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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
ld be ours. After consultation I directed General Smith to make his attack upon the upper batterieforward toward the river. Shortly after General Smith's aid had gone I became anxious lest Smith his own men. Upon Davenport's report that Smith refused to obey my orders to renew the attack jor-General. But my staff officer had seen Smith and Hancock talking together. Smith got Hancostablished by incontestable evidence that when Smith made his attack upon Petersburg with more than the Second Corps marching in the direction of Smith's forces, am I not justified in using the hardmation that a part of Hancock's corps was with Smith, with a message to the latter to renew the attack and push on, and that was received by Smith between ten and eleven o'clock at night, and he rete of which there is any official evidence, and Smith went to Washington without the leave of his comation of Emancipation, and had consulted with Smith on the question of its publication, thus betra[62 more...]
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
ld him that I had another thing in view. The affair of the mine at Petersburg, which had been discussed between us, had convinced me that in the Army of the Potomac negro troops were thought of no value, and with the exception of an attack under Smith on the 15th of June, where they were prevented from entering Petersburg by the sloth, inaction, or I believe worse, of Smith, the negro troops had had no chance to show their valor or staying qualities in action. I told him that I meant to take Smith, the negro troops had had no chance to show their valor or staying qualities in action. I told him that I meant to take a large part of my negro force, and under my personal command make an attack upon Newmarket Heights, the redoubt to the extreme left of the enemy's line. If I could take that and turn it, then I was certain that I could gain the first line of the enemy's intrenchments around Richmond. I said: I want to convince myself whether, when under my own eye, the negro troops will fight; and if I can take with the negroes, a redoubt that turned Hancock's corps on a former occasion, that will settle the
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
his major-generals, who generally failed to be on time when an order was given and some of whom were boys at West Point when I was a major-general in command of armies, I never attempted to make any movement during his absence. This I omitted to do because I knew that they would no more obey my command implicitly and promptly than they did Meade's during those last disastrous days, the 16th, 17th, and 18th of June, when Meade was attempting to retake Petersburg, which the colored troops of Smith's corps had once taken, and which he had let go. It appears by Meade's circular of orders to make the attack on those days, that he did not instruct each corps to attack in exact time and conjunction with the others, so that his superiority of numbers, fifty thousand to ten thousand, would tell in his favor, obliging the smaller number of the enemy to keep their whole line of intrenchments fully manned all the time. On the contrary, he said in substance: As I find it impossible to have t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
l be commanded by Maj.-Gen. W. F. Smith. With Smith and Gillmore, Butler will seize City Point andion you have shown me. I have possessed General Smith with my views as well upon the subject of nducted to-day with energy and success. Generals Smith and Gillmore are pushing the landing of thdquarters Bermuda landing, May 7, 1864. Major-General Smith, Commanding Eighteenth Army Corps: Ge page 643.] headquarters, May 7, 1864. Major-General Smith, Commanding Eighteenth Army Corps: Ieach division of your command to report to General Smith at eight o'clock this morning, for the purrdered. I directed him to co-operate with General Smith when he went to make demonstrations on thel the force may be drawn to the advance of General Smith. When you hear his guns and have word froon bridge, that can be thrown across below General Smith's headquarters, and cut all the roads whict desire this change made, but simply want General Smith assigned to the command of the Eighteenth [3 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
idge by night, cross over, and attack Bragg's right flank on that part of the ridge abutting on Chickamauga Creek, near the tunnel; and he proposed that we should go at once to look at the ground. In company with Generals Thomas, W. F. Smith, Brannan, and others, we crossed by the flying-bridge, rode back of the hills some four miles, left our horses, and got on a hill overlooking the whole ground about the mouth of the Chickamauga River, and across to the Missionary Hills near the tunnel. Smith and I crept down behind a fringe of trees that lined the river-bank, to the very point selected for the new bridge, where we sat for some time, seeing the rebel pickets on the opposite bank, and almost hearing their words. Having seen enough, we returned to Chattanooga; and in order to hurry up my command, on which so much depended, I started back to Kelly's in hopes to catch the steamboat that same evening; but on my arrival the boat had gone. I applied to the commanding officer, got a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 16 (search)
