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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
d County, Pennsylvania; and others fled to Harper's Ferry, where Milroy's wagon-train crossed the Poimportance of covering Washington City and Harper's Ferry. On the 5th of June, when he expected a mt of the Cumberland, included the posts of Harper's Ferry and Winchester. It was not until Hooker wcrease his Army, and regarding the post at Harper's Ferry (then garrisoned, on Maryland Heights, by dered General Slocum to march his corps to Harper's Ferry to join General French, that their united ng, My original instructions were to cover Harper's Ferry and Washington, I have now imposed upon meeck gave permission to use the garrison at Harper's Ferry, according to the dictates of his own judgnd General French was directed to evacuate Harper's Ferry, remove the public property to Washington,me II. and with his main body to re-occupy Harper's Ferry. Leaving a brigade each of cavalry and inhad anticipated Meade's order, re-occupied Harper's Ferry, and sent a cavalry force to destroy the p[2 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
g its gaps as circumstances might dictate. Only his cavalry advance, under General Gregg, enntered the Shenandoah Valley. That leader crossed the Potomac at Harper's Ferry on the day when Lee passed over above, and, pushing on to Shepherdstown, he there encountered, fought and beat Confederate cavalry under Fitzhugh Lee, each pa hundred taken by General J. D. Imboden, who, while in the Shenandoah, watching the gaps of the Blue Ridge, suddenly swept down upon Charlestown, not far from Harper's Ferry, on the day when Lee began his retreat, October 18, 1863. seized the post, and bore away prisoners and stores. He had scarcely secured these, when he was compelled to fall back, fighting a superior Union force which had come up from Harper's Ferry, all the way to Berryville. There, under cover of darkness, Imboden escaped with his prisoners and spoils. Lee's failure now, as well as in his invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, to gain any positive advantages for the Confederate c
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
ley, and its door opening into Maryland at Harper's Ferry, guarded only by a moderate force under Gef stores, and General Weber, in command at Harper's Ferry, retired to Maryland Heights. Grant, mean who was then on the Kanawha, to hasten to Harper's Ferry with all possible dispatch; but insuperabland Massachusetts. Weber's Headquarters, Harper's Ferry. this spacious building, on the corner which depended railroad communication with Harper's Ferry. The river covered the entire front of ths moving up the Valley, Crook marched from Harper's Ferry on Winchester. When at Kernstown, a littld, and were turned back. They had reached Harper's Ferry on the day when Chambersburg was burnt, anrted that since he entered the valley from Harper's Ferry, every train, every small party, and every II. We left Gettysburg in a carriage, for Harper's Ferry, on the morning of the first, and followedg visited places of interest at and around Harper's Ferry, we left that picturesque place in the aft[4 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 18: capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and Goldsboroa.--Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--Stoneman's last raid. (search)
l Mitchell, came to his support. Then Hampton withdrew. He had inflicted a loss on the Unionists of one hundred and eighty-three men, of whom one hundred and three were made prisoners. Kilpatrick reached Fayetteville on the day Feb. 11. when the army was concentrated there. The National army rested three days at Fayetteville, during which time the United States Arsenal there, See page 386, volume I. with all the costly machinery which the Confederates brought to that place from Harper's Ferry, in the Spring of 1861, See page 390, volume I. was utterly destroyed by the First Michigan Engineers, under the direction of Colonel Poe. Sherman was satisfied that, thereafter, on his march toward Goldsboroa, he would have heavy and somewhat perilous work to do, for before him was now an army of about forty thousand veteran soldiers, under the able General Joseph E. Johnston. It was composed of the combined forces of Hardee, from Charleston; Beauregard, from Columbia; Cheatham,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
s in winter quarters in front of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, with which he was defending the Confederate capital. The left of the Army of the Potomac was maintaining its firm grasp on the Weldon road; see page 861. and the Army of the James on the North side of that River, and forming the right of the besiegers, had its pickets within a few miles of Richmond. see page 862. Sheridan was in good quarters at Kerns-town, near Winchester, full master of the Shenandoah Valley, from Harper's Ferry to Staunton, and bearing the honors of a major-general in the regular Army. see page 372. Grant held the besieging forces in comparative quiet during the winter of 1864-65, their chief business being to keep Lee from moving, while Sherman, Thomas, and Canby were making their important conquests in accordance with the comprehensive plan of campaign of the General-in-chief. To this business those forces were specially directed, when the operations against Wilmington, and Sherman's
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
eler, 3.116. Harney, Gen. W. S., resumes command of the Department of the West, 1.469; relieved by Lyon, 1.470. Harper's Ferry, rebel movement for the capture of, 1.389; arsenal at burnt by Lieutenant Jones, 1.391; occupation of by insurgent tr defense of Richmond, 2.399; forms a junction with Lee at Richmond, 2.414; movements of against Pope, 2.448; captures Harper's Ferry, 2.472; his flank movement at Chancellorsville, 3.27; death of, 3.31. Jacksonville, abandoned by the Confederates,rn Department, 2.189; killed at the battle of Shiloh, 2.275. Johnston, Gen. J. E., withdraws the rebel forces from Harper's Ferry, 1.521; position and numbers of troops under before the movement on Manassas, 1.583; wounded at Fair Oaks Station, 2.ddletown, battle of, 3.371. miles, Col. D. H., bad conduct of at the battle of Bull's Run, 1.606; his surrender of Harper's Ferry, and death. 2.473. Militia, seventy-five thousand called for to suppress the rebellion, 1.336. Millen, Ga., arri