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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Review of the Pennsylvania campaign. (search)
ont to his left, and attacked most furiously on their flanks the enemy who were posted on the right behind a stone wall, and on the left behind a breastwork of rails. The enemy were soon put to flight, and rapidly retired through the town to Cemetery hill. The retirement of the enemy caused the artillery on the left to limber up and move rapidly to the rear. Much of this artillery would have been captured, but the two left regiments met a second force of the enemy posted behind a stone fencedriving the enemy through and beyond the town of Gettysburg. The troops of this division which had been sent into town to gather up prisoners were now withdrawn, and the whole division was formed in line along the ridge opposite the town and Cemetery Hill, the left resting on the Fairfield road.--And thus ended the first day's fight at Gettysburg — the most successful to the Southern cause, by far, of the three day's carnival of blood, which will ever make memorable the time, the place, and th
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Pennsylvania campaign--second day at Gettysburg. (search)
the enemy's left. The enemy having been driven back by the corps of Lieuts Gen Ewell and Hill on the first day, had taken up a strong position extending from Cemetery hill along the Emmittsburg road. On account of the difficulty of finding a route by which the movement could be made without being observed, McLaws did not get intevery precaution taken to ensure success. Andrews's battalion of artillery, under Major Latimer, was placed in position on a hill, from which the batteries on Cemetery Hill, fronting the scene of the first day's fight, were taken in reverse, and two 25 pounder Parrott guns, belonging to the reserve artillery of the corps, were plaich they had been posted, and whilst crossing the creek they were much annoyed by the fire to which they were subjected from the enemy's artillery, which, from Cemetery hill, poured nearly an enfilade fire upon them. The creek was wide, and its banks steep, so that our men had to break ranks in order to cross it. Having passed the
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Nicholl's Louisiana Brigade. (search)
Nicholl's Louisiana Brigade. --A letter from Colonel J. M. Williams, of the 2d Louisiana regiment, referring to Nicholls's brigade, which he commanded, and some remarks made relative to it in our correspondent's review of the battle of Gettysburg, says: "This brigade never fell back, or 'retired a short distance to conform to Jones's brigade.' We were not repulsed, but only checked, and held our advanced position for eighteen or twenty hours, until ordered by Major Gen. Johnson to withdraw. Troops never fought better, nor with more determined valor, than did this gallant little band of Louisianians in storming the heights of Cemetery Hill."
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars reward. (search)
xander's, Dearing's, Cabell's and Henry's battalions, and the Washington artillery,) and part of the artillery of the second corps, the whole under the command of that skillful and accomplished artillerist, then Colonel, now General E P Alexander, were placed in position with all the guns bearing upon the enemy's left. Our artillery was massed on the summit of a long, high ridge, about one mile from but parralel to, the enemy, who were pasted on a like ridge, with his right rest ting on Cemetery Hill, and his left on an elevation that rose to the proportions of a mountain. The two lines of battle were distant about a mile, the intervening space being a plain covered with fields of tall grass and waving grain. This occupied the morning, and save some picket firing and desultory artillery skirmishing, nothing transpired until about two o'clock, when at a concerted signal our guns opened their murderous fire of shot and shell upon the enemy's position. The guns of the enemy on th
The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
o subdue the flames. A block of four brick stores was also wantonly destroyed by skulking stragglers, who are always in the rear when there is an opportunity to plunder and pillage private dwellings, but forever absent from the front when the musketry rattles. All the barracks were laid in ashes, and a black veil of dense smoke hung over the war-desolated city nearly all day, arising from the smouldering ruins. A few of the enemy's cavalry scouts hove in sight south of Coosa river, on Cemetery Hill, just as our rear guard was withdrawing, evidently for the purpose of watching our movements. A few shots were exchanged, but the river intervening, prevented the following up our rear guard to harass our operations. We strike tents at four o'clock to-morrow morning, and will march direct for Altoona, twenty-one miles distant, where we will encamp for the night, resuming our march as far as Marietta on the following day. Another draft in New York. Provost-Marshal-General Fry
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
main line, where the movement could not be witnessed. Third. Brigadier-General Ferrero, for want of readiness for the assault, not going with his troops, but remaining in a bomb-proof. Fourth. Colonel J. K. Bliss, of the Seventh Rhode Island, commanding a brigade, in remaining behind with one regiment, in a position where he could not see what was going on. Fifth. Brigadier-General Wilcox, in lack of energy in carrying out General Burnside's order to push his troops forward to Cemetery Hill. The court concludes the opinion as follows: "Without intending to convey the impression that there was any disinclination on the part of the commanders of the troops to heartily co-operate in the attack on the 30th of July, the court express their opinion that explicit orders should have been given assigning one officer to the command of all the troops intended to engage in the assault when the commanding general was not present in person to witness the operations." Lincoln Tak
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], Death of John M. Daniel. (search)
he whole of the fighting was done. Reaching our abatis, the enemy poured in a terrific volley, while their pioneers, under a heavy return fire, cut it away — that is, they made many large gaps in it, sufficient in size and number for the easy of large bodies of troops. It was but the work of a few minutes for them to force our main line, which they did, making a breach at a point not far to the left of Fort Steadman. The same is located on a rise of ground nearly opposite to Cemetery hill. Breaking through on the left of this work, the enemy passed round to a traveled road, and captured the fort by charging from the rear through the regular entrance. So rapidly was this accomplished that the officer in command of the fort, Major Randall, together with General McLaughlin, and a number of men, were taken prisoners. Immediately succeeding the attack, General McLaughlin, who had command of the line just to the left of where it was forced, hurried into Fort Steadman, an
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