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Chantilly (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
se five days rations, which lasted us two days, were the last we drew until September 21. The forced marches of August 28 and 29 to aid Jackson were a fearful ordeal, made as they were in the intense heat, with the roads deep in dust, but we reached Thoroughfare Gap in time, and the next day we fought the second battle of Manassas. Our men were so hungry that they gathered the crackers and meat from the haversacks of the dead Federals and ate as they fought. The next day we kept on to Chantilly and fought there; then, swinging to Leesburg, we struck for the Potomac. In all these weeks we had no change of clothing and we were literally devoured by vermin. We had no tents and slept on the ground, and slept soundly even though the rain was pouring in torrents. A prize fighter trains about two months to get himself in perfect condition, but we had been training in a more vigorous manner for nearly two years, and the men were skin, bone and muscle. We lived on apples and green c
Rapidan (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
any army on earth ever endured greater hardships or went through more than Lee's army in the late summer and early fall of 1862. On August 18 of that year our brigade, composed of the First, Seventh, Eleventh and Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, set its faces northward from Gordonsville. Every knapsack and all camp equipage were left behind, and in light marching order, with 60 rounds of ammunition, a blanket over our shoulders and five days rations in our haversacks, we headed for the Rapidan river. Those five days rations, which lasted us two days, were the last we drew until September 21. The forced marches of August 28 and 29 to aid Jackson were a fearful ordeal, made as they were in the intense heat, with the roads deep in dust, but we reached Thoroughfare Gap in time, and the next day we fought the second battle of Manassas. Our men were so hungry that they gathered the crackers and meat from the haversacks of the dead Federals and ate as they fought. The next day we kep
Maryland Heights (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
ttle. It may be remembered by old soldiers that Jackson's Corps, consisting of his own division, commanded by General J. R. Jones; Ewell's Division, commanded by General A. R. Lawton, and A. P. Hill's Division, commanded by General A. P. Hill, had been detached to capture Harper's Ferry, whose garrison consisted of 11,000 men under Colonel D. S. Miles. Jackson was assisted by General J. G. Walker's Division, which occupied Loudon Heights, and General McLaws' Division, which occupied Maryland Heights. There was some delay on the part of these troops in getting into position, but all was ready by the afternoon of September 14. Jackson moved forward, his command extending from the Shenandoah to the Potomac, in the following order from right to left, A. P. Hill, Lawton and Jones. The attack began early on the morning of Monday, the 15th, and after brisk firing for an hour or more the white flag was displayed, and the place, being completely surrounded, was surrendered by General J
Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
nassas, and had suffered severely in all, and who had already fought for several hours that morning, would never have been sent to the rear to recruit if there had been further need for them in front, but, as General Gordon said of his corps at Appomattox, they had been fought to a frazzle. General J. R. Jones, commanding Jackson's old division on the morning of September 17, reports this division of four brigades as not numbering over 1,600 men at the beginning of the fight, and its casualtithe columns of The Sun, have been of great interest to the participants in the battle. The incidents of the campaign of ‘62 are as fresh in my memory as if they happened yesterday instead of forty-one years ago. General Lee was asked after Appomattox by a prominent lady in Alexandria which battle he felt most proud of, and he answered: Sharpsburg, for I fought against greater odds then than in any battle of the war. I doubt if any army on earth ever endured greater hardships or went thro
Arcola, Douglas County, Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
rthern Virginia from disastrous defeat, as he had done at the first Manassas, at the seven days battle at Richmond and later on at Chancellorsville. McClellan's dispatch to Burnside early on the morning of the 17th to hold the bridge, If the bridge is lost all is lost, made General Burnside overcautious. When he received orders to attack at noon he allowed Toombs, with less than 400 men, to delay the crossing of the Ninth Corps for three hours. Had Burnside followed Napoleon's tactics at Arcola, and rushed his men across the bridge, he would have ended the war then and there, and been hailed by the North as the greatest general of the New World. I asked my captors what command our regiment was engaged with. He answered Fairchild's New York Brigade. General Fairchild's report of the battle shows what a fight that frazzle of the old First Brigade put up. I have often been asked about the rebel yell. I have always answered that we Rebs were savage with hunger, and men always h
