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R. F. Hoke (search for this): chapter 6.54
ries half a mile or more down the Yorktown road, files short to the left, passes through a newly plowed, soft and muddy field half a mile further, and forming into line behind a wood, which screens from sight all beyond, breathless, hot and heavy of foot from rapid motion over such a ground, halts and prepares to load. Thus formed, it consists of the following regiments, counting from the right: The Fifth and Twenty-third North Carolina, commanded respectively by Colonels Duncan K. McRae and Hoke; and the Thirty-eighth and Twenty-fourth Virginia commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Powhatan B. Whittle and Colonel William R. Terry; the Twenty-fourth Virginia being thus on the left, and the Fifth North Carolina on the right. This brigade is assigned to the attack, and the remainder of the division — the brigades of Rodes, Featherston and Rains, with the second company of Richmond howitzers — is held in reserve close by. Major-General D. H. Hill will lead and takes special charge of the righ
William Swinton (search for this): chapter 6.54
gade by a real charge with the bayonet, and this statement is again and again repeated, until Mr. Swinton, generally accurate, amplifies upon it thus: A few of the enemy who approached nearest the fort were bayoneted --[Army of the Potomac, Swinton, page 116]--and he adds a note: This is official. Rather a doubtful verification, seeing the exceeding great difference in those days between facts giving back and retreating (some by orders and some without), or even feigning to retreat, as Mr. Swinton says (page 116), should have held their ground, and when the venturesome regiment came up; qu them a taste of cold steel. But so in fact it was. And in answer to General McClellan and Mr. Swinton and others, the writer hereof, who led the charge of those who approached nearest the fort ; harge made by them, therefore, must have been after the Twenty-fourth had retired; and if, as Mr. Swinton says, any of those who approached nearest the fort were bayoneted, it must have been after th
Saunders (search for this): chapter 6.54
nearest Confederate line, he takes his own brigade and part of Naglee's--five regiments — and ten guns, in all probably over 4,000 men, and learning that one of the redoubts on the extreme left of the Confederate line was unoccupied, he crosses Saunders' pond and marches into it, and then, in the language of the Comte de Paris, seeing no enemy, he fearlessly proceeded to march into the next. But on approaching it, he perceives Bratton, with part of his Sixth South Carolina, preparing to opposer the purpose, for they outnumbered the foe, and were quite sufficient to have captured General Hancock and his five regiments and ten guns, one and all, who were far in advance of General Sumner, and who could only retreat by a narrow road over Saunders' pond. From all this want of generalship, skill and care, arose great confusion and greater misfortune. Not knowing exactly the location of the point of attack, it was scarcely possible that the line of battle would be properly arranged with
Robert E. Lee (search for this): chapter 6.54
l Committee on Conduct of War. Part I, pages 353-366. Here was fighting pretty much all day, but night found Longstreet holding his position, while the enemy seemed cured of any desire to again molest the Confederate rear. On the retreat the van of to-day is the rear guard to-morrow. Such was the custom of the Army of Northern Virginia--and Longstreet having led the first day, was rear guard the second. Was he in front at starting because General Johnston had found him, as afterwards General Lee did, slow to move, and therefore started him first? Possibly, for the evacuation of the Yorktown lines had been ordered on a previous night, and D. H. Hill had moved out bag and baggage at the appointed time for a mile or more, but was then halted until nearly day, and then ordered back to his former position. Fortunately the enemy had not discovered his absence — a bit of rare good luck not to have been expected. It was then currently reported that the waiting had been for Longstreet,
Naglee (search for this): chapter 6.54
o had other views of the duties of pursuers of a flying foe; for on the morning of the 5th, between 10 and 11 o'clock, leaving Sumner at Whittaker's, full half a mile or more from the nearest Confederate line, he takes his own brigade and part of Naglee's--five regiments — and ten guns, in all probably over 4,000 men, and learning that one of the redoubts on the extreme left of the Confederate line was unoccupied, he crosses Saunders' pond and marches into it, and then, in the language of the Cove immortal written upon their banner forever; and.although he had, as already said, five regiments of infantry and ten guns--4,000 men — he called loudly and frequently for reinforcements, which, to. the extent of three brigades (Smith's two and Naglee's), General McClellan sent him immediately after his arrival from the rear. It is noteworthy, that although McClellan's army was in pursuit of a retiring foe, he himself, instead of being in the van. remained below Yorktown, nearly twenty mile
