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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 1,542 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 728 6 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 378 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 374 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 325 5 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 297 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 295 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 286 2 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 225 1 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 190 4 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), General Reynolds' last battle. (search)
d who ought to have the command, and said that Meade was the man, and it was to his persuasion and the promise of his aid, that Meade yielded. He was with Meade at Frederick when the order assigninMeade at Frederick when the order assigning Meade to the command of the Army of the Potomac came, and during the brief hours of that summer nMeade to the command of the Army of the Potomac came, and during the brief hours of that summer night he aided Meade in working out the plan which ended in Gettysburg. It was characteristic of thMeade in working out the plan which ended in Gettysburg. It was characteristic of the man that from that momentous interview, he rushed to the front and swooped down on a poor German of the scattered corps and as the place where Meade could put his army to meet and overthrow the l have been fully manned and firmly held, while Meade's concentration behind Gettysburg would have g be held by the reserve, renewed his report to Meade that Buford had found the place for a battle, ds' aides and messengers were busy bringing to Meade news of the conflict, looking for Howard to ur the key of the position, on which he saw that Meade must fight to win, and while some of the horse[4 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The siege of Morris Island. (search)
not be breached until after Wagner had been reduced; but Gillmore thought differently, and bent all his energies to make good the faith that was in him. The engineers commenced work on the night of the 25th of July, and by the 16th of August the batteries were completed. They were eight in number — the nearest one being thirty-four hundred yards from Sumter, and the farthest forty-two hundred and thirty-five yards. Seven of these batteries bore the distinctive names of Brown, Rosecrans, Meade, Hayes, Reno, Stevens, and Strong, mounting the following guns, viz.: one three-hundred-pounder, six two-hundred-pounders, nine one-hundred-pounders, two eighty-four-pounder Whitworth, two thirty and four twenty-pounders; all Parrotts except two guns, and the whole of them rifled. Never before had such a weight of metal been directed against any fortress in one attack since the art of war began. Those who have not engaged in such operations can have only a faint idea of the labor and fatig
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), General Meade at Gettysburg. (search)
General Meade at Gettysburg. Colonel James C. Biddle. In order to understand fully the battleards. In this advanced position, in which General Meade was left without support, he encountered hy, not only in front but also on both flanks. Meade, unwilling to abandon the advantage he had gai do subsequently. On assuming command, General Meade addressed his army in the following charac memory. This statement does injustice to General Meade, between whom and General Reynolds existedection with that proud day in our history, General Meade will stand foremost as the facillime princs. Lee had been repulsed, not routed, and, if Meade had yielded to his own inclination to attack, ficers of the highest rank came to reconnoitre Meade's lines. From the conversation of these officblic safety to his own fame.) Although General Meade needs no eulogy, his great deeds speaking esident of the United States, overslaughed General Meade by appointing to the vacant Lieutenant Gen[66 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The campaign in Pennsylvania. (search)
ether they should stand or retreat. In discussing several councils, or conferences, held by General Meade with his corps commanders, General Sickles testified, before the Committee on the Conduct ofa campaign was nearly twenty-five thousand. Concerning the strength of the Federal army, General Meade testified as follows, before the Committee on the Conduct of the War (second series, vol. i were the eleven thousand of General French. In this latter matter the evidence is against General Meade. General Hooker, on the 27th of June, 1863, telegraphed to General Halleck, from Poolesvilleugh General Halleck refused these troops to General Hooker, they were immediately awarded to General Meade, on his assuming command when General Hooker was relieved. With t more accurate returns counter at Gettysburg, excluding all consideration of the troops at Harper's Ferry, although General Meade, on assuming command, at once ordered General French to move to Frederick with seven thousan
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Life in Pennsylvania. (search)
should move around by our right to the left of Meade, and put our army between him and Washington, carried the heights in front of us, and drove Meade out, we should be so badly crippled that we coes. Our army was fifty-two thousand infantry; Meade's was ninety-five thousand. These are our higas not appreciated until after my attack. General Meade seems to have alluded to it as a point to ed a less cool and watchful commander than General Meade. It did not confuse him. With the calcula, or rather held by one single brigade (as General Meade's testimony before the Committee on the Cout will go over to Gettysburg and see what General Meade is after. Orders had then been issued to ks captured by Stuart the evening before. General Meade, in his official report, says: On the mornward to prevent this effort on the part of General Meade, and we succeeded in clearing the way and etter to be done than to endeavor to bring General Meade out and use our efforts to crush his army [11 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The campaign of Gettysburg. (search)
