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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 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 5 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 5 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 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) 3 3 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 3 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., General Grant on the Wilderness campaign. (search)
d it until relieved by the Sixth Corps and General Smith's command, The Wilderness Tavern. From M. by the Sixth Corps and the troops under General Smith, the other corps being held in readiness t right of the Sixth Corps, and in front of General Smith. During the attack the enemy made repeateent back to Bermuda Hundred and City Point General Smith's command by water via the White House, totler were verbal, and were for him to send General Smith immediately, that night, with all the troon the enemy could bring troops against us. General Smith got off as directed, and confronted the entwo divisions of the Second Corps, reached General Smith just after dark, and offered the service of these troops as he (Smith) might wish, waiving rank to the named commander, who he naturally supp at 6 o'clock that evening by the troops under Smith and the Second and Ninth corps. It required u(our left) of those previously captured by General Smith, several pieces of artillery, and over fou
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.27 (search)
nion was entertained by many that it would march upon Richmond via Petersburg. Others thought its aim was Weldon. On either hypothesis we should have been prepared to meet the assault in time, and, clearly, we were not. As a matter of fact, when the Ninth Corps, under General Burnside, came from east Tennessee, it simply went to increase the strength of the Army of the Potomac. But the forces under General Butler, with the addition of the corps commanded by General Gillmore and by General Smith, amounted to about thirty thousand men, General William F. Smith estimates the force at forty thousand. [See p. 207.] On the basis of the Official records it would appear to have been about 36,000.--editors. and were evidently being prepared for a determined advance upon Petersburg. Thus was the projected cooperation of Meade's and Butler's armies to be inaugurated. This gave the clew of the situation to the immediate advisers of President Davis. They realized, at last, the useles
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cold Harbor. (search)
ch and long delay. In the afternoon, however, Smith was in position on the right of the Sixth CorpHancock on the left, Wright in the center, and Smith on the right. Warren and Burnside were still the Union line to Beulah Church. At 6 o'clock Smith and Wright drove the enemy through the woods and intrenched a new line. Warren was north of Smith. On June 2d Hancock formed on the left of Wrif advance of the center. The same was true of Smith's command upon the right. What resulted from similarly destructive fire was poured in upon Smith, and from both flanks on the Sixth Corps in thilencing batteries in their respective fronts: Smith, that he could go no farther until Wright adva, that it was impossible for him to move until Smith and Hancock advanced to his support on the rigrters; so much so that copies of Hancock's and Smith's dispatches were sent to Wright and copies ofith one another by telegraph with this result: Smith was satisfied that the fire which he would pro
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Operations South of the James River. (search)
n the enemy's pickets on the City Point road, moved to the left and was engaged the entire day exposed mainly to artillery fire, without any apparent action on the part of the Eighteenth Corps. We believed ourselves again deserted, and at seven in the evening the cavalry was withdrawn, and the column was just fairly on the return when the noise of the assault so long expected broke upon us about four miles to our right. It was all over in a few moments, and, as we subsequently learned, General Smith had carried the entire line in his front. The Army of the Potomac began to arrive on the night of the 15th, and was on hand to support the Eighteenth Corps in the position it had captured. On the 20th I received orders to report to General James H. Wilson for the purpose of cooperating in his raid against the Danville Railroad. At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 22d the Cavalry Division of the Army of the James took the advance, with orders to proceed, via Reams's Station on the Wel
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 14: movements of the Army of the Potomac.--the Monitor and Merrimack. (search)
s occupied by General Keyes on the night of the 4th of April. across the Peninsula fails into the James River. In front of these lines McClellan's continually augmenting army remained a month, engaged in the tedious operations of a regular siege, under t he direction of General Fitz John Porter, casting up intrenchments, skirmishing frequently, and on one occasion making a reconnoissance in force, which resulted in an engagement disastrous to the Nationals. This was by the division of General Smith of the Fourth Corps, who attacked the Confederates at Dam No. 1, on the Warwick April 16, 1862. between the mills of Lee a nd Winn. The movement was gallantly made, but failed. The vanguard of the Nationals (composed of four Vermont companies, who had waded the stream, waist deep, under cover of the cannon of Ayre's battery, and who were re-enforced by eight other companies) was driven back across the river Among the really brave men who fell at this time was private William Scott,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 15: the Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula. (search)
