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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 296 6 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 246 4 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 48 2 Browse Search
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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 39 1 Browse Search
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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
body back to Pennsylvania, and ask the Governor and State to fill them up within a specified time; but if it could not be done, they were to be mustered out of service. camp near Sharpsburg, Md., October 1, 1862. I note the canard about General Sickles taking command of Hooker's corps, which arose from the fact that General Sickles has been placed in command of Hooker's old division. So, also, I saw a brilliant account in Forney's Press of the battle of Antietam, in which the writer, confGeneral Sickles has been placed in command of Hooker's old division. So, also, I saw a brilliant account in Forney's Press of the battle of Antietam, in which the writer, confusing Hooker's division with his corps, speaks of the gallantry of Generals Patterson and Grover in leading the men; whereas Hooker's division was at Alexandria, when Grover was with it, and Patterson has been for some time in Philadelphia. But such is history. When Hooker placed me in command of the corps on the field, I immediately sought out Ricketts, told him I presumed there was a mistake, Hooker not knowing that he (Ricketts) outranked me, and I turned over the command to him, and onl
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 5 (search)
ed by Major-General Daniel E. Sickles, General Sickles resumed the command of the Third Corps, rd since Hancock had left it, Generals Howard, Sickles, Warren, and other officers. From them he rearters and reported to General Meade what General Sickles had said. These, as the reader will sohe second day. It has been asserted by General Sickles that he had received no orders of any kinon both sides that, about eleven o'clock, General Sickles rode up to Headquarters, when some converhe purpose of examining such positions as General Sickles might think good for artillery, and of giver the Emmettsburg Pike. Hunt, knowing that Sickles had left his artillery ammunition train to foto Gettysburg, inferred from this remark that Sickles wished to control that road until the train sarther to the Emmettsburg Road on his front. Sickles thus still farther increased the gap that layhird Corps, and shortly after the wounding of Sickles instructs him to assume command of that corps[63 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
, see Appendix G. I furthermore hear that General Sickles asserts that Hancock selected the positior back in command, and that thinking, through Sickles and others, they might get me out (a prelimin and to whom I explained the absurd charge of Sickles, that I had ordered a retreat at Gettysburg, state of affairs, however, when persons like Sickles and Doubleday can, by distorting and twistingnduct of the War, with Generals Doubleday and Sickles, are the agents. Grant is to be in Washingto believed it was written, or dictated, by General Sickles, and that I desire he may be called on toI am to suffer from the malice of such men as Sickles and Butterfield. Grant is expected here neon, who told him of my letter in reference to Sickles, asking for a court of inquiry, which Mr. Stan to see him, disclaiming being a partisan of Sickles, and saying he would like to come and see me y feelings towards me, or being a partisan of Sickles, and expressed the hope he would be permitted[11 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 15 (search)
points made before the War Investigating Committee against Gen. Meade, who is substantially on trial before this congressional Commission, by the testimony of Gens. Sickles and Doubleday, are, that he gave and promulgated an order to his army to retreat from Gettysburg at the close of the first day's fight, when his superior strening; that he had made no dispositions for battle that day, had no plan for fighting, and seemingly no purpose to fight, but that the battle was precipitated by Gen. Sickles, and forced on Meade in part by the enemy, but principally by General Sickles, that Meade did not know on Friday night that our men had whipped Lee, or distrusGeneral Sickles, that Meade did not know on Friday night that our men had whipped Lee, or distrusted the fact that night, and was so uncertain of it on Saturday that he dared not pursue the beaten enemy, and weakly and ignorantly threw away the certainty of capture or destroying the entire Rebel army; that for a few moments he yielded to persuasions to let the 3d Corps pursue, but countermanded the order to do so in ten minute
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 16 (search)
t be—of an open opposition. The main movers appear to be General Daniel E. Sickles and the new Committee on the Conduct of the War. It is urof the battle of Gettysburg, General Meade indirectly censured General Sickles for advancing farther than he had authority to do by virtue oficulty in which it was thereby involved no easy task. Whether General Sickles intentionally disobeyed or unintentionally misinterpreted his stinctly stated. But one thing is certain, that the fact that General Sickles lost a leg in the engagement saved him from removal from the army. We honor General Sickles for the devotion to the cause of his country; we honor him for the untiring energy and personal bravery he ha roll of honor made out, we shall not be the last to claim for General Sickles no mean place on it. But we cannot blink the fact that GeneralGeneral Sickles is quite as much a politician as a soldier. We know that he has accomplished more by personal address, adroitness, and cunning mana
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 17 (search)
oint; but information continuing to reach General Sickles that the First and Eleventh Corps were infell into my hands:— July 1, Gettysburg, General Sickles:-- General Doubleday, (First corps) sathey are. Whether this was a jest or a sneer Sickles did not stop to consider, but begged Meade tong, however to the prolonged solicitations of Sickles, General Meade desired General Hunt, chief ofof their reconnoissance. Hunt concurred with Sickles as to the line to be occupied—the advance linthe cavalry. What, then, was the surprise of Sickles to see of a sudden all the cavalry withdrawn,ptly terminated by a heavy shower of shells. Sickles received no further orders that day. There isonsidering our force unequal to the exigency, Sickles called on the heroic troops of the Second corwith such indifference when pressed on him by Sickles in the morning—that our left was the assailablmost incredible that the single corps of General Sickles was able to withstand the impetuous onset[23 more...
