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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), General Meade at Gettysburg. (search)
attle, but the different corps were attacked by Lee and beaten in detail. The Eleventh Corps, badlal Meade, covering the retreat. In this battle Lee had sixty thousand men, Longstreet's Corps havioker had not less than ninety thousand men. Lee's successes at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsviantle, of the British service, who was with General Lee at Gettysburg, in writing of that battle, se Chief of Artillery. Nothing was known of General Lee excepting that he was north of us threatenibly find the enemy. On the night of June 29th, Lee learned that the Army of the Potomac, which he of officers returning from the field, that General Lee was about to concentrate his whole army then the conflict, but the result was indecisive. Lee had gained what he calls partial successes, Lonrealized fully the exact condition of affairs. Lee had been repulsed, not routed, and, if Meade ha time, because Meade did not destroy or capture Lee's army at Williamsport; but Meade, conscious th[14 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Life in Pennsylvania. (search)
ing my troops into action, waiving all question of an order from General Lee. I have shown that I did not receive orders fro m General Lee tGeneral Lee to attack until about eleven o'clock on the 2d; that I immediately began my dispositions for attack; that I waited about forty minutes for Law's Brigade, by General Lee's assenting authority; that by especial orders from General Lee, my corps marched into position by a circuitous roGeneral Lee, my corps marched into position by a circuitous route, under the direction and conduct of Colonel Johnson, of his staff of engineers; that Colonel Johnson's orders were to keep the march of tect march, and breaking up the delay occasioned by the orders of General Lee. I need only add that every movement or halt of the troops on that day was made in the immediate presence of General Lee, or in his sight-certainly within the reach of his easy and prompt correction. I q points concerning the battle was not opened before the death of General Lee. A word or two from him would have settled all points at issue.
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The campaign of Gettysburg. (search)
nd Meade--that General Longstreet held with General Lee. I, therefore, feel constrained to review at on the 3d of June, 1863, the movement of General Lee's army from Fredericksburg commenced, and tin force, but it apprised General Hooker of General Lee's intention to invade the North. In reporte Army of the Potomac had effectually prevented Lee's cavalry from obtaining any information in Virgain; we have done well enough. I replied that Lee had exhausted all his available men; that the ctwo days. General Meade declined to attack, and Lee's army escaped. The cavalry rendered importants of the war were Washington and Richmond. Had Lee's army captured Washington and held it, the Souion by France and England. In the first place, Lee's army was not in a condition to make that campf the campaign did not include the surrender of Lee's army, was due to the action and inaction of tr committed by Lee in his Gettysburg campaign), Lee's reputation as a general rests on the splendid[52 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The right flank at Gettysburg. (search)
ettysburg. This is partly owing to the fact that, after the battles of Aldie and Upperville, Stuart became separated from Lee's army, and was prevented from joining it, or from being of any assistance to its commander during its movements preceding the interposition of Gregg's and Kilpatrick's Cavalry. Stuart was thereby compelled to make a wide detour, only reaching Lee on the 2d of July; and, owing to this separation, and the loss of the eyes and ears of his army, Lee had, to a great extenLee had, to a great extent, to move in the dark. To the fact of Stuart's absence from Lee's army, many recent Confederate writers have attributed the results of the campaign, while others maintain that the two brigades, under Generals Robertson, and Jones, which did not acLee's army, many recent Confederate writers have attributed the results of the campaign, while others maintain that the two brigades, under Generals Robertson, and Jones, which did not accompany Stuart upon his independent movement, were amply sufficient for the purposes of observation. General Meade, in his official report of the battle, merely refers to the fact that, on the 3d of July, General Gregg was engaged with the enem
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The mistakes of Gettysburg. (search)
his discussion was not opened before the death of General Lee. If the charges so vehemently urged against me abelieve they would have needed any reply from me. General Lee would have answered them himself, and have set hiays took place on the 7th of April, 1865, between General Lee and his leading officers. He says that this meetcouncil, and that the officers united in advising General Lee to surrender on that day-two days before the surrce of putting my name among the officers who gave General Lee this advice. The truth of the matter is, I neverpoint at early dawn on the 2d. I at once went to General Lee's headquarters. I found him in bed in his tent. e was being broken in front of the house in which General Lee had slept. I hurried to the front, and as fast ayonets of Fields' Division — the only troops that General Lee had left me. I also turned over to General Grant of course, did not join in the advice it gave to General Lee. Mr. Swinton has been clearly misinformed upon th
