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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville. by Oliver O. Howard, Major-General, U. S. A. The country around Chancellorsville for the most part is a wilderness, with but here and there an opening. If we consult the recent maps (no good ones existed before the battle), we notice that the two famous rivers, the Rapidan and the Rappahannock, join at a point due north of Chancellorsville; thence the Rappahannock runs easterly for two miles, till suddenly at the United States Ford it turns and flows south for a mile and a half, and then, turning again, completes a horse-shoe bend. Here, on the south shore, was General Hooker's battle-line on the morning of the 2d of May, 1863. Here his five army corps, those of Meade, Slocum, Couch, Sickles, and Howard, were deployed. The face was toward the south, and the ranks mainly occupied a ridge nearly parallel with the Rapidan. The left touched the high ground just west of the horse-shoe bend, while the bristling front, fringed with skirmisher
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville. by Oliver O. Howard, Major-General, U. S. A. The country around Chancellorsville for the most part is a wilderness, with but here and there an opening. Ifappahannock, join at a point due north of Chancellorsville; thence the Rappahannock runs easterly foent forward to take in the cross-roads of Chancellorsville, and then, stretching on westerly throughf that eventful day General Hooker was at Chancellorsville. Slocum and Hancock were just in his frothe afternoon had reached the vicinity of Chancellorsville, where Slocum, who was the senior commandts to General Hooker, who now returned to Chancellorsville. He tried to divine Jackson's purpose. and of my corps after Hooker's arrival at Chancellorsville. Slocum, naturally supposing that I had in the woods between Dowdall's Tavern and Chancellorsville. 2. Relics of the dead in the woods ne retreat to the edge of the forest toward Chancellorsville, so as to uncover Steinwehr's knoll, the [2 more...]
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
the enemy's flank fire.--editors. Schirmer managed 1. Union breastworks in the woods between Dowdall's Tavern and Chancellorsville. 2. Relics of the dead in the woods near the Plank road. 3. The Plank road near where Jackson fell. from photographs taken in 1864. the reserve artillery fairly. Dilger, the battery commander on Schurz's left, rolled the balls along the Plank road and shelled the wood. General Steinwehr was on hand, cool, collected, and judicious. Like Blair at Atlanta, he had made his men (who were south of Dowdall's) spring to the reverse side of their intrenchments and be ready to fire the instant it was possible. Let us pause here a moment and follow Doles, who led the enemy's attack. He states that, after his first successful charge, the command moved forward at the double-quick to assault the enemy, who had taken up a strong position on the crest of a hill in the open field. This position was the one on Hawkins's farm where Devens's and Schurz'
Hazel Grove (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
s brought a part of the living to the breastworks near me; the remainder, he says, were carried off to the rear by another regimental commander. During the delays we had thus far caused to the first division of our enemy, all his rear lines had closed up, and the broad mass began to appear even below me on my left front to the south of Steinwehr's knoll. Then it was, after we had been fighting an hour, that Sickles's and Pleasonton's guns began to be heard, for they had faced about at Hazel Grove obliquely toward the north-west, and were hurrying artillery, cavalry, and infantry into position to do what they could against the attack now reaching them. I had come to my last practicable stand. The Confederates were slowly advancing, firing as they came. The twelve guns of Schirmer, the corps chief of artillery, increased by a part of Dilger's battery, fired, at first with rapidity; but the battery men kept falling from death and wounds. Suddenly, as if by an order, when a shee
Plank (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
nd encamped them there. Then I rode along the Plank road through the almost continuous forest to tcover the last three-quarters of a mile of the Plank road. This was done by a brigade of General Scated. He had but two brigades, Barlow on the Plank road and Buschbeck on his right. With them Stft Steinwehr's three-quarters of a mile of the Plank road. Thus he relieved from the front line Banting Run, the corps abandoning so much of the Plank road as to enable it to establish a solid lineained glimpses of a moving column crossing the Plank road and apparently making off. I sent out sco 2. Relics of the dead in the woods near the Plank road. 3. The Plank road near where Jackson Plank road near where Jackson fell. from photographs taken in 1864. the reserve artillery fairly. Dilger, the battery commanr on Schurz's left, rolled the balls along the Plank road and shelled the wood. General Steinwehr ilger with his battery sturdily kept along the Plank road, firing constantly as he retired. The Co[1 more...]
