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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., A hot day on Marye's Heights. (search)
r nine guns were placed as follows: Two 12-pounder howitzers and two 12-pounder light Napoleon guns of the 4th Company, under Captain Eshleman and Lieutenants Norcom and Battles, were put in the work on the extreme right of the line next to the Telegraph road; two 12-pounder Napoleon guns of the 3d Company, under Captain Miller and Lieutenant McElroy, in the center; two 3-inch rifle-guns of the 1st Company, under Captain Squires and Lieutenant Brown, on the left, next to a little brick-house ane Welford graveyard, and one 10-pounder Parrott rifle, under Lieutenant Galbraith, of the 1st Company, next to the Plank road leading into Fredericksburg. The 2d Company, under Captain Richardson, with four Napoleon guns, moved on across the Telegraph road to the right, and reported as ordered to General Pickett for service with his troops. Without delay the men made the redoubts as snug as possible, and finding the epaulements not to their liking, went to work with pick and shovel throwing
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 2.15 (search)
on the right, which Fredericksburg from the east bank of the Rappahannock — Ii. was Hanover street, running into the Telegraph road, and both leading direct to Marye's Hill, the stronghold of the enemy. On the outskirts of the town the troops enver which they were to charge. This plain was obstructed here and there by houses and fences, notably at a fork of the Telegraph road, in the narrow angles of which was a cluster of houses and gardens; and also on the parallel road just south of itGeneral Humphreys's first assault was made, and the head of his column reached the bridge crossing the mill-race on the Telegraph road, only after the last charge made by General Humphreys had been repulsed. General Sykes's First and Second Brigaderees of the hill in the middle-background. The road on the right is the end of Hanover street and the beginning of the Telegraph road, by which most of the attacking troops crossed the canal, or ditch, and, filing to the left, formed line under the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Sedgwick at Fredericksburg and Salem Heights. (search)
clock. Sedgwick and Newton with the deepest interest watched the attack from. the garden of a brick residence situated on the outskirts of the town and to the left The capture of a gun of the Washington artillery, on Marye's Heights. of the Telegraph road, which commanded a full view of the assault. The movements of the enemy showed that they were actively preparing to receive the attack, but the men behind the stone wall were concealed from view. As the left column emerged from the town The suspense was intense. Was it to be a victory or a defeat? Was the place a second time to be a slaughter-pen? Was the Sixth Corps to be driven into the river? Staff-officers, waving their swords and hurrahing to the men, dashed down the Telegraph road. A blinding rain of shot pierced the air. It was more than human nature could face. The head of the column as it reached the lowest part of the decline near a fork in the road seemed to melt away. Many fell; others bending low to the ea
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. (search)
st Ewell's corps moved from the left to the right of our line, and later on the same day it was pushed southward on the Telegraph road, closely followed by Longstreet's corps. Swinton and others state that.Longstreet moved on the night of the 20trush with the Sixth Corps, which was in the act of retiring from its lines. Lee had the inside track this time, as the Telegraph road on which he moved was the direct route, while Grant had to swing round on the arc of a circle of which this was thps crossed the river that afternoon without opposition at Jericho Ford, four miles above the Chesterfield bridge on the Telegraph road; but as it moved out from the river it met Cadmus Wilcox's division of Hill's corps, and a severe but indecisive eusual. Meanwhile a small earth-work, that had been built the year before, covering the approaches to the bridge on the Telegraph road and now held by a small detachment from Kershaw's division, was attacked and carried by troops in of Hancock's cor
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 48 (search)
my, about eighteen thousand strong, were on the move to the eastward. The character of the movement of the army from Fort Henry will probably be best understood by the following orders of the night previous: headquarters District of Cairo, Fort Henry, Tenn., Feb. 11, 1862. General field orders, No. 12. The troops designated in General Field Orders, No. 9, will move to-morrow, as speedily as possible, in the following order: One brigade of the first division will move by the Telegraph road directly upon Fort Donelson, halting for further orders at a distance of two miles from the Fort. The other brigades of the first division will move by the Dover Ridge road, and halt at the same distance from the Fort, and throw out troops so as to form a continuous line between the two wings. The two brigades of the second division now at Fort Henry will follow as rapidly as practicable, by the Dover road, and will be followed by the troops from Fort Heiman, as fast as they can b
