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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 3.25 (search)
crossing the former at Chancellorsville, became the Plank road, bent to the left and united with the turnpike pike roads, Slocum and Howard on the right along the Plank road, the left to be near Banks's Ford by 2 P. M., t to see the general. In the meantime Slocum, on the Plank road to my right, had been ordered in, and the enemymusketry was fired into us from the direction of the Plank road. This was the beginning of the battle of Chancs front, particularly that section of it between the Plank road and turnpike. Sedgwick, the previous night, ha from Fredericksburg to that point diverged from the Plank road two miles to the left of Chancellorsville, and ew line for Stampede of the Eleventh Corps on the Plank road. his right flank perpendicular to the old one day evening, May 2, with artillery placed across the Plank road. From a War-time sketch. At about 5 A. M.ack along his intrenched line to the junction of the Plank road and the turnpike, when a cannon-shot struck the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The successes and failures of Chancellorsville. (search)
through; but the lane had a turn, and we got to it at last when we reached the Plank road and struck Rodes's division right in the front. We struck it as wave stri on the other side the survivors of the leading squadrons were galloping in the Plank road, the others breaking over the Confederate skirmish lines as far back as I ee into the woods. By instinct I turned toward the woods on the right of the Plank road as the best way out, and made a dash at the lines, which had just recovere cannon; when the volley was over I jumped up and ran as fast as before. The Plank road, and the woods that bordered it, presented a scene of terror and confusiond them to get one, but before I could succeed a shell from the direction of the Plank road struck the tree, exploded the ammunition, and slaughtered the mules. I I got in safely with my arms, while he was never seen again. I turned into the Plank road to join the very bad company that came pouring in by that route. More tha
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 3.27 (search)
ess otherwise ordered. We rode through the wood toward the Plank road; there was no unusual stir or excitement among the menrs being in their scabbards. When we arrived almost at the Plank road, we discovered that we had ridden right into the enemy, the Plank road in our front being occupied by them in great force, and that we were completely surrounded, the woods at tha of the regiment when we left Hazel Grove. On reaching the Plank road it appeared to be packed about as closely with the enedrawing nearer. The charge of the regiment was made on the Plank road, about three-quarters of a mile from where Pleasonton ng thousands of them in an instant. After we reached the Plank road we were in columns of fours and on the dead run, and wg to the Third Corps, left in the cross-road leading to the Plank road, when that corps went out to the Furnace to attack Jacrate brigade. Boston, October 14th, 1886. Race on the Plank road for right of way, between the Ninth Massachusetts Batt
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville. (search)
nd encamped them there. Then I rode along the Plank road through the almost continuous forest to tcover the last three-quarters of a mile of the Plank road. This was done by a brigade of General Scated. He had but two brigades, Barlow on the Plank road and Buschbeck on his right. With them Stft Steinwehr's three-quarters of a mile of the Plank road. Thus he relieved from the front line Banting Run, the corps abandoning so much of the Plank road as to enable it to establish a solid lineained glimpses of a moving column crossing the Plank road and apparently making off. I sent out sco 2. Relics of the dead in the woods near the Plank road. 3. The Plank road near where Jackson Plank road near where Jackson fell. from photographs taken in 1864. the reserve artillery fairly. Dilger, the battery commanr on Schurz's left, rolled the balls along the Plank road and shelled the wood. General Steinwehr ilger with his battery sturdily kept along the Plank road, firing constantly as he retired. The Co[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Stonewall Jackson's last battle. (search)
, they reached Anderson's position, confronting Hooker's advance from Chancellorsville, near the Tabernacle Church on the Plank road. To meet the whole Army of the Potomac, under Hooker, General Lee had of all arms about 60,000 men. General Longstrnd what cheers rolled along its length, when Jackson, and then Lee himself, appeared riding abreast of the line along the Plank road! Slowly but steadily the line advanced, until at night-fall all Federal pickets and skirmishers were driven back upof the road, and another upon the left. A few moments farther on I met Captain Stonewall Jackson going forward on the Plank road in advance of his line of battle. Murray Taylor, an aide of A. P. Hill's, with tidings that Jackson and Hill weed while standing on the porch. The picture faces south; Jackson attacked the Eleventh Corps from the left (west) by the Plank road, which passes in front of tie Chancellor House. The cross-road in the foreground leads northward to Ely's Ford and
