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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 211 5 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 174 24 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 107 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 63 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 47 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 42 34 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 38 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 37 7 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 37 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 10 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
because of the inability to supply the troops after they should cross. Gen. Sumner, with his command, arrived here in advance. He sent to me, asking if he shoion was, if the stores and those bridges had come here, as I expected, to throw Sumner's whole corps across the Rappahannock Fill the wagons with as many small stores against it. I returned to my headquarters, and after conversation with Gen. Sumner, told him that I wanted him to order the 9th army corps, which was the corpsth them they would not be able to fire upon us to any great extent. I left General Sumner with that understanding, and directed him to give the order. The orderwas formed. On the next morning, just before the column was to have started Gen. Sumner came up to me and said, "General, I hope you will desist from this attack. and I think it will prove disastrous to the army." Advice of that kind from Gen. Sumner, who has always been in favor of our advance whenever it is possible, caused
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still Later from the North. (search)
t the "nonarrival of the pontoons at the time he expected prevented his crossing at the time he expected to cross, and interfered with the success of his plan." Gen. Sumner swears that he "could have taken Fredericksburg and the heights on the other side of it at any time within three days after his arrival if the pontoons had been there," Gen. Sumner adds that the army was "demoralized" in consequence of the battle, and that "there was a great deal too much croaking and not sufficient confidence" Gen. Franklin testifies that if the pontoons had been ready at the time of the arrival of the army the troops "would have immediately crossed the driving the enid had the enemy chosen to prevent is, General Hooker deposes, that Hallock, or Meigs, promised to have the pontoons down and everything ready in three days. When Sumner arrived there were only five hundred rebels at Fredericksburg; "but," he adds " the same mishap was made there that had been made all along through the war"