. M. Howard sent the following despatch to the commanding ions. Finally, about 2 P. M., upon receipt of Howard's urgent calls for assistance, he started his It has been mentioned that, at one o'clock, Howard had sent an urgent message to Sickles, at Emme but a short distance from the cemetery, where Howard and Newton were to be found, a few minutes' ri on him began. As soon as it began he sent to Howard and Wadsworth for reinforcements. Johnson, he right, further strengthening this flank. Howard and Wadsworth had promptly responded to Greenes, which had been sent by Hancock to report to Howard. As the firing died away on Hancock's front, d await your orders. I have also directed General Howard (who commands 5th and 11th Corps) to post [9 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
ose you two letters recently received—one from the President to General Howard, who thought it proper to write to Mr. Lincoln, deprecating hise easy to prove the truth of my despatches. Letters—Lincoln to Howard, Halleck to Meade, and Meade to Halleck—mentioned in last letter: Lincoln to Howard: Executive mansion, Washington, 21st July, 1863. My dear General Howard: Your letter of the 10th is received. I waGeneral Howard: Your letter of the 10th is received. I was deeply mortified by the escape of Lee across the Potomac, because the substantial destruction of his army would have ended the war, and beca nobody in Washington, except people about the Government, except Mr. Howard, of Michigan, whom I went to see and to whom I explained the absuee to this if he can help it. Grant told me Sherman has assigned Howard to McPherson's command. Army of the Cumberland. This had disgusty public at the time, such as Slocum's hesitation about reinforcing Howard, Butterfield's drawing up an order to withdraw, and other circumsta<
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 17 (search)
l Hill. Rapidly making his dispositions, General Reynolds joined in the conflict, and soon fell mortally wounded. The command of the field then devolved on General Howard, of the Eleventh corps, who maintained his position till about 2 o'clock P. M., when the enemy was heavily reinforced by the arrival of Ewell's corps. The battle now raged fearfully, between Hill's and Ewell's corps on one side and the First and Eleventh corps on the other, till about 4 P. M., when General Howard was compelled to yield to the superior numbers of the enemy and fall back, losing many prisonersnearly four thousand—to the South side of Gettysburg. His position was eminenving two brigades at Emmettsburg, he made a forced march of ten miles, in spite of the heat and dust, in three hours, and had the satisfaction to be hailed by General Howard on his reaching the field with the flattering phrase, Here you are,—always reliable, always first —A generous tribute from one soldier to another. General Sl<
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 24 (search)
imperiled, the plans of the campaign frustrated—and all because one general, whose incompetence, indecision, half-heartedness in the war have again and again been demonstrated, is still unaccountably to hamper and hamstring the purposes of the lieutenant-general. Let us chasten our impatient hope of victory so long as Gen. Meade retains his hold on the gallant Army of the Potomac; but let us tell the truth of him. He is the general who at Gettysburg bore off the laurels which belonged to Howard and to Hancock; who at Williamsport suffered a beaten army to escape him; who, when holding the line of the Rapidan, fled before Lee without a battle to the gates of the capital; who at Mine Run drew back in dismay from a conflict which he had invited and which his army longed to convert into triumph; who, in the campaign from the Rapidan to the James under Grant, annulled the genius of his chief by his own executive incapacity; who lost the prize of Petersburg by martinet delay on the south
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 30 (search)
of the right, to advance his corps and his skirmishers, and ascertain the position of the enemy. I likewise directed General Howard, in the centre, to push into Gettysburg, to see whether the enemy still occupied that town. I found, from the reportby General William Hays; the 3d by General French; the 5th by General Sykes; the 6th by General Sedgwick; the 11th by General Howard, and the 12th by General Slocum. I represented to those generals, so far as I knew it, the situation of affairs. r the impression that there were but two officers decidedly in favor of attacking; I think that General Wadsworth and General Howard were the only two in favor of attacking, while all the rest were opposed to it. In view of this opinion of my subofavorable with good troops. I will communicate in a few moments with General Slocum, and transfer the command to him. Howard says that Doubleday's command gave way. Your obedient servant, Winfield S. Hancock, Major General Commanding Corps.
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix Y (search)
d as soon as it was daylight. After a conference with General Howard and other officers, as soon as objects could be distin have all assembled until 9 P. M., for the fighting on General Howard's front continued until that hour; he was present withbesides the commanding general, Generals Slocum, Sedgwick, Howard, Hancock, Newton, Sykes, Birney, A. S. Williams, and Gibbo. If we wait, it will give them a chance to cut our line. Howard.1. Remain. 2. Wait attack until 4 P. M. to-morrow. 3. Iflined to furnish him. Why the circular was not sent to Generals Howard and Hancock is unknown. To correct the popular presumncil of war on the 2d of July, excepting Generals Hancock, Howard, and Butterfield, present as chief-of-staff. It remains, hen, only to consider the attitude of Generals Hancock and Howard with reference to the question under discussion. General offer. What he had to offer has just been quoted. General Howard, who, as has been mentioned, was not before the Commit