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Jacksboro (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
r up the river were hauled along a well-traveled road which bisected this stretch of encampment. This road, called New Kent Road, was the main highway of the region and led to Richmond. A vista of the Federal camp. The Army of the Potomac waiting for the expected victorious advance on the Confederate capital. Yorktown had been evacuated on May 4th and Williamsburg abandoned on May 5th to the Union forces. During the week following, the divisions of Franklin, Sedgwick, Porter, and Richardson, after some opposition, gathered on the banks of the Pamunkey, the southern branch of the York River. Thence they marched toward White House which — after communication with the divisions that had been fighting at Williamsburg, was established — became headquarters for the whole army. This panoramic view shows a part of the encampment. Idle days at Cumberland. The farm-lands occupied by the impatient, waiting army were soon stripped of fences for firewood. The men sat idly about,
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
s time was plentiful, the South as a whole had not begun to feel the pinch of hunger that it endured so bravely and so unflinchingly during the dark days of 1864. but riding at the head of the Twenty-fourth Virginia, rushed into the attack. Up across the field the column swept. On the crest of the hill stood Hancock's men--sixteen hundred strong — waiting for the charge. In front of his soldiers, with drawn sword, stood the man who later would display a similar courage on the field of Gettysburg. On came the Southerners' rush. The sword of Hancock gleamed in the light. Quick and decisive came the order to charge, and the trained soldiers, with the coolness of veterans, hurled themselves upon the Confederate column. Down by the stream, the gallant McRae of the Fifth North Carolina, seeing what was happening, dashed forward to take part in the fight. The Northern musketry fire sang in the afternoon air. So close did the opposing columns come to each other that the bayonets were
Drewry's Bluff (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
y should the expedition against it succeed in passing up the James. Meanwhile the Confederate forces were working at Drewry's Bluff to establish a battery that would command the river. Earthworks were thrown up and guns were hastily gotten into posna arrived they did not attempt to run the gantlet, and Richmond breathed freely again. These works ultimately formed Fort Darling. The shower of shot and shell In the foreground of the picture we see what a mass of missiles were hurled into the fort, at the heads of the doughty defenders of Richmond. The Monitor, the Galena, and the gunboats-when Fort Darling opened on them to dispute the passage of the river, May 15, 1862--responded with a rain of projectiles in an effort to silence th was not silenced, and the gunboats, thoroughly convinced of its strength, did not again seriously attempt to pass it. Fort Darling held the water approach to Richmond until the fall of Petersburg made it necessary for the Confederates to evacuate th
Columbia (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
. Lee, son of General R. E. Lee, looked east over the river, which flows south at this point. It was burned in June, 1862, when the Federal army base was changed to the James River by order of General McClellan. The Fort that stopped a panic In May, 1862, the news spread throughout Richmond that a Federal fleet of ironclads, led by the dread Monitor, was advancing up the James River. Panic at once seized upon the Confederate capital. The Government archives were shipped to Columbia, South Carolina, and every preparation was made to evacuate the city should the expedition against it succeed in passing up the James. Meanwhile the Confederate forces were working at Drewry's Bluff to establish a battery that would command the river. Earthworks were thrown up and guns were hastily gotten into position seven miles below Richmond. Sailing vessels were sunk in the channel; torpedoes were anchored, and every possible obstruction opposed to the approaching ironclads. When the Monit
Tunstall (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
and Williamsburg broken down, the Army of the Potomac was now ready for the final rush upon Richmond. The gathering of the Union army of forty thousand men at White House, near Cumberland, was felt to be the beginning of the expected victorious advance. That part of the army not at Yorktown and Williamsburg was moved up the Penidgwick, Porter, and Richardson, after some opposition, gathered on the banks of the Pamunkey, the southern branch of the York River. Thence they marched toward White House which — after communication with the divisions that had been fighting at Williamsburg, was established — became headquarters for the whole army. This panoramicerates had no such complete shelter during the spring of 1862, which was remarkable for the inclemency of the weather. Headquarters of General McClellan. （White House on the Pamunkey.) This house, the residence of W. H. F. Lee, son of General R. E. Lee, looked east over the river, which flows south at this point. It was burn<
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
Civil War. McClellan's headquarters before Yorktown Camp Winfield Scott, near Wormley's Creek. equal force and here on the historic soil of Yorktown men of North and South stood opposed, where e works, a parallel line extending from before Yorktown to the Warwick, a Ramparts that baffled Mcfederates abandoned 200 pieces of ordnance at Yorktown, they were able to render most of them uselesederate battery in the entrenchments south of Yorktown.) The near gun is a 32-pounder navy; the far shell upon the fortifications and landing at Yorktown, two miles away. It opened up on May 1, 1862ed city which McClellan appeared to think it, Yorktown was but a small village, to which the occupatederal Ordnance Ready for Transportation from Yorktown.--The artillery thus parked at the rear of th May, 1862. With Confederate opposition at Yorktown and Williamsburg broken down, the Army of thectorious advance on the Confederate capital. Yorktown had been evacuated on May 4th and Williamsbur[31 more...]
