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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.53 (search)
r time nor necessity for reporting this to General Meade, and beginning on the right, I instructed mmunition was running low, and hastened to General Meade to advise its immediate cessation and preperal Lee now abandoned the attempt to dislodge Meade, intrenched a line from Oak Hill to Peach Orchht of July 4th, via Fairfield. This compelled Meade to take the circuitous routes through the lowestrategic advantage to Lee and disadvantage to Meade of Gettysburg were made manifest. General M a fight could be had; upon which, on the 6th, Meade halted the rest of the infantry and ordered twhe command of this army. Third. Halleck to Meade July 14th: My telegram stating the disappoe following letters passed between Halleck and Meade: [Unofficial.] headquarters of the army, Washington, July 28th, 1863.Major-General Meade, army of the Potomac, Warrenton, Va. General: I mpered here by the nature of the ground as was Meade's on the left, the evening before. In many re[10 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., General Hancock and the artillery at Gettysburg. (search)
by military specialists. He knew that by both law and reason the defense of Cemetery Ridge was intrusted to him, subject to the actual, authentic orders of the commander of the Army of the Potomac, but not subject to the discretion of one of General Meade's staff-officers. General Meade could, under the President's order, have placed a junior at the head of the Second Corps, but whomsoever he did place over the corps became thereby invested with the whole undiminished substance, and with all General Meade could, under the President's order, have placed a junior at the head of the Second Corps, but whomsoever he did place over the corps became thereby invested with the whole undiminished substance, and with all the proper and ordinary incidents of command. So much for the question of authority. On the question of policy there is only to be said that a difference of opinion appears between two highly meritorious officers--one, the best artillerist of the army, the other, one of the best, if not the best, commander of troops in the army — as to what was most expedient in a given emergency. Unquestionably it would have been a strong point for us if, other things being equal, the limber chests of the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Farnsworth's charge and death. (search)
romoted for gallantry to be brigadier-general and given command of a brigade in Kilpatrick's division, consisting of the 5th New York, 18th Pennsylvania, 1st Vermont, and 1st West Virginia regiments. On the evening of the 2d of July we were on Meade's right wing, and by noon of the third day of the battle we went into position on his left wing, near the enemy's artillery line, on the south end of Seminary Ridge. When the cannonading which preceded Pickett's charge opened, General Farnsworthtrike at the first opportunity, with an emphatic intimation that the best battle news could be brought by the wind. His opportunity had now come. If he could bring on a battle, drive back the Texas regiment, and break the lines on the mountain, Meade's infantry on Round Top would surely drive them into the valley, and then the five thousand cavalry in reserve could strike the decisive blow. The 1st West Virginia was selected to attack the Texas regiment. The Second Battalion of the 1st Ve
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The cavalry battle near Gettysburg. (search)
nsylvania Cavalry was ordered to report to General Meade's headquarters, where it remained until af this there are several reasons. First, General Meade had been in command of the army but three orces at Chancellorsville. On the other hand, Meade, by marching northward, did not relinquish the on the 2d of July, it seems probable that General Meade, who had come upon the ground after midnigter to Colonel Benedict, March 16th, 1870, General Meade states that Geary informed him that, afterergy in which this action was conducted by General Meade with previous experiences of the Army of t pike. It was, indeed, a gloomy hour when General Meade assembled his corps commanders to consult n alleged, with much of circumstance, that General Meade sought to retreat from Gettysburg, and he urg. After finishing it I presented it to General Meade, and it met his approval. I then stated t doing, I shall attack. The charge that General Meade, during the battle of the afternoon, actua[46 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.58 (search)
88.--editors. Only a cursory perusal of General Meade's letter suggests the reason why he wishedittee). This is not said censoriously, for General Meade had only been in command three days and haless, neither Howard nor Slocum was welcome in Meade's army, and they sought service in the West, uommands. This was at 3 in the afternoon. General Meade soon afterward met me at the front and witmy aides, had been sent again and again to General Meade with reports of the enemy's movements on h of July last, this confidential letter of General Meade, written in 1870, is brought to light, mos the Conduct of the War, uncontradicted by General Meade. General Meade's statement, I repeat, i-and the discussion will not last long. General Meade proceeds: Sickles's movement practically dConduct of the War. In his official report General Meade says that the Second and Third corps were his con fidential letter. Why is it that General Meade is so unwilling to praise where praise mig[85 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st-3d, 1863. (search)
army as here stated give the gist of all the data obtainable in the Official Records. K stands for killed; w for wounded; m w for mortally wounded; m for captured or missing; c for captured. The Union army. Army of the Potomac--Major-General George G. Meade. Staff loss: w, 4. Command of the Provost Marshal General, Brig.-Gen. Marsena R. Patrick: 93d N. Y., At Taneytown and not engaged in the battle. Lieut.-Col. Benjamin C. Butler; 8th U. S., At Taneytown and not engaged in the bordinate commanders the total loss of the Confederate Army was 2592 killed, 12,709 wounded, and 5150 captured or missing =20,451. Several of the reports indicate that many of the missing were killed or wounded. Rolls on file in the office of the Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, bear the names of 12,227 wounded and unwounded Confederates captured at and about Gettysburg from July 1st to 5th, inclusive. The number of wounded prisoners is reported by the medical director of Meade's army as 6802.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Notes on the Chickamauga campaign. (search)
uckner from Knoxville to the aid of Bragg, and Burnside marched into Knoxville. It is surprising that the events of the last sixty days did not suggest to General Halleck concentrations that must have ended the war in 1863. By the 4th of July Meade had seriously defeated and permanently weakened Lee at Gettysburg, and Grant, by giving us Vicksburg and 30,000 prisoners, had ended all important operations near the Mississippi River. In the main, this left Grant's army of 75,000 men free to bons lay the best chance of decisive work. Is it not, therefore, clear, that Rosecrans should have been heavily reenforced and made able to crush Bragg at Chickamauga? He then could have marched irresistibly through east Tennessee, to the aid of Meade against Lee, whose army could not have existed a single day if it had held its ground, before such a concentration of forces. The order thus to reenforce the Army of the Cumberland could have been as easily made and executed before as after Chic
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