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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 587 133 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. 405 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 258 16 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 156 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 153 31 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 139 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 120 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 120 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 119 1 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 111 3 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The Peninsular campaign. (search)
s render it advisable, to land a little below Yorktown to turn the defenses between that place and Fble represented the Confederate troops around Yorktown as numbering at least fifteen thousand, with ly to the Peninsula. It was represented that Yorktown was surrounded by strong earth-works, and thainstead of stretching across the Peninsula to Yorktown,--as proved to be the case,--came down to Leem just stated. Information was received that Yorktown was already being reenforced from Norfolk, anze a point — near the Halfway House — between Yorktown and Williamsburg, where the Peninsula is reduengaged with the enemy's outposts in front of Yorktown and under the artillery fire of the place. Tenforcements. The moment the evacuation of Yorktown was known, the order was given for the advanc Court Clark's House, near Howe's saw-mill, Yorktown, General hospital of the Third Corps. From a made April 11, 1862. View of main street, Yorktown, the Union troops marching in. From a sketch [9 more...]<
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 5.21 (search)
Yorktown and Williamsburg. Recollections of a private.--Iii. Warren Lee Goss. Wagon train.whose destinies they presided. On our way to Yorktown our pontoon and baggage trains were sometimeswas brought Skirmish at Lee's Mills before Yorktown, April 16, 1862. [see map, P. 188.] from a s. to a standstill, with the right in front of Yorktown, and the left by the enemy's works at Lee's m of the impediments to an immediate attack on Yorktown was the difficulty of using light artillery in force. We had settled down to the siege of Yorktown; began bridging the streams between us and thdoned the works Union mortar-battery before Yorktown. From a photograph. at Yorktown, the commander) at the junction of two roads running from Yorktown to Williamsburg, and small redoubts on each sew York regiment in camp at ship point, below Yorktown. [see map, P. 188.] from a War-time sketch. to his support. These divisions marched from Yorktown on parallel roads until Smith's column was ha[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Confederate use of subterranean shells on the Peninsula. (search)
stating that they witnessed the explosion of concealed shells or torpedoes at Yorktown — among them Fred T. Locke, assistant adjutant-general to Fitz John Porter, dis near the works. . . . A cavalry detachment passing along the road leading to Yorktown had some of its men and horses killed and wounded by these shells. Our telegraph operator was sent into Yorktown soon after our troops had got possession of the place. He trod upon one of the buried shells, which burst and terribly mangled bot 25th, 1863. Porter's statement is that when the advance detachments entered Yorktown the command on the left was fired upon from the Red Fort. Those on the ri New York Herald, containing General McClellan's report on buried torpedoes at Yorktown, reached General Johnston, who, in a letter dated May 12th, requested General tter to Rains, who on May 14th reported in part as follows: I commanded at Yorktown for the last seven months, and when General McClellan approached with his army
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Manassas to Seven Pines. (search)
y to Richmond; so that our attempting to hold Yorktown could only delay the enemy two or three weeks besiege only the troops it had followed from Yorktown. If the Federal army should be defeated a hu upon our [McClellan's] getting possession of Yorktown, and the York River would then have been openwould have been needless; the driving us from Yorktown would have compelled us to abandon Gloucesterbatteries, drive us from the intrenchments at Yorktown, and enable the enemy to turn us by the river, Colonel Henry To Douglas, chief engineer at Yorktown, wrote to me, May 12th, 1883: Region between Washington and Richmond. I was at Yorktown the evening before the evacuation commenced. I didGeneral D. H. Hill, who commanded in and near Yorktown, said, in his official report: We lost very ld that General Johnston, when retreating from Yorktown, told his volunteer aide, Mr. McFarland, that862, especially when the army was moving from Yorktown toward Richmond; or did you ever in that time[4 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 5.26 (search)
of the main facts on both sides. THEaffair at Williamsburg, May 5th, was an incident in the withdrawal of the Confederate army from its fortified lines, near Yorktown, to the open country between the Pamunkey and the Chickahominy rivers, where General Johnston intended to halt, near the Richmond and York River Railroad, and cood deal of sharp fighting for several hours. Reference is had here to the York River expedition, under General W. B. Franklin, which McClellan dispatched from Yorktown on the 5th with instructions to seize and hold a landing near West Point, situated at the confluence of the York and Pamunkey rivers, and the terminus of the Ric to contest the further advance of McClellan's army. We remained there about five days. The troops, having rested from the tiresome service in the trenches near Yorktown, and the fatiguing march, were now furnished with abundant supplies from Richmond, and were elated at the prospect of meeting the enemy on an open field of battl
