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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
irmish line, to come away and burn the bridge behind them, while he reinforces his battle against Shields and crushes down his stubborn (yea right gallant) resistance, with stern decision. Thus he must content himself with one victory instead of two, and in that one, chase his enemy away like a baffled wolf instead of ensnaring him wholly and drawing his fangs. Who can hear this story of victory thus organized and almost within the grasp—victory which should have been more splendid than Marengo—so shorn of half its rays, without feeling a pungent, burning, sympathetic disappointment? Did not such a will as Jackson's then surge like a volcano at this default? No. There was no fury chafing against the miscarriage, no discontent, no rebuke. Calm and contented, Jackson rode back from the pursuit and devoted himself to the care of the wounded and to prudent precautions for protection. God did it. That was his philosophy. There is an omniscient Mind which purposes, an ever present
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stonewall Jackson. (search)
irmish line, to come away and burn the bridge behind them, while he reinforces his battle against Shields and crushes down his stubborn (yea right gallant) resistance, with stern decision. Thus he must content himself with one victory instead of two, and in that one, chase his enemy away like a baffled wolf instead of ensnaring him wholly and drawing his fangs. Who can hear this story of victory thus organized and almost within the grasp—victory which should have been more splendid than Marengo—so shorn of half its rays, without feeling a pungent, burning, sympathetic disappointment? Did not such a will as Jackson's then surge like a volcano at this default? No. There was no fury chafing against the miscarriage, no discontent, no rebuke. Calm and contented, Jackson rode back from the pursuit and devoted himself to the care of the wounded and to prudent precautions for protection. God did it. That was his philosophy. There is an omniscient Mind which purposes, an ever present
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Ewell at First Manassas. (search)
er, was instructed in the plan of attack, and should have gone forward the moment General Jones, upon whose right he was to form, exhibited his own order, which mentioned one as having been already sent to that commander. I exonerated him after the battle, as he was technically not in the wrong; but one could not help recalling Desaix, who even moved in a direction opposite to his technical orders when facts plainly showed him the service he ought to perform, whence the glorious result of Marengo, or help believing that if Jackson had been there, the movement would not have balked. The officer referred to is the late Lieutenant-General R. S. Ewell, and the censure is based on the following statement on page 95: Meanwhile, in rear of Mitchell's Ford, I had been waiting with General Johnston for the sound of conflict to open in the quarter of Centreville upon the Federal left flank and rear (making allowance, however, for the delays possible to commands unused to battle), when I
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Joseph Jones, M. D., Ll.D. (search)
iott, Captain, Chas. G., 174, 198. Equipment, 1861, A Soldier's, 300. Evans, General C. A., Address of, 1. Exall, Wm., Death of, 125. F Co. 21st Va. Infantry, 125. Falling Waters, Battle of, 46. Federal Depredations in 1865, 266. Federal Relief to Confederates, Protest of R. E. Lee Camp, C. V., against the Otey Bill, Federal Vessels Captured: Whistling Wind, Alfred H. Partridge. Mary Alvina, Bark Tacony, M. A. Shindler, Isaac Webb, Micawber, 277; Byzantium, Goodspeed, Marengo, Florence, Elizabeth Ann, Rufus Choate, Raffle, 278; Shatemuc, Archer, Caleb Cushing, 279. First and Last Days of the War, Reminiscences of, 294. Five Forks, Battle of, 58, 78. Fleming, Col. John A., Killed, 73. Flowers, Colonel Robert L., 273. Fort Fisher, Bombardment of, 166. Fort Hamby, on the Yadkin, 266. Fort Steadman, Capture of, 74. Fredericksburg, Battle of, 198. Gettysburg, Battle of, Charge of N. C. Troops in, 44, 158; Events Leading Up to; Address of Co
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
st of the Potomac would have been annihilated. Beauregard, going on the field on a bed, wasted by protracted illness, never having appreciated or sympathized with the strategy of the occasion as developed by his great commander, recalled the troops from the very arms of victory, and an assured success of the Confederacy. At Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, General Lee planned a battle that stands, as to wisdom and feasibility, second to none which the master mind of Napoleon ever conceived. Not Marengo nor Wagram, nor any other field of the twenty years of Napoleon's career, surpasses in the splendor of the military art Lee's Gettysburg, as his orders read. Longstreet, afflicted as Early told us he was, often with an intellectual and physical inertia, point blank refused to execute those orders, and the only thing to show on our side is the incomparable achievement of Pickett's division. Stuart rode around McClellan on the Chickahominy and beat back Hooker's cavalry sent to assist tha
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Iowa, Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa (search)
Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa a town of 1,233* pop., on the Iowa Division of the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, 85 miles from Davenport.
