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York (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
d nowhere within the boundaries of the Old Dominion. The Confederates, with much energy, pushed forward preparations for the defence of Virginia; and the middle of the month of May reveals the growing outlines of a definite military policy. This policy, however, so far as it touched the distribution of force, seems to have been shaped rather by the Austrian principle of covering every thing, than by any well-considered combination of positions. The Peninsula between the James and the York rivers was held by a Confederate force of about two thousand men, under Colonel J. B. Magruder, who took position near Hampton, where he confronted the Federal force at Fortress Monroe, which had lately been placed under command of Major-General B. F. Butler. The defence of the highland region of Western Virginia had been assumed by General Lee, commander-in-chief of the State forces, who had dispatched to that section Colonel Porterfield, with instructions to raise a local volunteer force—not
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
l, decreed that pending the popular vote on the question of secession, military operations, offensive and defensive, in Virginia, should be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States, Confederate troops, from South Carolina and the States of the Gulf, were rapidly thrown forward into Virginia. Meantime, the United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry had been evacuated and partially destroyed by the commander of the post; and the United States navy-yard at Norfolk had been abandoned by the Federal officer in command, and several men-of-war, with a vast accumulation of war materiel, consigned to the flames. Save from the fortress that guards the entrance of James River, the Federal flag floated nowhere within the boundaries of the Old Dominion. The Confederates, with much energy, pushed forward preparations for the defence of Virginia; and the middle of the month of May reveals the growing outlines of a definite military policy. This policy, how
Centreville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
d hoped to have his columns concentrated at Centreville that night, but the troops being unused to ly made with a good deal of rapidity. From Centreville, General McDowell proceeded to push out recad been ordered with his division to occupy Centreville, and thence observe the roads to Bull Run, above the point where the direct road from Centreville to Warrenton crosses Bull Run by the Stone th Division (Miles) to remain in reserve at Centreville, and to make with one of its brigades, adderom the turnpike to the right a mile beyond Centreville, and, by a detour, reach Sudley Ford; thencthe 20th, when the troops, breaking camp at Centreville, launched on their novel adventure, and, inision had the advance on the main road from Centreville; and, as the two divisions under Hunter andt and centre on the Union flank and rear at Centreville; and with this view orders were dispatched duty of holding the Centreville ridge from Centreville up to Blackburn's Ford, withdrew his troops[1 more...]
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e, who had dispatched Colonel Porterfield to that region, for the purpose of raising there a local force. The object of this, it is probable, was not so much to undertake offensive operations across the Ohio River, as to coerce the loyal inhabitants into the secession movement. The correctness of this view of the aim of the Confederates in West Virginia is fully confirmed by captured dispatches from General Lee to Colonel Porterfield. Now about the middle of May, the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois had been formed into a department named the Department of the Ohio, and its control had by General Scott been intrusted to General George B. McClellan, formerly of the Corps of Engineers in the regular army, who having a short time previously been made major-general of the Ohio contingent under the three months call, was now raised to the same rank in the regular army. His command being bounded on one side by the Ohio River, McClellan's attention was naturally attracted to th
Piedmont, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ft free to move to form a junction with Beauregard! This was precisely what Johnston now found occasion to do. As will presently appear, McDowell's reconnoitring parties appeared in front of Bull Run on the 18th of July. On the same day a message reached Johnston from Beauregard: If you wish to help me, now is the time. Johnston promptly availed himself of the opportunity to escape unmolested. Making a rapid flank march by way of Ashby's Gap, he took cars on the Manassas Gap Railroad at Piedmont, and joined Beauregard with his advance brigades on Saturday, the 20th. What part they played in the coming battle will presently appear. General McDowell moved his army from the banks of the Potomac on the afternoon of July 16th. The movable column consisted of four divisions—the First Division, under General Tyler; the Second, under General Hunter; the Third, under General Heintzelman; the Fifth, under Colonel Miles. The Fourth Division, under General Runyon, was left in the works o
