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Wade Hampton (search for this): chapter 2
derful vigor which enabled him to retain the full use of all his intellectual faculties when his companions were either overcome by fatigue or prostrated by privations. Stuart's regular force was composed of three brigades, commanded by General Wade Hampton and the son and nephew of the commander--in chief, Generals W. H. F. Lee and Fitzhugh Lee, who worthily bore that illustrious name. It is proper to add to this force the brigade of General Jones, who was waging hostilities west of the Bluated above Fredericksburg. Early on the morning of the 29th, Stuart was informed of the presence of the enemy on the right side of the Rappahannock. He immediately assembled all his forces—that is to say, the brigades of the two Lees (that of Hampton having gone farther south and been dispersed for the purpose of recruiting and resting their horses)—and repaired at once to Brandy Station, with a view of occupying the positions in which he had held Averell in check a fortnight before. His ha
A. P. Hill (search for this): chapter 2
' troops, west of the Massaponax, and massed them near Hamilton's Crossing,, one in the front and the other in the rear of Hill's line, thus holding his entire corps within reach of the two passes which the enemy had just opened. The day of the 30the wood as far as the border of the stream which runs into Hazel Grove north of the road, Heth, who had assumed command of Hill's division, had placed the four brigades of Lane, McGowan, Archer, and his own (commanded by Colonel Brockenbrough) in linccupied in rectifying his lines and in making the Second corps take the most favorable positions for renewing the attack. Hill's division is in the front line; his left, resting perpendicularly to the road, is composed of Pender's and Thomas' brigad, to the left of the road; on the other side Ramseur's and Doles'; Colquitt, still farther back, is held in reserve. As Hill's right was making the movement which was to bring it in front of the positions occupied by Birney, the latter, in complia
C. M. Wilcox (search for this): chapter 2
the direction of Chancellorsville at midnight. Wilcox and Perry, who were keeping watch on the Rappaled the Turnpike, and sent orders to Perry and Wilcox, who had remained near Fredericksburg, to comech their movements, and soon after Perry, then Wilcox, coming from Falmouth, are ranged so as to proent it to reinforce Barksdale at Marye's Hill; Wilcox's brigade, which since the 1st of May had beenical moment has arrived: he sends for Hays and Wilcox, but these generals are too far away to affordre than a quarter of an hour, so that Hays and Wilcox, who are posted on the left, have no chance toagain by making an extensive detour westward. Wilcox, who is with him, taking a better view of the ample time had been given him to recuperate. Wilcox had maintained himself as long as possible upo when Brooks' skirmishers encountered those of Wilcox near the toll-house. The Confederates made a e which this success gives him, he rushes upon Wilcox's line of battle and breaks it down. It is a [8 more...]
George E. Pickett (search for this): chapter 2
ortion of Lee's soldiers under the command of such leaders as Longstreet, D. H. Hill, Hood, and Pickett, who until then had always been arrayed against the Army of the Potomac. In fact, D. H. Hill hia of that State, and about the 26th of February, Longstreet, with three divisions, under Hood, Pickett, and Anderson, had taken up his quarters at Petersburg, south of Richmond. A military departmet noon the Confederates appeared simultaneously on both sides of the Nansemond. Anderson's and Pickett's divisions, coming from the south, one by the route debouching upon Fort Dix, the other by the avail himself of his numerical superiority in order to turn those works. While Anderson's and Pickett's divisions were to occupy the besieged along the right bank of the Nansemond, Hood was to joinand North Carolina), which consisted of Elzey's, French's, D. H. Hill's, Whiting's, Hood's, and Pickett's divisions.—Ed. Consequently, he does not reach Richmond until the 10th of May. On the 11th h
Peck (search for this): chapter 2
. Hence the importance of this position, which Peck hastened to occupy on the 22d of September withng effected along the lines of the Blackwater. Peck kept all his troops and prepared himself for thsupplied the absence of natural obstacles. But Peck had not only to defend the space comprised betwill's demonstrations had succeeded in weakening Peck and deceiving him in regard to his intentions, captured the advance-posts of the cavalry which Peck had sent out as a reconnoissance in the directi activity compensated for their small numbers. Peck had entrusted Getty with the task of guarding trovided with heavy guns, and well garrisoned by Peck's infantry, Longstreet saw at once that all surnduced to give up the game: in concert with General Peck he resolved to try another bold stroke upon would be no less difficult than the capture of Peck's lines by assault, determined to reduce the lation of the redoubt at Hill's Point, ordered by Peck on the 20th, which led to the withdrawal of the[4 more...]
