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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 20: (search)
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
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 45: (search)
Colonel Dahlgren were to attack it and enter on the west and north. Two days later another army corps left for Madison Court House, and other forces subsequently followed. At the same time General Custer, with two ten-inch Parrott guns and fifteen hundred picked men, marched for Charlottesville by the James City road. His purpose was to destroy the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, running by Charlottesville to Gordonsville, where the junction was made of the railroad running north from Lynchburg, with the Central running to Richmond. The capture of the army stores there, the destruction of the tracks running south, west, and east, and cutting the telegraph, would have severed the communication between Lee's army and Richmond by that route. This movement, with the destruction of railroads by General Kilpatrick, and of the Central Railroad and the James River and Kanawha Canal by Colonel Dahlgren, would have isolated that army from its base of supplies. Three hours later, on th
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 47: (search)
of the campaign of 1864, the lower Shenandoah Valley was held by a force under General Sigel, with which General Grant decided to renew the attempt which had been made by Crook and Averill to destroy the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad west of Lynchburg as a means to his general purpose of isolating Richmond; a prompt movement of General Morgan had defeated those attempts and driven off the invaders. Sigel, with about fifteen thousand men, commenced his movement up the valley of the Shenandoaover eight thousand muskets and two battalions of artillery, commenced a march to strike Hunter's force in the rear and, if possible, destroy it; then to move down the Valley, cross the Potomac, and threaten Washington. On the 17th he reached Lynchburg, and Hunter arrived at the same time. Preparations were made for the attack of Hunter on the 19th, when he began to retreat, and was pursued with much loss, until he was disposed of by taking the route to the Kanawha River. On the 27th Early'
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 52: (search)
ect it. This was done, and thus Lee was prevented from carrying out his original purpose, and directed his march toward Lynchburg. The enemy, having first placed himself across the route to Danville, at Jetersville, subsequently took up the line ofbelief that in the mountains of Virginia he could carry on the war for twenty years, and, in directing his march toward Lynchburg, it may well be that as an alternative he hoped to reach those mountains and, with the advantage which the topography wthe force reported to be there should prove to be only Sheridan's cavalry, to disperse it and continue the march toward Lynchburg; if infantry should be found in large force, however, the attempt to break through it was not to be made, and the correerable distance; if this had been the only obstacle, the road would have been opened for Lee to resume his march toward Lynchburg. After Gordon had advanced nearly a mile, he was confronted by a large body of infantry, subsequently ascertained to b
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 53: (search)
f War that, in addition to the daily issue of rations to the Army of Northern Virginia, there lay in depot along the railroad between Greensboro, North Carolina, Lynchburg, Staunton, and Richmond, at least ten days rations of bread and meat, collected especially for that army, and subject to the requisition of its chief commissary tated in detail as follows: At Richmond, Virginia, 300,000 rations bread and meat; at Danville, 500,000 rations bread; at Danville, 1,500,000 rations meat; at Lynchburg, 180,000 rations bread and meat; at Greensboro, North Carolina, and vicinity, 1,500,000 rations bread and meat. In addition, there were considerable supplies d worked as effectively as any that could have been devised. ... I left Richmond at one o'clock of the night Richmond was evacuated, with orders from you to make Lynchburg my headquarters, and be ready to forward supplies from that point to the army. I never heard of any order for the accumulation of supplies at Amelia Springs.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 55: (search)
forces in the war number of the enemy's troops from Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee cruel conduct of the war statements in 1862 statements in 1863 emancipation proclamation statements in 1864 General Hunter's proceedings near Lynchburg cruelties in Sherman's March through South Carolina. On April 25th, at Raleigh, North Carolina, General J. E. Johnston capitulated to General Sherman, as has been stated, and his army was disbanded. On May 4th General R. Taylor capitulatedhem to the flames, killing the unarmed inhabitants, and inflicting horrible outrages on women and children, were some of the constantly recurring atrocities of the invader. On June 19, 1864, Major General Hunter began his retreat from before Lynchburg down the Shenandoah Valley. Lieutenant General Early, who followed in pursuit, thus describes the destruction he witnessed along the route: Houses had been burned, and helpless women and children left without shelter. The country had been