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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
Union lines. Edward Johnson, first lieutenant Sixth Regiment of Infantry, afterward commanded a division in the Army of Northern Virginia at the battle of Gettysburg. Winfield S. Hancock, second lieutenant Sixth Regiment of Infantry, afterward commanded the centre of the Army of the Potomac at the battle of Gettysburg. Lafayette McLaws, first lieutenant Seventh Regiment of Infantry, afterward commanded a division in the Army of Northern Virginia at the battle of Gettysburg. James Longstreet, first lieutenant Eighth Regiment of Infantry, afterward commanded the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, at the battle of Gettysburg. George E. Pickett, second lieutenant Eighth Regiment of Infantry, afterward commanded a division in the Army of Northern Virginia and led the assault known as Pickett's charge at the battle of Gettysburg. United States volunteers Jefferson Davis, colonel First Regiment Mississippi Rifles, afterward President of Confederacy. John W. Geary,
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
enemy was composed of the divisions of Generals Longstreet and A. P. Hill. Crossing the Chickahomthe latter, about noon, Jenkins' brigade of Longstreet's division, in the advance, reported the Fedon the report of Generals Meade and Seymour. Longstreet continued to advance, pushing back these twoll, the latter's whole line came into view. Longstreet then halted his column and formed line of ba brigade, which was ordered forward to guard Longstreet's right flank. This formation of LongstreetLongstreet's brought the centre of Jenkins' brigade on the New Market Road. It was now about half-past 2, when Longstreet, hearing artillery firing on his left, off toward the Charles City Road, and knowing of concert of action in these operations of Longstreet, which is attributed to the difficult characlain the situation of affairs. The whole of Longstreet's division had now been engaged, and althougn early in the day, as we have seen, sent to Longstreet's assistance. Of the remaining brigades, Ar[2 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 5 (search)
ry: the First Corps, under command of General James Longstreet; the Second, under Lieutenant-Generals. On the 24th and 25th the corps of Generals Longstreet and Hill had crossed the Potomac; that rmy east of the mountains. Accordingly Generals Longstreet and Hill were ordered to concentrate atHill and Ewell are certainly concentrating. Longstreet's whereabouts, I do not know. If he is not Headquarters of Lee, A. P. Hill's corps and Longstreet's corps advanced toward that centre. Crit P. M. In it he said: I am satisfied that Longstreet and Hill have made a junction. A tremendous Caldwell's division of the Second Corps. Longstreet's two divisions, commanded by McLaws and Hoobegun, General Ewell had heard not only that Longstreet's attack on the left wing of the Federal armupied the passes at Cashtown and Fairfield. Longstreet with his whole corps was on Ewell's right, aOn the 6th Lee again retreated, and by night Longstreet, in the advance, was about to enter Hagersto[16 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
successfully, to get some news of the Wises. General Henry A. Wise and son, brother-in-law and nephew of Mrs. Meade. Mr. Wise's command undoubtedly went with Longstreet to Tennessee, but whether he went I am not able to ascertain. Headquarters army of the Potomac, September 30, 1863. I am sorry to see you so anxious abou more at home. Headquarters army of the Potomac, October 22, 1864. Since I wrote to you we have received the news of Sheridan's last victory—this time over Longstreet, and with an army that had been surprised and driven in disorder for four miles. This certainly is very remarkable, and if not modified by any later intelligenannounced to you the surrender of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. This I consider virtually ends the war. I have been to-day in the rebel camp; saw Lee, Longstreet, and many others, among them Mr. Wise. They were all affable and cordial, and uniformly said that, if any conciliatory policy was extended to the South, peace
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 9 (search)
ted to morrow or the day after. They will be sent to Harpers Ferry unless you wish otherwise. I shall do everything in my power to reinforce you. I fully appreciate the importance of the coming battle. July 10, 1863, 1 P. M. Meade to Halleck: The information received to-day indicates that the enemy occupy positions extending from the Potomac, near Falling Water, through Downsville to Funkstown and to the northeast of Hagerstown, Ewell's Corps being to the northeast of Hagerstown, Longstreet's at Funkstown and A. P. Hill's on their right. These positions they are said to be intrenching. I am advancing on a line perpendicular to the line from Hagerstown to Williamsport, and the Army will this evening occupy a position extending from the Boonsboro and Hagerstown road, at a point one mile beyond Beaver Creek, to Bakersville, near the Potomac. Our cavalry advance this morning drove the enemy's cavalry, on the Boonsboro pike, to within a mile of Funkstown, when the enemy deplo
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix E (search)