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], England must have cotton. (search)
e, just as certain as the sun continues to shine on you, if Mr. Lincoln's Government, sustained as it is by the twenty millions of Northern people, does not make a forced march right through secession within four or five months, completely regardless of climate, season and all other circumstances, then John Bull will have a finger in the pie, and the Frenchman, too, and you will have three wars on your hands instead of one. A Napoleonic stroke — a campaign like that which culminated at Marengo — a sudden striking into the heart of the enemy's country — is the only mode you have got to conquer a peace and keep out foreign interference. This overbearing nation has had a hand in every national quarrel in Europe for hundreds of years, and now that the United States have begun to assume a position among the Powers of the earth, the interference must be begun on that side. I greatly hope I am mistaken in my surmises, and would be loath to say one word to encourage the South in th<
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
Will Bryce (the Whips) die, we may be laid alongside master in the Mausoleum, with Ham Ashley and Paul Potter, (two hunters,) and three or four couple of his favorite hounds, in order that we may be all ready to start again together in the next world," "And thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Kellerman left his heart to be buried in the battle-field of Valmy, where the first repulse was sustained by the Allies. He had better have selected Marengo, where a charge of heavy cavalry, led by him without orders, retrieved the fortunes of the day. Mademoiselle Joly, a French actress of the latter part of the eighteenth century, having passed some agreeable hours on a hill near Falaise, called La Roche-Saint-Quentin, left directions in her will that her remains should be carried to this solitary hill, which was so dear to her heart. Her wishes were obeyed, and the hill has ever since been called Mont-Joly.-- Quarterly Review.
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
is impossible not to believe that they are by this time complete in arms, equipment, means of transportation, and every other physical appliance of service. Why, then, do they tarry? If Napoleon, with sixty thousand undisciplined recruits, scaling the frozen fastnesses of the Alps, and avoiding their hostile fortifications, could, in five weeks, reach the plains of Lombardy, pierce the Austrian lines, and annihilate the army of Melas, a hundred and twenty thousand strong, on the field of Marengo, thereby emancipating the whole of Italy, shall it be said that we cannot surmount the hills of Virginia and Kentucky, in spite of their defences, and, penetrating to the heart of the rebellion, strike in detail their armies — inferior to our own in numbers, arms, equipment, discipline and all that constitutes the true soldier, and stretched along a line of over two thousand miles in extent — destroying the heterogeneous hosts as we go, or scattering them in consternation, and restore to th
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], One hundred and twenty-five Dollars reward. (search)
neral of the French Revolution — soldier 1784, General 1795, poisoned in 1797-one of the best Generals of that period. Joubert — Soldier 1789, General 1795; very distinguished; killed at the battle of Novi. Jourdan, Marchal de France — Soldier 1778, General 1789, Marchal 1804. Junot, well known — Soldier in 1792, General 1797. Kellermann — Soldier at 15 years old, 1750; General 1792. Kellermann, (son of the aboge,)--Soldier 1793, General 1797; decided the victory of Marengo. Kleber — Educated in a Bavarian military school, General in 1794, assassinated in Egypt. Latour d'auvergne — Alternately soldier and General; the latter when he was called upon to save the army, returning afterwards to the ranks as a simple grenadier; kill on in the rank as such 8th June, 1800. His heart was preserved and carried in a box for a long time by the oldest grenadier, who answered for him at roll call even after Napoleon was Emperor. Honor to the patriotic sold
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