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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
Venable (search for this): chapter 13
solved, however, and we discussed results. In consequence of the reluctance of the officer next in command to fire the opening gun, Lee was induced to send Colonel Venable, of his staff, to Ewell at sunrise to see whether, after viewing the position in his front by daylight, he could not attack from his flank, but the work of theft wing before it could disentangle itself from the rocks and woods of the Round Tops. It is fortunate three of General Lee's trusted staff officers-Taylor, Venable, and Long — have recorded that the plan of assault involved an attack by Longstreet's whole corps, supported by one half of Hill's, or all of it if he called for eld 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 McL
Venaable (search for this): chapter 13
hat his troops were sent to Longstreet as a support to his corps. Lee rode along a portion of the line held by A. P. Hill's corps, and finally took a position about the Confederate center on an elevated point, from which 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 such as Lee would not drive en masse a column of fourteen thousand men across an open terrene thirteen or fourteen hundred yards, nearly every foot of it under a concentrated and converging fire of artillery, to attack an army, on fortified heights, of one hundred thousand, less its
Trimble (search for this): chapter 13
th the divisions of Hood and Mc-Laws. He was therefore re-enforced by Heth's division and two brigades of Pender's (Hill's corps), to the command of which Major-General Trimble was assigned, and General Hill was ordered to afford General Longstreet further assistance if requested, and avail himself of any success that might be gaiew, Heth having been wounded the day before)-were placed on Pickett's left, and two, Lane's and Scales's, about twentyfive hundred men of Pender's division, under Trimble, in a second line, while Wilcox's was to march on the extreme right to protect their flank. Thirteen thousand five hundred, or at most fourteen thousand troops, rished, and one half of those who crossed the road and followed Armistead were killed. To the left of Pickett the four brigades under Pettigrew and the two under Trimble charged. Archer's brigade, under Colonel B. D. Fry, of the Thirteenth Alabama, was on the right and was the directing brigade of the whole force. They made thei
Round Top (search for this): chapter 13
minate in a lofty, wooded, rocky peak called Round Top. Adjoining this peak on its north side is Webetter known as Little Round Top — a spur to Round Top-rough and bald. Round Top is at the southerRound Top is at the southern extremity of this ridge. A cemetery at the northern point gives to the ridge its name. Upon thiill and around this curve, and then south to Round Top for three miles, was the Union battle line. done, for in that case he would have secured Round Top, six hundred and sixty-four feet high, and o his way, but he would have secured and held Round Top, and in all probability Little Round Top too, for a plunging fire from big Round Top would have cleared its crest and sides of Federal troops. s pushed forward until he reached the top of Round Top; the Forty-seventh, Alabama, on his left, althey advanced. This is ample proof that big Round Top was not occupied by Northern troops at dark e fire from the batteries near and on little Round Top. In an instant the masses in their front[1 more...]
Little Round Top (search for this): chapter 13
orth side is Weed's Hill, better known as Little Round Top — a spur to Round Top-rough and bald. Rond trains. Five hundred yards west of Little Round Top, and one hundred feet lower, is Devil's D one hundred and sixteen feet higher than Little Round Top, one thousand yards north of it, and crowned it with artillery. Little Round Top would have been untenable, and Little Round Top was the keyLittle Round Top was the key point of my whole position, said Meade; and if they (his opponents) had succeeded in occupying thatsed on the Taneytown road, in the rear of Little Round Top. When that gallant officer, Hood, was infrom the crest of the high range adjoining Little Round Top. Had Lee known the situation Hood would hbrigade of the Fifth Corps and battery on Little Round Top, that most important point might have beeief engineer, called Meade's attention to Little Round Top, and Sykes's column, then in motion, was rtunately able to throw a strong force on Little Round Top, where a most desperate and bloody strugg[1 more...]
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
ce in Washington, urged him to Push forward and fight Lee before he can cross the Potomac. And Mr. Lincoln was cramming him with the comforting information that Vicksburg, on the Mississippi, had surrendered to Grant on July 4th, and that if Lee's army could be destroyed, the rebellion would be over. While waiting at Williamspoepreciate himself and rate too low his high military abilities. He had voluntarily assumed the faults of his subordinates. The twin disasters of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, with a surrender of thirty thousand men at Vicksburg, were dispiriting, and the thought that he was held in some degree responsible for one of them seized him. Vicksburg, were dispiriting, and the thought that he was held in some degree responsible for one of them seized him. Gradually the conclusion was reached that perhaps he was occupying a position which might be filled by one who could render greater service with the means at command. On August 8th, from his camp in Orange, General Lee wrote the Southern President that the general remedy for the want of success in a military commander is his r
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
found him more accommodating than Burnside. General Lee had a difficult task: the lines of his enemy had grown stronger during the night; Slocum, Howard, Newton (in Reynolds's place), Hancock, Sickles, Sykes, and Sedgwick's troops were all before him, and on his right and left flank was a division of cavalry under Gregg and Kilpatrick respectively. The Union flanks, five miles apart on Culp's Hill and the Round Tops, were almost impregnable and difficult to turn. Lee's strategy at Chancellorsville was bold, but his determination to assault the left center of the Union army with his right corps and its supports was consummate daring. Longstreet, re-enforced by Pickett's three brigades, which arrived near the battlefield during the afternoon of the 2d, was ordered to attack next morning, said Lee, and General Ewell was directed to assail the enemy's right at the same time. During the night General Johnson was re-enforced by two brigades from Rodes and one from Early. General
Frederick, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
one, so at eleven o'clock gave a positive order to Longstreet to move to his right and attack. It was clearly the duty of Longstreet to carry out his commander's views and not lapse into refractoriness. Lee might possibly have moved toward Frederick on the 2d, and thus forced Meade to fall back to Westminster, but he could not hope to reach Baltimore or Washington, or a point between these cities before Meade. From Westminster cars could have conveyed the Union troops more rapidly than hiight have been of great benefit to Lee, its most remarkable feature was its presumption. Thirty-six hours after Lee abandoned the field of Gettysburg, Meade, recalling Sedgwick, who had gone toward Fairfield, marched from Gettysburg south to Frederick, Md., thence slowly around by Middletown and the old Sharpsburg battlefield to Lee's position. While he was moving around the horseshoe, General Lee, with a good start, had gone across from heel to heel, and, had it not been for high water, woul
Williamsport (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
ed as could bear transportation, back to the Potomac at Williamsport under a cavalry escort, and was busy in burying his deaeven miles south of Cashtown, being the direct road to Williamsport; but the rain and mud so impeded progress that the rearwn, Md., on the 6th, the same day his trains arrived at Williamsport, a few miles distant. On account of the swollen condite of defense skillfully traced to cover the river from Williamsport to Falling Waters, and confidently awaited the subsidend his flanks in the retreat and had saved his trains at Williamsport from an attack of the Union cavalry before his army reanted to know if they deemed it expedient to move toward Williamsport through Emmittsburg, or if his enemy was retreating, shroyed, the rebellion would be over. While waiting at Williamsport General Lee received the news of the capture (by raidinth the Army of Northern Virginia recrossed the river at Williamsport, and on the pontoon bridge at Falling Water, which had
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