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Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
n the night of the 4th, flooding the low swampy road, and part of the trains were stalled on the ground where they stood during the night. From Manassas to Appomattox. At daylight on the 5th, Anderson, of Longstreet's corps, seeing the condition of things and believing that a struggle would be necessary to save the wagon shed forward nolens volens to its relief. The other [two] regiments, seeing the confusion of movements and of orders, failed to go forward. From Manassas to Appomattox. But these regiments were not as entirely inactive as General Longstreet and others have thought. General Hill says that, seeing that the woods on the left wergure on his right, the discomfiture of his left. But reading between the lines, the highest compliment was for the two Confederate regiments. From Manassas to Appomattox. Draper, the New York historian, adds: The manner in which the Confederate rear guard turned upon their pursuers at Williamsburg and gave them a bloody chec
Charles City (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ons, forming Heintzelman's corps, were in rear of Couch. The rest of the Federal army was north of the Chickahominy. General Johnston's battle plan was simple, and if all of it had been carried out as effectively as a part of it was the result must have been disastrous to McClellan. Longstreet, who commanded the entire right, was to send in D. H. Hill's division in a front attack on Casey on the Williamsburg road, and support that attack by his own division. Huger was to move on the Charles City road, parallel to Hill, and make a flank attack synchronous with Hill's front attack. G. W. Smith, in charge of the left wing, was to keep Sumner's corps, north of the river, from reinforcing Keyes, and if not attacked early, he was to assist the right wing. For various reasons, not in the province of this writer to consider, only a part of the plan was carried into effect. Huger never made the flank attack, and in the first day's fight only one of Longstreet's brigades got into close
Malvern Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
two regiments pushed rapidly to their assistance, must, as General Hill says, forever remain an undecided question. Colonel McRae evidently thought they would. However, the student of the Confederate war history knows from the slaughter at Malvern Hill and Boonsboro, at Gettysburg and Fredericksburg, how well-nigh impossible it is for the most dauntless infantry to drive an American foe from an artillery and musketry crowned plateau. Even if the rest of the brigade had come when sent for, itteries of artillery between him and an army then estimated to be about 20,000 strong. At the close of this campaign North Carolina had forty regiments in Virginia. The fifteen regiments sent to Virginia were not sent back to the State after Malvern Hill, but General Martin was ordered home to organize new regiments for its local defense. Preceding and preliminary to the great approaching battles around Richmond, occurred Jackson's remarkable campaign of 1862 in the Shenandoah valley. Jac
Martinsburg (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
s, and, assisted by Kirkland's men, drove them through the town. In the midst of a wild ovation that the citizens of Winchester gave Jackson's soldiers, and while every form of edible was being thrust upon the hungry North Carolinians, General Trimble ordered them to follow and protect Latimer's battery wherever it went. As this battery was pressing the retreating enemy, and moving rapidly oftentimes, the regiment was led a dance over the twelve miles intervening between Winchester and Martinsburg, where the industrious artillerymen finally rested. In the furious fire at the stone wall Colonel Kirkland was wounded, Lieutenant-Colonel Pepper wounded so seriously that he died in a few days, and Captains Hedgcock and Ligon killed. The total loss of the regiment in the battle was 21 killed and 55 wounded. At the battle of Cross Keys, on the 8th and 9th of June, the Twenty-first was held in reserve to support Courtney's battery, but the two companies of sharpshooters, deployed as
Hanover Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
1, or Lee's Mill retreat up the peninsula Williamsburg Hanover Court House Seven Pines Jackson's wonderful valley campaign. While ed. The next battle in Virginia was at Slash church, near Hanover Court House, on the 27th of May. This, with the exception of one regimeto join Jackson in the valley, but on its way was stopped at Hanover Court House, and kept on lookout duty there. General McClellan, expectire two guns served more handsomely. On their retreat toward Hanover Court House, this regiment found the enemy between it and the rest of thusetts and Sixty-second Pennsylvania were hurried back from toward Hanover. Their line of march threw them on Branch's left flank and rear, sed a very superior force of the enemy. Closely following Hanover Court House came Seven Pines, with a list of casualties at that time thought appalling. There, as at Hanover, an officer from North Carolina directed the fiercest and most protracted part of the contest; for, say
Halifax, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
