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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 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The last conflicts in the Shenandoah (search)
homes. Sheridan's operations were characterized not so much, as has been supposed, by any originality of method, as by a just appreciation of the proper manner of combining the two arms of infantry and cavalry. He constantly used his powerful body of horse, which under his disciplined hand attained a high degree of perfection, as an impenetrable mask behind which he screened the execution of maneuvers of infantry columns hurled with a mighty momentum on one of the enemy's flanks.--William Swinton, in Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. On July 12, 1864, in the streets of Washington, there could be distinctly heard the boom of cannon and the sharp firing of musketry. The excitement in the city was intense. The old specter threaten Washington, that for three years had been a standing menace to the Federal authorities and a very present help to the Confederates, now seemed to have come in the flesh. The hopes of the South and the fears of the North were apparently about to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The relative strength of the armies of Generals Lee and Grant. (search)
some time. This state of facts may account for General Badeau's mistake, as it can be explained on no other hypothesis. Neither Stanton nor Grant have given any estimate of the loss of the army of the latter in this memorable campaign, but Mr. Swinton, who was a regular correspondent of a New York paper, in constant attendance with the Army of the Potomac, and who has published a history of the campaigns of that army, says, on pages 491-92 of his book: Grant's loss in the series of acme; but I have a printed copy of a letter written to the New York Tribune in June, 1867, which gives statements taken from the returns of the Confederate armies on file in said Archive office, which letter is understood to have been written by Mr. Swinton, the author of The Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. I send that copy to you, in order that you may verify, by an examination of it, all my statements; and, if I appear a little prolix and tedious, I beg you to be patient, as I desire to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Lee's final and full report of the Pennsylvania campaign and battle of Gettysburg. (search)
there is a copy of General Lee's report of the Pennsylvania campaign and the battle of Gettysburg. This report was furnished to the Historical magazine by Mr. William Swinton, who says that it chanced to be on the person of one of General Lee's staff-officers at the time of the destruction of his headquarters papers on the retreainformed by him that he had received a copy of the report as published, and he said that the report was substantially correct, though he was at a loss as to how Mr. Swinton got possession of it. He stated that the report as prepared for the Adjutant-General at Richmond was with his other papers in the headquarters wagons on the ret to be with some of his own papers which he had with him on the retreat and at the time of the surrender, and thus escaped destruction; and that he loaned it to Mr. Swinton shortly after the close of the war, who, he supposed, copied it while in his possession, and was thus enabled to furnish the copy to the Historical magazine.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
(October 4th, 1867), to Colonel C. A. White; Swinton, Army of the Potomac, p. 413. Despite these on despair refused longer to obey his orders. Swinton, Army of the Potomac, p. 487; Draper, vol. It Cold Harbor, which was but a few hundreds. Swinton (p. 494) says that the Army of the Potomac loons the Executive had in consequence come. Swinton, p. 495, note. But, alas! the success elsewhf the Potomac, was left in like ignorance, Swinton, pp. 499 and 503-506. and General Grant, hurruld ride over them --a representation, says Mr. Swinton archly, not justified by his experience, anmy confess to a loss of more than 10,000 men Swinton, Army of the Potomac, p. 514.--a fact which aenvelop the right flank of the Confederates. Swinton, Army of the Potomac, p. 512. Action of t of Southern Historical Society, April, 1875. Swinton (A. P., p. 539.) puts the Federal loss above of the James. Nor was Hill on the field, as Swinton and Childe represent. Both largely overstate[9 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
3-34), would be compelled to admit the overwhelming proofs of the genuiness of this report. We have only space to repeat them very briefly : 1. The report was originally published in 1869--nearly two years before General Lee's death — by Mr. Wm. Swinton (author of the Army of the Potomac ) in the february number of the Historical Magazine, New York. 2. In April, 1869, General Lee told General Early that he had received the published copy of the report and that it was substantially correct. 3. Colonel Charles Marshall, General Lee's Military Secretary, stated that he had lent Mr. Swinton the original rough draft of the report from which a copy had been made for General Lee, and which was the same as that published in the Historical Magazine. 4. The copy from which we printed was a Ms. found among the papers of Michael Kelly, who was a clerk in General Cooper's office, and was identical with the copy printed in the Historical Magazine (and afterwards reprinted in the South
