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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 16: (search)
arations for retreat. how it was accomplished. McClellan's advance. discovery of Johnston's evacuation of Manassas and Centreville. he crosses the Rappahannock and waits for the enemy. he penetrates McClellans's designs. Federal council of war at Fairfax Court-house. shifting of the scenes of war in Virginia. the battle of Kernstown. how Stonewall Jackson came to fight this battle. great numerical superiourity of the enemy. the contest at the Stone fence. Jackson falls back to Cedar Creek. Magruder's line on the Peninsula. a fearful crisis. McClellan held in check by eleven thousand Confederates. outwitted again by Johnston. retreat of the Confederates up the Peninsula. strategic merit of the movement. battle of Williamsburg. Longstreet's division engaged. success of the Confederates. McClellan's whole army in peril. his flank movement on Johnston's retreat. engagement at Barhamsville. the line of the Chickahominy. Johnston's brilliant strategy. evacuation o
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 36: (search)
ned against the Confederates and night closed with the enemy's infantry occupying their old camps, and his cavalry pursuing the wreck of Early's army. With reference to the disaster of Cedar Creek, Gen. Early published an address to his troops, ascribing to their misconduct the loss of the field, and attemping to break the censure levelled at the commander. He wrote: I had hoped to have congratulated you on the splendid victory won by you on the morning of the 19th, at Belle Grove, on Cedar Creek, when you surprised and routed two corps of Sheridan's army, and drove back several miles the remaining corps, capturing eighteen pieces of artillery, one thousand five hundred prisoners, a number of colours, a large quantity of small arms and many wagons and ambulances, with the entire camps of the two routed corps; but I have the mortification of announcing to you that, by your subsequent misconduct, all the benefits of that victory were lost, and a serious disaster incurred. Had you r