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First cavalry. (search)
general of the cavalry brigade, was promoted to be captain of Boyd's company. Just then, General Lee slipped away from Hooker at Fredericksburg, en route for Gettysburg, and suddenly confronted fifty of them, and causing them to retire from the field. When Milroy found he was surrounded by Lee's army, he sent for a bold officer and fifty men to carry a dispatch to Martinsburg, and Major Boween Winchester and Martinsburg, and sent the first intelligence to Baltimore and Washington that Lee's army was at Winchester. That night, a dispatch arrived at Martinsburg for Milroy, and three mehundreds of prisoners, many guns and wagons, beside four trains of stores, which were waiting for Lee's hungry army. And the next day they were dashing forward with Custer to attack the enemy, when they were stopped by news of the surrender of Lee. When the regiment re-enlisted as veterans, in 1864, Captain Stevenson induced his men to be credited upon the quota of the Twentieth Ward of Phi
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Stonewall Jackson and his men. (search)
e, and galloped back to his command. As he did so, General Jackson said to Lieutenant Lee of his staff: Tell the colonel of this brigade, that the enemy are nd well, but certainly not with grace and ease. He was not a man of style. General Lee, on horseback or off, was the handsomest man I ever saw. It was said of Wades discovered. He never called a council of war; when called into council by General Lee, with Longstreet and Stuart, and the Hills, he let the others do the talkingoker and his own death; when it was vigorously opposed he did not defend it. General Lee adopted it, and, as at other times when a hazardous movement was to be underot believed his wounds were mortal, and the army thought, in the language of General Lee: Jackson will not-he cannot die. But it was written. Pneumonia lent its fed by this little incident, with which I close this unworthy sketch. The army of Lee was on its march to Gettysburg, and the commanding general had given strict orde
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The famous fight at Cedar creek. (search)
The famous fight at Cedar creek. General A. B. Nettleton. When in 1864, with Grant and Meade and Sheridan in the East, and Sherman and Thomas in the West, the National army closed with the Confederate, it was in a struggle which all regarded as the final one. In June, after Grant with all his available force had besieged Richmond and Petersburg, Lee, feeling secure behind fortifications, detached an army of twenty-five thousand picked troops under General Jubal A. Early, including the flower of his Virginia cavalry, to invade the North by way of the Shenandoah Valley, threaten Washington from the rear, and, if possible, compel Grant to retreat from the James, as McClellan had been forced to do two years before. Hunter's failure at Lynchburg, and his painful retreat through the wilderness of West Virginia, had left a virtually open road for Early's force to the boundary of Pennsylvania, if not to Washington, and this open road Early was not slow to travel. The defeat of the Un
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), General Stuart in camp and field. (search)
his death, he remained Chief of Cavalry of General Lee's army. When the Confederate forces advancign of Mine Run-and the furious wrestle between Lee and Grant in the Wilderness, in May, 1864. Whe, in June, 1862. The Federal horse pushed past Lee's army to surprise Richmond; Stuart followed in infantry leader, the right arm to execute what Lee conceived; in person not graceful, in manner sihim by those best able to judge him truly. General Lee unquestionably regarded him as a cavalry coars of his army in every campaign; and although Lee would not officially censure Stuart, it seems p. Finally, when Stuart fell, in May, 1864, and Lee said that he could scarcely think of him withouaid to have, in some measure, characterized General Lee. It did not characterize Stuart. He was aeized him, he laughed at nearly everybody. General Lee he invariably spoke of, as he treated him, thfully expressed the character of the man. General Lee knew well that Stuart would never allow ind[7 more...]
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 11: McDowell. (search)
last; and pointed her to a paragraph in the newspaper from Richmond just received, which announced the appointment of General Lee as Commander-in-Chief. It was his wisdom and counsel, which he regarded as equivalent to new forces. While General Jackson held Banks thus check-mated for a fortnight at Harrisonburg, he was busily corresponding with General Lee concerning the proper direction to be given to his, and the neighboring Confederate forces. Three movements were discussed by them, od made a vigorous onslaught against the Federalists upon the Manassa's Railroad, and at its Junction. It was hoped by General Lee, that the news of this attack, so far towards his base, would cause Banks's immediate retreat to Winchester, or even tnment at Washington, of recalling Banks, and of disturbing the arrangements of General McClellan on the peninsula. As General Lee remarked, the dispersion of the enemy's forces clearly indicated the policy of concentration, to attack some one or ot
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