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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 244 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 223 1 Browse Search
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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 114 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 109 27 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 94 0 Browse Search
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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 5 (search)
d. The four divisions were assembled at Williamsburg about noon of the 4th. Magruder's division marched several miles, was ordered back to Williamsburg, and I returned myself; for at ten o'clock,aced in hospitals and private residences in Williamsburg. Longstreet's and Hill's divisions slept obably passed the winter, had been hauled to Williamsburg that morning, by Major Barbour's orders. Astreet and D. H. Hill, with the cavalry, at Williamsburg, as has been said. In Federal dispatcheon at the Burnt Ordinary, twelve miles from Williamsburg; Smith's and Magruder's divisions were stats division in the centre, formed across the Williamsburg road; Longstreet's on the right, covering td Hill's division in two lines crossing the Williamsburg road at right angles, and to advance to theere fresh, not having fired a shot. On the Williamsburg road four Federal divisions, three of whiches — the commanders at Fair Oaks and on the Williamsburg road-stood on the defensive the day after t[10 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
al Early is my authority. In a memorandum on the subject, Colonel R. G. Cole stated: To sum up, then, the amount of loss sustained by the department, from the withdrawal from Yorktown by the army, I regard as so inconsiderable in comparison with the number of troops as to justify me in stating that it was nothing. We refused no gage of battle, but were ready to repel the enemy's attack each day of the sixteen during which we confronted him near Yorktown; and fought him successfully at Williamsburg, and drove him out of our way at Barhamsville. As to disparity of numbers, it was a hundred and thirty-three thousand Report of Adjutant-General of the United States Army to committee on conduct of the war. to fifty thousand; far greater than existed when General Lee took command of that army on the first of June, or than that against us in Mississippi in December, 1862, or in Middle Tennessee in 1863. Yet General Lee was justly sustained by the Administration and people for postpon
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
Mulberry Island. The reserve for the army was kept at Williamsburg, and issued to the troops as they passed. And the bestwere nearly ready, I directed the troops to move toward Williamsburg on the night of the 3d by the roads from Yorktown and Warwick Court-House. They were assembled about Williamsburg by noon on the 4th, and were ordered to march by the road to Ricf the enemy, were placed in hospitals and residences in Williamsburg. Major-General Smith's division reached Barhamsville, on that day. Those of Longstreet and Hill marched from Williamsburg, twelve miles, on the 6th. On that evening Major-Generaggage and artillery. We should have been pursued from Williamsburg, and intercepted from West Point. Our troops engaged, leaving Williamsburg on the following morning, marched but twelve miles that day; and the army on its march to the Cross-roa Point. About four hundred of our wounded were left in Williamsburg, because they were not in condition to be moved. Nothi