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ren, at that time attached to Duryea's Zouaves, states in his evidence before the War Committee that the two regiments, when they arrived on the ground, finding things not at all as they had been instructed, were justified in firing on each other. Report on the Conduct of the War, vol. III., p. 384. The enemy at Little Bethel, getting the alarm, took flight, and the expedition then advanced on Big Bethel. This position, as it appears, was occupied as an outpost of Magruder's main body at Yorktown, and was held by a force of eleven hundred North Carolina and Virginia troops, under Colonel D. H. Hill, then in command of the First North Carolina regiment. Hill Report of Big Bethel The position was rather advantageous for defence, being covered by a swampy creek, and further strengthened by some guns placed under cover. It was liable, however, to be easily turned by the right. General Pierce displayed a great incompetence in his dispositions; but it happened that there was one man
Clarksburg (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
avenue of escape, and thus, if possible, capture or destroy the whole adverse force. In a letter to Lieutenant-General Scott, communicating his proposed plan of operations, McClellan adroitly put it that he should seek to repeat the manoeuvre at Cerro Gordo. With the main column of two brigades, under Brigadier Generals Scheich and Rosecrans, the afterwards illustrious commander of the Army of the Cumberland and victor of Stone River, General McClellan moved from the west, by way of Clarksburg to Buchanon (July 2), twenty miles west of the hostile position. From here, several divergent expeditionary columns were sent out to mislead the enemy. Another column, composed of the brigade of General Morris, held position at Phillippi, about the same distance north of the enemy's stronghold, as General McClellan, at Buchanon, with his other two brigades, was west of it. The 7th of July, Morris was directed to advance southward to a position within a mile and a half of Garnett's camp
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
in his evidence before the War Committee that the two regiments, when they arrived on the ground, finding things not at all as they had been instructed, were justified in firing on each other. Report on the Conduct of the War, vol. III., p. 384. The enemy at Little Bethel, getting the alarm, took flight, and the expedition then advanced on Big Bethel. This position, as it appears, was occupied as an outpost of Magruder's main body at Yorktown, and was held by a force of eleven hundred North Carolina and Virginia troops, under Colonel D. H. Hill, then in command of the First North Carolina regiment. Hill Report of Big Bethel The position was rather advantageous for defence, being covered by a swampy creek, and further strengthened by some guns placed under cover. It was liable, however, to be easily turned by the right. General Pierce displayed a great incompetence in his dispositions; but it happened that there was one man there who saw the course of action suited to the case.
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
tre of Beauregard's true defensive line along Bull Run. Reaching the heights on the northern side o It was found that there was a good ford over Bull Run at Sudley Spring, two miles above the point wct road from Centreville to Warrenton crosses Bull Run by the Stone Bridge. It was also found that ery fire on the enemy on the opposite side of Bull Run. While the columns of McDowell were thus ud committed the error of treating the line of Bull Run as a real defensive line that could be passedote that on his left, from Sudley Springs up, Bull Run could be passed anywhere. When, therefore, as column, having passed to the yonder side of Bull Run, by way of Sudley Ford, and advanced for a mi of quite one hundred feet above the level of Bull Run at the bridge, it falls off on these sides toion, made in all available directions towards Bull Run. Every effort was made to rally the troops, nerated into a panic. The troops fled across Bull Run; and once on the road, the different bodies c[14 more...]
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
B. F. Butler. The defence of the highland region of Western Virginia had been assumed by General Lee, commander-in-chief oinfluence of a series of very different operations in Western Virginia, from whose mountains was flashed the first gleam of n earlier part of this narrative, that the defence of Western Virginia, on the side of the Confederates, had been undertakento the amount of six thousand men, were directed upon Western Virginia, and the command given to General Garnett, an old offforce. The theatre of operations was that portion of Western Virginia contained between the Ohio and Cheat rivers in one diountry are inconsiderable. McClellan: Campaigns in Western Virginia, p. 25. These characteristics of ground, which arsently appear, the operations of General McClellan in Western Virginia afford a very happy application of all the cardinal pwith sufficient promptness, McClellan: Campaign in Western Virginia, p. 34. so that the operation was not as decisive as
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