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Claiborne, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
f Lee's entrenched lines on the Fifth Corps front,--the cavalry, of course, sweeping around their flank so as to take them in reverse, while the infantry concentrated on their weakest point. A third thing was to do a little of both; and this is what we seem to have adopted, playing from one to the other, fitfully and indecisively, more than one day and night. Beyond doubt it was Grant's plan when he formed his new purpose on the night of the twenty-ninth, to turn the enemy on their Claiborne flank, and follow this up sharply by vigorous assault on the weakest point of their main line in front of Petersburg. The positions taken up by the Fifth and Second Corps are explained by such a purpose, and the trying tasks and hard fighting required of them for the first three days are therein justified. The evidence of this purpose is ample. Everything was made ready, but the attack was suspended. I am not upon the inquiry whether this was postponed until Sheridan should have don
Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
lroad. Longstreet had admonished him that the next move would be on his communications, urging him to put a sufficient force in the field to meet this. Our greater danger, he said, is from keeping too close within our trenches. Manassas to Appomattox, p. 588. Such despatch had Fitzhugh Lee made that on the evening of the twenty-ninth he had arrived at Sutherlands Station, within six miles of Five Forks, and about that distance from our fight that afternoon on the Quaker Road. On the mornin to lead Grant to change materially his original purpose of making the destruction of the railroads the principal objective of Sheridan's movements. At the close of our fight there, Grant had despatched Sheridan: Our line is now unbroken from Appomattox to Dinwiddie. I now feel like ending the matter, if possible, before going back. I do not want you, therefore, to cut loose and go after the enemy's roads at present. In the morning push around the enemy, if you can, and get on to his right
Gravelly Run (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
th Corps occupied as far as its crossing of Gravelly Run. Meantime, Humphreys with the Second Corpsnt's headquarters a little in rear of us on Gravelly Run. All that was known of this interview to tng the southeast bank of a swampy branch of Gravelly Run, half a mile north of the Boydton Road, andy own brigade along the difficult branch of Gravelly Run, facing towards Ayres. Gregory, who had beren had proposed to do at that very time on Gravelly Run, only Sheridan would not have been in chiefn got to the crossing of the main stream of Gravelly Run, and finding that the bridge was gone, and t the bridge at the Plank Road crossing of Gravelly Run was gone, Colonel Theodore Lyman, aid-de 30th: Roads reduced to a hopeless pudding, Gravelly Run swollen to treble its usual size, and Hatchrrived at the banks of the south branch of Gravelly Run, where Bartlett had made his dispositions tith such force we would not have stopped on Gravelly Run, but would have struck Pickett's and Fitzhu
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
iments. One of the noble captains (Rehfuss) of the g98th Pennsylvania instantly handed me one that lay on the line we had carried, --I should say, perhaps, he had carried,--and which was a fine sword with a Palmetto engraved scabbard. I took it until our muster out, when I returned it to Captain Rehfuss, with words of remembrance which he seemed to appreciate. This sword of mine has a peculiar history since that time. General Griffin at the close of the war was ordered to a command in Texas, and took this sword with him. Here the yellow fever breaking out he was advised by the War Department to take a leave of absence and return to his home for a season. He declined; saying that his duty was where his command was, and that he would stay by his men. He took the fever and died before friends could reach him. Sometime afterwards I received through the War Department a box containing this sword and General Griffin's cap worn by him in the Civil War, and familiar to all his soldie
Hatcher's Run (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
he can. This will enable Sheridan to reach the Southside Road by Ford's Road, and, it may be, double the enemy up, so as to drive him out of his works south of Hatcher's Run. In accordance with this understanding, Ayres had made a careful examination of the situation in his front, upon the results of which General Warren had rrant's wish that we should extend our left across this road as near to the enemy as possible, so that Sheridan could double up the enemy and drive him north of Hatcher's Run, had been literally fulfilled. It had cost us three days hard work and hard fighting, and more than two thousand men. It had disclosed vital points. General staff of General Meade, wrote in his diary on the night of March 30th: Roads reduced to a hopeless pudding, Gravelly Run swollen to treble its usual size, and Hatcher's Run swept away its bridges and required pontoons. --Records, Warren Court of Inquiry, vol. i., p. 519. and that the stream was not fordable for infantry. Warren,