the foot of Lookout Mountain afforded the enemy for reenforcing his. The force detailed for this expedition consisted of four thousand men, under command of General Smith, Chief-Engineer, one thousand eight hundred of which, under Brigadier-General W. B. Hazen, in sixty pontoon boats, containing thirty armed men each, floated quhe guns and ammunition, work was prosecuted on the fortifications around the town. In addition to his duties of superintending the work on the fortifications, General Smith pushed vigorously the construction of two pontoon-bridges, to be used in the execution of the movements which were determined upon as necessary to a successful a position on Friday night on the north side of the Tennessee, near the pontoon-bridge, and then held in readiness for such orders as might become necessary. General Smith commenced at once to collect his pontoons and materials for bridges in the North-Chickamauga Creek preparatory to the crossing of Sherman's troops, proper prec
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 4: (search)
troops at the Chain Bridge, and, in case of necessity, would rapidly move by the Aqueduct Bridge to support the troops at Fort Corcoran and Arlington Heights. On the 1st the two regiments at the Chain Bridge were placed under the command of Col. W. F. Smith, and within three days his command was increased to four regiments of infantry, one battery, and one company of cavalry. At the same time Couch's brigade was posted at the Toll-Gate on the Seventh Street road, where the Milkhouse Ford and B861: McCall's division; on the 25th of that month he received the last two regiments of the Pennsylvania Reserves, so that his division consisted of thirteen regiments in three brigades, under Meade, J. F. Reynolds, and Ord. Sept. 28, 1861: W. F. Smith's division, consisting of the Vermont brigade (afterwards Brooks's), J. J. Stevens's and Hancock's brigades. Oct. 5, 1861: Heintzelman's division, consisting of Richardson's, Sedgwick's, and Jameson's brigades. Oct. 11, 1861: Hooker's di
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., chapter 5 (search)
ickets, and followed that to the Aqueduct Bridge, thence home by W. F. Smith's camp; got home at ten P. M. Midnight, 15th. . . . I am e up with a message to the effect that the enemy were in force near Smith (W. F.) I rode rapidly home, changed my horse, and rode out to SmitSmith's camp. I determined at once to throw Smith across the river, and went over with his brigade myself till I saw him in position, and then cSmith across the river, and went over with his brigade myself till I saw him in position, and then came back at 1.30 pretty well tired out. Sept. 6. Rode along pickets from Corcoran to Chain Bridge. Found everything in good conditiont think I will ride out to-day. How did you learn that Buckner and Smith have joined the rebel army? I can hardly believe it. You have no i 30?) A most unhappy thing occurred last night among some of W. F. Smith's raw regiments. They three times mistook each other for the enlled. It is dangerous to make night — marches on that account; but Smith's march was delayed by causes I could not foresee, and it was neces
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 6: (search)
case if Pennsylvania, for example, had been the frontier State. Before the middle of August Gen. Smith's pickets were thrown across the river at the Chain Bridge. On the 3d of Sept., while reviewiadvancing along their whole line. After giving the necessary orders at other points I rode to Gen. Smith's headquarters at the Chain Bridge, and determined to move his brigade across the river during of Forts Maury and Ethan Allen--positions which I had already examined. On the 28th of Sept. Smith's division marched out to Falls Church, which movement, in connection with an advance of a part on was moved forward to Hall's and Munson's hills, in easy supporting distance; a few days later Smith's division was moved to Marshall's Hill. To support this movement McCall's division was, on thehe positions of the command were as follows: On the right McCall's division at Prospect Hill; Smith's division at Mackall's Hill, holding Lewinsville by an advanced guard; Porter's division at Min
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 16: (search)
headquarters, Army of the Potomac, camp Winfield Scott, April 15, 1862. Brig.-Gen. W. F. Smith, Commanding Division. Sir: You will please advance to-morrow morningcing the enemy to discontinue work. In compliance with these instructions Gen. Smith placed two brigades and three batteries on his left to guard against any attarp fire for about an hour until he silenced the enemy. About three o'clock Gen. Smith had placed eighteen guns in position about five hundred yards from the works,ened, the enemy replying for some time with rapidity; when their fire slackened Smith ordered four companies of the 3d Vermont to cross the dam and feel the enemy. gunboats as much as possible, I proposed to Flag-Officer Goldsborough and to Capt. Smith, commanding the gunboats, that the gunboats and the Galena should run the ba as to justify an assault during the first day's firing, I am very sure that Capt. Smith would have run by the batteries in broad daylight, without awaiting the cove
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