he battle of Gettysburg, by General Meade. General Meade's report of the campaign embraces only thewo days after I arrived at Frederick City, General Meade relieved General Hooker of the command of of the Potomac. On assuming the command, General Meade sent for me, and in strong terms deprecateed that he would not be able to escape us. General Meade then decided to leave the affair with me, daylight on the morning of the 2d of July, General Meade requested me to ride over the position wit been decided. In examining the position, General Meade was strongly impressed that our right was Lee, having been the constant companion of General Meade from the time he assumed the command at Frcharge on July 3d, it became necessary for General Meade to decide at once what to do. I rode up toas retreating that I again earnestly urged General Meade to advance the army; but instead of doing oners, and were in such position that, had General Meade followed Lee on the 4th of July, the surre[12 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The right flank at Gettysburg. (search)
Some might be led to suppose that the dissensions among. the Confederate leaders, rather than the ability with which General Meade handled his noble army, brought about the results of the battle. Indeed, it is almost becoming doubtful to the mindsh did not accompany Stuart upon his independent movement, were amply sufficient for the purposes of observation. General Meade, in his official report of the battle, merely refers to the fact that, on the 3d of July, General Gregg was engaged w commanding the Cavalry Corps at the time, was not with any of his divisions, but, according to his own account, near General Meade in the rear of the infantry line of battle, instructing his distinguished chief how, in half an hour, to show himselfont. Scarcely had this been done, however, when, about noon, a dispatch from the commander of the Eleventh Corps, to General Meade, was placed in General Gregg's hands, notifying him that a large body of the enemy's cavalry had been. observed, fro
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Lee and Grant in the Wilderness. (search)
eet South, crossed the Rapidan and advanced on Meade. The latter retired rapidly, not halting untited. General Lee returned to the Rapidan, and Meade to his old camp in Culpepper. The latter part of November (the second exception), Meade crossed the Rapidan below the Confederate right. Genera historian states that at about nine A. M. General Meade, addressing some officers near him, said: fellows from getting back to Mine run. If General Meade was correctly quoted, it is evident that Mected the errors into which Generals Grant and Meade had fallen in supposing General Lee would retifiring borne to the ears of Generals Grant and Meade, at the old Wilderness tavern, attested the senown North as the place where Generals Lee and Meade confronted each other for a week the winter prught the protection of the Mine run line. General Meade and the Army of the Potomac knew Mine run run) position, which had been regarded by General Meade as too formidable to assail, that made him[6 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Black Horse cavalry. (search)
he command, beside requiring a large detail of men. This raid produced great consternation among the enemy, and drew from Meade's army all his available cavalry to oppose it. But for this encumbrance Stuart could to better advantage have engaged thek part in the battle on the memorable 3d of July, 1863, in which the Southern Confederacy received its death wound. Upon Meade's advance into Virginia, Lee retired to the south bank of the Rapidan, with headquarters at Orange Court-House, where he and, but it had been dearly bought by the loss of many of its bravest members. General Fitz Lee continued the pursuit of Meade as far as Bull run, who, occasionally, turned upon his pursuers, and punished their audacity, as at Bristow Station. Geneked rations, and sixty rounds of ammunition, General Lee withdrew to the south side of the Rapidan. During this movement Meade advanced to Mine run, in Spottsylvania, where an undecided affair took place between the two armies, the Fourth Virginia
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The mistakes of Gettysburg. (search)
rinting the article, it is made to appear that Meade had ninety-five thousand infantry. It should t is the truth, and will stand as history that Meade's army was nearly double that of Lee. In md for my proof upon the official report of General Meade himself. He made this report, it will be precisely what these detachments were. As General Meade states, however, that he left but a singlen desired. Meanwhile, the reports made to General Meade drew his attention to our part of the fiel! In my former narrative I showed that General Meade did not appreciate the importance of this nd was wholly inadequate to hold it; hence General Meade's anxiety to hurry up additional troops afg and mourning for-or we should have dislodged Meade from his position without striking a blow. Ifked, we should have certainly repulsed it. Had Meade deserted his position without striking a blow red. In the paragraph where I stated that General Meade anticipated my attack of the 3d, and told [13 more...]
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