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Andy Webb (search for this): chapter 5
and cut their communications and turn their right by a wider sweep, as Grant had also suggested to him to do. Late in the forenoon Warren received through General Webb, chief of staff, the following order: General Meade directs that should you determine by your reconnaissance that you can gain possession of, and hold, the Whip. 1242. Meade replies: He will not be allowed to advance unless you so direct. This is to be compared with Meade's order of 10.30 A. M., March 31st through General Webb: see ante. It is impossible to think that Warren knew of this last word of Grant on the subject of the White Oak Road, but, as we read it now, it throws li an order his head swam and his wits collapsed. He responds thus, and has been much blamed for it by those under canvas, then and since: I issued my orders on General Webb's first despatch to fall back; which made the divisions retire in the order of Ayres, Crawford, and Griffin, which was the order they could most rapidly move i
Crawford (search for this): chapter 5
, about six hundred yards from this junction; Crawford, with the Third Division, on Ayres' right rea. His men stream past him. They come back on Crawford's veteran division and burst through it in spcross and followed up on our left rear, while Crawford was somewhere to our right and rear, but out e from my left, supported by all I can get of Crawford and Ayres, and attack .... This will take plae the divisions retire in the order of Ayres, Crawford, and Griffin, which was the order they could al Sheridan, and take General Griffin and General Crawford to move against the enemy, as this last dne, according to Warren's orders, Griffin and Crawford to go by Bartlett's way. But Griffin had ton Road, but the rest of the corps-Ayres and Crawford — to go across the fields to the Crump Road, had got in my pickets, which were replaced by Crawford's, and let my men rest as quietly as possiblen the front-drew out from the White Oak Road; Crawford's Division replacing us, to be brought off ca[6 more...]
Robert Lee (search for this): chapter 5
, when all this light broke upon him, in the midst of his own hardly corrected reverses, into what sullen depths his spirit must have been cast, to find himself liable to a suit for breach of promise for going out to an open-handed meeting with Robert Lee of the White Oak Road when he was already clandestinely engaged to Philip Sheridan of Dinwiddie. A new anxiety now arose. Just as we had got settled in our position on the White Oak Road, heavy firing was heard from the direction of Sherid the opinion that Grant was looking out for Sheridan, and if help were needed, he would be more likely to send Miles than us, as he well knew we were at a critical point, and one important for his further plans as we understood them, especially as Lee was known to be personally directing affairs in our front. However, I thought it quite probable that we should be blamed for not going to the support of Sheridan even without orders, when we believed the enemy had got the advantage of him. Well,
Forsyth (search for this): chapter 5
It seems that in the black moment, when our two divisions were coming back in confusion, Meade had asked Grant to have Sheridan strike the attacking force on their right and rear, as he had been ordered to do in case Warren was attacked. For we have Grant's message to Meade, sent at 12.40, which is evidently a reply: It will take so long to communicate with Sheridan that he cannot be brought to co-operation unless he comes up in obedience to orders sent him last night. I understood General Forsyth to say that as soon as another division of cavalry got up, he would send it forward. It may be there now. I will send to him again, at once. So far, to all appearance, all was well. The Fifth Corps was across the White Oak Road. General Grant'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 h
Terry (search for this): chapter 5
t 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 we had encountered on the Quaker Road. Pickett's Division, consisting of the brigades of Stuart, Hunton, Corse, and Terry, about five thousand strong, was sent to the entrenchments along the Claiborne Road, and Roberts's Brigade of North Carolina cavalry, to picket the White Oak Road from the Claiborne, the right of their entrenchments, to Five Forks. On the thirtieth, the Fifth Corps, relieved by the Second, moved to the left along the Boydton Road, advancing its left towards the right of the enemy's entrenchments on the White Oak Road. Lee, also, apprehensive for his right, sent McGowan's South Carolina
Rebellion Records (search for this): chapter 5
