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Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
and 17th of May. They formed part of my new command, as did also Bushrod i. Johnson's division, including Matthew W. Ransom's brigade, transferred north of the James River on or about the 4th of June.--G. T. B. By the 16th of June three Federal corps,--Smith's, Hancock's, and Burnside's,--aggregating about 66,000 Later comp seen that day by Major Terrett, General Lee sent this message: The transports you mention have probably returned Butler's troops. Has Grant been seen crossing James River This shows that Lee was still uncertain as to his adversary's movements, and, notwithstanding the information already furnished him, could not realize that the i. e., at 4:30 P. M., on the same day — he sent this message to A. P. Hill, at Riddle's shop: General Beauregard reports large numbers of Grant's troops crossed James River, above Fort Powhatan, yesterday. If you have nothing contradictory of this, move to Chaffin's Bluff. Just at that time, however [5 P. M.], I sent another tele
Harrison's Landing (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
g about 66,000 Later compilation makes the total more probably 53,000.--editors. men, confronted our lines. Opposed to them I had, after the arrival of Johnson's division, about 10 A. M., an effective of not more than 10,000 men of all arms. Through a sense of duty I addressed the following telegram, June 16th, 7:45 A. M., to General Lee: Prisoner captured this A. M. reports that he belongs to Hancock's corps (Second), and that it crossed day before yesterday and last night from Harrison's Landing. Could we not have more reenforcements here? No direct answer was received to the above. But in reply to another dispatch of mine, June 16th, 4 P. M., relative to tugs and transports of the enemy reported to have been seen that day by Major Terrett, General Lee sent this message: The transports you mention have probably returned Butler's troops. Has Grant been seen crossing James River This shows that Lee was still uncertain as to his adversary's movements, and, notwithstanding t
Long Bridge (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
he 12th of June, and Smith's corps (the Eighteenth) was at Bermuda Hundred in the early afternoon of the 14th. From Point of Rocks it crossed the river that night and was pushed forward without delay against Petersburg. Kautz's cavalry and Hinks's command of colored troops had been added to it. The Ninth Corps (Burnside's) and the Sixth (Wright's) moved by way of Jones's Bridge and Charles City Court House road. The Second Corps (Hancock's) and the Fifth (Warren's) were marched from Long Bridge to Wilcox's Landing.--G. T. B. It was with a view to thwart General Grant in the execution of such a plan that I proposed to the War Department [June 9th] the adoption — should the emergency justify it, and I thought it did — of the bold and, to me, safer plan of concentrating all the forces we could readily dispose of to give battle to Grant, and thus decide at once the fate of Richmond and of the cause we were fighting for, while we still possessed a comparatively compact, well-disc
Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
eport, at 10 o'clock A. M. The engagement lasted fully three hours, much vigor being displayed by the Federals, while the Confederates confronted them with fortitude, knowing that they were fighting against over-whelming odds, constantly increasing. Birney's division of Hancock's corps finally broke into part of our line and effected a lodgment. The View of the Confederate line taken up by General Beauregard, June 18. from a Point on the Union picket line to the front and left of Fort Haskell. [see map, P. 538.] from a sketch made in 1886. contest, with varying results, was carried on until after nightfall, with advantage to us on the left and some serious loss on the right. It then slackened and gradually came to an end. In the meantime Warren's corps, the Fifth, had also come up, but too late to take a part in the action of the day. Its presence before our lines swelled the enemy's aggregate to about 90,000, A careful reckoning, based on official data, makes this aggre
Bermuda Hundred (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
liam F. Smith, p. 206.--editors. began on the evening of the 12th of June, and Smith's corps (the Eighteenth) was at Bermuda Hundred in the early afternoon of the 14th. From Point of Rocks it crossed the river that night and was pushed forward withies at Richmond to my urgent representations, I ordered General Bushrod R. Johnson to evacuate the lines in front of Bermuda Hundred at the dawn of day on the 16th, leaving pickets and skirmishers to cover the movement until daylight, or later if ne [1:45 P. M.] communicated with General Bragg upon this point, and had asked the War Department to elect between the Bermuda Hundred line and Petersburg, as, under the present circumstances, I could no longer hold both. The War Department had givenesponsibility of the measure, which I did. Scarcely two hours after Johnson's division had abandoned its position at Bermuda Hundred, Butler's forces drove off the Confederate pickets left there, as already stated, and took full possession of the li
