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Harold (search for this): chapter 13
inster the larger the numbers of the Unionists would grow. Lee could not move around now and manoeuvre, or scatter his legions to gather supplies as he had done, because his opponent was uncomfortably near. He could not march en masse, with a host subsisting by pillage, and to concentrate was to starve. There was no alternativehe must fight. He was obliged to adopt the tactics of William the Conqueror when he invaded England, who, similarly situated, assumed the offensive and defeated Harold at Hastings. Napoleon waited at Waterloo for the ground to dry and lost hours, during which he might have defeated Wellington before the arrival of re-enforcements. Why should Lee lose the advantages of his more rapid concentration? His superb equipoise was not threatened by subdued excitement. His unerring sagacity told him he would catch General Meade partially in position, but he was disturbed because one of his principal officers had not the faith and confidence necessary to win succ
Hall (search for this): chapter 13
on little Round Top. In an instant the masses in their front were preparing for the shock of battle. Here they come! Here they come! Here comes the infantry! was heard on every side. At an average of eleven hundred yards the Union batteries began to open, and solid shot first tore through their ranks, but with no more effect than firing a pistol at the rock of Gibraltar. The skirmish lines, composed of the Sixteenth Vermont and One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Pennsylvania, and parts of Hall's brigade, were next encountered and brushed from their front, as the hurricane sweeps the breast of the mountain. Screaming shells broke in front, rear, on both sides, and among them; but the devoted band, with their objective point steadily in view, kept step to their music. The space between them and the Federal lines grew rapidly less, and soon they were in the mouth of hell within range of the well-protected infantry, and then there came a storm of bullets on every side, before whic
Pickett (search for this): chapter 13
me to attack. I do not want to do so without Pickett. I never like to go into battle with one boos. The assaulting column was at last formed: Pickett's division of three brigades, five thousand mal folly. His right corps chief says he took Pickett, who was to command the charge, to the crest ther Hood and McLaws attacked, re-enforced by Pickett and Hill's troops, as at first intended, or atteries crippled or silenced to send word to Pickett, who, upon receipt of such notice, was to movm, intending to take these guns in advance of Pickett's infantry, nearly to musket range; but they ring himself to give the word. Then he wrote Pickett, who was in view and in rear of his observatind live. The fiery onslaught was repulsed as Pickett's division had been, and then the survivors oen thousand. The famous charge was over. Pickett's column had gone to the front four hundred ysays he rode up to Meade after the repulse of Pickett and said: General, I will give you an hour an[29 more...]
Henry W. Halleck (search for this): chapter 13
as 3 P. M. on the 2d, and before he was attacked, he telegraphed in cipher to Halleck that if his enemy did not attack, and he finds it hazardous to do so, or is sa Army of the Potomac left the battlefield of Gettysburg. Meade telegraphed Halleck on the 6th that if he could get the Army of the Potomac in hand he would attacorce would reach Washington and, with what was already there, make it secure. Halleck, from his office in Washington, urged him to Push forward and fight Lee before 13th. All his corps commanders opposed attacking except two. Later that day Halleck telegraphed him to call no council of war. It is proverbial that councils of er battle has created great dissatisfaction in the mind of the President, said Halleck, and it will require an energetic pursuit on your part to remove the impressioss to the Confederates, the appreciation of which would have been increased if Halleck had been appointed his successor. The season of repose which now followed
Oates (search for this): chapter 13
ttle Round Top too, for a plunging fire from big Round Top would have cleared its crest and sides of Federal troops. The Fifteenth Alabama, under the brave Colonel Oates, was on the extreme right of Hood's line, and advanced up the southern slope of the Round Top in the face of an incessant fire from behind rocks and crags that covered the mountain side thicker than gravestones in a city cemetery. Oates pushed forward until he reached the top of Round Top; the Forty-seventh, Alabama, on his left, also reached the top, where both regiments rested a short time, and were then ordered forward, and went down the north side of the mountain. Oates saw at a glOates saw at a glance the great value of the position, but was obliged to obey orders and move on. With the whole division there, some higher officer with authority to act would have quickly placed artillery on its summit, and the next day from that point Lee would have been master of the situation. The Alabamians, after reaching the level
