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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gen. Lee's strength and losses at Gettysburg. (search)
men. These Federal losses are of course not included in Gen. Meade's aggregate of 23,186 lost.-- has omitted Ewell's loss ave the infantry strength of the two armies as 239: 163. If Meade had 95,000 men on the ield, as he testifies, then deductingng but those present for duty in both instances. Again, Gen. Meade in his testimony about Gettysburg before the committee o,000 men-about 95,000. In the face of both Butterfield and Meade, Dr. Bates assumes that these figures represent the numbersum total was reduced to 72,000. Now is it credible that Gen. Meade testified, under oath, that his strength upon that battln for an exaggeration of his numbers, but the contrary? Gen. Meade was not capable of being influenced by any reason in sund the teamsters, &c., while the Confederate did not. If Gen. Meade did not mean that his army present for duty numbered 95, Were we at this late day seriously to attempt to determine Meade's force by giving the estimates made of it at the time of t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Causes of the defeat of Gen. Lee's Army at the battle of Gettysburg-opinions of leading Confederate soldiers. (search)
ow strip of country between South mountain and Meade's position; and there would have been great dan. This idea about our being able to threaten Meade's communications by extending our right on thehe next day would witness a crushing defeat of Meade's army. It was Gen. Lee's purpose to begin thlace, by extending his right so as to endanger Meade's communications with Washington. 5th. The would undoubtedly have been forced back, General Meade, the Federal commander, admitting it was t the more cautious plan of merely manoeuvreing Meade away from his position by threatening his commight of that afternoon that convinced him that Meade was near at hand, and he then deemed it injudioubtless he would have manoeuvred to force General Meade away from his strong position by threatenincerning the strength of the Federal army, General Meade testified before the Committee on the Condl Halleck at 2:55 P. M. It is evident that General Meade was in error in supposing that the return[18 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Causes of the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg. (search)
an offensive battle, but to so manoeuvre that Meade would be forced to attack us. Remember, in thihe could easily have so manoeuvred as to force Meade to attack him. A position covering Fairfield warrisburg that public clamor would have forced Meade to try and dislodge him. We had ammunition eno offensive and taken the defensive, and forced Meade to assault us, and to have given him a crushinthat General Lee, although closely confronting Meade's army, detached Longstreet and sent him to Geht an offersive battle on the ground and where Meade chose to wait for him. He ought to have manoeulace, by extending his right so as to endanger Meade's communications with Washington. 5th. The of two Federal corps, and being aware that General Meade could not bring up all his forces before tus co-operation. On the morning of the second Meade's position on Cemetery Ridge was not fully occhis left wing west of the Emmettsburg road General Meade weakened his position by presenting a weak[1 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Second paper by Colonel Walter H. Taylor, of General Lee's staff. (search)
emselves undecided as to whether they should stand or retreat. In discussing several councils or conferences held by General Meade with his corps commanders, General Sick-]es testified, before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, that the reasoLee's loss in the Pennsylvania campaign was about nineteen 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., p. 337): Including all and men; included in these 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 Poolesville: My whole force of enlisdays before the first encounter 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 thousand men, to protect his com
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Leading Confederates on the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
hen referring to the invasion of Pennsylvania, he says: The proof is that as soon as the latter (Meade) began to move, Lee, who had undertaken nothing but a raid on too large a scale, found himself so inuch endangered that he was obliged to fight an offensive battle on the ground where Meade chose to await him. This determination to strike his enemy was not, from the position he found himself, to attack. And further, to corroborate the fact that General Lee was not compelled to attack Meade where Meade chose to wait for him, 1 will show, I am confident, that the Battle of Gettysburg waMeade chose to wait for him, 1 will show, I am confident, that the Battle of Gettysburg was the result purely of an accident, for which I am probably, more than any one else, accountable. Napoleon is said to have remarked that a dog fight might determine the result of a great battle. Altance determined the Battle of Gettysburg being fought at Gettysburg. It is well known that General Meade had chosen another point as his battle-field. On the 29th of June, 1863, General Lee's army
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Leading Confederates on the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
sburg, than there is for counting as a part of Meade's force at the same battle the 10,000 or 11,00 at Harrisburg, all of which were placed under Meade's orders, and were actually employed for the pas the case with Couch's force, and protecting Meade's communications to the rear, as was the case 0 men when it joined him the 12th of June, and Meade sent a dispatch to Halleck on the 28th of Juneing corps further to the rear, to the cover of Meade's advancing columns. It is not necessary frobably I would have had a different view. Meade had selected Pipe Creek as the position for hiherefore, is that before we got ready to fight Meade in his position when found, our army would havother levy of troops. The concentration of Meade's army at that point, after the success on ourof Gettysburg, that if we had gained them, and Meade had attacked us and been repulsed, or if we haon with it meant starvation. When, therefore, Meade moved his army near enough to General Lee's to[12 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Supplement to General Early's Review.-reply to General Longstreet. (search)
s Frederick could undoubtedly have manceuvered Meade out of the Gettysburg position. This operatio my surprise, that he thought of attacking General Meade upon the heights the next day. I suggestedtable? A careful study of the testimony of Meade and his officers, contained in the 1st volume,e promptly it is presumed. The Fifth corps of Meade's army was 23 miles from Gettysburg at the clpage 332, in describing the attack on Sickles, Meade says: At the same time that they threw immense377, says: Soon afterwards I rode out with General Meade to examine the left. of our line, where Ge enemy's lines of battle. I sent word to General Meade that we would at once have to occupy that o take part in the action on the enemy's left, Meade adding: The enemy having been repulsed before is a very gross perversion, in the article of Meade's testimony. Instead of there being only one atement of Ewell's from the context and adding Meade's, the false impression is sought to be made t[21 more...]