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Gaines's farm. (search)
est in the morning. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, R. E. Lee, General. Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson's report. headquarters Fifth Texas regiment, June 29, 1862. W. H. Sellers, A. A. General Texas Brigade: Major: I have the honor to report the part taken by my regiment, the Fifth Texas volunteers, in the action of the twenty-seventh June, 1862. I was ordered into the action to support that part of the line immediately in front of the house, which stands near the Telegraph road, and which was used as a hospital. My advance was much impeded by a dense thicket and marsh. Hampton's Legion was upon my left. I reached the line of battle in good order, and found a portion of (I believe) General Ewell's forces maintaining the ground against heavy odds. I opened fire with my regiment, and after firing some thirty minutes it was evident that the fire of the enemy was greatly weakened, and that the time for charging them was near. Having been separated from my
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
regiment, and led the head of the column near the Telegraph road, where the brigade was massed by regiments. hestney, who informed me that he was picketing the Telegraph road, leading to Fredericksburg, and scouting in tBowling Green, by a road running parallel with the Telegraph road, and leading to that place. I then proceedowed this road to a point where it intersected the Telegraph road and Dr. Flippo's house, when I came upon a pahat the enemy were in pretty strong force down the Telegraph road, about three miles. I then proceeded up this e enemy's cavalry were approaching the ford by the Telegraph road. I immediately sent him back with a message from the point where the Ashcake road crossed the Telegraph road. I ordered Lieutenant Smith, of the Black Hoth the balance. of your brigade, proceeded up the Telegraph road, crossed the Chickahominy on the morning of tgade, from our camp on the Brooke turnpike, up the Telegraph road, toward the Chickahominy River. On the follo
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 2 (search)
illery. About noon, it was withdrawn to the Telegraph road, a little in rear of where General Longlieve Jenkins's brigade, on the right of the Telegraph road, which I had now with my own, and the louse, to the support of General Cobb, on the Telegraph road. I moved out, left in front, the Eightn, known as Marye's Hill, extending from the Telegraph road to the plank road. Notwithstanding thehouse and the road leading directly from the Telegraph road to the depot of the Richmond and Frederthe position immediately to the right of the Telegraph road. Next to this battery, one of the thirad, and the other three I stationed near the Telegraph road, within supporting distance, and remain in position on the hill on the right of the Telegraph road, and on the left of Captain Reid's, bateading over the high hill on the left of the Telegraph road, and into the open field behind Marye's Hamilton's Crossing in the direction of the Telegraph road. The regiment several times 'changed p[26 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 3 (search)
e of retreat open. He has ordered another column, of a division or more, to be moved from General Sumner's command up the Plank-road to its intersection with the Telegraph road, where they will divide, with a view to seizing the heights on both those roads. Holding these heights, with the heights near Captain Hamilton's, will, he l Sumner's Orders. He has ordered another column of a division or more to be moved from General Sumner's command up the Plank road to its intersection of the Telegraph road, where they will divide, with a view to seizing the heights on both of those roads. Holding these heights, with the heights near Captain Hamilton's, will, order to me mean, He has ordered another column, of a division or more, to be moved from General Sumner's command up the Plank road to its intersection with the Telegraph road, where they will divide with a view of seizing the heights on both of those roads? Holding these heights with the heights near Captain Hamilton's will, he
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), chapter 4 (search)
think, the only battle I ever fought that I would not fight over again under the circumstances. I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made.--General U. S. Grant in his Memoirs. According to Grant's well-made plans of march, the various corps of the Army of the Potomac set out from the banks of the North Anna on the night of May 26, 1864, at the times and by the routes assigned to them. Early on the morning of May 27th Lee set his force in motion by the Telegraph road and such others as were available, across the Little and South Anna rivers toward Ashland and Atlee's Station on the Virginia Central Railroad. Thus the armies were stretched like two live wires along the swampy bottom-lands of eastern Virginia, and as they came in contact, here and there along the line, there were the inevitable sputterings of flame and considerable destruction wrought. The advance Federal infantry crossed the Pamunkey, after the cavalry, at Hanoverstown, early o
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