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Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
efences of Washington, Early had occupied fully 60,000 men to oppose him. All the objects of the campaign were, up to this time, roundly accomplished. No doubt there was hope that Washington might possibly be captured, and that Grant, like McClellan, might be forced to abandon operations on the James, and both his and Lee's armies transferred to the northern border. But this hope was never either a design or expectation. The march of Early from Cold Harbor by Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Salem, Staunton and Winchester across the Potomac and the Monocacy, and through the South Mountain passes to Washington, and back to Virginia between the 13th of June and the 14th of July, a distance of 510 miles, an average of sixteen miles a day, is for length and rapidity, without a parallel in our own or any modern war. The fact that most of his men covered sixty miles, from Charlottesville to Lynchburg, on the cars does not alter this statement. It took Sherman nearly three months to get ove
Jackson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
heard the news he was sick in an ambulance, going home from Wytheville. He said, without the slightest irreverence, I will say that the sound of the last trump would not have been more unwelcome to my ears. Comparisons have been made between Jackson's and Early's campaigns, sometimes to the detriment of the latter. The differences in their situations should be remembered. Zzzfought under a Paling Star. First. Jackson fought when the prestige of the Confederacy was in the ascendancy.seizing and grinding stacks of wheat while battle raged about them. What shall we eat and wherewithal shall we be clothed, was the problem of his men, and if they plundered battlefields it was hunger and nakedness that prompted them. Third. Jackson's Cavalry was not overmatched by the enemy's, as Early's was, three to one. The Valley, now denuded of fences and swept by fire, was a splendid field for cavalry operations; and Early felt and expressed his sense of deficiency in cavalry. His
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
y Early, and of the splendid victory that sent Milroy routed to Harper's Ferry and cleared the path for our northern march. Zzzpennsylvania and Gettysburg. Early commanded the vanguard of the Army of Northern Virginia that now penetrated Pennsylvania. It was his division that made the decisive charge in the first day's battle at Gettysburg when the scales were trembling in the balance; it was he, who, when that charge had so largely contributed to win us the victory with 5,000 prisoners oge of Charlestown, skirmishing every day, and is heartily commended by Lee in his dispatches. The Federal historian Pond says of Early's movements at this period: Holding the line of the Opequon, Early had for weeks not only kept Maryland and Pennsylvania quaking with apprehension, but persistently maintained his grasp on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, checking every effort to open these conduits to the capital and greatly impeding thus travel and trade. His
Resaca (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
y at Manassas, and are entitled to the highest distinction therefor, Johnston manoeuvred well at Yorktown, struck McClellan a parting blow with fine address at Williamsburg, and then, like Albert Sidney Johnston, at Shiloh, fell wounded, as he was pressing the enemy at Seven Pines, when opportunity vanished. For two years he was not again in battle; until 1864, when he took command of a defeated army at Dalton, and conducted a masterly retreat to Atlanta, fighting as he fell back at Dalton, Resaca, New Hope Church, and Kennesaw, and indeed, all along the way, with courage, skill, and effect. Unfortunately removed from the command, ere his plans matured, there was no chance to judge them by the event; and when he returned to a broken but undismayed army, and led it in its last gallant fight, at Bentonville, it was only the prelude of surrender. General Beauregard defended Charleston and Savannah with great gallantry and engineering skill, but he was engaged in but three great actio
Belle Grove (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
mmanders met at Early's headquarters for final instructions, and Early directed that Gordon should proceed immediately after dark to the foot of the mountain, crossing the river, and move for a house on the west side of the Valley 'pike called Belle Grove, where Sheridan had his headquarters, taking with him the Second Corps—namely, Gordon's, Ramseur's and Pegram's Divisions. Early in person, with Kershaw and Wharton and all the artillery, was to move along the Valley 'pike from Strausburg ande to the Valley 'pike, and strike the enemy wherever the firing might indicate his presence. Colonel William H. Payne, with his small brigade of 300 to 400 men, was to go with Gordon and endeavor to capture Sheridan, who was supposed to be at Belle Grove. Zzzthe sun of Middletown. At the appointed hour, everything was in motion—Wharton going with Early, at 1 o'clock, towards Strausburg; Rosser starting before day, to attack at 5 A. M.; while Gordon has gone to get in position at nightf