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 13
ongstreet's corps, but, curiously, were placed in an attacking column that had no support. Four brigades-Pettigrew's, Davis's (a nephew of the Southern President), Brockenbrough's, and Archer's (of Heth's division, under that fine officer Petti army; his brother officers had been too kind to report it, and so far the troops too generous to exhibit it. He begged Mr. Davis to take measures to supply his place, because he could not accomplish what he himself desired; how, then, could he fult length be crowned with success, and that you may long live to enjoy the thanks of a grateful people. The reply of Mr. Davis is refined in sentiment and tender in phrase: I admit the propriety of your conclusions that an officer who loseshe Army of Northern Virginia paraded in their camp grounds in that month of August, 1863, to hear the announcement that Mr. Davis had accepted General Lee's resignation. There would have resounded from flank to flank Le roi est mort! but when the
Pleasonton (search for this): chapter 13
d in writing asked: First, Shall the army remain here? Second, If we remain here shall we assume the offensive? And then wanted to know if they deemed it expedient to move toward Williamsport through Emmittsburg, or if his enemy was retreating, should he pursue on the direct line of his retreat. The majority of the responses to his first question were in favor of remaining at Gettysburg, but all voted against assuming the offensive, for councils of war rarely, if ever, decide to fight. Pleasonton, his cavalry commander, was very clamorous the day before, for he says he rode up to Meade after the repulse of Pickett and said: General, I will give you an hour and a half to show yourself a great general; order the army to advance while I take the cavalry, get in Lee's rear, and we will finish the campaign in a week. While this advice, if followed, might have been of great benefit to Lee, its most remarkable feature was its presumption. Thirty-six hours after Lee abandoned the field
McPherson (search for this): chapter 13
Gettysburg on the day Pettigrew made his visit, and threw out his pickets toward Cashtown and Hunterstown. In an order of march for July 1st, Meade, not knowing Lee was so near, directed the First and Eleventh Corps, under that excellent officer Reynolds, to Gettysburg; Third, to Emmittsburg; Second, Taneytown; Fifth, Hanover; Twelfth to Two Taverns; while the Sixth was to remain at Manchester, thirty-four miles from Gettysburg, and await orders. Heth, after his coveted shoes, reached McPherson's Heights, one mile west of Gettysburg, at 9 A. M. on July 1st, deployed two brigades on either side of the road, and advanced on the town. Promptly the few sputtering shots which first announced the skirmish line's opening told him that Buford's dismounted cavalry were blocking the way; and the great struggle which was to determine, like Waterloo, the fate of a continent, and whether there should be one or two republics on this continent, had commenced. Precipitance was neither desire
Vincent (search for this): chapter 13
g of the French at Waterloo have been reported at twenty-five thousand, the Anglo-Belgians at fifteen thousand, Napoleon having seventy-two thousand men, and Wellington sixty-eight thousand, a total of one hundred and forty thousand, while the total of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia was about one hundred and sixty thousand. Both armies mourned the death of brave men and competent officers. In the Army of the Potomac four general officers were killed-Reynolds, Vincent, Weed, and Zook-and thirteen wounded, viz., Hancock, Sickles, Gibbon, Warren, Butterfield, Barlow, Doubleday, Paul, Brook, Barnes, Webb, Stanard, and Graham. In the Army of Northern Virginia five general officers were killed-Pender, Garnett, Armistead, Barksdale, and Semmesand nine wounded, viz., Hood, Hampton, Heth, J. M. Jones, G. T. Anderson, Kemper, Scales, and Jenkins. Meade showed no disposition to assume the offensive after Pickett's repulse. Like Lee at Fredericksburg, he did
Robert Edward Lee (search for this): chapter 13
he could survey the field and watch the result of the movement. Long says the order for the assault by the whole corps was given verbally by General Lee in his presence and that of Major Venable and other officers of the army. Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, by Long, p. 294. Venaable states that he heard the orders given to support Pickett's attack by McLaws and Hood, and that when he called General Lee's attention to it afterward he said: I know it, I know it. A consummate master of war suchave resounded from flank to flank Le roi est mort! but when the younger and abler man assumed command, the mummies of the Nile, or the bones beneath the ruins of Pompeii, could not be more silent than the refusal of these heroes to shout to Robert E. Lee's successor, Vive le roi! The Angel of Peace would have appeared in the hour General Lee bid farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia and mounted Traveler to ride away, for the rapid termination of the war would have simplified the duties o
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