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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Field telegrams from Headquarters A. N. V. (search)
inued from our June no.] Clay's House, 3:30 P. M., 17th June, 1864. Major-General W. H. F. Lee, Malvern Hill via Meadow Station: Push after the enemy and endeavor to ascertain what has become of Grant's army. Inform General Hill. R. E. Lee. Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill, Riddel's Shop via Meadow Station, Y. R. R. R'd: As soon as you can ascertain that Grant has crossed James river move up to Chaffin's Bluff, and be prepared to cross. R. E. Lee. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 4:30 P. M., 17th June, 1864. Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill, Riddel's Shop via Meadow Station: General Beauregard reports large number of Grant's troops crossed James river above Fort Powhatan yesterday. If E. Lee, General. Headquarters Drewry's Bluff, 10 P. M., 17th June, 1864. Lieutenant-General Hill, Riddle's Shop via Meadow Station, Y. R. R. R'd: Move your command promptly at 3 A. M. to-morrow for Chffin's Bluff. Cross the river and move to t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, moved two hours later. Colonel Spear was directed to arrive at Bottom's Bridge, twelve miles this side of Richmond, by 3 A. M. of the 7th, surprise it, and move on rapidly to Richmond. A picked company under Captain Hill, First New York Mounted Rifles, with selected horses, was placed in advance to ride down the three pickets — at New Kent, Baltimore Cross-Roads, and at the bridge. Arrangements had been previously made to have the telegraph wire between Meadow Station and Richmond cut between dark and midnight of the 6th. By these means it was hoped to surprise the enemy's Battery No. 2, on the Bottom's Bridge road near Richmond, and occupy Capitol Square in that city for at least two or three hours; detachments previously detailed and carefully instructed breaking successively from the main column, on entering, for various specific purposes. Of course the success of the enterprise was based upon the sudden and noiseless surprise of the strong picke
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 62 (search)
, induced the enemy to renew operations in Northern Mississippi and Western Tennessee. A force of some five thousand or six thousand men was sent to attack Bolivar and Jackson, Tennessee, and by destroying the railroad to cut off all connection between Memphis and Corinth. The head of the enemy's column was met about four miles south of Bolivar on the thirtieth of August, and a brisk skirmish ensued. On the thirty-first, a portion of the enemy's forces was engaged and repulsed near Meadow Station. On the first of September the fight was renewed at Britton's Lane, on the Denmark road, and continued till night, when the enemy retreated south, across the Hatchie, leaving one hundred and seventy-nine dead and wounded on the field. Our loss was five killed, seventy-eight wounded, and ninety-two prisoners and missing. In the early part of October, General Price advanced with a large force and took possession of Iuka, a small town on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, twenty-one
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Field telegrams. (search)
Tenth corps. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 3.30 P. M., 17th June, 1864. Major-General W. H. F. Lee, Malvern Hill, via Meadow Station: Push after enemy, and endeavor to ascertain what has become of Grant's army. Inform General Hill. R. E. Lee. Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill, Riddel's Shop, via Meadow Station, Y. R. R. R.: As soon as you can ascertain that Grant has crossed James river, move up to Chaffin's Bluff, and be prepared to cross. R. E. Lee. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 4.30 P. M., 17th June, 1864. General G. T. Beauregard, Petersburg, Virginia: Have no information of Grant's 's Bluff. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 4.30 P. M., 17th June, 1864. Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill, Riddel's Shop, via Meadow Station: General Beauregard reports large number of Grant's troops crossed James river above Fort Powhatan yesterday. If you have nothing contradictory of this, m
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Field telegrams from around Petersburg. (search)
eneral G. T. Beauregard, Petersburg, Virginia: General Kershaw's division, which will camp to-night on Redwater Creek, is ordered to continue its march to-morrow to Petersburg. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Superintendent Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, Richmond, Virginia: Please notify me when railroad is again in running order. R. E. Lee, General. headquarters Drewry's Bluff, 10 P. M., 17th June, 1864. Lieutenant-General Hill, Riddle's Shop via Meadow Station, Y. R. R. R.: Move your command promptly at 3 A. M. to-morrow for Chaffin's Bluff. Cross the river and move to the Petersburg turnpike; there await further orders. Send to examine about bridges. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, June 18th, 1864. General Wade Hampton, Vernon Church via Hanover Junction . If Sheridan escapes you and gets to his transports at the White House you must lose no time in moving your command t
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
wounded of the Federal army, including some officers, attended by their own surgeons. Most of these individuals are in hospital tents, though some are lying under the trees, in the barns, and even in the poultry-houses. The ice house is well packed with excellent ice, which it would be well enough to have removed to Richmond. It was very near this place that a severe engagement occurred on Sunday last, and many dead Yankees are rotting unburied on the field. Another hospital, at Meadow Station, some two or three miles below, is filled with the sick of the enemy. Two Massachusetts negroes were found here, and have been brought to Richmond. To facilitate their operations, the Yankees had constructed turn outs at different points on the railroad, and a considerable quantity of timber for cross-ties, scattered through the forest, makes it appear that other improvements were in contemplation. Throwing Shells. Our railway battery threw several shell over into this nei
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Retaliation for Northern Outrages. (search)
bels we catch." The miscreants were immediately afterward captured by a squad of our cavalry, and were yesterday brought to the city in company with a negro owned by Capt. White. We are surprised, that summary punishment was not inflicted upon them on the spot. Admissions of prisoners. Among the prisoners is a member of a Massachusetts regiment, who remained behind when the Grand Army took its fright, with the praise worthy purpose of nursing the sick Yankees in the hospital at Meadow Station, on the York River Railroad. He seemed very desirous of entering into conversation with a party of gentlemen who visited that place a day or two since, and his loquacity proved him to be something of a Sir Oracle among his fellows. Great was his astonishment, according to his own account, to find the spirit of "Secesh" so rampant in Virginia; he had been led to believe that a vast majority of the people were anxious to return to their allegiance, and were only waiting for McClellan's a
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ine that plying the spade on such a sweltering day as yesterday is no child's play; and that such an occupation will steadily increase the enemy's morality list there can be no doubt. Grave digging on an extensive scale will be added to their other labors, and in all their joyous anticipations of pleasant summer recreations in and around the metropolis, the luckless Yankees are doomed to a woeful disappointment. A few days ago some gentlemen were conversing with a youth and prisoner at Meadow Station, when he commenced cursing very bitterly about the amount of labor imposed upon the Federal soldiers by McClellan. "Why," said he, "they set me to work digging a ditch, which used me up in a hurry, and I trusted." "You what?" asked a bystander. "Oh, I hadn't been used to that sort of work, and I tuckered out." Farther inquiry revealed the fact that this is a Yankee phrase to express excessive fatigue — an orthographical invention eminently worthy of a people who produced the euphonious
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rson on the centre. Respectfully, &c., R. E. Lee, General There was some skirmishing on the lines yesterday, but nothing of any importance occurred Grant is evidently too busily engaged in his strategic movements for a change of position to risk the consequences of "building" against our works again just the present. A reconnaissance over the York River Railroad yesterday developed the enemy in one force at the lower end of the trestle work over the Chickahominy beyond Meadow Station. They have constructed a mask of bushes to conceal their movements, and whether they are planting a battery on the road, or proceeding on down the Chickahominy, is not known. The latest intelligence from the front represents that Grant is still moving toward our right, and the impression still prevails that he is endeavoring to make his way to times river. Affairs at Bottom's Bridge continue quiet, nothing having occurred yesterday save the occasional throwing of a shell from