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
cavalry, under Stoneman, had gone off on a raid upon Lee's communications, and the remainder of the Army of the Potomac was under the sturdy Sedgwick, beyond Fredericksburg. Our opponents, under General Robert E. Lee, the evening before, were about two miles distant toward Fredericksburg, and thus between us and Sedgwick. LeeFredericksburg, and thus between us and Sedgwick. Lee had immediately with him the divisions of McLaws, Anderson, Rodes, Colston, and A. P. Hill, besides some cavalry under Stuart. He The old Chancellor house, burned during the battle. From a photograph. held, for his line of battle, a comparatively short front between the Rappahannock and the Catherine Furnace, not exceeding n Lee's exact location, he never could have had a better opportunity for taking the offensive. But he did not know, and after the few troops advancing toward Fredericksburg had met the approaching enemy he ordered all back to the old position, the Chancellorsville line, which I have just described. On the preceding Thursday, t
Hunting Run (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
hancellorsville House. There I reported to Slocum. He said that the orders were for me to cover the right of the general line, posting my command near Dowdall's Tavern. He pointed to a place on the map marked Mill near there, on a branch of Hunting Run [see map, p. 193], and said, Establish your right there. General Slocum promised, with the Twelfth Corps, to occupy the space between his headquarters and Dowdall's clearing; but, finding the distance too great, one of his division commandersrness Church (in the left middle-ground) and Hawkins's farm (on the right) as seen from the Plank road in front of Dowdall's Tavern. Our right ought to have been drawn back toward the Rapidan, to rest on that river at or near the mouth of Hunting Run, the corps abandoning so much of the Plank road as to enable it to establish a solid line. Yes; but we were ordered to Dowdall's Tavern, and not to the Rapidan, three or four miles in our rear! And our right was fixed for us at the Mill. It
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
m the intruders. They left him and pushed on. It was a rolling reconnoissance, evidently to determine, for Lee's and Jackson's information, the position of our flank. They probably had, however, some more certain knowledge, gained from one or tnceal the movement. The execution of this plan was intrusted to Lieutenant-General Jackson with his three divisions. Jackson's movement, with a stronger indication of battle, began at sunrise, Rodes, Colston, and A. P. Hill, in the order named, body come through there Oh, they may! His suggestion was heeded. During the forenoon General Sickles discovered Jackson's moving column. It was passing toward Orange Court House, so everybody said. Sickles forwarded all reports to General Hooker, who now returned to Chancellorsville. He tried to divine Jackson's purpose. About midday Sickles received General Hooker's orders to advance south cautiously. Soon after, perhaps by 2 P. M., there was a stronger apprehension of a confl
Orange Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
s, while receiving the salutes and cheers of the men, he said to me, How strong! How strong! I still had much extension, so that there were gaps along Schurz's and Devens's fronts. Colonel Comstock spoke to me in his quiet way: General, do close in those spaces! I said, The woods are thick and entangled; will anybody come through there Oh, they may! His suggestion was heeded. During the forenoon General Sickles discovered Jackson's moving column. It was passing toward Orange Court House, so everybody said. Sickles forwarded all reports to General Hooker, who now returned to Chancellorsville. He tried to divine Jackson's purpose. About midday Sickles received General Hooker's orders to advance south cautiously. Soon after, perhaps by 2 P. M., there was a stronger apprehension of a conflict, for there was a sharp skirmish in the direction of Catherine Furnace. The rattle of musketry followed; then in a little time was heard the booming of cannon. I sent the news
Catherine Furnace (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.28
ratively short front between the Rappahannock and the Catherine Furnace, not exceeding two miles and a half in extent. His right wing, not far from the river, was behind Mott's Run, which flows due east, and his left was deployed along the Catherine Furnace road. Could Hooker, on the first day of May, have known Lee's exact location, he never could have had a better opportunity for taking the offensive. But he did not know, and after the few troops advancing toward Fredericksburg had met tne Jackson's purpose. About midday Sickles received General Hooker's orders to advance south cautiously. Soon after, perhaps by 2 P. M., there was a stronger apprehension of a conflict, for there was a sharp skirmish in the direction of Catherine Furnace. The rattle of musketry followed; then in a little time was heard the booming of cannon. I sent the news to every division and said, Be ready. Devens states in his official report that at intervals between 11 A. M. and 6:30 P. M. he re
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