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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
munitions complete. C. A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War. A few days after Moseby's bold exploit, the first purely cavalry battle of the war occurred, not far from Kelly's Ford, on the Rappahannock, between National troops, under General W. W. Averill, and Confederates under General Fitzhugh Lee. Averill was sent out to cut off Stuart and Lee, who, it was reported, were with a, strong party enforcing the draft in Fauquier County. On the 28th of February, General Stuart asked Governor Letcher's leave to collect together the militia of portions of Fairfax and Loudon (preparatory to the draft), which lay beyond the outposts. --Autograph. Letter of General Stuart. Permission was given. In the face of brisk opposition from a small cavalry picket, Averill crossed the Rappahannock and was pushing on toward Culpep per Court-House March 17, 1863. when, about a mile from the ford, he, encountered the forces of Lee. A desperate battle ensued, which continued John S. Moseby until
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
en misrepresenting Tennessee at the Confederate capital. His wife, in a letter to a friend, on the 6th of February, 1863, gives us a glimpse of the hardships endured by the common folk of the ruling classes in Richmond. After saying that her little boy had been named Malvern, by his papa, after the Battle-ground of Malvern Hills, and that he spits at Yankee pictures and makes wry faces at old Abe's picture, she said: We are boarding at Mrs. Johnson's, in Governor Street, just opposite Governor Letcher's mansion. It is a large boarding-house, high prices and starvation within. Such living was never known before on earth. We have to cook almost every thing we eat, in our own room. In our larder the stock on hand is a boiled bacon ham, which we gave only $11 for; three pounds of pure Rio coffee, we gave $4 a pound for, and one pound of green tea, $17 per pound; two pounds of brown sugar, at $2.75 per pound; one bushel of fine apples, about the size of a good common marble, which wer
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
sons were rendered houseless in the space of two hours, and the value of property destroyed was estimated at $1,000,000. The Confederate leader offered as an excuse for the act, the fact that Hunter a few weeks before had burned the house of Governor Letcher, at Lexington, in Virginia. This act had already been twice avenged, by the burning of the houses of Governor Bradford and Montgomery Blair, in Maryland, as we have observed. Circumstances alter cases. The destruction of Letcher's house was held, by publicists, to have been justified by the ethics of war. Letcher was a traitor to his Government and a public enemy, and the destruction of his house was incited wholly by the finding, in a newspaper office at Lexington, a handbill, issued and signed by him, calling on the people of that region to bushwack Hunter's men, that is to say, murder them by bullets from concealed places. The citizens of Chambersburg were non-combatants, and innocent of all crime in relation to the Confe
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
aryland and Pennsylvania, 3.50; in Pennsylvania 3.54; his approach to Harrisburg, 3.57; concentrates at Gettysburg, 3.57; compelled to retreat after a three days battle, 3.74; recrosses the Potomac into Virginia, 3.75; at Culpepper Court-House, 3.99; pursuit of by Sheridan and Grant after the evacuation of Richmond, 3.552, 556; details of the surrender of, 3.556, 557; his address to his soldiers on taking leave of them, 3.559; how far implicated in cruelties to Union prisoners, 3.602. Letcher, Gov., action of in relation to secession, 1.193. Letters of marque issued by Jefferson Davis, 1.373. Lexington, Mo., siege and surrender of, 2.66-2.70; Fremont censured for failing to re-enforce, 2.70. Lewinsville, Gen. W. F. Smith's reconnoissance toward, 2.135. Libby Prison, proposition to blow up with gunpowder, 3.291; cruelties practiced on prisoners in, 3.595. Liberty Gap, capture of, 3.122. Lieb, Col. H., his defense of Milliken's Bend with colored troops, 2.623. Li