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1864 AD (search for this): chapter 39
ver affair on the Williamsburg road Lee's apprehension of Grant's march into Richmond closing scenes of the campaign of 1864 about the Confederate capital General Benjamin F. Butler's move against Fort Fisher remote effects on the situation in V45; Gary's cavalry, 8; artillery, 11; total, 64. Federal losses, killed, wounded, and missing, 1103. Virginia Campaigns, 1864-65, by General A. A. Humphreys, Army of the Potomac. General Grant sent orders to have the positions gained by his lefort there in great force. These were the closing scenes between the armies about Richmond and Petersburg for the year 1864. The defeat of General Early in the Valley of Virginia on the 19th of October concluded active work in that quarter. Moso retreat. And thus with Sherman's progressive movements in the extreme South, our own ill success in Virginia, and an apparent general strengthening of the Federal cause, the year 1864 drew to a close with little of happy omen for the Confederacy.
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mond, and that sooner or later he would make his effort there in great force. These were the closing scenes between the armies about Richmond and Petersburg for the year 1864. The defeat of General Early in the Valley of Virginia on the 19th of October concluded active work in that quarter. Most of Sheridan's infantry was sent back to the Army of the Potomac, and the greater part of Early's to the Army of Northern Virginia. Kershaw's division of the First Corps had been left with General Early for his battle of the 19th of October. In his account of the battle, General Early alludes to its outcome and finality as a causeless panic started by the break of his left division under General Gordon, followed by Kershaw's and other troops. It is sufficient for this writing to say that the general called the rout thorough and disgraceful, mortifying beyond measure: we had within our grasp a great and glorious victory, and lost it by the uncontrollable propensity of our men for pl
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 39
gade and marching in line of battle at right angles to the line of the enemy, striking him in flank, recovering the lost cannon, and driving him back the way he came. Under cover of the night the Federals returned to their fortified lines, where they were as strong as were the lines held by the Confederates in their front. The Confederates lost: Field's division, 45; Gary's cavalry, 8; artillery, 11; total, 64. Federal losses, killed, wounded, and missing, 1103. Virginia Campaigns, 1864-65, by General A. A. Humphreys, Army of the Potomac. General Grant sent orders to have the positions gained by his left held and intrenched, but they were abandoned because they were weak in the too extended line. After the loss of Fort Harrison, General Lee became more anxious for his line on the north side, and rode out to witness the operations on that front, under the threatening of Butler's forces; and as our cavalry had made no report of the enemy crossing the swamp, he was not qui
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