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
diately after his conference with Major Cooke, sent me this message: Am not yet satisfied as to General Grant's movements; but upon your representations will move at once to Petersburg. And, in fact, even previous to that hour, on the same night, he had concluded to send Kershaw's division to my assistance. The next step taken by General Lee was to endeavor to procure sufficient means for the immediate transportation of his troops. The same morning he communicated with General Early [at Lynchburg], who had not yet returned from his Shenandoah campaign: Strike as quick as you can, and, if circumstances authorize, carry out the original plan, or move upon Petersburg without delay. Late as had been the credence given by General Lee to my representations of Grant's movements, it was, fortunately, not yet too late, by prompt and energetic action, to save Petersburg — and, therefore, Richmond. General Kershaw's division, which proved to be the vanguard of General Lee's army, reached
Malvern Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
ct that I was then fighting Grant's whole army with less than eleven thousand men. On the 17th, from Clay's House, at 12 o'clock M., General Lee answered as follows one of my telegrams of that morning: Telegram of 9 A. M. received. Until I can get more definite information of Grant's movements, I do not think it prudent to draw more troops to this side of the river. And, acting on the desire for additional information, at 3:30 P. M., on the same day, he telegraphed W. H. F. Lee, then at Malvern Hill, as follows: Push after the enemy, and endeavor to ascertain what has become of Grant's army. Later on--i. e., at 4:30 P. M., on the same day — he sent this message to A. P. Hill, at Riddle's shop: General Beauregard reports large numbers of Grant's troops crossed James River, above Fort Powhatan, yesterday. If you have nothing contradictory of this, move to Chaffin's Bluff. Just at that time, however [5 P. M.], I sent another telegram to General Lee, reiterating my former assertions,
Drewry's Bluff (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
rming proportions. To the urgent demands of General Wise for reenforcements, I was enabled at last to answer that part of Hoke's division was on the way from Drewry's Bluff and would be in time to save the day, if our men could stand their ordeal, hard as it was, a little while longer. Then all along the line, from one end to th despite the assertions of a few writers to that effect, among whom, strange to say, is Mr. Davis himself. It is true that Hoke's division had been sent from Drewry's Bluff at that date, and had arrived late in the evening and been placed in position on our new line, a fact which had given a feeling of unequivocal relief to all wrigades, with the addition later on of Martin's, had never belonged to the Army of North Virginia, though sent temporarily to reinforce it after the battle of Drewry's Bluff, on the 16th and 17th of May. They formed part of my new command, as did also Bushrod i. Johnson's division, including Matthew W. Ransom's brigade, transferr
Turkey Bend (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
ng my former assertions, with the addition of other particulars: Prisoners just taken represent themselves as belonging to Second, Ninth, and Eighteenth corps. They state that Fifth and Sixth corps are behind coming on. Those from Second and Eighteenth Interior view of the Confederate lines at Gracie's salient. From a War-time photograph. came here yesterday, and arrived first. Others marched night and day from Gaines's Mill, and arrived yesterday evening. The Ninth crossed at Turkey Bend, where they have a pontoon-bridge. They say Grant commanded on the field yesterday. All are positive that they passed him on the road seven miles from here. The firing lasted, on the 17th, until a little after 11 o'clock P. M. Just before that time I had ordered all the camp-fires to be brightly lighted, with sentinels well thrown forward and as near as possible to the enemy's. Then, at about 12:30 A. M., on the 18th, began the retrograde movement, which, notwithstanding the exhaust
Chesterfield (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.81
w to thwart General Grant in the execution of such a plan that I proposed to the War Department [June 9th] the adoption — should the emergency justify it, and I thought it did — of the bold and, to me, safer plan of concentrating all the forces we could readily dispose of to give battle to Grant, and thus decide at once the fate of Richmond and of the cause we were fighting for, while we still possessed a comparatively compact, well-disciplined, and enthusiastic army in the field. From Swift Creek, early on June 14th, I telegraphed to General Bragg: Movement of Grant's across Chickahominy and increase of Butler's force render my position here critical. With my present forces I cannot answer for consequences. Cannot my troops sent to General Lee be returned at once? . . . No answer came. Late in the evening of the same day, having further reason to believe that one corps at least of General Grant's army was already within Butler's Lines, I telegraphed to General Lee: A deserter
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