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Williamsburg and the charge of the Twenty-fourth Virginia of Early's brigade. (search)
gade by a real charge with the bayonet, and this statement is again and again repeated, until Mr. Swinton, generally accurate, amplifies upon it thus: A few of the enemy who approached nearest the fort were bayoneted --[Army of the Potomac, Swinton, page 116]--and he adds a note: This is official. Rather a doubtful verification, seeing the exceeding great difference in those days between facts giving back and retreating (some by orders and some without), or even feigning to retreat, as Mr. Swinton says (page 116), should have held their ground, and when the venturesome regiment came up; qu them a taste of cold steel. But so in fact it was. And in answer to General McClellan and Mr. Swinton and others, the writer hereof, who led the charge of those who approached nearest the fort ; harge made by them, therefore, must have been after the Twenty-fourth had retired; and if, as Mr. Swinton says, any of those who approached nearest the fort were bayoneted, it must have been after th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Facts connected with the concentration of the army of the Mississippi before Shiloh, April, 1862. (search)
eneral Beauregard repeated what he had said to me. General Johnston remarked that this would never do, and proceeded to assign reasons for that opinion. He then asked what I thought of it. I replied that my troops were in as good condition as they had ever been; that they were eager for battle; that to retire now would operate injuriously upon them, and that I thought we ought to attack. This conversation is the substance of the council of war about which so much has been written by Swinton and others. We believe it is the only official record of it left by a participant. W. M. P. In all that I have said as to the delay I do not wish to be understood as casting blame upon any of the commands preceding General Polk. They and their commanders did their best in the march, as in the battle. General Beauregard, in his official report, tells the story when he says: It was expected we should be able to reach the enemy's lines in time to attack him on the 5th instant. The men,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battery Gregg-reply to General N. H. Harris. (search)
ogether for that purpose, they are forced to appear in print, to have recourse to the newspapers and periodicals. I prepared and sent to the Southern Historical Society for publication, a brief outline of such military operations, as I had knowledge of, that occurred in the vicinity of Petersburg during several days preceding the evacuation of that town and Richmond. The defence of Battery Gregg was included in that brief narrative, inaccurate accounts of which I had read in history, Swinton's Army of the Potomac. biography, Cooke's Life of General Lee. and newspapers. Vicksburg Times. And as I wrote to correct, in part, the misstatements of others, it was my purpose to be as accurate as the information I had, as to what I was relating, would permit. I had near me at the time my own report of the incidents referred to, and if I was mistaken in any details given, it would give me much pleasure to have them pointed out, to the end that they be corrected, for I would regret
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Longstreet's division. (search)
as been the reason assigned. The compliment is entirely unmerited. The odds against the Confederates in numbers were often two to one, face to face on the field, after all generalship was at its end, and the issue left to equipment, discipline and pluck. In equipment the odds are conceded by all to have been enormously in the enemy's favor, and in discipline they were unfortunately heavy on the same side. The most condensed evidence upon this subject comes from a Northern source. Mr. William Swinton, in his excellent History of the army of the Potomac, after a full account of General McClellan's remarkable efforts and success in organizing and disciplining his army, says on page 67: Had there been no McClellan, I have often heard General Meade say, there could have been no Grant, for the army made no essential improvement under any of his successors. It was common throughout the war to ascribe a high degree of discipline to the Confederate army, even higher than that of the Arm
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Swinton, William 1833-1892 (search)
Swinton, William 1833-1892 Author; born in Salton, Scotland, April 23, 1833; studied at Amherst College; was on the editorial staff of the New York Times for several years, and during most of the Civil War was war correspondent for that paper; was Professor of Belles-Lettres in the University of California in 1869-74. His publications include The times's review of McClellan: his military career reviewed and exposed; Campaigns of the army of the Potomac: a critical history of operations in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; The twelve decisive battles of the War: a history of the Eastern and Western campaigns in relation to the actions that decided their issue; and History of the New York 7th Regiment during the War of the rebellion. He died in New York City, Oct. 24, 1892.
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