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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 34: (search)
Spring's Ford, and a warm cannonade was progressing between the batteries of General A. P. Hill's division and those in his front. The enemy was massed between Warrenton and the Springs, and guarded the fords of the Rappahannock as far above as Waterloo. The army of General McClellan had left Westover, and a part had marched tted at Bristoe. General Jackson, having a much inferior force to General Pope, retired from Manassas Junction and took a position west of the turnpike road from Warrenton to Alexandria, where he could more readily unite with the approaching column of Longstreet. Having supplied the wants of his troops, he was compelled, through tlefield of July 21, 1861, where it was joined on the 28th by the divisions of Hill and Ewell. During the afternoon the enemy, approaching from the direction of Warrenton down the turnpike toward Alexandria, exposed his left flank, and General Jackson determined to attack him. A fierce and sanguinary conflict ensued which continue
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 37: (search)
Chapter 37: The enemy crosses the Potomac and Concentrates at Warrenton advances upon Fredericksburg its position our forces the enemy crosses the Rappahannock attack on General Jackson the main attack repulse of the enemy on the right assaults on the left the enemy's columns broken and Fleeing casualties position during the winter the enemy again crosses the Rappahannock converging toward Chancellorsville, to the rear of our position inactivity on our front our forcal McClellan crossed the Potomac east of the Blue Ridge and advanced southward, seizing the passes of the mountains as he progressed. In the latter part of the month he began to incline eastwardly from the mountains, moving in the direction of Warrenton, about which he finally concentrated, his cavalry being thrown forward beyond the Rappahannock in the direction of Culpeper Court House. On November 15th the enemy was in motion. The indications were that Fredericksburg was again to be occu
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 39: (search)
the shortest practicable route to Grand Gulf. The indications now are that the attack will not be made on your front or right, and all troops not absolutely necessary to hold the works at Vicksburg should be held as a movable force for either Warrenton or Grand Gulf. On the 28th Brigadier General Bowen, commanding at Grand Gulf, reported that transports and barges loaded down with troops are landing at Hard-Times on the west bank. Pemberton replied by asking: Have you force enough to hold ered to bring up the rear of my column; he will be, however, from fifteen to twenty miles behind it. Baldwin's Ferry will be left, necessarily, unprotected. To hold Vicksburg are Smith's and Forney's divisions, extending from Snyder's Mills to Warrenton, numbering effectives seven thousand eight hundred men. . . . I do not think that you fully comprehend the position that Vicksburg will be left in; but I comply at once with your order. On the same day General Pemberton, after his arrival a