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Hooker's comments on Chancellorsville. (search)
change of front. The matter was largely discussed at your headquarters, and I entertained and expressed in our informal conversations the opinion that we should form upon the open ground we then occupied, with our front at right angles with the Plank road, lining the church grove and the border of the woods east of the open plain with infantry, placing strong échelons behind both wings, and distributing the artillery along the front on ground most favorable for its action, especially on the eChancellorsville House, and, besides, enfilade the line held by the Second and Twelfth corps nearly its entire length. Soon after these instructions were given to the engineers, peremptory orders were sent to General Sedgwick to advance over the Plank road from Fredericksburg and attack the enemy in front of the Second and Twelfth corps at daylight. My single object in holding on to the position as long as I did was to hear Sedgwick's guns, which I momentarily expected, of course. General Wa
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Sedgwick at Fredericksburg and Salem Heights. (search)
exhibited to view the broad plateau alive with fleeing soldiers, riderless horses, and artillery and wagon trains on a gallop. The writer hurried back to Sedgwick, who was giving directions for Brooks and Howe to come up, and suggested that it was a rare opportunity for the use of cavalry. With evident regret Sedgwick replied that he did not have a cavalryman. The carrying of the heights had completely divided the enemy's Salem Church. From a recent photograph. The view is from the Plank road. On the left is what remains of the Confederate trenches. The bricks on the four sides of the church are spotted with bullet-marks, and especially on the line of the upper windows toward the road, showing that many Union soldiers aimed high. This church was a refuge for many Fredericksburg families during Burnside's battle.--editors. forces, throwing either flank with much confusion on opposite roads, and it seemed as though a regiment of cavalry might not only have captured many pr
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. (search)
idly across the country and follow Hill on the Plank road. Ewell's corps was the first to find itsed his position to General Lee, who was on the Plank road with Hill. Ewell was instructed to regull's advance struck the Federal outposts on the Plank road at Parker's store, on the outskirts of th in a little clearing on the north side of the Plank road, in rear of the Confederate infantry. Buut it was already daylight when he reached the Plank road at Parker's store, three miles in rear ofom the right and retired in disorder along the Plank road as far as the position of Poague's artilleft wing was rolled up in confusion toward the Plank road and then back upon the Brock road. Thinkins's fresh brigade was moved forward on the Plank road to renew the attack, supported by Kershawl on the Old turnpike and by A. P. Hill on the Plank road, on the 5th of May, were entirely distinc's column a crushing blow where it crossed the Plank road, in order to force it from its route and [2 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Through the Wilderness. (search)
bbon's division supporting, on the left of the Plank road, and soon drove his opponents from their left. Hancock himself was looking out for the Plank road. Warren's Fifth Corps, in front of Eweock by passing up between the turnpike and the Plank road to Relative positions in the Wildernes Webb, of Gibbon, fought on, and north of, the Plank road, while his other two brigades, Owen and C whole line, which had been driven back to the Plank road, forward to its original line, holding Fiad, and quickly advanced on either side of the Plank road. By 8 o'clock the fighting had become covision of Wadsworth, being on the right of the Plank road, was the last to feel this influence; but9th Maine, under Colonel Selden Connor, on the Plank road. Another regiment also staid with me to hold the Plank road and to deceive the Confederates, by fighting as though they had a continuous lithe 9th Burnside's corps moved across from the Plank road to the Fredericksburg road at the crossin[14 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., General Lee in the Wilderness campaign. (search)
uperiority in numbers in every arm of the service gave him. On the 5th Ewell marched on the old turnpike, and Hill on the Plank road, and the cavalry on a road still farther to the right into the Wilderness. Lee rode with Hill at the head of his coore and moved with the advance to the field on the edge of the forest which became the scene of the great conflict on the Plank road. Riding on in advance of the troops, the party, consisting of Generals Lee, Hill, and Stuart and their staff-office and the ease of concealing movements in the Wilderness. Hill's troops were soon up and in line, and then began on the Plank road a fierce struggle, nearly simultaneously with that of Ewell's forces on the old turnpike. Thus was inaugurated a coh of Longstreet's two divisions. These came soon, a little after sunrise, at double-quick, in parallel columns, down the Plank road. Lee was in the midst of Hill's sullenly retreating troops, aiding in rallying them, and restoring confidence and o
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