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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 5: military and naval operations on the coast of South Carolina.--military operations on the line of the Potomac River. (search)
ashington Artillery, and a detachment of cavalry. under the command of Colonel J. E. B. Stuart, afterward the famous general leader of cavalry in the Confederate army. Stuart opened heavily with his cannon, which at first disconcerted the National troops. The latter were kept steady until Griffin's Battery was placed in positio1th, 1861. General McClellan joined the column at the close of the affair. Colonel Stuart (Confederate) gave a glowing account of the confusion into which the Nationhe ranks of the enemy. Our loss, he said, was not a scratch to man or horse. --Stuart's Report, Sept. 11, 1861. Stuart appears to have been accused of rashness onStuart appears to have been accused of rashness on this occasion, in exposing his cannon to the danger of capture. In an autograph letter before me, dated at Munson's Hill, September 14th, and addressed to General Ld from before an army of 10,000 advancing at the double-quick. Longstreet sent Stuart's letter to General Johnson, with an endorsement, testifying to the judicious d
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
ere loading their wagons, the troops were attacked by twentyfive hundred Confederates, under E. O. C. Ord. General J. E. B. Stuart, His troops consisted of the Eleventh Virginia, Colonel Garland; Sixth South Carolina, Lieutenant-Colonel Seagrr pieces, Captain Cutts; and detachments from two North Carolina cavalry regiments, 1,000 in number, under Major Gordon. Stuart was also on a foraging expedition, and had about 200 wagons with him. who came up the road from the direction of Centreviilled and sixty wounded; and their gain was a victory, and sixteen wagon-loads of excellent hay, and twenty-two of corn. Stuart reported his loss at forty-three killed and one hundred and forty-three wounded. Report of General McCall, December 20, 1861; also, General Stuart to General Beauregard, December 21, 1861. He had been induced to attack superior numbers by the foolish boast of Evans, that he had encountered and whipped four to his one; and he tried to console his followers by calling
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. (search)
that post, and assigned the command of the river defenses at the position chosen to General I. P. McCown, whose division was ordered thither on the 27th. The remainder of the troops, excepting the cavalry, left Columbus on the 1st of March. General Stuart's brigade went by steamer to New Madrid, and the remainder marched by land to Union City, in Tennessee, This is at the intersection of the Nashville and Northwestern and the Mobile and Ohio Railways; the former leading directly to Hickman,strengthening New Madrid by re-enforcements from Island Number10; it and on the 12th, when the cannon from Cairo arrived, there were about nine thousand infantry, besides artillery, within the works in front of Pope, commanded by Generals McCown, Stuart, and Gantt. Meanwhile, three gun-boats had been added to Hollins's flotilla. Fearing the Confederates might be re-enforced from below, Pope sent Colonel J. B. Plummer, of the Eleventh Missouri, to Point Pleasant, ten or twelve miles down the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 14: movements of the Army of the Potomac.--the Monitor and Merrimack. (search)
ount of difficulty in procuring subsistence, heavy rains, and bad roads, Stoneman did not molest the retiring army, and the pursuit, if it may be so called, ended here. On the following day the main body of the Army of the Potomac, under the mask of a strong reconnoissance of the corps of Howard and Sumner toward the Rappahannock, George Stoneman. moved back to Alexandria. Stoneman's advance retired at the same time, followed some distance, in spite of mud and weather, by the cavalry of Stuart and Ewell, a battery of artillery, and some infantry. Stoneman's report to General McClellan, March 16, 1862. Then the Confederates moved leisurely on and encamped, first behind the Rappahannock, and then in a more eligible position beyond the Rapid Anna. This is the correct orthography of the name of one of three rivers in that part of Virginia, which has been generally written, in connection with the war, Rapidan. These small rivers are called, respectively, North Anna, South Anna,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 16: the Army of the Potomac before Richmond. (search)
ee in command, 414. public expectation disappointed hopes excited, 415. bold raid of General J. E. B. Stuart, 416. Richmond quietly besieged, 417. Lee preparing to strike McClellan, 418. battlee none. This dispatch was written just after a most mortifying event had occurred. General J. E. B. Stuart, one of the most active of the Confederate cavalry officers, had on that and the previous day made a circuit entirely J. E. B. Stuart. around the Army of the Potomac, with fifteen hundred cavalry and four pieces of horse artillery. Portions of the First, Fourth, and Ninth Virginiatrike a blow at the Army of the Potomac, which, when it was given, came near being a fatal one. Stuart's raid was more a reconnoissance for information than an expedition for destruction. It was detattle if it should be offered, or to strike the retreating forces on flank and rear; and he sent Stuart and Ewell to seize the railway and cut McClellan's communication with the White House. They fou
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 17: Pope's campaign in Virginia. (search)
er Colonel Averill, and menaced continually by Stuart and his cavalry, and columns of infantry pushetions with Frederi cksburg and the capital. Stuart was with the party, and narrowly escaped captusition opposite Pope's left, and Jackson, with Stuart's cavalry, posting themselves at Beverly Ford, skirmishing between the cavalry of Bayard and Stuart all the way from Cedar Mountain, but no very s all the fords were drowned. At the same time Stuart was Catlett's Station. making a raid on Popndred infantry and five companies of cavalry. Stuart fired a portion of the trains, but did not sucwhich had been left in charge of the trains. Stuart recrossed the Rappahannock at Warrenton Springare Gap to Gainesville, where he was joined by Stuart with two cavalry brigades, and at twilight reafor quick action. He immediately dispatched! Stuart with his cavalry, supported by two infantry re while Jackson was destroying Bristow Station, Stuart, before midnight, surprised the post at Manass[2 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 18: Lee's invasion of Maryland, and his retreat toward Richmond. (search)
on was to form the rear-guard of the main body, and Stuart's cavalry was to cover the whole. The troops orderet the eyes of the Confederates on South Mountain. Stuart had reported the previous evening that only two briagerstown road toward the Potomac, and protected by Stuart with cavalry and artillery. Walker was posted on Le Baltimore and Ohio railroad much of the way, with Stuart lingering on his rear to cover that retreat, and to deceive McClellan by a show of numbers and vigor. Stuart recrossed the river at Williamsport on the same dayhenandoah Valley; on its western side. Meanwhile Stuart, with eighteen hundred cavalry, had recrossed the rcity. The plain on Jackson's right was occupied by Stuart, with two brigades of cavalry and his horse artille was confronted by a Confederate battery, placed by Stuart on the Port Royal road. This he silenced, and thenuns. But the Nationals were unable to advance, for Stuart's cavalry, on Lee's extreme right, strongly menaced