30th (search for this): chapter 2
assage at Ely's Ford. He only remained there a few hours; on the morning of the 30th, at the approach of the enemy's columns, he left his positions, followed closelywas waiting for news from Anderson, which only reached him during the day of the 30th, in order to satisfy his doubts. The passage of the Rappahannock by a portion oer, which was not fordable, and to hold himself in readiness to cross it. On the 30th, being fully convinced that the great flank movement undertaken by his right had two corps only. New instructions from his chief, dated in the afternoon of the 30th, specified with more precision the part which had been assigned to him: he was nment had arrived for him to assume the command of those troops in person: on the 30th, toward five o'clock in the evening, he arrived in their midst, full of confidenwith the other. The latter had left Culpeper, and was at Rapidan Station on the 30th. Averell came to attack him there on the morning of the 1st of May, but he allo
July 4th (search for this): chapter 2
nfortunately, the slowest in their movements. The Atlanta, with her materiel and personnel, was a magnificent prize. A few days after, having complimented the brave Rodgers upon his success, the Secretary of the Navy, at the request of DuPont, relieved the latter of his command. Admiral Foote, who was appointed in his place, having been carried off by a premature death before he had embarked, the South Atlantic squadron was entrusted to Admiral Dahlgren. He reached Port Royal on the 4th of July—a date rendered memorable by the events which marked that epoch in other sections of the theatre of war. The operations against Charleston were about to be pushed with vigor. Gillmore, who had arrived a month previously, had commenced them at once; but we must reserve their recital. The narrative of naval operations in the Gulf of Mexico will not detain us long. The division charged with maintaining the blockade east of the Mississippi, under command of Commodore Bailey, extended it
Ripley (search for this): chapter 2
ccesses of these vessels had inspired them with great confidence. Thanks to the activity of General Ripley and Commodore Ingraham, who commanded the land and naval forces at Charleston, the hulls of forces stationed in South Carolina. But the real organizer of the defence of Charleston was General Ripley, who, like Beauregard, was an old Federal officer of engineers, a man of fertile resources, to approach. The system of defence against naval attacks had, in fact, been completed by General Ripley with the close of the year 1862. Two batteries had been erected, so as to flank eastward andn the centre of Middle Ground, the faces of which were covered with large horizontal beams. General Ripley, whose name had been given to the fort, had by means of this happy innovation thus replaced ossible. These vessels were thus placed in the centre of the circle of defences prepared by General Ripley—a position which was the more unfavorable for them because shots were being fired from vario
Farragut (search for this): chapter 2
he Mississippi. We find them on the 1st of January under the respective commands of Admirals Lee, DuPont, Bailey, and Farragut; but the latter, so fully occupied with a portion of his vessels in the waters of the Mississippi, is obliged to leave tg for the capture of Charleston. But DuPont was unable to imitate the bold stroke which had delivered up New Orleans to Farragut's fleet. The latter, after having forced the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, had before him the immense arteryhich blockaded the Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi having been reduced to the strictest necessary requirements by Farragut's operations on that river, had experienced, as the reader will remember, a signal check on the 1st of January, 1863, bederstand their business, and most of the vessels, formerly belonging to the merchant service, were unsound. As soon as Farragut was informed of the loss of Galveston and the precipitate retreat of the vessels that had succeeded in effecting their e
1863 AD (search for this): chapter 2
he war on the Rapidan. Chapter 1: Dowdall's Tavern. THE year 1863 was destined to have a decisive influence over the results of the wawhich the Mississippi was the theatre during the first six months of 1863. These operations, which were initiated by the Federals in the midssed the autumn in the Valley of Virginia, where, at the beginning of 1863, they were replaced by new levies. Distinctive badges Circular M Men, by J. M. Crawford.—Ed. During the first months of the year 1863 the Confederate partisans, mounted and on foot, showed themselves ine Confederate States was the scene during the first half of the year 1863, and to say a few words relative to the combats fought in Virginia brisals. They renewed and aggravated the same error in the spring of 1863. This is the way it happened. The organization of colored troops fest Virginia was the theatre during the first six months of the year 1863. The small armies that are contending for the possession of this se
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