own road, was impatient to move forward, but the way was blocked by Smith's division. Therefore he sought and obtained leave of Heintzelman d on the Hampton or Warwick road; and in the mean time Sumner, with Smith's division, moved on to the point where Stoneman was halting, at fied forward along the Hampton road, and took position on the left of Smith's at near midnight. Rain was then falling copiously, and the roads fully engaged in his flank movement. He had been dispatched by General Smith at an early hour, with about twenty-five hundred men, These estly called for re-enforcements, but they did not come. Twice General Smith had been ordered to send them, and each time the order was counth a loss of over five hundred men. Hancock held his position until Smith sent re-enforcements, by order of McClellan, who had arrived near tpen a communication with Franklin, at the head of York, followed by Smith's division, on the most direct road to Richmond, by way of New Kent
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 18: Lee's invasion of Maryland, and his retreat toward Richmond. (search)
into a division, under General Gregg, and served throughout the campaigns in Virginia under Stoneman, Pleasanton, and Sheridan. A portrait of the gallant Bayard, and a picture of the Bayard Badge, will be found in the third volume of this work. Smith's corps, twenty-one thousand strong, was near and fresh, and had not been much engaged in the battle throughout the day. The army signal-telegraph was used with great effect on the left that day. Its lines extended from Burnside's Headquartersooks, and Newton were named for ignominious dismissal from the service, and Generals Franklin, W. F. Smith, Cochran, and Ferrero, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Taylor, were to be relieved from duty in the Army of the Potomac. Generals Franklin and Smith, without the knowledge of Burnside, wrote a joint letter to the President on the 21st of December, expressing their belief that Burnside's plan of campaign could not succeed, and substantially recommending that of McClellan, by the James River an
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
eat battle, made him cautious and prudent, and he would not consent to a renewal of the conflict at Gettysburg. So he lay there, quietly awaiting the development of the disposition and plans of his antagonist, until Sunday morning,. the 5th, when it was well known that Lee's whole Army, excepting a few pickets, was on its way toward the Potomac. Then, having been re-enforced the day before by the advance division of General Couch's militia, who had come up from the Susquehanna under General W. F. Smith, he ordered Sedgwick's comparatively fresh corps to commence a direct pursuit, and sent. Kilpatrick to harrass the fugitives and destroy their train on the Chambersburg road. The greater part of the Army remained to rest, and to succor the wounded and bury the dead. Sedgwick overtook the rear-guard of the Confederates ten miles from Gettysburg, at the Fairfield Pass of South Mountain, and reported to General Meade that it was easily defensible by a small force, against him. Meade
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
speedily and bountifully furnished. In concert with General W. F. Smith, who had been appointed Chief Engineer of the army, ss the river and hold the road passed o ver by Hooker. General Smith was to go down the river from Chattanooga, under cover he movements of Hooker and Palmer might be made openly, but Smith's could only be performed in secret. Hooker crossed at Brieached on the 28th; and on the nights of the 26th and 27th, Smith successfully performed his part of the plan. Eighteen hundn length, which commanded Lookout Valley. The remainder of Smith's force, twelve hundred strong, under General Turchin, had,ttanooga. Before night the left of Hooker's line rested on Smith's at the pontoon bridge, and Palmer had crossed to Whiteside or so of Brown's Ferry, and, as we have observed, touched Smith's troops. Being anxious to hold the road leading from the ore of the Tennessee. These, under the direction of General W. F. Smith, commenced the construction of a pontoon bridge ther
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 12: operations against Richmond. (search)
Heckman's brigade, of Weitzel's division, held Smith's right. After a gallant fight it was overwheted and then withdrew. Meanwhile the front of Smith's column and the right of Gillmore's (the formage 178. made their repulse an easy task. General Smith had caused the stretching of telegraph wirng this, Beauregard renewed his effort to turn Smith's right, and so far succeeded, with a heavier t, from Bethesda Church, so as to connect with Smith; and Burnside was withdrawn entirely from the atch Station road on the left, the Sixth next, Smith's command adjoining these, and Warren and Burnn barges to City Point, and the command of General Smith was re-embarked at the head of the York, aensive movements. It was for this reason that Smith was so quickly sent back to Bermuda hundred, ato risk all by attempting to gain more. General Smith, in his Report of operations before Peterst said, in speaking of these operations of General Smith: between the lines thus captured and Peter[26 more...]
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