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Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
of Antietam, with the preceding capture of Harper's Ferry and the other interesting events that markforces forward to encounter the invaders. Harper's Ferry, at the junction of the Potomac and the Shnd on the 13th he reached Bolivar Heights. Harper's Ferry lies in a deep basin formed by Maryland Hehen Colonel Miles raised the white flag at Harper's Ferry and its garrison of 12,500, with vast milihe morning of the 16th from the capture of Harper's Ferry and had been posted in this position to subeen engaged with Jackson in the affair at Harper's Ferry. A. P. Hill's men, arriving from Harper's ery effort to relieve it. The affair at Harper's Ferry, as that at South Mountain, was but a prelral Franklin, who had been sent to relieve Harper's Ferry, met a Confederate force at Crampton's Gapty-one hundred men and they failed to save Harper's Ferry. Lee now placed Longstreet and D. H. Hier's men, and McLaws', having arrived from Harper's Ferry — were hastening up, and they not only blo[9 more...]
Rectortown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
the army, which he considered necessary after Antietam. The many reverses to the Federal arms since the beginning of the war had weakened the popular hold of the Lincoln Administration, and there was constant political pressure for an aggressive move against Lee. McClellan, yielding at last to this demand, began advancing his army into Virginia. Late on the night of November 7th, through a heavy rainstorm, General Buckingham, riding post-haste from Washington, reached McClellan's tent at Rectortown, and handed him Stanton's order relieving him from command. Burnside was appointed his successor, and at the moment was with him in the tent. Without a change of countenance, McClellan handed him the despatch, with the words: Well, Burnside, you are to command the army. Whatever may have been McClellan's fault, the moment chosen for his removal was most inopportune and ungracious. His last advance upon Lee was excellently planned, and he had begun to execute it with great vigor — the v
Warrenton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
er relieving him from command. Burnside was appointed his successor, and at the moment was with him in the tent. Without a change of countenance, McClellan handed him the despatch, with the words: Well, Burnside, you are to command the army. Whatever may have been McClellan's fault, the moment chosen for his removal was most inopportune and ungracious. His last advance upon Lee was excellently planned, and he had begun to execute it with great vigor — the van of the army having reached Warrenton on November 7th, opposed only by half of Lee's army at Culpeper, while demonstrations across the gaps of the Blue Ridge compelled the retention of Jackson with the other half in the Shenandoah Valley. Never before had the Federal military prospect been brighter than at that moment. At Sharpsburg (Antietam) was sprung the keystone of the arch upon which the Confederate cause rested.--James Longstreet, Lieutenant-General C. S. A., in Battles and leaders of the Civil War. A battle
Georgetown (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
ed its beginning in the early morning. About three o'clock in the afternoon Burnside's skirmishers advanced to the first cross-street beyond this church, threatening the town itself. Out on the hills beyond the town, Main Street becomes the Shepherdstown road, and along this were arriving and hurrying through the town the anxiously awaited forces of A. P. Hill. From that moment the Federals got no nearer Sharpsburg. Hill drove them back steadily beyond the church, recapturing the battery whrces were steadily pushed back until at nightfall they lay discomfited, holding the bridge on the banks of Antietam creek, which he had wrested from Toombs' two Georgia regiments. that it would cut Lee out from his line of retreat by way of Shepherdstown. After replenishing the ammunition and adding some fresh troops, Cox advanced at three o'clock with the utmost gallantry toward Sharpsburg. The Confederates disputed the ground with great bravery. But Cox swept all before him and was at
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
However, Colonel H. K. Douglas, who was a member of Jackson's staff, relates, in Battles and leaders of the Civ rail fence on the Hagerstown pike, where Stonewall Jackson's men attempted to rally in the face of Hooker's fernfield in his immediate front. This was a part of Jackson's Corps which had arrived during the morning of themined resistance. Back and still farther back were Jackson's men driven across the open field, every stalk of and more stubborn. Nearly all the units of two of Jackson's divisions were now in action, and cavalry and artsary before the battle could be continued. Many of Jackson's men wore trousers and caps of Federal blue, as dilsed with great slaughter. General D. R. Jones, of Jackson's division, had been wounded. The brave Starke who artillery, his object being to await the coming of Jackson's command from Harper's Ferry. It is true that Jac the last to leave Harper's Ferry, remaining behind Jackson's main body in order to attend to the details of th
Leesburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
pture of Harper's Ferry and the other interesting events that marked the invasion of Maryland by General Lee. It was one of the bloodiest and the most picturesque conflicts of the Civil War, and while it was not all that the North was demanding and not all that many military critics think it might have been, it enabled President Lincoln to feel that he could with some assurance issue, as he did, his Emancipation Proclamation. Lee's army, fifty thousand strong, had crossed the Potomac at Leesburg and had concentrated around Frederick, the scene of the Barbara Frietchie legend, only forty miles from Washington. When it became known that Lee, elated by his victory at Second Bull Run, had taken the daring step of advancing into Maryland, and now threatened the capital of the Republic, McClellan, commanding the Army of the Potomac, pushed his forces forward to encounter the invaders. Harper's Ferry, at the junction of the Potomac and the Shenandoah rivers, was a valuable defense again
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
hrough the struggles of the summer of 1862 he had looked forward to the time when he could announce his decision to the people. But he could not do it then. With the doubtful success of Federal arms, to make such a bold step would have been a mockery and would have defeated the very end he sought. The South had now struck its first desperate blow at the gateways to the North. By daring, almost unparalleled in warfare, it had swung its courageous army into a strategical position where with the stroke of fortune it might have hammered down the defenses of the National capital on the south and then sweep on a march of invasion into the North. The Northern soldiers had parried the blow. They had saved themselves from disaster and had held back the tide of the Confederacy as it beat against the Mason and Dixon line, forcing it back into the State of Virginia where the two mighty fighting bodies were soon to meet again in a desperate struggle for the right-of-way at Fredericksburg.
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
rior plans had been thwarted by this engagement and after a consultation with his corps commanders The mediator President Lincoln's Visit to the Camps at Antietam, October 8, 1862. Yearning for the speedy termination of the war, Lincoln came to view the Army of the Potomac, as he had done at Harrison's Landing. Puzzled to understand how Lee could have circumvented a superior force on the Peninsula, he was now anxious to learn why a crushing blow had not been struck. Lincoln (after Gettysburg) expressed the same thought: Our army held the war in the hollow of their hand and they would not close it! On Lincoln's right stands Allan Pinkerton, the famous detective and organizer of the Secret Service of the army. At the President's left is General John A. McClernand, soon to be entrusted by Lincoln with reorganizing military operations in the West. he determined to withdraw from Maryland. On the night of the 18th the retreat began and early the next morning the Confederate arm
Berlin, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
Antietam — the invasion of the North The first stand of Stonewall's men McClellan's last advance: the crossing after Antietam This splendid landscape photograph of the pontoon bridge at Berlin, Maryland, was taken in October, 1862. On the 26th McClellan crossed the Potomac here for the last time in command of an army. Around this quiet and picturesque country the Army of the Potomac bivouacked during October, 1862, leaving two corps posted at Harper's Ferry to hold the outlet of the Shenandoah Valley. At Berlin (a little village of about four hundred inhabitants), McClellan had his headquarters during the reorganization of the army, which he considered necessary after Antietam. The many reverses to the Federal arms since the beginning of the war had weakened the popular hold of the Lincoln Administration, and there was constant political pressure for an aggressive move against Lee. McClellan, yielding at last to this demand, began advancing his army into Virgini
Middletown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
ennsylvania. It was from his march through Frederick that the Barbara Frietchie story took its rise. But there is every reason to believe that General Jackson never saw the good old lady, that the story is a myth, and that Mr. Whittier, who has given us the popular poem under the title of her name, was misinformed. However, Colonel H. K. Douglas, who was a member of Jackson's staff, relates, in Battles and leaders of the Civil War, an interesting incident where his commander on entering Middletown was greeted by two young girls waving a Union flag. The general bowed to the young women, raised his hat, and remarked to some of his officers, We evidently have no friends in this town. Colonel Douglas concludes, This is about the way he would have treated Barbara Frietchie. On the day after Jackson left Frederick he crossed the Potomac by means of a ford near Williamsport and on the 13th he reached Bolivar Heights. Harper's Ferry lies in a deep basin formed by Maryland Heights on th
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