laborious service than the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. [Applause.] In this, Sir, I take no credit to myself. It is not my own personal services, but the services of the soldiers of which I speak—the gallantry of the privates of the Pennsylvania Corps. I have only to appeal to Dranesville—the first success that crowned the arms of the Army of the Potomac—which was gained by the unaided gallantry of one brigade of this division; I have only to refer to Mechanicsville, where the whole of Longstreet's Corps was held in check for several hours and a victory achieved by two brigades alone of the Pennsylvania Corps. [Cheers.] I have only to allude to New Market Cross Roads, sometimes called Glendale, to which I refer most emphatically, because some of the most distinguished officers of this army, ignorant of the facts and misled by information received at the time, but which subsequently proved incorrect, have brought grave charges against this Division. Upon that field I stood by this<
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 17 (search)
rable point for his attack. In front of General Longstreet (opposite our left wing), Lee remarks, tRoundtop Hill, and its entire position. General Longstreet would have had easy work in coming up oum reaching our left, which, as we have seen, Longstreet was directed to carry. Well may General Mea struggle now became deadly. The columns of Longstreet charged with reckless fury upon our troops, was able to withstand the impetuous onset of Longstreet's legions for nearly an hour before any succn of Lee, by overthrowing our left wing, and Longstreet was reinforced by Pickett's three brigades, Speaking of the moment when the columns of Longstreet had been finally repulsed by our left on Fri is no saying what might have happened. General Longstreet talked to me, he narrates, for a long tiut a mile beyond the town we halted, and General Longstreet sent four cavalrymen up a lane, with dir enfillading the lane. I also distinguished Longstreet walking about, bustled by the excited crowd,
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 18 (search)
ourth—General Crawford's troops, Fifth corps, were thrown into action by order of the corps commander, not by any order of General Sickles, or by any solicitation of Captain Moore, of General Sickles's staff. Fifth—The left of the Third corps was far in advance of Roundtop, and did not connect with it in any way. Sixth—The imminent danger of losing Roundtop resulted, not from the failure to relieve Ward's brigade, which was not there, but from an order of General Sickles, taking Weed's brigade from that hill to assist the Third corps, and Weed, in obeying this order, was met by his corps commander, and promptly returned to his position on the hill, just in time to assist in repelling Longstreet's attack. Seventh—When a dispassionate writer seats himself to bolster up one officer at the expense of others, neither hearsay evidence nor slight errors should have a place in his narrative. Unadulterated truth should stamp its every assertion. A staff officer of the Fifth C
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix O (search)
taff, was employed in drawing up, and that just at the moment the general order for retreat was prepared, the cannon of Longstreet opened on our left wing, under Sickles. I stated, further, that, as retreat was now hopeless, General Meade galloped uleft wing at the beginning of the battle, withstood heroically, to use General Meade's expression, the furious onset of Longstreet for nearly an hour before the reinforcements promised to Sickles, by the Commander-in-Chief arrived and took their part his front to the left by wheeling forward the centre and right wing of his corps so as to confront the flank attack of Longstreet. No military critic would call this an advance. If he had not done this he would have been cut to pieces by an enfilae assailants to deny that the invincible resistance of the Third corps under Sickles, to the determined flank attack of Longstreet, until the reinforcements arrived, saved the army from imminent danger; and no better proof of this is wanted than that
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 29 (search)
lso my instructions to Butterfield on the morning of the 2d, which he persists in calling an order for retreat, in the face of all my other acts, and of the fact that I did not retreat when I could have done so with perfect ease at any moment. Longstreet's advice to Lee To move from his right upon General Meade's communications. was sound military sense; it was the step I feared Lee would take, and to meet which, and be prepared for which was the object of my instructions to Butterfield, whiRound Top, which I pointed out. Now his right was three-quarters of a mile in front of Hancock's left, and his left one-quarter of a mile in front of the base of Round Top, leaving that key-point unoccupied, which ought to have been occupied by Longstreet before we could get there with the Fifth Corps. Sickles's movement practically destroyed his own corps, the Third, caused a loss of 50 per cent. in the Fifth Corps, and very heavily damaged the Second Corps; as I said before, producing 66 per
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