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 18 (search)
o be both heard and believed. First—The Fifth corps was never placed under the orders of General Sickles at any time during the battle of Gettysburg and never was posted by General Sickles on the General Sickles on the left of the Third corps. Second—General Sykes was never requested to relieve Ward's brigade and Smith's battery on Roundtop for the very good reason that neither that brigade nor that battery was , Fifth corps, were thrown into action by order of the corps commander, not by any order of General Sickles, or by any solicitation of Captain Moore, of General Sickles's staff. Fifth—The left of General Sickles's staff. Fifth—The left of the Third corps was far in advance of Roundtop, and did not connect with it in any way. Sixth—The imminent danger of losing Roundtop resulted, not from the failure to relieve Ward's brigade, which was not there, but from an order of General Sickles, taking Weed's brigade from that hill to assist the Third corps, and Weed, in obeying this order, was met by his corps commander, and promptly
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 19 (search)
f that corps, which I had the honor to command. He says:— An alarming incident, however, occurred. Barnes' division of the Fifth Corps suddenly gave way, and Sickles, seeing this, put a battery in position to check the enemy if he broke through this gap on our front, and General Birney was sent to order Barnes back into line. No, he said, impossible. It is too hot, my men cannot stand it. Remonstrance was unavailing, and Sickles despatched his aides to bring up any troops they met to fill this blank. Major Tremaine, of his staff, fell in with General Zook at the head of his brigade (Second corps), and this gallant officer instantly volunteered to tis here related took place. There is not a particle of truth in it. No order was given to me by General Birney. None was received by me through any one from General Sickles. I did not see or hear from General Zook. I did not meet him in any way. I did not know he was there, and the article above referred to is the first intimat
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 20 (search)
l report of the same. I have not noticed any of these attacks and should not now take action, but that the character of the communication enclosed bears such manifest proofs that it was written either by some one present at the battle, or dictated by some one present and having access not only to official documents, but to confidential papers that were never issued to the Army, much less made public. I cannot resist the belief that this letter was either written or dictated by Major General D. E. Sickles. An issue has been raised between that officer and myself, in regard to the judgment displayed by him in the position he took with his corps at Gettysburg. In my official report I deemed it proper to state that this position was a false and untenable one, but I did General Sickles the justice to express the opinion that althoa he had committed an error of judgment, it was done through a misapprehension of his orders and not from any intention to act contrary to my wishes. The
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 29 (search)
ven years after the battle, to Colonel G. G. Benedict, of Vermont, and published for the First time by Colonel Benedict, in the Weekly Press of Philadelphia of August 11, 1886, in refutation of the statements made on the battle-field by General Daniel E. Sickles, on the occasion of the Reunion, July 2, 1886, of the remnant of the Third Corps of the army of the Potomac, on the twenty-Third an-Niversary of the battle To the editor of the Weekly Press, of Philadelphia. Sir: A word of explances which drew forth the following letter seems to be necessary. In an oration delivered before the Reunion Society of Vermont Officers in November, 1869, the orator, Colonel W. W. Grout, of that State, who had made the acquaintance of General D. E. Sickles, and had adopted the latter's views upon certain points relating to the battle of Gettysburg, advanced the theory—more familiar now than it was then —that General Sickles's famous movement on the second day of the battle was a fortunate
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