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Rude's Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
hting to the last, and 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 Hu
Talavera (Spain) (search for this): chapter 1.26
he 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 over 300 miles, from Atlanta to Savannah, with less proportional impediment. Crawford's Division of Wellington's army marched seventy-two miles in twenty-four hours to Talavera; but never did Wellington, Stonewall Jackson, or, that I have been able to discover, did Napoleon Bonaparte, achieve so great a consecutive distance in so brief a time. And, when it is remembered that Early had to thread his path into a hostile country, through the meshes of four opposing forces, two of which (Hunter's and Wallace's) he defeated, one of which (Sigel's) he eliminated and foiled, while the fourth he confronted at Washington with numbers trebling his own, and that he did not
Cedar Mountain (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ades, with some of the patience you have often shown upon the weary march. I will appeal to facts and by them shall hope to vindicate my theme. Zzzgeneral Early's battles. Let me lay before you, to begin with, some of his most important and distinguished services. He was a graduate of West Point, a veteran of three wars, and he took part in the civil war in well-nigh fifty battles and skirmishes. He was engaged therein at Bull Run, Manassas, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Groveton, Fauquier Springs, Bristoe, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, (or Chantilly), Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (or Second Fredericksburg), Salem Church, Winchester, Gettysburg, Second Bristoe, Rappahannock, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, the Po, Bethesda, Lynchburg, Monocacy, Washington, Parker's Ford, Shepperdstown, Kernstown, Winchester again (or Oppequan), Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and Waynesboro, and in many less affairs, such as Auburn, Summe
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
at White Sulphur Springs, Early's men were moving to Staunton, where he arrived June 25th. Here he was joined by General Bradley T. Johnson with a battalion of Maryland cavalry, and that officer put in command of it, with the remains of Jones's Cavalry Brigade. His cavalry, under General Robert Ransom, composed of this brigade y 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 attending the annual banquet, and the audience dispersed. Resolutions of the Southern Historioal Society. Various organizations of Confederate veterans in Maryland and the Southern States attested their regard for General Early in expressive memorials which were duly published throughout our country. He was the devoted Pre
Bedford County (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
, and the rank and file of the corps was now reduced to 8,000 muskets. An hour ahead of time—at 2 o'clock on the 15th of June—General Early moved from Cold Harbor, Hunter being then within forty miles and he within 140 miles from Lynchburg, which was Hunter's objective point. On the 16th Early was at the Rivanna, near Charlottesville, having marched over eighty miles in four days, and there he received a telegram from General Breckinridge, at Lynchburg, that Hunter was at Liberty, in Bedford county, about twenty-five miles from that place. On the morning of the 17th Early seized a train at Charlottesville, pushed Ramseur's Division and a part of Gordon's on board, Rodes and the rest of the corps and the artillery moving along the railroad to meet the train, which was to return after it had delivered the foremost troops in Lynchburg. Zzzat Lynchburg, June 17. Quite a number of distinguished men were now giving attention to this important point—a railroad centre, with factorie<
Khartoum (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ocket and a copy of bad verses in the other. He feared his fate. Napoleon carried an amulet of poison around his neck, and once took it. When Marshall Turenne, on one occasion, was leaping on his horse to meet a sudden assault, his legs shook as his feet sought the stirrups. Ah, you rascals, he exclaimed, as he smilingly looked down upon them, if you knew where I was going to take you you would shake worse than that. Chinese Gordon, who, after a life of hair-breadth adventures, fell at Khartoum, writes in his diary, that he has always been frightened, and very much so, not at the fear of death, but the fear of defeat and its consequences. I do not believe, he says, in the calm, unmoved man. I think it is only that he does not show it outwardly. Early had that supreme courage that shrinks before no responsibility and that dared with composure to face defeat and disaster for his country. Whatever pangs may have stirred his secret breast were never disclosed in outward manifestati
Spottsylvania (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
Springs, Bristoe, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, (or Chantilly), Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (or Second Fredericksburg), Salem Church, Winchester, Gettysburg, Second Bristoe, Rappahannock, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, the Po, Bethesda, Lynchburg, Monocacy, Washington, Parker's Ford, Shepperdstown, Kernstown, Winchester again (or Oppequan), Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and Waynesboro, and in many less affairs, such as Auburn, Summerville Ford, Fairfield and rans destined for this undertaking contained the men who, under Stonewall Jackson, had won the name of the Foot Cavalry of the Valley. During the month of May, Major-General Edward Johnson and a large part of his division had been captured at Spotsylvania; Major-General Early had succeeded Lieutenant-General Ewell, who had become an invalid, and Major-General Rodes was the only officer above the rank of brigadier who remained in his place. Of the twelve brigadiers but one of them was still at
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
were I to engage and charm your fancy. Follow me, then comrades, with some of the patience you have often shown upon the weary march. I will appeal to facts and by them shall hope to vindicate my theme. Zzzgeneral Early's battles. Let me lay before you, to begin with, some of his most important and distinguished services. He was a graduate of West Point, a veteran of three wars, and he took part in the civil war in well-nigh fifty battles and skirmishes. He was engaged therein at Bull Run, Manassas, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Groveton, Fauquier Springs, Bristoe, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, (or Chantilly), Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (or Second Fredericksburg), Salem Church, Winchester, Gettysburg, Second Bristoe, Rappahannock, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, the Po, Bethesda, Lynchburg, Monocacy, Washington, Parker's Ford, Shepperdstown, Kernstown, Winchester again (or Oppequan), Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and
Big Lick (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ng. Early was hot upon his heels, McCausland leading with his cavalry. The night of the 19th Ramseur drove his rear guard through Liberty, twenty-five miles away. On the 21st McCausland, always enterprising, struck him again at Hanging Rock in Roanoke country, capturing some guns and prisoners, and Hunter passed on through Craig county to West Virginia. The northern historian, Pond, says in his account of this campaign: The night of June 24th—having passed Sweet Springs—the column reached Whwhich resulted: President, Judge George L. Christian, of Richmond; First Vice-President, Judge Theodore S. Garnett, of Norfolk; Second Vice-President, Colonel Charles S. Venable, of Charlottesville; Third Vice-President, Colonel Thomas Lewis, of Roanoke; Treasurer, Robert S. Bosher, of Richmond; Secretary, Captain Thomas Ellett, of Richmond. Executive Committee—Colonel W. E. Cutshaw, Captain John Cussons, Captain E. P. Reeve, and James T. Gray, of Richmond, and Captain W. Gordon McCabe, of <
Maryland Heights (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ly kept immediate charge of Rode's division and Ransom's cavalry. On the 28th of June this force started up the Valley; July 3d was at Winchester; July 4th at Shepherdstown; July 6th it drove the enemy into his works at Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights. This force under Generals Sigel, Staple, and Webber, was fully 6,000 strong, and leaving it in his rear, Early passed swiftly on through the gaps of the South mountain, and on the 9th confronted General Lew Wallace, strongly posted with Gem from the field, Colonel Mulligan, a division commander being killed, between two and three hundred prisoners taken, and twelve caissons and seventy-two wagons either burned or captured, and the whole army being driven across the Potomac to Maryland Heights and Harper's Ferry, in the tracks of Bank's frequent evolutions before Jackson. This flying and broken army six weeks before had defeated and killed General Jones, of Piedmont. It had now had a second defeat from Early's hands; and when
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