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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 122 0 Browse Search
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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 4 (search)
e marching down in force, driving them in. General Wright's division of the 6th Corps was turned off went the musketry, in front of Griffin and of Wright, which for the next hour and a half was continrmy . . . . I found General Meade with Generals Wright, Warren, and Humphreys consulting togethemy in flank. I was ordered early to go to General Wright and explain to him, then to General Mott a front and feel on the left for Burnside. General Wright had moved his Headquarters and had put theht, to cover and support his right flank. General Wright was accordingly ordered to attack with a p now you can take some orderlies and go to General Wright and send me back intelligence from time to23, 1864 . . . I asked on all sides for General Wright. One said he had gone this way; another thce fellow). He said he would show me where General Wright was, which proved to be not far off, in a on could go to Wright's support. I found that Wright had been fairly shelled out of his little holl[8 more...]
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), IV. Cold Harbor (search)
d not always be leaning on him. Then he called Wright slow (a very true proposition as a general onegraph from the President should come: Send General Wright and 25,000 men at once to Winchester. How4 found us at Kelly's, the Headquarters of General Wright; the brave General himself, however, had gy trotted down the Gaines's Mill road. One of Wright's aides said they came pretty soon, as far as he left at seven. . . . I rode about with General Wright, who visited his line, which was not straithat was what generals were paid for. When General Wright had looked a great deal at his line, and a noon there still had been no advance, and General Wright went to General Birney to arrange one. Th very like addressing similar arguments to General Wright, but pride stood in the way, and I would hst spitefully; for they were close to; whereat Wright (sensible man!) vouchsafed to move on one side13, 1864 . . . I hear this evening that General Wright has been put in command of all forces to r[14 more...]
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 8 (search)
hey invited him to air himself for sixteen miles on foot, after it. . . . It was only last Monday that the 2d division got here, under Getty, and with it came General Wright, commanding the corps. Good General Wright, though always pleasant, is, I think rather in low spirits. He has had poor luck, on numerous occasions, and it cGeneral Wright, though always pleasant, is, I think rather in low spirits. He has had poor luck, on numerous occasions, and it culminated at Cedar Creek, where he chanced to have command of the army when it was surprised. He had rallied it, when Sheridan arrived on the field; but of course Sheridan had the credit of the victory, and indeed he deserved it. All the officers say that Wright made prodigious exertions and rode along all parts of the line in thWright made prodigious exertions and rode along all parts of the line in the hottest fire. December 14, 1864 General Winthrop [in speaking of Warren's operations] said his brigade bivouacked in a cornfield; it blew, snowed and sleeted all night, and when reveille beat in the morning, you could only see what seemed a field full of dead bodies, each covered with a rubber blanket and encased with ice. S
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 9 (search)
5th Corps to turn out some troops, and to General Wright, to say we were coming that way, and orderature was Captain Halsted, aide-de-camp to General Wright, in capacity of Max Maretzek, Carl Bergmanctors, I can tell you. Generals Meade, Warren, Wright, Parke, Humphreys, Ord, Gibbon, Ayres, Griffinreat loss; our men never behaved better. Both Wright and Humphreys took several hundred prisoners, ode about with the General, who confabbed with Wright, Warren, and the gay Humphreys. The latter is come. At a quarter past four in the morning, Wright, having massed his three divisions in columns ; etc. P. H. Sheridan. Oh, said Meade, so General Wright wasn't there. Oh, yes! cried the Staff oan who had commanded a battalion, Oh, yes, General Wright was there. Meade turned on his heel withoh heavy loss. A despatch was sent in haste to Wright, to push on to Farmville, cross the river and ittle ahead of this we halted to talk with General Wright. At 10.30 came, one after the other, two [5 more...]
