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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 215 1 Browse Search
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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 135 1 Browse Search
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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 87 1 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the American army. (search)
that both Federals and Confederates sought the leaders to whom they confided the control of their respective armies. Thus, to mention some names we shall find again presently in every page of this narrative, it was at the siege of Vera Cruz that Lee, McClellan, and Beauregard, all three officers of engineers, made together their debut in arms. Lee, who, through his ability as a staff officer, soon afterward gained the entire confidence of General Scott, directed at Cerro Gordo and Contreras Lee, who, through his ability as a staff officer, soon afterward gained the entire confidence of General Scott, directed at Cerro Gordo and Contreras the construction of the roads which secured the victorious movements of the army. After his name, which was destined to a much greater celebrity, those of Sumner and of Kearny, both serving in the small corps of dragoons which had such a hard task to perform throughout that campaign, were the most frequently mentioned by their commanders. Sumner, formed to lead a charge of cavalry straight to the point of attack, courageous, stubborn, and as inflexible in matters of discipline as he was unsp
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
heir commissions in the regular army, beginning with two generals, the two Johnstons, six colonels, Robert Lee among the number, most of the higher class of officers in the military departments, and oevents was progressing rapidly. On the 22d of April the Virginia convention conferred upon Colonel Lee the command of all the forces of that State; on the 24th, repudiating its former declarationsealed. These hills, the largest of which is crowned by Arlington House, then the property of General Lee, slope down gradually to the edge of the Potomac, from the point where the river begins to fepy the points it was most important to defend south of that town. By a singular coincidence, General Lee, destined to be his formidable opponent in the great battles that were fought around Richmond one year later, was ordered to take the field against him in West Virginia. Lee had but few troops, and met with no support among the inhabitants upon whom he was desirous to impose the rule of Mr.
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
d, the Potomac waters the gorges of Harper's Ferry, in which we shall see more than one combat take place, and thence runs down to Washington; the James River, winding round the high mountains called Beaver Peaks, crosses Appomattox county, where Lee will capitulate, and after passing Richmond, falls into the Chesapeake, near Fortress Monroe. The Valley of Virginia, already frequently mentioned, an open and wellcultivated country, between two parallel chains of the Alleghanies, extends from tf the army rose every evening to reconnoitre the surrounding country; an ascension was proposed and accepted; it was then the only means of seeing the enemy. Scarcely had we risen above the ancient trees which surround the former residence of General Lee, when the prospect was extended over an undulating yet uniform country covered with woods, spotted here and there with small clearings, and bounded on the west by the long chain of the Blue Ridge, which recalls to mind the first lines of the J
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
been reinforced and placed under command of General Lee, who was destined at a later period to playsy communication with Cox. In the mean time, Lee had commenced a movement with a view of getting twelve kilometres. On the 11th of September Lee left Huntersville with about nine thousand men. the route between Cheat Summit and Elk Water. Lee himself proposed to attack this position both ias they were and surrounded on every side. But Lee did not exhibit on that occasion those great mi been sent against Great Pass did the same; and Lee, who was still waiting for Jackson to begin the the mountain between Summit and Elk Water; and Lee brought back his fatigued and discouraged troopDissensions prevailed in the Confederate camp. Lee had found Floyd posted on a lower ridge situate the Gauley and New Rivers. Shortly after this Lee was recalled and sent into South Carolina. Wishile the Twentieth of the same State, under Colonel Lee, should take its place on the island, and h[7 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
them into battle, the old professor of chemistry in the military college of Virginia displayed that quickness of perception, that decision, that energy in the execution of his plans, which constitute the true man of war. Since the battles of which West Virginia had been the theatre at the close of 1861, the Confederates, weakened and discouraged, had made no attempt to recover the ground they had lost in that part of the country. All their forces were concentrated in the Alleghanies; and Lee, having been summoned to Richmond, had been succeeded, in December, in the Shenandoah valley, by Jackson, who was appointed to the command of the so-called army of the Monongahela. Soon after, General Garnett came to join this army with Jackson's old brigade, from which the latter had separated with great reluctance, thus increasing the number of his forces to about ten thousand men. The Confederate general determined to assume the offensive at once. He left Winchester on the 1st of January
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Bibliographical note (search)
number of the reports of both parties are to be found in the Rebellion Record; there were published besides, in Richmond, in 1864, two volumes of the reports of General Lee and his subordinates, and a few official Confederate documents were reprinted in New York in 1865. Among the numerous documents contained in the Richmond archi are indebted, we must mention, above all, the works of Mr. E. Pollard: The First, Second, and Third Year of the War, three volumes, The Lost Cause, one volume, and Lee and his Lieutenants, one volume; the works of Mr. Esten Cooke: Life of General Lee, one volume, Life of Stonewall Jackson, one volume, and Wearing of the Grey, one General Lee, one volume, Life of Stonewall Jackson, one volume, and Wearing of the Grey, one volume; and, finally, The Southern Generals, anonymous, one volume. The number of works published by Europeans possessing real interest is very limited; it will be enough to mention the remarkable work of M. Vigo Roussillion on The Military Power of the United States, and the writings of three officers with whom the author had t