Kearney (search for this): chapter 6.54
dy said, by R. H. Anderson, commanding the brigades of Anderson and Pryor. In the morning, after much skirmishing, without advantage to the enemy, he appeared on the right, in force under Hooker, attacking with spirit, but, though reinforced by Kearney, he was pressed back, driven and almost routed. Testimony before Congressional Committee on Conduct of War. Part I, pages 353-366. Here was fighting pretty much all day, but night found Longstreet holding his position, while the enemy seemed ifteen miles in rear, and had remained below Yorktown Evidence of Governor Sprague and others before Congressional Committee on Conduct of War.--he took no part in what was going on around him; and though importuned for aid by both Hooker and Kearney, who were almost routed, he declined to part with a man; and when Hancock, finding the empty redoubt on the left, ventured into it, he actually commanded him to return. In fact, he seems to have forgotten that he was in pursuit of what was desc
W. D. Pickett (search for this): chapter 6.54
eemed to have attracted the attention of its commanders and gained their special confidence — went to Suffolk, North Carolina and Drury's Bluff in successful quests of glory and renown. After it was reorganized in 1862, Kemper commanded it, and Pickett was its Major-General until the sad disaster at Five Forks (1865). At Yorktown Early held the lines just outside the village. Outnumbered as the Confederates were, the incessant duty necessarily imposed upon them in picketing, skirmishing anretire, it seems that the Twenty-fourth regiment would have been left, as had already been done, to. press forward alone until it reached the works, into which a few might have gotten, as they afterwards did at Gettysburg, in the great charge of Pickett's division, where, by a singular coincidence, the line attacked was' in charge of this same General Hancock. Then, as at Williamsburg, a handful left to dash themselves to atoms upon the enemy's entrenchments, while abundant support, stood quie
George T. Harrison (search for this): chapter 6.54
collection of the regiments engaged], says: The Twenty-fourth Virginia meantime emerged from the wood nearer the enemy than my redoubt, and moved in fine style upon them. * * * I have never on any field, during the war, seen more splendid gallantry exhibited than on that field at Williamsburg. [Southern Historical Society Papers, June, 1879, pages 301-2.] And a captain of Her Majesty's Scotch Fusileers, who was in Hancock's redoubt, and saw the charge, made himself known next day to Dr. George T. Harrison, Surgeon of the Twenty-fourth, left at Williamsburg to attend the wounded, saying that he did so because he understood the Doctor belonged to the Twenty-fourth Virginia, and he desired to tell him that during his entire Crimean experience, he had never seen more gallantry displayed upon a field of battle. Nor were the foes unwilling to declare their admiration or to testify to the impression made upon them by these dashing soldiers. General Hancock declared that they should hav
Willie Radford (search for this): chapter 6.54
equent shots' full in the face, and the dauntless Hairston also goes down desperately wounded so the writer, then but a youth, finds himself for the first time in command of his regiment, and the only mounted officer there. The Fifth North Carolina, with all its mounted officers, had not yet gotten up to the more advanced position of the Twenty-fourth Virginia. Captains Jennings and Haden, and Lieutenant Mansfield, too, the bravest of all these braves, lie dead upon the ground. Lieutenant Willie Radford, soldier and scholar, has freely given up his young life, so full of bloom and promise, in defence of home and dear native land, and lies with his face up to heaven and his feet to the foe, his noble brow, so lately decked with University honors, now pale and cold in death, and his Captain [afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel Bently], ever present in the field from Manassas even to Appomattox, fell bleeding by his side many yards in front of their company, and Captain Lybrock and Lieuten
Wheeler (search for this): chapter 6.54
nimated account of the charge appeared in the columns of the New York Herald: * * * From the sharp. fire of our skirmishers in the woods on our left, came the first information of a movement in that direction, and thus put all on the alert. * * * The fire grew hotter in the woods, and in a few moments, at a point fully half a mile away from the battery, the enemy's men began to file out of the cover and form in the open field. It was a bold and proved an expensive way to handle men. Wheeler opened his guns on the instant, and the swath of dead that subsequently marked the course of that brigade across the open field began at that spot. At the same moment also our skirmishers in the field began their fire. Still the enemy formed across the opening with admirable rapidity and precision, and as coolly too as if the fire had been directed elsewhere, and then came on at the double-quick step in three distinct lines A mistake, for the Twenty-fourth Virginia was the only regimen
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