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Hooker (search for this): chapter 7
led against the Federal left, driving it back. But at this point the Twentieth Army Corps under Hooker, of Thomas' army, dashed against the advancing Confederates and pushed them back to their formertures are seen the entrenchments which the Confederates had hastily thrown up and which resisted Hooker's assaults on May 25th. For two days each side strengthened its position; then on the 28th the there was not what might be called a pitched battle. Late in the afternoon of the first day, Hooker made a vicious attack on Stewart's division of Hood's corps. For two hours the battle raged without a moment's cessation, Hooker being pressed back with heavy loss. During those two hours he had held his ground against sixteen field-pieces and five thousand infantry at close range. The name H them, Hood abandoned the city, and the next day, September 2d, General Slocum, having succeeded Hooker, led the Twentieth Corps of the Federal army within its earthen walls. Hood had made his escape
Hunter (search for this): chapter 7
irginia Military Institute at Lexington, after Hunter's raid in 1864. The picture shows the blackeneading Virginia military institution after General Hunter's raid through the valley in the early sumontributions to the Confederate cause that General Hunter ordered it to be burned. At any rate, he sburg as McCausland left it. As a reprisal for Hunter's raid in the Shenandoah Valley, the Confederaad soldiers followed the retreating columns of Hunter until the latter had safely filed his men throut not as Lee had expected. Believing that if Hunter were defeated he would retreat down the Valleyn great danger. The question was, how to draw Hunter from his new position. To pursue him further r a march into Maryland, in the hope of luring Hunter from his lair. So Early turned to the north win Pennsylvania was planned as retaliation for Hunter's operations in the Shenandoah. Early succeedfense around Richmond on June 12th, had driven Hunter out of the Shenandoah, and (after marching the[3 more...]
John B. Hood (search for this): chapter 7
n of Schofield's. General Hindman's division of Hood's corps bore the brunt of this attack and thered's staff present as witnesses, all was ready. Hood, with a face like that of an old crusader, stooe Chattahoochee, Joseph Johnston and John B. Hood. Johnston's parrying of Sherman's mightyeir lines and entrenching before this position, Hood's eager eyes detected a gap in their formation e Confederate Army of Tennessee over to General John B. Hood. A graduate of West Point of the classhill gained by McPherson should be retaken, and Hood thought he saw his opportunity in the thinly exxperienced railroad wreckers that finally drove Hood out of Atlanta. In the picture the rails heatiing in that city. Supplies and ammunition that Hood could carry with him were being removed; large t would hardly have been so quickly performed. Hood's impetuous bravery had made it difficult and cl body of cavalry could have released them. So Hood placed himself between Andersonville and Sherma[38 more...]
Horatio G. Wright (search for this): chapter 7
were rushed to the forts around the city. General Wright, with two divisions of the Sixth Corps, arol across the broad Potomac the afternoon General Wright sent out General Wheaton with Bidwell's brall form of Abraham Lincoln by the side of General Wright, who in vain warned the eager President thand made their way to the Shenandoah, with General Wright in pursuit. As the Confederate army was coners, two days later. The Union troops under Wright returned to the defenses of Washington. The, at times even skirmishing for position. General Wright pushed his men to within seven hundred yar march from Washington, closely pursued by General Wright's force of Federals. After Early had made15th, escorted by the cavalry, and leaving General Wright in command. At Front Royal the next day word came from Wright enclosing a message taken for the Confederate signal-flag on Three Top MountainSheridan. The latter sent the cavalry back to Wright, and continued on to Washington, whence he ret[1 more...]
