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Malvern Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ow that this straggling was from the lack of discipline. I insist that it was but the result of human exhaustion. Consider what this army had done from Kernstown, on the 22d March, to Sharpsburg, 17th September. It had fought the battles of Kernstown, McDowell, Front Royal, Winchester, Strasburg, Cross Keys and Port Republic (constituting the Valley campaign), Williamsburg, Barhamsville, Hanover Courthouse, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill (constituting the Richmond campaign), Cedar Run, Manassas Junction, Manassas Plains, August 29th, Manassas Plains, August 30th (constituting the campaign of Northern Virginia), Harper's Ferry, Boonesboroa and Sharpsburg (constituting in part the campaign in Maryland). History does not record a series of battles like these, fought by one army in so short a space of time. To fight these battles the army had marched and counter-marched hundreds and hundreds of miles in these six months. In
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
he battle of Big Bethel, June 10th. History of Howitzer Battalion, pamphlet No.1, page 14. By the 4th May, troops at the rate of from five hundred to one thousand a day were arriving from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and even Kentucky; some at Richmond, some at Harper's Ferry, and some at Petersburg. Richmond Enquirer. On May the 7th, Governor Letcher directed General Lee to assume the command of all the volunteer or other forces from Virginia, and f infantry and 6 of cavalry—34. From Alabama, 16 regiments of infantry. From Mississippi, 13 regiments of infantry. From Louisiana, 10 regiments of infantry. From Florida, 6 regiments of infantry. From Texas, 3 regiments of infantry. From Tennessee, 3 regiments of infantry, and from Arkansas, one regiment of infantry. I have not been able to ascertain the number of batteries from the different States. In the assembling and gathering together of this great army we have seen that they c
White Oak Swamp (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e, I cannot allow that this straggling was from the lack of discipline. I insist that it was but the result of human exhaustion. Consider what this army had done from Kernstown, on the 22d March, to Sharpsburg, 17th September. It had fought the battles of Kernstown, McDowell, Front Royal, Winchester, Strasburg, Cross Keys and Port Republic (constituting the Valley campaign), Williamsburg, Barhamsville, Hanover Courthouse, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill (constituting the Richmond campaign), Cedar Run, Manassas Junction, Manassas Plains, August 29th, Manassas Plains, August 30th (constituting the campaign of Northern Virginia), Harper's Ferry, Boonesboroa and Sharpsburg (constituting in part the campaign in Maryland). History does not record a series of battles like these, fought by one army in so short a space of time. To fight these battles the army had marched and counter-marched hundreds and hundreds of miles in these
Keen (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
the rank and file, who, as it has been said, are usually the enfants perdu of the world, men who have lost all taste for civil life, who are no loss to civil society. Such, doubtless, were the men who have composed most armies of the world, and such men formed a large part of the Federal army in our war. There were, it is true, in the first regiments raised at the North, especially in New England, such men as Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., describes in an exquisite address delivered at Keen, New Hampshire, memorial day, 1884; men representing all that was highest in the Puritans alike of Old and New England. Such men, doubtless, composed Grover's New England brigade, which made the famous charge on us at Manassas, and no doubt many of the Western regiments were composed of the true yeomanry of the soil. But I rather think the composition of the Fifth New York infantry (Duryee Zouaves), as given in the history of that regiment, was more of the average of the Union troops. Mr.
