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John H. Morgan (search for this): chapter 11.112
hief did not mean to spare them. I shall never forget A. P. Hill as he appeared that day. I had known him as the West Point cadet, at home on furlough, whose bright buttons and gay uniform had attracted my boyish fancy. I had met him as the young artillery officer, whose athletic frame, handsome face, and noble bearing won the admiration of all. I had seen him in the full flush of a bridegroom's happiness, when he had just led to the altar the beautiful and accomplished sister of General John H. Morgan, and I had been one of his most enthusiastic admirers when he was Colonel of the old Thirteenth Virginia. But, as I saw him on that historic field, dressed in a fatigue jacket of gray flannel, his felt hat slouched over his noble brow, sitting his horse with easy grace, glancing with eagle eye along his column as it hurried past him into battle, and yet taking time from his pressing duties to give me a warm grasp of the hand and a cordial greeting as he inquired after the boys of th
Jeb (search for this): chapter 11.112
d Jackson in a state of excitement such as he never saw him in before or since. He was under the impression that his last reserve brigade had gone in, and was intensely chagrined, and annoyed that the enemy had not been driven from his position. Jeb Stuart in his fighting jacket was near by, and Jackson proposed that he should concentrate all of his cavalry and make a grand cavalry charge, but Stuart shook his head and replied: Too many cannon. But he called Jackson's attention to the fact tntil we had got possession of those heights and fortified them. After that it was a strong position. [Ibid, page 446.] These heights would have been occupied and intrenched by our infantry and artillery, but Stuart — dashing, gallant, glorious Jeb. Stuart — could not resist the temptation of stirring them up, and so soon as his advance cavalry squadrons reached these heights he sent for Pelham, the heroic boy artillerist, and a section of his horse artillery, which he ordered to open on th
Robert Edward Lee (search for this): chapter 11.112
ing task to announce to you the success achieved by this army to-day. The enemy was this morning driven from his strong position behind Beaver Dam Creek, and pursued to that behind Powhite Creek, and finally, after a severe contest of five hours, entirely repulsed from the field. Night put an end to the contest. I grieve to state that our loss in officers and men is great. We sleep on the field, and shall renew the contest in the morning. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, R. E. Lee, General. The reception of the news of our great victory at Cold Harbor and Gaines's Mill by the people of Richmond may be better imagined than described. All day long the sound of the conflict echoed through the city, and old men, women and children crowded on the tops of the houses or on the neighboring hills where they could distinguish the smoke of the battle and hear even the rattle of the musketry. Soon the stream of wounded began to pour in, and tidings of a great victory to
Kidder Meade (search for this): chapter 11.112
I pledge you my honor as a soldier to carry them at the point of the bayonet. General Lee replied with that quiet twinkle which always betokened something good: I have no doubt that you could now do so, General; but I have one very serious objection to your making the attempt. What is that? What is that? exclaimed Magruder, who hoped to remove the objection, and saw glory and honor in the present opportunity. I am afraid, replied General Lee, that you might hurt my little friend Major Kidder Meade; our friends, the enemy, left some time ago, and he is over there reconnoitring. The testimony of all the army correspondents, of citizens along the route, and of the officers of the Army of the Potomac themselves, is that the retreat to Harrison's Landing was very precipitate, and that the army arrived there in a very demoralized condition. Stuart got possession of the heights which completely commanded the camps at Westover, and which, if occupied and entrenched by infantry and
Benjamin Franklin (search for this): chapter 11.112
to do again what it had so gloriously done, for a stake no greater, on the 27th; it might have routed the Federal infantry and artillery at once, without the assistance of its own cannon. Two columns pushed with determination across the two fords at which the cavalry of Munford passed over and returned — the one in the center, and the other at the left — and protected in their onset by the oblique fire of a powerful artillery, so well posted on the right, would not have failed to dislodge Franklin from a position already half lost. The list of casualities would indeed have been larger than that presented on the 30th, of one cannoneer mortally wounded. But how much shorter would have been the bloody list filled up next day at Malvern Hill? This temporary eclipse of Jackson's genius was probably to be explained by physical causes. The labor of the previous days, the sleeplessness, the wear of gigantic cares, with the drenching of the comfortless night, had sunk the elasticity of hi
Stonewall Jackson (search for this): chapter 11.112
ove Church. General Lee sat on a cedar stump; Jackson and Hill stood around him; the staff officersad ordered Longstreet to go to Hill's relief, Jackson also got into position and the battle was jois that about an hour before sun-down he found Jackson in a state of excitement such as he never sawlasted. A message came from General Lee, and Jackson had scarcely uttered his crisp Very well! wh seemed to me well nigh impregnable, and even Jackson exclaimed when he saw the position which Hoods the Napoleon of railroad contractors --whom Jackson had attached to his staff as chief of pioneertime the engineers can prepare the pictures. Jackson cordially seconded his efforts, the bridge waven great Homer sometimes nods, and even Stonewall Jackson was not infallible. General Wade Hamptois, and they did not hesitate to declare that Jackson made here a great blunder. The question is simmediate attack on McClellan's position, but Jackson, who reached the field first, decided, after [13 more...]
