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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.53 (search)
to them as to the soldiers whose bodies were thickly strewn beneath them. Longstreet's arrangements had been made to attack Round Top, and his orders issued with emetery Ridge by Pickett's and Pettigrew's divisions, with part of Trimble's. Longstreet formed these in two lines — Pickett on the right, supported by Wilcox; Pettigrdered to hold his line with the remainder of his corps,--six brigades,--give Longstreet assistance if required, and avail himself of any success that might be gainede, which was retiring. Hood's and McLaws's divisions were falling back under Longstreet's orders to their strong position, resting on Peach Orchard and covering Hillwn, on his right, but as Imboden's train guard was strong, Stuart was up, and Longstreet close by, they had to withdraw. [See p. 427.] The enemy proceeded to construded against at least 25,000 Confederates, and got the worst of it. On July 2d Longstreet's 15,000 overcame Sickles's 10,000, and had to halt when a larger force was o
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., General Hancock and the artillery at Gettysburg. (search)
h should qualify him, equally with Hancock, to judge what was required to keep them in heart and courage under the Confederate cannonade at Gettysburg, and to bring them up to the final struggle, prepared in spirit to meet the fearful ordeal of Longstreet's charge. Hancock had full authority over that line of battle; he used that authority according to his own best judgment, and he beat off the enemy. That is the substance of it. Boston, January 12th, 1887. Ii. Rejoinder by Henry J. Hun the event, for the troops on General Hancock's line, where my instructions were not followed, and those on General Newton's line (on Hancock's immediate left), where they were followed, were equal in heart and courage for the fearful ordeal of Longstreet's charge. The object of my orders, however, was to spare them this ordeal altogether by breaking up the charge before it reached our lines. Had m y orders been fully carried out, I think their whole line would have been — as half of it was dr
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Repelling Lee's last blow at Gettysburg. (search)
near the point where Stannard struck the right flank. Zieglev's Grove, farther north, is the clump of trees where I was, and to which I refer, and to which General Longstreet refers in his letter to me mentioned further on. It is the blow upon the left flank, and not upon the right flank, to which we all refer. That there might not be any mistake I sent General Longstreet a chart of the battle-field furnished me by the Gettysburg Battle-Field Memorial Association, on which I marked the lane running down from Ziegler's Grove to the Emmitsburg road. I have not yet learned what regiments, or fragments of regiments, composed the line swung down, but the distinctly that our artillerists at our right, seeing our imminent danger, poured in the grape and canister upon our rear assailants in a lively manner. General Longstreet writes to me from Atlanta, Georgia, January 4th, 1884: The move of which you speak I remember quite well, and my impression is that it was made against
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Farnsworth's charge and death. (search)
atience and eagerness for orders, and an orderly dashed by shouting, We turned the charge; nine acres of prisoners! From this point the position of the troops on the Confederate right appeared to be full of peril. Law's brigade had held an almost untenable but essential position through two hard-fought days, while their batteries and support, nearly a mile in the rear, were at that moment turned upon Merritt's advancing squadrons. The gates to the valley behind Round Top, toward which Longstreet's eye turned so eagerly, were held by them, and the valley in the rear was protected by a single Texas regiment and a weak skirmish line. Kilpatrick had been given large discretion by General Pleasonton when he had been sent in the morning against Lee's right, with Merritt's and Farnsworth's brigades. （Custer had been detached and sent to General Gregg.) Kilpatrick's orders were to press the enemy, to threaten him at every point, and to strike at the first opportunity, with an emphatic i
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4: campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga. (search)
onfederates had not many fresh reserves; and that night Hindman came up with his division, and Longstreet arrived with two brigades of McLaws's veterans from Virginia. Longstreet took command of BragLongstreet took command of Bragg's left; and on the morning of the 20th, Sept., 1863. the Confederates had full seventy thousand men opposed to fifty-five thousand Nationals. The troops engaged in this struggle were commanded b spent in needed repose. Bragg had likewise made preparations for a vigorous attack at dawn. Longstreet arrived at eleven o'clock in the evening, and immediately received his instructions as commandannan, who was, en echelon, slightly in the rear of Reynolds's. right. This left a gap, which Longstreet quickly saw, and before Davis, by McCook's order, could fill it with three light brigades, he dge, on which stood Thomas with the remnant of seven divisions of the Army of the Cumberland. Longstreet was then in immediate command of his own veterans, for Hood had lost a. leg during the morning
