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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 8 (search)
stavus, and Frederick fought battles; but it was a course very bold—unusually bold for the cautious and methodical mind of the Confederate commander. Relying on the repulse Hooker had received to hold him inactive, Lee instantly countermarched from Hooker's front a force sufficient, in conjunction with the troops under Early, to check or destroy Sedgwick. Wilcox's brigade, which had been held at Banks' Ford, was already in position to meet him; and in addition, Lee forwarded the brigade of Mahone of Anderson's division and the brigades of Kershaw, Wofford, and Semmes under General McLaws. Lee: Report of Chancellorsville, p. 12. These, with the five brigades of Early, who was in position to place himself on Sedgwick's rear, he judged adequate to the work. While, therefore, this force was countermarching from Chancellorsville towards Fredericksburg, Sedgwick was advancing from Fredericksburg towards Chancellorsville; and it happened that the heads of the columns came together just
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
t Todd's Tavern. though one division (that of Gibbon) was in the afternoon sent forward towards Spottsylvania Courthouse. To observe the Catharpen road against any hostile approach, Miles' brigade of Hancock's corps, with a brigade of Gregg's cavalry and a battery of artillery, moved out in the afternoon, and took up a position within a mile of Corbyn's Bridge. This Miles held, meeting only an artillery fire, till he was recalled, late in the afternoon. While retiring, he was assailed by Mahone's division of Hill's corps; but Miles, with much skill, repulsed the attack. It would probably have sufficed to retain only a small masking force, such as that of Miles. In this case Hancock would have been able to push on to the critical front. His retention at Todd's Tavern was very unfortunate, and must be accounted rather timid generalship; for the army, having been cut loose from the Wilderness, should have been pushed to Spotsylvania with the utmost vigor. The situation was such as
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
irty-five miles of breastwork which it behooved Lee to guard, and all the force remaining to him was thirty-seven thousand muskets, and a small body of broken down horse! But one resource remained—the oft-tried resource of stripping his intrenched lines to the uttermost, and with the force thus gathered rushing to the menaced right with the view of checking—if possible, of beating back—the turning column. At this time two divisions of Longstreet's corps guarded the lines of Richmond, and Mahone's division of Hill's corps the front of Bermuda Hundred. These Lee did not dare to weaken, for, not so well informed as usual, he was not master of all the bearings of the Union commander's operations. Unaware that Grant had already removed three of the four divisions that had been confronting the Richmond force, Lee retained Longstreet where he was, but instructed his lieutenant to move to the Petersburg side as soon as he should detect any weakening of the adverse lines. (Not till four <