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
fourteen companies, half veterans, half soldiers born so, swing in upon their left, striking Hunton's Brigade in front, and for a few minutes there is a seething wave of countercurrents, then rolling back, leaving a fringe of wrecks,--and all is over. We pour over the works, swing to the right and drive the enemy into their entrenchments along the Claiborne Road, and then establish ourselves across the White Oak Road facing northeast, and take breath. General Hunton, since Senator from Virginia, said in his testimony before the Warren Court, speaking of this charge, I thought it was one of the most gallant things I had ever seen. --Records, Part I, p. 625. Major Woodward in his history of the 198th Pennsylvania, giving a graphic outline of the last dash, closes with an incident I had not recorded. Only for a moment, he says, did the sudden and terrible blast of death cause the right of the line to waver. On they dashed, every color flying, officers leading, right in among th
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ehow — I never quite understood it-General Griffin, in the confusion of that dashing and leaping about, lost his sword-scabbard and all. Seeing him ride up to me in that way, I instantly unhooked my belt and sheathing my sword handed it to the General with the assurance that I should be proud if he would accept it, as a token of what I could not then fully set forth in words. He did accept it and outdid me in the expression of sentiments. One of the noble captains (Rehfuss) of the g98th Pennsylvania instantly handed me one that lay on the line we had carried, --I should say, perhaps, he had carried,--and which was a fine sword with a Palmetto engraved scabbard. I took it until our muster out, when I returned it to Captain Rehfuss, with words of remembrance which he seemed to appreciate. This sword of mine has a peculiar history since that time. General Griffin at the close of the war was ordered to a command in Texas, and took this sword with him. Here the yellow fever breaking
Boydton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
nd a half south of the White Oak Road. Miles' Division of the Second Corps had extended to the left on the Boydton Road to connect with Griffin. My command was the extreme left of our lines; my own brigade along the difficult branch of Gravelly Run, facing towards Ayres. Gregory, who had been directed by General Griffin to report to me for orders with his brigade for the rest of this campaign, was placed on the left, his line bent back at right angles along a country road leading from Boydton to the Claiborne Road. A portion of the artillery of the division was placed also in my lines to strengthen the defense of that flank, where we had reason to believe the enemy, after their old fashion, were very likely to make a dash upon our left while we were manoeuvring to turn their right. General Grant, understanding from General Sheridan that he was on the White Oak Road near Five Forks, on the afternoon of the 30th, had replied to him that his position on this road was of very
Manassas, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
rong — from the extreme left of his lines near Hanover Court House, to the extreme right in the vicinity of Five Forks, this being four or five miles beyond Lee's entrenched right, at which point it was thought Sheridan would attempt to break up the Southside Railroad. Longstreet had admonished him that the next move would be on his communications, urging him to put a sufficient force in the field to meet this. Our greater danger, he said, is from keeping too close within our trenches. Manassas to Appomattox, p. 588. Such despatch had Fitzhugh Lee made that on the evening of the twenty-ninth he had arrived at Sutherlands Station, within six miles of Five Forks, and about that distance from our fight that afternoon on the Quaker Road. On the morning of the 29th, Lee had also despatched General R. H. Anderson with Bushrod Johnson's Division- Gracie's, Ransom's, Wise's, and Wallace's Brigades --to reinforce his main entrenchments along the White Oak Road. It was these troops which
Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
roads were impracticable for a rapid movement like that demanded. Grant's predilection for his forceful and brilliant cavalry commander could not overcome the material difficulty of moving the Sixth Corps from its place in the main line before Petersburg: he could only offer him the Fifth. And Meade, with meekness quite suggestive of a newly regenerate nature, seems to have offered no objection to this distraction from the main objective, and this inauguration of proceedings which repeatedly b Beyond doubt it was Grant's plan when he formed his new purpose on the night of the twenty-ninth, to turn the enemy on their Claiborne flank, and follow this up sharply by vigorous assault on the weakest point of their main line in front of Petersburg. The positions taken up by the Fifth and Second Corps are explained by such a purpose, and the trying tasks and hard fighting required of them for the first three days are therein justified. The evidence of this purpose is ample. Everythi
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