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
Springs operations in East Tennessee, 155. Longstreet invades the East Tennessee Valley, 156. he eaking their own confines-- Breaking through Longstreet's lines Testing chivalric spines, Into the Gals, for he had weakened his army by sending Longstreet, with a greater portion of his command, agaiuthward of the Holston and Tennessee rivers, Longstreet was ordered to make his way up the line of te ceased at twilight, ending in a repulse of Longstreet, and a loss to the Nationals of about three he same force, which dashed up in advance of Longstreet, and attacked the outposts there, on the 16t then near, and, on the morning of the 18th, Longstreet opened some guns on the National works, sharmrades were carrying him to a bedroom below. Longstreet now nearly invested Knoxville, and began a c such blow possibly so demoralize and weaken Longstreet's force as to compel him to raise the siege as to save East Tennessee from the grasp of Longstreet. He had informed Grant that his supplies wo[18 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 6: siege of Knoxville.--operations on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. (search)
t Burnside in Knoxville, closely besieged by Longstreet. See page 158. His Headquarters were at t aid would come before they were exhausted. Longstreet, doubting Bragg's ability to cope with his nheir half rations was made of clear bran. Longstreet tried to break the pontoon bridge, by sendinnded Fort Sanders. when information reached Longstreet of Bragg's defeat at Chattanooga. He well knside was cheered by the same news that made Longstreet desponding, and he resolved to resist the beirds, in the middle-ground, was the place of Longstreet's principal batteries, in advance of Armstrotwo three-inch guns. All that was done by Longstreet on the night of the attack was to drive in td with the glory of such devoted courage, as Longstreet's repulse at Knoxville. --Pollard's Third Yehich entered the Union lines on the 3d, when Longstreet, finding his flank turned and an over-whelmi. a congratulatory order to his troops after Longstreet's flight, The Army of the Ohio, he said, [9 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 2 (search)
e right, at Union Mills, D. R. Jones's at McLean's Ford, Longstreet's at Blackburn's, and Bonham's at Mitchell's. Holmes's aades, as they arrived, had been placed near Bonham's and Longstreet's by General Beauregard's orders. Some slight field-nately. Scouts, sent forward in the mean time by Generals Longstreet and D. R. Jones, reported strong bodies of Federal tnham, to send up two of his regiments and a battery; he, Longstreet, and D. R. Jones, were also directed to feel the enemy if, who happened to be with me, to march with his own and Longstreet's brigades by the quickest route to the turnpike, and fo McDowell's great effort was to be made there, Bonham's, Longstreet's, Jones's, and Ewell's brigades, leaving a few regimenthe failure of those invasions, directed by Lee, aided by Longstreet and Jackson, with troops inured to marches and manoeuvreed air; and Evans's was sent to Leesburg as an outpost. Longstreet's, D. R. Jones's, Cocke's, and Forney's brigades, were p
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
ieutenant-general and major-general. It was partially adopted then, and four divisions formed of the thirteen brigades of the army. E. Van Dorn, G. W. Smith, J. Longstreet, and T. J. Jackson, were appointed majors-general to command them. Bonham's, Early's, and Rodes's brigades, formed Van Dorn's division; D. R. Jones's, Ewell's, and Cocke's, joined Longstreet's; those of S. Jones, Toombs, and Wilcox, G. W. Smith's; and Jackson's was composed of his former brigade, Elzey's, Crittenden's, and Walker's. No army composed of new troops ever had general officers of more merit than those just enumerated. This fact, and the admirable character of the troo the 19th of October, therefore, it was drawn back to Centreville — a position much stronger in front, as well as less easily and safely turned. Van Dorn's and Longstreet's divisions occupied the ground between Union Mills and the village of Centreville — the former on the right; G. W. Smith's formed on the left, thrown back on
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
directed to march on the morning of the 8th; Smith's and Longstreet's divisions and Pendleton's reserve artillery by the Tur the river, on both sides of the railroad, and Smith and Longstreet marched on to Culpepper Court-House, as no enemy appearJackson's at Mount Jackson, Ewell's on the Rappahannock, Longstreet's at Orange Court-House, and G. W. Smith's at Fredericksry, in observation on the Upper Rappahannock; and Major-General Longstreet was directed to march with his to Richmond. MajoPeninsula, and then near Richmond, including Smith's and Longstreet's divisions, which had arrived. The great army thus forion, he authorized me to invite Major-Generals Smith and Longstreet to the conference. I was confident of the support of theason make the contest with McClellan's army there. General Longstreet took little part, which I attributed to his deafness of General Lee's opinion, and directed that Smith's and Longstreet's divisions should join the Army of the Peninsula, and o
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