Named Entity Results, Franz Sigel

provisions, which they so much needed, would fall into our hands. Sigel, General Sigel succeeded General Benjamin F. Kelley in command oGeneral Sigel succeeded General Benjamin F. Kelley in command of the Department of West Virginia on the 10th of March, 1864. After the second bettle of Bull Run Sigel had been in command of the Eleventh Sigel had been in command of the Eleventh Corps, the Reserve Grand Division of the Army of the Potomac, and the Lehigh District in Pennsylvania.--editors. who was in command in the vaman was directed to get his forces up ready to advance on the 5th. Sigel, at Winchester, was notified to move in conjunction with the othershad been expected-10,000 with Sherman and 30,000 against Mobile. Sigel's record is almost equally brief. He moved out, it is true, accord Valley I received instead the following announcement from Halleck: Sigel is in full retreat on Strasburg. He will do nothing but run; neverpapers to follow.--editors. The plan had been for an advance of Sigel's forces in columns. Though the one under his immediate command fa

between the army and our water-base, and but little difficulty was experienced in protecting them. The movement in the Kanawha and Shenandoah valleys, under General Sigel, commenced on the 1st of May. General Crook, who had the immediate command of the Kanawha expedition, divided his forces into two columns, giving one, composedr and Christiansburg, destroyed the road, several important bridges and depots, including New River Bridge, forming a junction with Crook at Union on the 15th. General Sigel moved up the Shenandoah Valley, met the enemy at New Market on the 15th, and, after a severe engagement, was defeated with heavy loss, and retired behind Cedar Creek. Not regarding the operations of General Sigel as satisfactory, I asked his removal from command, and Major-General Hunter was appointed to supersede him. His instructions were embraced in the following dispatches to Major-General H. W. Halleck, chief-of-staff of the army: near Spotsylvania Court House, Va., May 20th,

ting desperately from the Rapidan to the James, there were two other armies within the same zone of operations--that of the James under General Butler, who was expected to march up on the south and invest Petersburg and even Richmond; and that of Sigel at Winchester, who was expected to march up the Valley of Virginia, pick up his detachments from the Kanawha (Crook and Averell), and threaten Lynchburg, a place of vital importance to Lee in Richmond. Butler failed to accomplish what was expected of him; and Sigel failed at the very start, and was replaced by Hunter, who marched up the valley, made junction with Crook and Averell at Staunton, and pushed, on with commendable vigor to Lynchburg, which he invested on the 16th of June. Lee, who had by this time been driven into Richmond with a force large enough to hold his lines of intrenchment and a surplus for expeditions, detached General Jubal A. Early with the equivalent of a corps to drive Hunter away from Lynchburg. Hunter, f

venty miles from Winchester, and moved to meet Sigel and find out as far as possible his strength aand the citizens, almost the exact strength of Sigel had been ascertained, and all his preparationsst for a few days, and he ordered me to retard Sigel's advance in. every way I could, taking care nthe Blue Ridge. These facts convinced me that Sigel, before venturing to advance, meant to ascertafrom taking the information of the movement to Sigel that night. We set out from Woodstock about 4Market by the middle of the week to rejoin General Sigel at that place. Upon this information we lhis force. [See p. 488.] These mishaps to General Sigel's flanking parties of cavalry, sent out thcted his line of battle, and intended to await Sigel's assault there, expecting, of course, it woulavalry were out of the way, began to fall upon Sigel's infantry flank. Thus pressed in front, and proceed rapidly down the turnpike. As soon as Sigel discovered this general forward movement on ou[20 more...]

Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. by Franz Sigel, Major-General, U. S. V. On the 8th of March, 1864, while in command of the District of Lehigh, with headquarters at Reading, Pennsylvania, I received an order from the President appointing me to the command of the Department of West Virginia, and on the 10th of the same month I arrived at Cumberland, the headquarters of the department. As this was the time when General Grant assumed the chief command of the armies and began his prFranz Sigel, Major-General, U. S. V. On the 8th of March, 1864, while in command of the District of Lehigh, with headquarters at Reading, Pennsylvania, I received an order from the President appointing me to the command of the Department of West Virginia, and on the 10th of the same month I arrived at Cumberland, the headquarters of the department. As this was the time when General Grant assumed the chief command of the armies and began his preparations for the campaign of 1864, it seemed to me necessary to subordinate all military arrangements in the department to the paramount object of making the bulk of our forces available as an auxiliary force in the prospective campaign. It was also necessary to protect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the shortest line of communication between Washington and Cincinnati. To reach these ends a system of defensive measures was applied to the line of that road, and the troops were concentrated

The opposing forces at New Market, Va., May 15, 1864. The Union Army.--Major-General Franz Sigel. first infantry division, Brig.-Gen. Jeremiah C. Sullivan. First Brigade, Col. Augustus Moor: 18th Conn., Maj. Henry Peale; 28th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Gottfried Becker; 116th Ohio, Col. James Washburn; 123d Ohio, Maj. Horace Kell., Capt. Albert von Kleiser; D, 1st W. Va., Capt. John Carlin; G, 1st W. Va., Capt. C. T. Ewing; B, 5th U. S., Capt. Henry A. Du Pont. The effective strength of Sigel's command was about 6500, about 5150 men and 22 guns being available in the battle. (The 28th and 16th Ohio were not engaged.) The losses were 93 killed, 552 wounmber, and, according to the Rockingham register of May 20th, 1864, they lost 47 in killed and wounded. The strength of Breckinridge's forces was about 5000. General Sigel, in an estimate based on the official reports, places Breckinridge's strength at 4816, as follows: Wharton's brigade, 1578; Echols's brigade, 1622; engineer co

up the enemy would have been able to move troops from the West over that road to Washington. On the morning of the 3d Sigel, with a considerable force, after slight skirmishing, evacuated Martinsburg, leaving considerable stores in our hands. Mley T. Johnson, after driving Mulligan, with hard fighting at Leetown, across the railroad, was himself forced back, when Sigel united with Mulligan, upon Rodes's and Ramseur's divisions, which arrived at Leetown after a march of twenty-four miles. down the valley and through the passes of the South Mountain, which, notwithstanding the delays in dealing with Hunter's, Sigel's, and Wallace's forces, is, for its length and rapidity, I believe, without a parallel in this or any other modern war. nt in idleness. I could not move across the Potomac and through the passes of the South Mountain, with any safety, until Sigel was driven from, or safely housed in, the fortifications at Maryland Heights. After abandoning the idea of capturing W

ese instructions, which were intended for Hunter, were destined to be carried out by another, and how well this was accomplished it is my purpose to recount. Hunter's failure to capture Lynchburg in the spring of 1864 [see p. 492] and his retreat by a circuitous line opened the Valley to General Early, who had gone to the relief of Lynchburg. Marching down the Valley and taking possession of it without serious opposition, Early turned Harper's Ferry, which was held by a Union force under Sigel, and crossed into Maryland at Shepherdstown. The governors of New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts were called on for hundred-days men to repel the invasion, and later the Army of the Potomac supplied its quota of veterans as a nucleus around which the new levies could rally. General Early marched on Washington, and on the 11th of July was in front of the gates of the capital. The following day, after a severe engagement in which the guns of Fort Stevens took part, he withdrew his fo