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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 4: Five Forks. (search)
ed action with the other corps in the line for general assault. And finally, we were in no more advantageous position now than we should have been if we had turned the Claiborne flank of the enemy's entrenchments, and cut the Southside Road at Sutherland's the day before. The right of the enemy's entrenchments on the Claiborne Road after they were driven in on the afternoon of March 31st was by no means strongly held. Testimony of General Hunton, Warren Court Records, p. 629. Indeed, the very first thing we did the next morning after Five Forks was to move back to turn this same flank on the Claiborne Road and gain possession of Sutherland's. But Miles had taken care of this, as we might have done before him. Only Lee had now got a day's start of us, the head of his column well out on its retreat, necessitated not by Five Forks alone but by gallant work along our whole confronting line,--which might have been done the day before, and saved the long task of racing day and night, of
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 5: the week of flying fights. (search)
emplated movement on the Claiborne flank and Sutherland's, having apprised General Meade of his intery respectable company of Confederates about Sutherland's as if they were not fit for their seeing. enemy could at the time have been crushed at Sutherland's depot. I returned to Five Forks, and marc Sheridan give Miles permission to attack at Sutherland's? And why, if the smashing up of the rebel he afternoon, have come within two miles of Sutherland's and of Miles fighting, on the Cox Road wesr as a direct participator in the victory at Sutherland's. He allows Badeau to speak to this effect. the Southside Railroad, within two miles of Sutherland's, and was tearing up the rails there. Our ears to have had no difficulty in getting by Sutherland's at that hour. I was now directed to ads and protect that flank which looked toward Sutherland's, and advanced briskly upon the opposing liof a branch of Hatcher's Run a mile short of Sutherland's. Here my command was held in line and on t[1 more...]
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 7: the return of the Army. (search)
e in electrical metaphysics denominates the fourth dimension. We were kept very busy. Even the relief of duty from Sutherland's to Petersburg left us seventeen miles to care for, and enlarging duties. Our numbers were increasing rapidly. Not o to their regiments but eighteen hundred convalescents and recruits belonging to the Fifth Corps reported themselves at Sutherland's to be cared for there and thence distributed to their proper commands. The troops and garrisons at City Point were a headquarters train, the Second Division, the artillery, and the ambulances and general train. By night we had reached Sutherland's, seventeen miles from my left to my right, and the whole corps was massed. At six o'clock on the 3d the corps took unth before we had forced back Fitzhugh Lee and caught the last train out of Petersburg under Confederate auspices; then Sutherland's, ten miles farther, which we were so strangely prevented from making our own on the 31st of March, and where the gall