Mount Jackson (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
Early had to ride to some of them and order withdrawal of their guns before they would move. Their pertinacity in holding out led to the loss of eleven guns. Otherwise the loss was not great, but Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Pendleton, the distinguished and gallant adjutant-General of the corps, who had served so long with Jackson, Ewell and Early, fell mortally wounded, leaving a vacuum which it was indeed difficult to supply. Early slowly retired down the Valley to Rude's Hill, between Mount Jackson and New Market, in line of battle, checking the enemy as he advanced, the troops behaving admirably. Sheridan's Cavalry followed as far as Staunton, but Early had simply stepped aside to Port Republic, while they passed on, and then moved to Waynesboroa on the 30th of September. In early October he is moving down the Valley again and meditates attacking the enemy at Harrisonburg on the 6th, but he in turn retires. By the 13th he is again at Fisher's Hill and Hupp's Hill, and finds S
Drewry's Bluff (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
eat gallantry and engineering skill, but he was engaged in but three great actions during the war—Manassas, in 1861; Shiloh, in 1862; and Petersburg, in 1864. He was victorious in the first, fortune failed him in the second, it perched again upon his banner in the last, when he saved the Cockade City, the very day Early saved Lynchburg, after a three days fight against enormous odds, in one of the best fought battles of the civil war, which followed his skillful bottling up of Butler at Drewry's Bluff. But in his case, as in Joseph E. Johnston's, the record is so fragmentary, after Manassas neither of them tried conclusions with an adversary in general engagement (Beauregard at Petersburg excepted), neither of them drove an enemy off the field of conflict—and, whatever their abilities, which undoubtedly were great, they were never put to final tests by uninterrupted campaigns, and can hence not be the subject of satisfactory comparison. Battles unfought and campaigns untried must
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 1.26
did charge of Gordon, that saved the day. To have wrung a tear from Early's eye is sufficient tribute to my brave young comrade's fame. There are lofty peaks that lift their summits to the skies capped with eternal snows, but in the nooks and crannies of their vales, sweet waters flow and violets spring. They are but emblems of such great natures as that of General Early. Zzzlast days, death and burial. How Early rode to Texas on horseback, and then went to Mexico, thence to Cuba and Canada after the war; how he returned and upheld the manly spirit of the people, and how zealously he defended Confederate memories is a familiar story to you all. He was the warm admirer of President Davis, and frequently visited him, nor did he ever neglect opportunity to show him and his every consideration in his power. His reverence for Lee and Jackson was scarce less than a religion. He almost worshipped them. He was the first president of the Lee Monument Association, and the most liberal
Swan Point (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
view. At half-past 1 Rhodes's skirmishers were deployed and the big guns of Fort Stevens sent them a loud reception. While the sturdy infantry that had trudged from Cold Harbor came struggling forward on the dusty, sun-baked roads, Generals Early and. Rodes rode upon the field. Very different scenes were transpiring in the Federal lines. Down at the wharf President Lincoln was receiving the Sixth Corps and a part of the Nineteenth Corps, which was arriving by transports coming up the Potomac river. As Generals Early and Rodes, on horseback, surveyed the situation, a cloud of dust beyond the earthworks denoted the coming lines. Presently a line leaped over the works, and as their skirmishers deployed in the open field, General Rodes exclaimed, They are no hundred-days' men, General. A council of war was held that night between Early, Breckinridge, Gordon, Rodes and Ramseur, and it was resolved to storm the lines at daybreak, unless the revelations of the night should lead to a
Israel (Israel) (search for this): chapter 1.26
happened to be in session, paid every proper respect to his memory. As he lay majestic in the solemn repose of death, clothed in Confederate gray, and as the coffin was about to close, one of his noblest and bravest followers stepped forward and kissed his marble brow. Services were held in the Episcopal church, and the Rev. T. M. Carson, a former chaplain in his command, who had witnessed his heroism at Cedar Creek, pronounced a touching eulogy, taking for his text the words: A Prince in Israel has Fallen. Amongst the chief mourners was that line of gray and wrinkled men, who followed his hearse, carrying a tattered flag that told its own story. I have never witnessed a more imposing scene than the outpouring of the people as his body was borne to the grave with military ceremonial. The streets and public highways were thronged, business was suspended, and thousands came to see the last of Old Jube. A beautiful site for his grave was donated by the trustees of Spring Hill Ce
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