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Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
on, heard that our army had retired, he ordered a general movement of his troops toward the position we had lately occupied. A detachment was sent to make reconnaissance as far as the line of the Rappahannock, by which it was ascertained that our troops had passed beyond that river. His account of this movement was given in the following report: Fairfax Court-House, March 11, 1862, 8:30 P. M. I have just returned from a ride of more than forty miles. Have examined Centreville, Union Mills, Blackburn's Ford, etc. The rebels have left all their positions, and, from the information obtained during our ride to-day, I am satisfied that they have fallen behind the Rapidan, holding Fredericksburg and Gordonsville. Their movement from here was very sudden. They left many wagons, some caissons, clothing, ammunition, personal baggage, etc. Their winter-quarters were admirably constructed, many not yet quite finished. The works at Centreville are formidable; more so than at Manass
Centreville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
cock retreat up the Peninsula sub-terra shells used evacuation of Norfolk its occupation by the enemy. In A previous chapter the retreat of our army from Centreville has been described, and reference has been made to the anticipation of the commanding general, J. E. Johnston, that the enemy would soon advance to attack that iven in the following report: Fairfax Court-House, March 11, 1862, 8:30 P. M. I have just returned from a ride of more than forty miles. Have examined Centreville, Union Mills, Blackburn's Ford, etc. The rebels have left all their positions, and, from the information obtained during our ride to-day, I am satisfied that thwagons, some caissons, clothing, ammunition, personal baggage, etc. Their winter-quarters were admirably constructed, many not yet quite finished. The works at Centreville are formidable; more so than at Manassas. Except the turnpike, the roads are horrible. The country entirely stripped of forage and provisions. Having fully c
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
astwise and harbor defense. General Lee, always bold in his views and unusually sagacious in penetrating the designs of the enemy, insisted that the Peninsula offered great advantages to a smaller force in resisting a numerically superior assailant, and, in the comprehensive view which he usually took of the necessities of other places than the one where he chanced to be, objected to withdrawing the troops from South Carolina and Georgia, as involving the probable capture of Charleston and Savannah. By recent service in that section he was well informed as to the condition of those important ports. General G. W. Smith, as well as I remember, was in full accord with General Johnston, and General Longstreet partially so. After hearing fully the views of the several officers named, I decided to resist the enemy on the Peninsula, and, with the aid of the navy, to hold Norfolk and keep the command of the James River as long as possible. Arrangements were made, with such force as our
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
een constructed by General Magruder near to Williamsburg, where the width of the Peninsula, availabln the event of delays on the retreat. At Williamsburg, about twelve miles from Yorktown, General is official report from bivouac in front of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862, says, General Hancock has takor the brilliant event in the affair before Williamsburg, I will extract fully from General Early's up the line of march from its camp west of Williamsburg toward Richmond on the 5th of May. . . . I of the enemy to have achieved a victory at Williamsburg is refuted by the fact that our troops remager. The fact of our wounded being left at Williamsburg was only due to our want of ambulances in wRains, the inventor: On the day we left Williamsburg, after the battle, we worked hard to get ouThe morning after the battle of the 5th, at Williamsburg, Longstreet's and D. H. Hill's divisions, bonducted. In the principal action, that at Williamsburg, our force, after General Hill's division h[3 more...]