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The navy in the Peninsular campaign. (search)
comprehended an attack by the navy upon the batteries at Yorktown and Gloucester, on opposite sides of the York River. It eviously considered it an essential part of his plan that Yorktown should be reduced by the navy, McClellan does not appear by General McClellan. It may be that the naval attack on Yorktown and Gloucester was not pressed because McClellan learned Wooden vessels could not have attacked the batteries at Yorktown and Gloucester with any degree of success. The forts at Yorktown were situated too high, were beyond the reach of naval guns, and I understand that General McClellan never expected retire. On the 5th, the day following the evacuation of Yorktown, the fleet moved up to a position off the town, and a recnd of Lieutenant Alexander Murray. During the siege of Yorktown the presence of the Merrimac had, of course, paralyzed th 4th--the Army of the Potomac was conducting the siege of Yorktown. After the battle of the 9th of March, Tattnall had ta
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Hanover Court House and Gaines's Mill. (search)
e Union loss, that of the killed and wounded certainly much higher. Almost the whole of two Union regiments, the 11th Pennsylvania Reserves and the 4th New Jersey, were captured.--Editors. My command was safely withdrawn to the south bank of the river, and the bridges were destroyed soon after sunrise on the 28th. The landing at White House and the railroad south from Tunstall's station were abandoned, the infantry and artillery embarking for Fort Monroe, and the cavalry marching to Yorktown.--Editors. The Prince de Joinville and his two nephews, the Comte de Paris and the Duc de Chartres, were on the field as volunteer aides-de-camp, actively engaged in encouraging the men, carrying messages, and performing other duties of aides. Each of these officers was in the midst of flying musket-balls, and was liable to be struck at any moment [see p. 184]. At one time the Comte de Paris, regardless of himself, begged me to send his uncle to General McClellan with a message which w
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Lee's attacks north of the Chickahominy. (search)
was no reason why this was not done, except the one given. The Federals, on the other hand, knew the country thoroughly; they had occupied it for several weeks, and during that time their engineer officers had inspected it carefully. . . . There was no earthly reason why the Confederate authorities should not have been possessed of the same information. The Federal Government had been all the previous winter preparing for the advance upon Richmond. McClellan was a long time getting from Yorktown to his position on the Chickahominy, and all his movements indicated the probable position he would take up in front of Richmond. There was no lack of time, therefore, to map the locality accurately, and no lack of warning that it would be of the most vital importance. To undertake the defense of a city, without attempting to learn the topography of the country around it, was a new principle in modern warfare. Editors. None of us knew of the formidable character of the works on Beaver Da
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., McClellan's change of base and Malvern Hill. (search)
e remarkable discernment of his adversary's plans through the study of his character. McClellan could have retreated to Yorktown with as little loss as Johnston sustained on his retreat from it. The roads from Richmond to Yorktown lead through a wooYorktown lead through a wooded and swampy country, on which strong rear-guards could have afforded perfect protection to a retreating column without bringing on a general engagement. General Johnston, on his retreat from Yorktown, did fight; at Williamsburg, but it was a battYorktown, did fight; at Williamsburg, but it was a battle of his own choosing, and not forced upon him by the vigor of pursuit. Lee had but little idea that McClellan would return to Yorktown, judging rightly that the military pride of his distinguished opponent would not permit him to march back a defeYorktown, judging rightly that the military pride of his distinguished opponent would not permit him to march back a defeated column to the point from which he had started, a few months before, for the capture of the Confederate capital, with his splendid army and magnificent outfit. The capture of Petersburg would have been almost as disastrous to the South as the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The battle of Malvern Hill. (search)
other draft on his forces, was hesitating to respond, when Heintzelman, ever prompt and generous, sprang to his feet and exclaimed: By Jove! if Porter asks for help, I know he needs it and I will send it. The immediate result was the sending of Meagher by Sumner and Sickles by Heintzelman. This was the second time that Sumner had selected and sent me Meagher's gallant Irish brigade, and each time it rendered invaluable service. I had served under General Heintzelman up to the capture of Yorktown, and I ever appreciated his act as the prompting of a thoughtful, generous, and chivalrous nature.--F. J. P. The spasmodic, though sometimes formidable attacks of our antagonists, at different points along our whole front, up to about 4 o'clock, were presumably demonstrations or feelers, to ascertain our strength, preparatory to their engaging in more serious work. An ominous silence, similar to that which had preceded the attack in force along our whole line at Gaines's Mill, now inte
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