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
battle of, 98. Wilkinson, Morton Smith, 75. Willcox, Orlando Bolivar, 212, 234, 310. Williams, Seth, 23, 60, 110, 123, 171, 221, 258, 270; on Sunday work, 28; brevet denied, 289; messenger to Lee, 354. Williams house, 173, 189. Wilson, James Harrison, 82, 104, 136, 156. Wingate, —, 357. Winthrop, Frederick, 800. Wise, Henry Alexander, 162, 361. Women in camp, 64, 65, 74, 75, 314, 317, 318; dinner party, 71; ultra-secessionist, 119; poor, 129. Woodruff, George, 315. Woodruff, Henry Dwight, 287. Woody's house, 140. Woolsey, Charles W., 253, 294. Wooten, Thomas J., 152, 187. Worth, William Scott, 64, 210, 318. Wounded, spirit of the, 71, 128. Wright, Horatio Gouverneur, 88, 90, 98, 108, 110, 111, 112, 114, 128, 135, 137, 138, 140, 143, 145, 148, 179, 190, 314, 350, 352; on Mott's men, 110n; before Petersburg, 173, 184, 334, 337; poor luck, 800. Wyatt's house, 301. Yorke, Victor A., 42, 267. Young, —, Dr., 26. Zacksnifska [Zakrzewska, Marie Elizabeth],
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 6: Federal armies, Corps and leaders (search)
fter recovery he took command of the Second and Ninth corps for short periods, and in February, 1863, he became head of the Sixth Army Corps, with which his name is so nobly associated. His brave attack upon the heights of Fredericksburg in May, 1863, won him renown. At Gettysburg, which he reached by a forced march on the second day, the left wing of the army was under his command. He was killed by a Confederate sharpshooter near Spotsylvania Court House, May 9, 1864. Major-General Horatio Gouverneur wright (U. S.M. A. 1841) was born in Clinton, Connecticut, March 6, 1820. At the beginning of the Civil War he had the rank of captain, having been in the Engineers Corps since his graduation. He was chief engineer of the expedition that destroyed the Norfolk Navy-Yard and occupied the same position in the Port Royal expedition. He was division commander in the Department of the South, and was then placed at the head of the recreated Department of the Ohio in August, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spottsylvania Court-house, battle of (search)
Nationals lost about 1,300 men. The commanders of several regiments fell. One Michigan regiment went into battle with 200 men, and came out with 23. The day was intensely hot, and many suffered from sunstroke. Monday, the 9th, was comparatively quiet in the morning. There was skirmishing nearly all day. In the afternoon General Sedgwick was killed by the bullet of a sharp-shooter while superintending the planting of cannon on a redoubt, and his command of the 6th Corps devolved on Gen. H. G. Wright. Towards night Grant ordered another advance on the Confederates. The divisions of Gibbon and Birney, of Hancock's corps, crossed a branch of the Po River, and had a severe struggle. Hancock attempted to capture a wagon-train. He had made a lodgment with three divisions, and was pushing forward, when he was recalled for other service. On his return he was attacked, and lost heavily. The woods between a part of his troops and the river had taken fire, and many of his men perished
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
of shortening the war. . . . That the rebellion is now sustained by the hope of such intervention......March 3, 1863 Congress empowers the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus......March 3, 1863 Congress authorizes loans of $300,000,000 for 1863, and $600,000,000 for 1864......March 3, 1863 Thirty-seventh Congress adjourns......March 4, 1863 Proclamation of the President relative to desertions in the army......March 10, 1863 Major-General Burnside supersedes Maj.-Gen. H. G. Wright in the Department of the Ohio......March 25, 1863 Admiral Farragut passes the Confederate batteries at Grand Gulf, Miss., with three gun-boats.......April 1, 1863 Raid of mounted infantry from Tuscumbia, Ala., towards Rome, Ga. The entire force, 1,700 men, with Col. A. D. Streight, captured by the Confederates......April 7–May 3, 1863 Major-General Burnside orders that death shall be the penalty for aiding the Confederates, sympathizers with rebellion to be sent into the Con
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wright, Horatio Gouverneur 1820-1899 (search)
Wright, Horatio Gouverneur 1820-1899 Military engineer; born in Clinton, Conn., March 6, 1820; graduated at West Point in 1842, remaining two years as assistant Professor of Engineering. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in September, 1861, and major-general in July, 1862. He was chief engineer of Heintzelman's division at the battle of Bull Run, and in Horatio Gouverneur Wright. the Port Royal expedition he commanded a brigade. In February, 1862, he was in the expedition thaHoratio Gouverneur Wright. the Port Royal expedition he commanded a brigade. In February, 1862, he was in the expedition that captured Fernandina, Fla., and commanded a division in the attack on Secessionville, S. C., in June, 1862. In July he was assigned to the Department of the Ohio, and commanded the 1st Division, 6th Corps, in the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg. After General Sedgwick's death he was in command of the 6th Corps, which he led in the Richmond campaign until July, 1864, when he was sent to the defence of the national capital, and afterwards (August to December) was engaged in the Shenandoah ca