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
troops were even now in full retreat toward Williamsburg. Soon the Federals were in hot pursuit. ebris of a retreating army. Six miles from Williamsburg the pursuing cavalrymen came to a sudden hathe main column toward the entrenchments of Williamsburg, which were reached by four o'clock. Nigoops were again in motion. The approach to Williamsburg is along a narrow ridge, from either side ong Confederates, who made a strong stand at Williamsburg. The town McClellan thought worth a siegd not yet been taken to the hospitals. But Williamsburg, the ancient capital of the Old Dominion, s That part of the army not at Yorktown and Williamsburg was moved up the Peninsula as fast as the cthe road would permit. After the affair at Williamsburg the troops there joined the main army befor Yorktown had been evacuated on May 4th and Williamsburg abandoned on May 5th to the Union forces. ith the divisions that had been fighting at Williamsburg, was established — became headquarters for [1 more...]
Valley Forge (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
c, was a problem to challenge the military genius of the century. Fresh from his victories in the mountains of West Virginia, imbued with the spirit of Carnot, that military discipline is the glory of the soldier and the strength of armies, General George Brinton McClellan began the task of transmuting the raw and untutored regiments into fighting men who were to bear the brunt of the conflict, until the victory should be theirs at Appomattox. Never, since the days of Baron Steuben at Valley Forge, had the American citizen soldier received such tuition in the art of war. It was a gigantic attempt; but with the flower of the youth of the North, the winning personality of a popular and efficient commander, in whom lived the enthusiasm of the creator and master whose soul was in his work — all deeply imbued with patriotism — there sprang up as if by magic, in the vacant fields about the capital city, battalions of infantry, batteries of artillery, and squadrons of cavalry. Washingt
France (France) (search for this): chapter 5.16
forming the raw recruits in the camps near the national capital into the finished soldiers of the Army of the Potomac. Little Mac, as they called him, was at this time at the height of his popularity. He appears in the center between two of his favorite aides-de-camp--Lieut.-Cols. A. V. Colburn and N. B. Sweitzer--whom he usually selected, he writes, when hard riding is required. Farther to the right stand two distinguished visitors — the Prince de Joinville, son of King Louis Phillippe of France, and his nephew, the Count de Paris, who wears the uniform of McClellan's staff, on which he was to serve through-out the Peninsula Campaign (see page 115). He afterwards wrote a valuable History of the Cival War. Manassas. The other was determined on. Soon the Potomac will swarm with every description of water craft. It is to be the prelude to another drama on the military stage. On the placid river there come canal-boats, flat-bottoms, barges, three-decked steamers, and transatlantic
Chesapeake Bay (United States) (search for this): chapter 5.16
ardships had these troops seen as yet. Everything was new and fresh, the horses well fed and fat, the men happy and well sheltered in comfortable tents. The army had already been divided into four corps, commanded, respectively, by Generals McDowell, Sumner, Heintzelman, and Keyes, but at the last moment McDowell had been detached by President Lincoln. The van was led by General Hamilton's division of the Third Corps. On the afternoon of the second day the first transports entered Chesapeake Bay. In the shadowy distance, low against the sky-line, could be descried the faint outlines of the Virginia shore. The vessels passed toward Hampton Roads where a short time before had occurred the duel of the ironclads, the Monitor and Merrimac. To the right was Old Point Comfort, at whose apex stood the frowning walls of Fortress Monroe. The first troops landed in a terrible storm of thunder and lightning. The sea became rough; great billows were breaking on the beach; cables broke,
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