Hagerstown (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
gade to rise and move forward, which they did in gallant style at a right oblique, and he himself led them, but he had not more than reached the fence along the Hagerstown road when he fell, pierced by three musket balls and survived but an hour. Colonel William Allan rightly says: He was greatly beloved by his men as a brave and of the rebel horde. With a rush and a swing we passed through the royal city of Frederick, where we got scant welcome, up the dusty broad pike northward to Hagerstown, where the people received the ragged Rebs as if they were belted knights, with victory on their plumes. Here every soldier got as much as he could eat. Then tr the protection afforded by the fence I do not believe that a single man of the regiment would have escaped alive. In conversation with Doctor Macgill, of Hagerstown, Md., shortly after the war, he told me that two days after the battle he visited the spot, having had some friends in the Alexandria regiment of Kemper's brigade,
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
on, and A. P. Hill's Division, commanded by General A. P. Hill, had been detached to capture Harper's Ferry, whose garrison consisted of 11,000 men under Colonel D. S. Miles. Jackson was assisted be Potomac, near Shepherdstown. As soon as the necessary arrangements for the surrender of Harper's Ferry could be made on the 15th, General Jackson, leaving General A. P. Hill at Harper's Ferry to Harper's Ferry to complete these arrangements, marched that afternoon for Shepherdstown with his own corps (Jones' and Lawton's Divisions) and Walker's Division, and crossed the Potomac at Boteler's ford on the morninghe morning of the 17th, and A. P. Hill's Division, with the exception of one brigade left at Harper's Ferry, not until the afternoon of the 17th, after a march of seventeen miles, but just in time to to eat, of which the men stood much in need, for they had had nothing to eat since we left Harper's Ferry, two days before. I remember distinctly that we retired to a farmhouse in the rear, where s
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
saved the Army of Northern Virginia from disastrous defeat, as he had done at the first Manassas, at the seven days battle at Richmond and later on at Chancellorsville. McClellan's dispatch to Burnside early on the morning of the 17th to hold the bridge, If the bridge is lost all is lost, made General Burnside overcautious. When he received orders to attack at noon he allowed Toombs, with less than 400 men, to delay the crossing of the Ninth Corps for three hours. Had Burnside followed Napoleon's tactics at Arcola, and rushed his men across the bridge, he would have ended the war then and there, and been hailed by the North as the greatest general of the New World. I asked my captors what command our regiment was engaged with. He answered Fairchild's New York Brigade. General Fairchild's report of the battle shows what a fight that frazzle of the old First Brigade put up. I have often been asked about the rebel yell. I have always answered that we Rebs were savage with hun
Antietam Creek (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
Lee—An estimate that he had but 35,000 or 36,000 in the Conflict—Hungry men fought bravely. The approaching anniversary of the battle of Sharpsburg, or Antietam creek, recalls vividly to mind the incidents of that battle. It may be remembered by old soldiers that Jackson's Corps, consisting of his own division, commanded bkson to rejoin him. The Federals carried the passes of South Mountain at Crampton's and Turner's Gaps, and General Lee drew up his army on the west side of Antietam creek, north and south of the village of Sharpsburg, and in easy communication with General Jackson by Boteler's ford, on the Potomac, near Shepherdstown. As soomarch of seventeen miles, but just in time to save the day against Burnside's attack. General McClellan had placed his army in position on the east side of Antietam creek by the night of September 15, and his failure to attack on the 16th, when General Lee's army was still divided, was fatal to his success. This article must
Cedar Mountain (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
one of the enemy ever came beyond the straw-stacks mentioned above, on the left, and very few of them came even so far. Moreover, they were all driven from this position and beyond the turnpike in the attack of McLaws' brigades, Early and Grigsby on Sedgwick, after whose defeat, I might say rout, there was no more fighting on that portion of the line. Grigsby's handful of men—men of Jackson's old division, who had been through the Valley campaign, the Seven Days battles around Richmond, Cedar Mountain and Second Manassas, and had suffered severely in all, and who had already fought for several hours that morning, would never have been sent to the rear to recruit if there had been further need for them in front, but, as General Gordon said of his corps at Appomattox, they had been fought to a frazzle. General J. R. Jones, commanding Jackson's old division on the morning of September 17, reports this division of four brigades as not numbering over 1,600 men at the beginning of the fi
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