re of the infantry, wading into a storm of balls which first struck the men on their feet and rose upon their nearer approach, it steadily pressed on.... Officers and men were falling rapidly under the withering fire of grape, canister and musketry. Lieutenant-Colonel Badham was shot in the forehead and fell dead.. Major Sinclair's horse was killed and he was disabled. Captains Garrett, Lea and Jones were all shot down, as were many of the subalterns Among them were Lieut. Thomas Snow, of Halifax, who was killed far in advance of his company, cheering on his men; and Lieutenants Boswell, Clark and Hays. Four hundred and fifteen men of this regiment answered to morning roll-call on that day; before night, the blood of 290 fed the soil of that bleak hill. Such losses are rarely chronicled. The Light Brigade at Balaklava took 600 men into action and lost only 247. Twenty-four commissioned officers of the Fifth regiment led their men up that slope; only four came out unhurt. No wo
Eltham (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
The Superb, to relieve, it is supposed, by the picturesque figure on his right, the discomfiture of his left. But reading between the lines, the highest compliment was for the two Confederate regiments. From Manassas to Appomattox. Draper, the New York historian, adds: The manner in which the Confederate rear guard turned upon their pursuers at Williamsburg and gave them a bloody check will always exact the applause of military critics. Civil War in America. On the 7th of May, at Eltham's landing, nearly opposite West Point, Va., Franklin's division of McClellan's army disembarked from transports for the purpose of getting in the rear of Johnston's retreating army. The purpose, however, was frustrated, for Franklin found G. W. Smith on the ground, and Whiting's division attacked him there. Captain Reilly's battery and Colonel Pender's Sixth North Carolina regiment were under fire, but not seriously engaged. The next battle in Virginia was at Slash church, near Hanover
York (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
failed, the enemy would not have retreated. This is far from the true state of affairs. As Colonel Maury observes: General Johnston had no intention of tarrying at Williamsburg, nor was the place defensible, for the enemy now had control of both York and James rivers, on each flank, and intended to push Franklin's division, kept on transports . . . rapidly up the York river in the vain hope of getting in our rear. General Johnston says: It was an affair with our rear guard, the object of York river in the vain hope of getting in our rear. General Johnston says: It was an affair with our rear guard, the object of which was to secure our baggage trains. Johnston's Narrative. General Webb, of the Federals, observes: The demonstration of the Union cavalry the previous afternoon, and Hooker's pressure the next morning, compelled them to face about to escape being run over at will by their pursuers. The Peninsula, in Civil War Series. General Magruder had been ordered not to stop in Williamsburg at all. Gens. G. W. Smith and D. H. Hill were ordered to resume the march at 2 a. m. on the 5th, and Lon
Ripleys (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
'clock of the same day, and with no march and no battle intervening, that between them they had only 10,000 men. How on that peaceful May morning 7,132 men could, between morning and 1 o'clock, disappear, vanish into unsubstantial air and not be missed, is difficult to understand. But grant that they did, and that Couch and Casey were right, and that they and Kearny together had but 15,000 men, still were they not outnumbered. General Hill had only four brigades that day in his division, Ripley's being absent. In their official reports, his brigadiers report their forces that morning as follows: Anderson reports that he took into action 1,865; Garland, 2,065; Rodes, 2,200. Rains states no numbers; nearest field returns, May 21st, give him 1,830. Total, Hill's division, 7,960. R. H. Anderson, of Longstreet's division (same field return), 2,168. Total Confederate force engaged on the right in the first day's battle, 10,128. So, taking the lowest estimate that the Federals make,
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
, or Lee's Mill retreat up the peninsula Williamsburg Hanover Court House Seven Pines Jacksond Fort Magruder, just below the old town of Williamsburg. On that day the Federal cavalry and infanal Johnston had no intention of tarrying at Williamsburg, nor was the place defensible, for the enemal Magruder had been ordered not to stop in Williamsburg at all. Gens. G. W. Smith and D. H. Hill westores. Colonel Maury, in his article on Williamsburg in Southern Historical Society Papers, seemte rear guard turned upon their pursuers at Williamsburg and gave them a bloody check will always exrengthened by an unfinished redoubt, on the Williamsburg road, west of Seven Pines. Behind Casey, division in a front attack on Casey on the Williamsburg road, and support that attack by his own died by Lieut.-Col. R. D. Johnston across the Williamsburg road, and, co-operating with the Fourth Nor Kearny's division of stout fighters on the Williamsburg road, in the neighborhood of King's schoolh[1 more...]
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