Front Royal (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
f. If we had had at first a Meigs at the head of our quartermaster's department, as the Federal troops had at their's, I cannot but think that some of these evils would have been checked. But however that may be, I cannot allow that this straggling was from the lack of discipline. I insist that it was but the result of human exhaustion. Consider what this army had done from Kernstown, on the 22d March, to Sharpsburg, 17th September. It had fought the battles of Kernstown, McDowell, Front Royal, Winchester, Strasburg, Cross Keys and Port Republic (constituting the Valley campaign), Williamsburg, Barhamsville, Hanover Courthouse, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill (constituting the Richmond campaign), Cedar Run, Manassas Junction, Manassas Plains, August 29th, Manassas Plains, August 30th (constituting the campaign of Northern Virginia), Harper's Ferry, Boonesboroa and Sharpsburg (constituting in part the campaign in Marylan
Charleston Harbor (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
its equipment, its discipline, its personnel, and its characteristics. The two great armies of the Confederacy may be said to have had the commencement of their organizations in a few militia companies. The Army of Northern Virginia in Charleston harbor around Fort Sumter, and the army of the West at Pensacola before Fort Pickens. When South Carolina seceded, and Major Anderson made the first move of the war, on the 27th December, 1860, abandoning and burning Fort Moultrie, and taking possession of Fort Sumter, the State of South Carolina had but the volunteer companies of the city of Charleston available for seizing and occupying the other strategic points around Charleston harbor. So, too, the volunteer companies from Mobile, New Orleans and Savannah hastened to Fort Pickens and Pensacola, and there formed the nucleus of the army so long commanded by General Bragg, who may be said to have organized them there. The volunteer companies of the Fourth brigade, South Carolina
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
s had at their's, I cannot but think that some of these evils would have been checked. But however that may be, I cannot allow that this straggling was from the lack of discipline. I insist that it was but the result of human exhaustion. Consider what this army had done from Kernstown, on the 22d March, to Sharpsburg, 17th September. It had fought the battles of Kernstown, McDowell, Front Royal, Winchester, Strasburg, Cross Keys and Port Republic (constituting the Valley campaign), Williamsburg, Barhamsville, Hanover Courthouse, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill (constituting the Richmond campaign), Cedar Run, Manassas Junction, Manassas Plains, August 29th, Manassas Plains, August 30th (constituting the campaign of Northern Virginia), Harper's Ferry, Boonesboroa and Sharpsburg (constituting in part the campaign in Maryland). History does not record a series of battles like these, fought by one army in so short a space of t
Mount Vernon (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
and to destroy also, as far as possible, the property in the yard. Records War of Rebellion, Vol. II, p. 21-23. This was attempted, but with partial success, General Taliaferro, with the assistance of Colonel Andrew Talcot, saving many of the guns and much of the Material. Ibid, p. 781. On the 22d April, by the authority of the Governor of the State of Virginia, Brigadier-General Ruggles assumed command of the volunteers and militia along the line of the Potomac, extending from Mount Vernon south to the mouth of the Rappahannock, with headquarters at Fredericksburg. Records War of Rebellion, Vol. II, p. 775. Brigadier-General Philip St. George Cocke had his headquarters temporarily at Alexandria, where he remained until the 27th, when he retired to Culpeper until ordered to Manassas Junction. Ibid, p. 823. As we shall see as we go on, on the points thus taken by the Virginia troops were afterwards formed the divisions and corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, and
Gloucester Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
Cahill's (four pieces of light artillery) and Latham's four pieces of light artillery. Two pieces, he says, were added to Randolph's battery, he having two hundred and twenty-five drilled men in his company. Records War of Rebellion, Volume II, page 789. This was the organization of the famous Richmond Howitzers, which had been, as we have already mentioned, in barracks since the middle of March; who were to fire the first gun at the enemy in Virginia, that at the steamer Yankee from Gloucester Point on the 7th May, and whose fortune it was soon to be, with the First North Carolina regiment, engaged in the first battle of the war, excepting Fort Sumter—the battle of Big Bethel, June 10th. History of Howitzer Battalion, pamphlet No.1, page 14. By the 4th May, troops at the rate of from five hundred to one thousand a day were arriving from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and even Kentucky; some at Richmond, some at Harper's Ferry, and some at Peters
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
nd, A. P. Hill's Light Division—becoming the Second corps, Jackson's. After General Jackson's death the two corps were reof troops. Notwithstanding the want of shoes and clothing, Jackson's corps had marched from Winchester to Fredericksburg, in t obedience to orders, there was no lack, and certainly in Jackson's corps at least obedience was enforced. I can relate twoe which will illustrate this. The afternoon the head of Jackson's corps reached the Rappahannock on the Manassas campaign,count up with him the number of officers who had fallen in Jackson's corps, and especially in the Light Division since he hadacter of Lee and Jackson are well known. The incidents of Jackson, as an elder in the Presbyterian church, himself administet either of them. How promptly Lee wrote when he heard of Jackson's wound in the hour of his victory: I cannot express my reis-statements of Badeau; nor need we fear on our side that Jackson's reputation will suffer from the criticisms of Longstreet
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