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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 3: a cavalry officer of the army of the United States. (search)
On that Sunday afternoon, October 16, 1859, when John Brown with a small force marched into Harper's Ferry with the avowed purpose of liberating slaves and inaugurating war between the whites and blaroved by New England supporters who lost their money while Brown lost his life. Lee went to Harper's Ferry. The marines, under their gallant officers, battered down the door of the engine-house intoed, tried, convicted, and hung on the 2d of December, 1859. Lieutenant-Colonel Lee, from Harper's Ferry, December 1, 1859, says in a letter to his wife: I arrived here yesterday, about noon, with is State, and everywhere volunteers tendered their service. When Colonel Lee was ordered to Harper's Ferry, J. E. B. Stuart, a young lieutenant of the First Cavalry, was in Washington on leave of absAfterward he became the great cavalry chieftain of the Army Lee commanded. The prisoners at Harper's Ferry were at once turned over to the United States District Attorney, Mr. Robert Ould, and Lee re
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 5: invasion of Virginia. (search)
the State was by crossing the upper Potomac at Harper's Ferry and Williamsport, and then on through the greatossessed the entire confidence of his army. Harper's Ferry received also the prompt attention of the Confend equipping the army whose objective point was Harper's Ferry, at that time occupied by a small number of the, one via Frederick, Md., across the Potomac at Harper's Ferry, the other by Hagerstown, Md., crossing at Willbecause it was a flank movement on his enemy at Harper's Ferry, who could present no obstacle to a successful and men. On that day General Johnston evacuated Harper's Ferry, and two days later, with a force of sixty-fivey the reports received, he would have evacuated Harper's Ferry at once upon the passage of the Potomac by Patterson. Harper's Ferry was not a defensible point. It was a cul-de-sac commanded thoroughly by Maryland Heighon of enlistments; Banks, his successor, had at Harper's Ferry about six thousand men and was fearing an attac
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 9: Second battle of Manassas. (search)
supply trains. He knew his enemy occupied Harper's Ferry in large force, and Martinsburg in his reaered from both Generals Lee and McClellan. Harper's Ferry was in his opinion the key to the upper dosufficient troops from his army to capture Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg, and bring them back in tiwas evacuated on his approach; and then to Harper's Ferry, which he reached on the 13th. McLaws, wi was instructed to cross the Potomac below Harper's Ferry and seize the Loudoun heights in Virginia.successfully accomplished, and on the 14th Harper's Ferry was closely invested. The heights were crHeights, and thus relieve the garrison at Harper's Ferry. Stuart, who had occupied Turner's Gap win the direct route to Maryland Heights and Harper's Ferry. When D. H. Hill, at dawn on the 14th, re, and to give Jackson time for his work at Harper's Ferry. The resistance of Hill's troops — from ny. Both were too late to relieve Miles at Harper's Ferry, who surrendered about half-past 7 that mo[4 more...]
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 10: Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg. (search)
hich followed. Jackson reached Sharpsburg that morning from Harper's Ferry, and Walker later. At night Hood was relieved by Lawton's and edgwick, but too late, for R. H. Anderson's division, just from Harper's Ferry, had re-enforced D. H. Hill in his position on the famous Sunkeemy gained the summit. General A. P. Hill had now arrived from Harper's Ferry, having left that place at 7 A. M., and immediately attacked, wch was not recalled from the vicinity of Maryland Heights after Harper's Ferry was abandoned by Hill. The bloody battle of Sharpsburg, or the vicinity of Bunker Hill and Winchester. McClellan occupied Harper's Ferry and the surrounding heights with two corps under Sumner, and en too hazardous for a man of his prudence; but by crossing below Harper's Ferry and marching into Virginia he could keep interposed between hisrmy over the Potomac into Loudoun County, Va., at Berlin, below Harper's Ferry. This occupied nine days. A slow concentration of his army in
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 11: Chancellorsville. (search)
of meritorious service. He had graduated at West Point seven years later than Ewell, and was an artillery officer in the United States Army. His bravery at the first Manassas, around Richmondwhere he drew the first blood-at second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, and at Sharpsburg, had been conspicuous, and drew to him the attention of his commanding general. In October, 1862, eight months before the army was reorganized, General Lee wrote Mr. Davis, recommending that Generals Long- street and Jacoffice in Washington, and properly contended that one man should command all the troops whose operations could be combined against Lee. Halleck not consenting, the difficulty culminated when Hooker requested that Maryland Heights, the gate to Harper's Ferry, be evacuated, that he might mobilize the ten thousand troops there. Halleck refused, and Hooker, now at Frederick, Maryland, finding he was not allowed to manceuvre his army in the presence of the enemy, asked to be relieved from command, w
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 12: Gettysburg. (search)
arrived at Williamsport, a few miles distant. On account of the swollen condition of the Potomac from recent rains, and the destruction of the pontoon bridge at Falling Waters, a short distance below, by a roving detachment sent by French at Harper's Ferry, Lee could not cross his impedimenta or his army over the river, but sent the wounded and prisoners over in boats. Calm and quiet as usual, he had a line of defense skillfully traced to cover the river from Williamsport to Falling Waters, ahaved nobly. It has accomplished all that could be reasonably expected. It ought not to have been expected to perform impossibilities, or to have fulfilled the anticipations of the thoughtless and unreasonable. Meade crossed the Potomac at Harper's Ferry and Berlin on pontoon bridges, moved through Loudoun and Fauquier, forcing Lee to conform to his movements, so that when he eventually took up the line of the Rappahannock, Lee occupied a parallel line on the Rapidan. From his tent in Culpep
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 14: siege of Petersburg. (search)
force was moved south of the Potomac, organized into the Army of the Shenandoah, and the command of it given, on August 7th, to General Sheridan. With the Sixth and Nineteenth Corps, and the Army of West Virginia, as General George Crook's force was called, Sheridan had a total present for duty on September 10th, including Averill's cavalry, of fortyeight thousand men and officers. He was abundantly able to assume the offensive, for he had in addition garrisons of seven thousand men at Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg, and other points, making his whole force about fifty-five thousand. General Lee was very anxious to win a battle in the lower valley — it was the only way he could relieve Petersburg-and so re-enforced Early by a division of cavalry and one of infantry, both under General Anderson, the commander of Longstreet's corps. This officer was selected to produce the impression, the remaining divisions of his corps were to follow, in order to induce Grant to send troops to Sheridan
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)
196, 200, 202, 216, 218, 219, 220, 239, 262, 268, 305, 306. Hamilton's Crossing, 226, 227. Hampton, General, Wade, mentioned, 181, 183, 205, 219, 224, 241; wounded at Gettysburg, 298; confronts Sheridan, 344. Hampton Roads, Va., 27. Hancock, General Winfield S., notice of, 47; mentioned, 230, 272, 281, 334, 339, 347, 362. Hanover Court House, 153, 158, 305. Hardee, General, James, mentioned, 269. Hardee, General William J., 54, 58, 59, 369. Harold at Hastings, 278. Harper's Ferry, 74, 75, 76, 103, 202, 203, 220, 303. Harrison, Benjamin, the signer, 10. Harrison's Landing, Va., 170. Harvie's, Lewis, statement, 383. Haskell, Lieutenant-Colonel, John, 358. Hatcher's Run, Va., 376. Havelock, Sir, Henry, 422. Havens, Benny, of West Point, 222. Haxall's plantation, Va., 170. Heintzelman, General, mentioned, 140, 145, 186. Henry, Patrick, 10. Heth's division, 270. Hickory Hill, Va., 305. Hill, General Ambrose P., notice of, 47; mentioned, 104,