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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Stonewall Jackson's last battle. (search)
wing note: General: I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy. Most truly yours, R. E. Lee, General. When this dispatch was handed to me at the tent, and I read it aloud, General Jackson turned his face away and said, General Lee is very kind, but he should give the praise to God. The long day was passed with bright hopes for the wounded general, with tidings of success on the battle-field, with sad news of losses, and messages to and from other wounded officers brought to the same infirmary. On Monday the general was carried in an ambulance, by way of Spotsylvania Court House, to most comfortable lodging at Chandler's, near Guinea's Station, on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad. And here, a
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Hooker's comments on Chancellorsville. (search)
l. The movement of Sedgwick below the town was disclosed to Lee on the 29th, when the pontoons were laid and the crossing toe First Corps on the 2d.--editors.--and all this without General Lee having discovered that I had left my position in his froication with the other wing of my army. But at midnight General Lee had moved out with his whole army, and by sunrise was in thousand men. On approaching the pine-tree under which Generals Lee and Jackson had planned the mode of attack, General Hoo of the enemy, and made preparations to flank the portion of Lee's army that was still upon my front, in the direction of Fre marched as directed, not a gun would have been fired. With Lee in my front and Jackson on my flank I was unwilling to attempt to force my way through Lee, especially as the roads through the forests would only enable me to present my columns with ndo as much as I could, but no more. Had Sedgwick come up on Lee's rear, the latter would have found himself between two armi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Sedgwick at Fredericksburg and Salem Heights. (search)
ere deployed on the wide plain where Franklin's Left Grand Division had fought in the previous battle. Sickles's corps was in supporting distance. The position of Lee's army remained unchanged until the 29th, when Lee was informed that large bodies of Federals were moving toward Chancellorsville. It was the first information he Lee was informed that large bodies of Federals were moving toward Chancellorsville. It was the first information he had received of Hooker's movement on his left, and it is said he was incensed at the delay of the communication. [See p. 233.] At midnight Anderson's division of Lee's army hurriedly moved from Fredericksburg and intrenched about four or five miles from Hooker's headquarters. In an address of Fitzhugh Lee delivered to the AssocLee's army hurriedly moved from Fredericksburg and intrenched about four or five miles from Hooker's headquarters. In an address of Fitzhugh Lee delivered to the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia he stated: General Robert E. Lee said that Jackson had first preferred to attack Sedgwick's corps in the plain at Fredericksburg; Lee told him he felt it was as impracticable as at the first battle of Fredericksburg; it was hard to get at the enemy and harder to get away, on account of the ar
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Lee's knowledge of Hooker's movements. (search)
attack was one of those fatalities of war that no foresight can prevent. It was about 1 o'clock on Sunday, May 3d, that Lee received information that Early had been driven from Marye's Heights and was falling back before Sedgwick. Jackson's corp. My division was in the lead in line of battle. It was then that I received an order to report at once in person to General Lee. I found him standing in a small tent pitched by the roadside. His plain gray sack-coat, with only three stars on thut keep the enemy in check and prevent him from advancing. I am confident that these were almost the exact words of General Lee, to which he added, Move at once, which I did. I was not a little puzzled at the time (not knowing the situation at Fredericksburg), and I wondered why we were not to continue our advance and hurl Hooker into the river. Lee left the field at Chancellorsville immediately after giving me the above orders, and hastened to Early's support with McLaws's division, Mahon
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Confederate cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
R. E. Lee, General. On the following day General Lee wrote as follows: headquarters, army of date of June 22d, 7:30 P. M., he writes to General Lee: I have forwarded your letter to General St for Stuart to have done so. In accordance with Lee's and Longstreet's instructions Stuart withdrewhim. Thus all communication was broken with Generals Lee and Ewell. The march of Hill's and Longstrier from General Lee. At night on the 28th General Lee heard, through a scout at Chambersburg, of ated and out of communication with each other. Lee must then have relied on Robertson or nobody today the fighting began at Gettysburg. When General Lee crossed the Potomac, he left General Roberty. By July 3d Robertson had so manoeuvred that Lee was between him and the enemy. Stuart had riddd on the right of the army when the enemy left, Lee's forces would have been concentrated and readyas Colonel Mosby insinuates, a courier from General Lee met me. My command was hurried from there t[7 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The first day at Gettysburg. (search)
tomac, seemed in a fair way to be justified, when at first contact the advantages already gained were thrown away by the assumption of a timid, defensive attitude. Lee's bold offensive, which followed immediately on this exhibition of weakness, the consequent rout of a Federal army-corps, and the subsequent retreat of the whole arish striking illustrations of Napoleon's well-known saying, In war men are nothing, a man is everything. General Meade in the field. From a photograph. General Lee, who felt great confidence in his own troops, and overrated the effects of successive reverses on the Federal soldiers, now resolved to assume the offensive, fo North. This work was assigned to Lieutenant-General Ewell, an able officer, in every way qualified for such an enterprise. In anticipation of the new campaign, Lee's army was strengthened and reorganized into three army-corps of three divisions each. Each division consisted of four brigades, except Rodes's and Anderson's, whi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., A reply to General Longstreet. (search)
277), that on the evening of the 1st, when General Lee had decided not to renew the attack on Cemetion the next day. Long shows plainly that General Lee's design was to attack the troops in front ard along that road, the presence of one of General Lee's engineers (who had been sent to give infoof things on the night of the 1st, knowing that Lee had decided to attack that part of the Federal treet attacked not later than 9 or 10 A. M., as Lee certainly expected, Sickles's and Hancock's corion, with which General Longstreet directed it. Lee never intended that Pickett, Pettigrew, and Triof action . . . we should ultimately succeed. （Lee's report.) Longstreet was directed to use his wGeneral Longstreet was so ordered. ( Memoirs of Lee, p. 294. See also statements of Colonels Venable and Taylor, Four years with General Lee, p. 108.) Lee's efforts for a concerted attack were ineffLee's efforts for a concerted attack were ineffectual. Pickett was overwhelmed not by troops in front but by those on his flanks, especially by t[2 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The great charge and artillery fighting at Gettysburg. (search)
s the effect it would have if given in Virginia against only an invading army. Our confidence in Lee was, of course, supreme, and the opportune arrival of Ewell to Hill's aid gave fresh confirmationre, soon afterward, I was sent for by General Longstreet, and, riding forward, found him with General Lee on Seminary Ridge. Opposite, about a mile away, on Cemetery Ridge, overlooking the town, layir moderation, our ground being very unfavorable as regarded shelter. Early in the morning General Lee came around, and I was then told that we were to assault Cemetery Hill, which lay rather to ow when the moment offers. This note rather startled me. If that assault was to be made on General Lee's judgment it was all right, but I did not want it made on mine. I wrote back to General Loninfluenced by this, and somewhat by a sort of camp rumor which I had heard that morning, that General Lee had said that he was going to send every man he had upon that hill. At any rate, I assumed t