Augur (search for this): chapter 7
stood. The result of the battle for a time hung in the balance. Then the Federal lines began to crumble. The retreat began, some of the troops in order but the greater portion in confusion, and the victorious Confederates found again an open way to Washington. Now within half a dozen miles of the city, with the dome of the Capitol in full view, the Southern general pushed his lines so close to Fort Stevens that he was ready to train his forty pieces of artillery upon its walls. General Augur, in command of the capital's defenses, hastily collected what strength in men and guns he could. Heavy artillery, militia, sailors from the navy yard, convalescents, Government employees of all kinds were rushed to the forts around the city. General Wright, with two divisions of the Sixth Corps, arrived from the Camp at Petersburg, and Emory's division of the Nineteenth Corps came just in time from New Orleans. This was on July 11th, the very day on which Early appeared in front of Fo
George Henry Thomas (search for this): chapter 7
brigadier-general, U. S. A., December 16, 1864, and after the war he was retired with the brevet of major-general. spent the winter, and where a decisive battle had been fought some months before, in the autumn of 1863. His army was composed of three parts, or, more properly, of three armies operating in concert. These were the Army of the Tennessee, led by General James B. McPherson; the Army of Ohio, under General John M. Schofield, and the Army of the Cumberland, commanded by General George H. Thomas. The last named was much larger than the other two combined. The triple army aggregated the grand total of ninety-nine thousand men, six thousand of whom were cavalrymen, while four thousand four hundred and sixty belonged to the artillery. There were two hundred and fifty-four heavy guns. Soon to be pitted against Sherman's army was that of General Joseph E. Johnston, which had spent the winter at Dalton, in the State of Georgia, some thirty miles southeast of Chattanooga.
Brooke (search for this): chapter 7
no move against any of them. Generals Gilmore and Baldy Smith both urged upon Butler the laying of pontoons across the Appomattox in order to advance on Petersburg, the key to Richmond. But Butler curtly replied that he would build no bridges for West Pointers to retreat over. Butler's signal tower The lookout The thirteenth New York heavy artillery idling in winter quarters at Bermuda hundred Butler bottled up The impassable James river The gun is in Confederate Battery Brooke — another of the defenses on the James constructed after Butler was bottled up. Here in 1865 the gunners were still at their posts guarding the water approach to Richmond. The Federals had not been able to get up the river since their first unsuccessful effort in 1862, when the hastily constructed Fort Darling at Drewry's Bluff baffled the Monitor and the Galena. Battery Brooke was situated above Dutch Gap, the narrow neck of Farrar's Island, where Butler's was busily digging his famous can
Stoneman (search for this): chapter 7
simultaneous and that they were to begin early in May. Sherman concentrated his forces around Chattanooga on the A Tennessee River, where the Army of the Cumberland had In the forefront--General Richard W. Johnson at Graysville On the balcony of this little cottage at Graysville, Georgia, stands General Richard W. Johnson, ready to advance with his cavalry division in the vanguard of the direct movement upon the Confederates strongly posted at Dalton. Sherman's cavalry forces under Stoneman and Garrard were not yet fully equipped and joined the army after the campaign had opened. General Richard W. Johnson's division of Thomas' command, with General Palmer's division, was given the honor of heading the line of march when the Federals got in motion on May 5th. The same troops (Palmer's division) had made the same march in February, sent by Grant to engage Johnston at Dalton during Sherman's Meridian campaign. Johnson was a West Pointer; he had gained his cavalry training in
Edward Johnson (search for this): chapter 7
overcast with clouds of smoke and sheets of flame from the burning barns and mills. As the army of Sheridan proceeded down the Valley, the undaunted cavaliers of Early came in pursuit. His horsemen kept close to the rear of the Union columns. On the morning of October 9th, the cavalry leader, Rosser, who had succeeded Wickham, found himself confronted by General Custer's division, at Tom's Brook. At the same time the Federal general, Wesley Merritt, fell upon the cavalry of Lomax and Johnson on an adjacent road. The two Union forces were soon united and a mounted battle ensued. The fight continued for two hours. There were charges and countercharges. The ground being level, the maneuvering of the squadrons was easy. The clink of the sabers rang out in the morning air. Both sides fought with tenacity. The Confederate center held together, but its flanks gave way. The Federals charged along the whole front, with a momentum that forced the Southern cavalrymen to flee from the
Geary (search for this): chapter 7
ing the valley of Peach-Tree Creek about five miles to the north of Atlanta. Here he awaited the approach of Sherman. As the Federals were disposing their lines and entrenching before this position, Hood's eager eyes detected a gap in their formation and at four o'clock in the afternoon hurled a heavy force against it. Thus he proved his reputation for courage, but the outcome showed the mistake. For a brief interval Sherman's forces were in great peril. But the Federals under Newton and Geary rallied and held their ground, till Ward's division in a brave counter-charge drove the Confederates back. This first effort cost Hood dear. He abandoned his entrenchments that night, leaving on the field five hundred dead, one thousand wounded, and many prisoners. Sherman estimated the total Confederate loss at no less than five thousand. That of the Federals was fifteen hundred. Palisades and Chevaux-de-frise guarding Atlanta At last Sherman is before Atlanta. The photograph sho
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