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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General Pope—Battle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
half-way between Bayard and Buford, there was a signal station, which overlooked the whole country as far south as Orange Court House. Pope's Report. On the morning of the 8th, Pope, who had in person arrived at Culpeper Court House, sent wor to where Ricketts' division, of three brigades of McDowell's corps, was watching the road which turns off from the Orange Court House and Culpeper road to Madison Court House. These troops were stripped of harness, and taking their ease under shel Federal line of battle was formed with Augur's division of Banks's corps (2d) on the left of the road lead-·ing to Orange Court House, and Williams's division on the right, and in the following order from right to left: Gordon's brigade on the righ. XII. part II. Reports of Augur, Williams, Crawford, etc. As one approaches Cedar Creek, going south towards Orange Court House, a gentle descent for half a mile leads to the low ground, through which the creek winds in a northwesterly and sou
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 8: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
the men, the conceivable and inconceivable positions they took in loading, their swearing and gibing at the enemy, intermingled with the din of musketry, while the bright sunset streamed in their eyes over the dark and smoky woods which covered the superior numbers of the foe and greatly gave them the advantage,--and for an account of the charge of Federal cavalry Some one sent a very small force of cavalry into the hell we had just left: we won't criticise it. They charged down the Orange Court House road, and without stopping to say or do much, they turned around and came back, leaving a number of dead horses on the field. The enemy said it was a plucky act. Major Gould: History of the First, Tenth, and Twenty-ninth Maine. with which Banks sought to retrieve his fortunes, and of which the grandiloquent Dabney speaks as a magnificent column of cavalry, reference is made to the full details in Major Gould's History. The events that transpired here serve to fix for us the fact,
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 9: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
on for delay was that King might come up with the other division of McDowell's corps. King arrived on the evening of the 11th, and Pope made up his mind, though his force barely equalled Jackson's, to fall upon the enemy on the 12th. Pope's Official Report. Many such resolutions have been frustrated by the enemy not waiting to be fallen upon. So Jackson. He fled on the evening of the 11th, leaving many of his dead and wounded on the field and along the road from Cedar Mountain to Orange Court House. When Jackson went tumbling across the Rapidan, under cover of night, abandoning many wounded and stragglers by the way, and barely saving his baggage; calling for reinforcements, and thanking the Lord for the victory in the same breath,--we are at a loss to imagine the grounds for his pious gratitude. Strother's Recollections of a Virginia Campaign. On the morning of that day Pope sent, by flag of truce, for permission to recover the wounded and bury the dead. This was granted