Annapolis (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
ansports down the Chesapeake into the Rappahannock; that in the following February, by the direction of President Lincoln, General McClellan held a council with twelve of the generals of that army, who decided in favor of the movement by way of Annapolis, and thence to the Rappahannock, to which their President gave his assent. When General McClellan, then in the city of Washington, heard that our army had retired, he ordered a general movement of his troops toward the position we had lately oss Monroe, that the Merrimac, our Virginia, should first be neutralized. The order to bring the transports to Washington was due to the fact that they had not dared to run by our batteries on the Potomac, and intended to avoid them by going to Annapolis for embarkation. The withdrawal of our batteries from the banks of the Potomac had removed the objection to going down that river, and the withdrawal of our forces across the Rappahannock was fatal to the program of landing on that river, and
Gloucester Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
tains connecting them. Between Yorktown and Gloucester Point, on the opposite shore, the York River is con that there should be an attack on the rear of Gloucester Point, and adds: My present strength will not admit tachment from his army to turn the position at Gloucester Point, and that the navy would not attempt to operatcould concentrate there; that the batteries at Gloucester Point could not be maintained; that the enemy would the war, were that he could gain possession of Gloucester Point only by reenforcements operating on the north of General Keyes. He said, The possession of Gloucester Point by the enemy retarded the taking of Yorktown, York River, could have turned the position at Gloucester Point and have overcome our small garrison at that ph side of York River to capture our battery at Gloucester Point, and thus open the way to turn our position by side of the York River against our battery at Gloucester Point. On the 28th of the following June, Lincoln
Gordonsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
examined Centreville, Union Mills, Blackburn's Ford, etc. The rebels have left all their positions, and, from the information obtained during our ride to-day, I am satisfied that they have fallen behind the Rapidan, holding Fredericksburg and Gordonsville. Their movement from here was very sudden. They left many wagons, some caissons, clothing, ammunition, personal baggage, etc. Their winter-quarters were admirably constructed, many not yet quite finished. The works at Centreville are formidthen the command of Brigadier General J. R. Anderson, who was placed in observation before General McDowell, then at Fredericksburg, threatening to advance with a force four or five times as great as that under General Anderson, and another detachment had been sent to the aid of Brigadier General Branch, who, with his brigade, had recently been brought up from North Carolina and sent forward to Gordonsville, for the like purpose as that for which General Anderson was placed near Fredericksburg.
Centreville (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
Chapter 20: Advance of General McClellan toward Centreville; his report our forces ordered to the Peninsula situation at Yorktown siege by General McClellan General Johnston assigned to command; his recommendation attack on General Magruder at Yorktown movements of McClellan the Virginia General Johnston Retires delay at Norfolk before Williamsburg remark of Hancock retreat up the Peninsula sub-terra shells used evacuation of Norfolk its occupation by the enemy. In A previous chapter the retreat of our army from Centreville has been described, and reference has been made to the anticipation of the commanding general, J. E. Johnston, that the enemy would soon advance to attack that position. Since the close of the war we have gained information not at that time to us attainable, which shows that, as early as January 31, 1862, the commanding general of the enemy's forces presented to his President an argument against that line of operations, setting forth
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
a, and of General Huger's from Norfolk, to be united with the main body of the army of Northern Virginia, and the withdrawal of the troops from South Carolina and Georgia, his belief being that General Magruder's line was indefensible with the forces we could concentrate there; that the batteries at Gloucester Point could not be masive view which he usually took of the necessities of other places than the one where he chanced to be, objected to withdrawing the troops from South Carolina and Georgia, as involving the probable capture of Charleston and Savannah. By recent service in that section he was well informed as to the condition of those important porge T. Ward, as true a gentleman and as gallant a soldier as has drawn a sword in this war, and whose conduct under fire it was my fortune to Map: operations in Georgia and Tennesse. witness on another occasion. His loss to his regiment, to his State, and to the Confederacy can not be easily compensated. Colonel Ward, with
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.6
being unoccupied, were seized by the enemy, and held subsequently to our disadvantage. General McClellan, in his official report from bivouac in front of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862, says, General Hancock has taken two redoubts and repulsed Early's rebel brigade by a real charge of the bayonet, taking one colonel and one hundred and fifty other prisoners. As this is selected for the brilliant event in the affair before Williamsburg, I will extract fully from General Early's report: Lynchburg, June 9, 1862. In accordance with orders received the evening before, my brigade was in readiness to take up the line of march from its camp west of Williamsburg toward Richmond on the 5th of May. . . . I was directed by Major-General D. H. Hill not to move my infantry, and in a short time I was ordered by him to march back, and report with my regiments to Major-General Longstreet at Williamsburg. . . . Between three and four o'clock, P. M., I was ordered by General Longstreet to move t
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