R. L. Dabney (search for this): chapter 11.112
standing as idle spectators until Jackson's Adjutant-General, Rev. R. L. Dabney, discovered and rectified the mistake. An eye-witness reporton of Jackson's warm personal friend and chosen biographer (Rev. Dr. R. L. Dabney, who was then serving on his staff.) He says (page 466): y amusing incidents occurred. Jackson's chief of staff was Rev. Dr. R. L. Dabney, one of the ablest divines in the South, whose conspicuous devout churchman.) A few days before the battles around Richmond, Dr. Dabney preached a sermon in which he took strong Calvinistic grounds on directed those about him to dismount and shelter themselves, and Dr. Dabney found a place behind a large and very thick oak gate post, where staff — a gallant gentleman and a devout churchman, who had heard Dr. Dabney's sermon, and whose theological views did not fully indorse its ds Chief of Staff, and giving him the military salute coolly said: Dr. Dabney, every shot, and shell, and bullet is directedby the God of battl
C. R. Mason (search for this): chapter 11.112
. General Jackson was delayed by the necessity of rebuilding Grapevine bridge over the Chickahominy, and did not put his column in motion until early dawn of the 29th. It was on this occasion that the incident occurred in which figured Captain C. R. Mason--widely known in Virginia as the Napoleon of railroad contractors --whom Jackson had attached to his staff as chief of pioneers. Anxious to build the bridge and join in the pursuit of the enemy, Jackson sent for Mason, told him his wishesMason, told him his wishes, and ordered him to be ready to begin the bridge, so soon as the engineers could prepare the plan and specifications. The veteran bridge builder at once replied: Never mind the pictures, General! If you will just send me men enough who will wade in the water and tote poles, I will have the bridge ready by the time the engineers can prepare the pictures. Jackson cordially seconded his efforts, the bridge was ready in a marvelously short time, and the foot cavalry were again on the road. But
Richmond (search for this): chapter 11.112
handling of his powerful artillery went a long way towards making the odds greatly in his favor. I remember that on riding over the field the next day several of the positions seemed to me well nigh impregnable, and even Jackson exclaimed when he saw the position which Hood's Texans had carried: These men are soldiers indeed! Two years later, when Lee's veterans occupied these same positions, Grant's powerful army surged against them in vain. General Lee sent the following dispatch to Richmond the night of the battle: Headquarters, June 27, 1862. His Excellency, President Davis: Mr. President,--Profoundly grateful to Almighty God for the signal victory granted to us, it is my pleasing task to announce to you the success achieved by this army to-day. The enemy was this morning driven from his strong position behind Beaver Dam Creek, and pursued to that behind Powhite Creek, and finally, after a severe contest of five hours, entirely repulsed from the field. Night put
Dix (search for this): chapter 11.112
s battle as embracing overwhelming numbers, and this theory is adopted by most Northern writers on the subject. But the field returns of both armies, and a careful computation of the figures of the official reports on both sides show that at the beginning of the battle Lee had under his command, of all arms, 80,284 men, while the official returns of the Army of the Potomac show that General McClellan had present for duty on the 20th day of June, 1862, 115,102, but as this return included General Dix's command of over nine thousand men at Fort Monroe, it is perfectly safe to say that McClellan had before Richmond, when the battle opened, one hundred and five thousand men with which to oppose Lee's eighty thousand. We had about fifty-two thousand on the north side of the Chickahominy and twenty-eight thousand in the trenches on the south side. We have no means at hand of determining the numbers of the Army of the Potomac actually engaged at Gaines's Mill and Cold Harbor, but this
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