's Division numbered, according to returns of March 30, 169 officers and 2830 men, present for duty. he permitted his demonstration on Five Forks to be turned into a reconnaissance half-way out, General Merritt's despatch of March 30th. Rebellion Records, Serial 97, p. 326. his advance being checked at the forks of the Ford and Boisseau Road, where it remained all night and until itself attacked the next morning. General Fitzhugh Lee's testimony. Warren Court Records, vol. i., p. 469. tch to Grant, March 30th, 2.45 P. M., and Grant's reply thereto; Records, Warren Court of Inquiry, vol. II., p. 1309. It afterwards transpired that Sheridan's cavalry did not long hold this position. Grant's despatch to Meade, March 31st, Rebellion Records, Serial 97, p. 339. General Grant's wishes, as now understood, were that we should gain possession of the White Oak Road in our front. This was indicated in a despatch from him March 30th, to General Meade, the purport of which was kno
McGowan (search for this): chapter 5
left towards the right of the enemy's entrenchments on the White Oak Road. Lee, also, apprehensive for his right, sent McGowan's South Carolina Brigade and McRae's North Carolina, of Hill's Corps, to strengthen Bushrod Johnson's Division in the en to seize every advantage or desperate expedient, he had ordered four brigades, those of Wise, Gracie, and Hunton, with McGowan's South Carolina Brigade, to move out from their entrenchments, get across the flank of the Fifth Corps and smash it in.t was swift and the encounter sudden. The blow fell without warning, enveloping Ayres' complete front. It appears that McGowan's Brigade struck squarely on Winthrop's left flank, with an oblique fire also on the Maryland Brigade, while the rest of the fact that General Lee himself was personally directing affairs in our front, Testimony of General Hunton and General McGowan, Warren Court Records, vol. i., pp. 625 and 648. I might not have been so rash, or thought myself so cool. Ridi
April 2nd (search for this): chapter 5
nts as subordinated to those of General Sheridan, is the following: There was considerable fighting in taking up these new positions for the Second and Fifth Corps, in which the Army of the James had also to participate somewhat, and the losses were quite severe. This is what was known as the battle of the White Oak Road. Contrasts are sometimes illumining. When our assault on the enemy's right, March 31st, was followed by General Miles' attack on the Claiborne entrenchments on the second of April, after the exigency at Five Forks had called away most of its defenders,--Generals Anderson and Johnson, with Hunton, Wise, Gracie, and Fulton's Brigades being of the number,--and the whole rebel army was demoralized, General Grant, now free to appreciate such action, despatches General Meade at once: Miles has made a big thing of it, and deserves the highest praise for the pertinacity with which he stuck to the enemy until he wrung from him victory. Verily, something besides circumsta
March (search for this): chapter 5
he position where they were gathering for a stand after having forced Sheridan's cavalry back upon its base at the Boisseau Cross Road, and holding his main body inactive at Dinwiddie a whole day through. And after Warren had accomplished all that he had undertaken in accordance with the expressed wishes of his superiors, this purpose was to be put into execution. Minds accustomed to consider evidence could not resist the impression that at the midnight conference on the rainy night of March 2gth, when Grant had announced that they would act together as one army, one item of the arrangement was that nothing should be allowed to interfere with Sheridan's being the leading spirit, and so actual field-commander in this enterprise. I am not sure that we can blame Sheridan or Grant for this if it were so. But it was at least a good working hypothesis on which to explain facts. I do not know that Warren was then aware of General Grant's loss of interest in this movement for the W
30th (search for this): chapter 5
White Oak Road from the Claiborne, the right of their entrenchments, to Five Forks. On the thirtieth, the Fifth Corps, relieved by the Second, moved to the left along the Boydton Road, advancing ts the Boydton, but repulsed it easily, capturing about 100 prisoners. But on the morning of the 30th, he telegraphed the President again: I understand the number of dead left by the enemy yesterday hite Oak Road. But when he received a positive order to secure that point on the morning of the 30th, he seems to have moved so late and moderately that Fitzhugh Lee had time to march from Sutherlan 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 great importance, and concluded the to go to the rescue of Sheridan at the rear. Little did we dream that on the evening of the 30th, Grant had formed the intention of detaching the Fifth Corps to operate with Sheridan in turning
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