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a response from President Lincoln. In the early part of last month, a letter was received by General Lee from Lieutenant-General Grant, in the following words: headquarters armies of the United States, City Point, Va., Aug. 8, 1864. General R. E. Lee, commanding Confederate Forces, near Petersburg, Va.: General: I would request that Colonel Jaques, Seventy-third Illinois volunteer infantry, and J. R. Gilmore, Esq., be allowed to meet Colonel Robert Ould, Commissioner for the exchangern. I again insisted on some evidence that they came from Mr. Lincoln; and in order to satisfy me, Mr. Gilmore referred to the fact that permission for their coming through our lines had been asked officially by General Grant in a letter to General Lee, and that General Grant in that letter had asked that this request should be preferred to President Davis. Mr. Gilmore then showed me a card, written and signed by Mr. Lincoln, requesting General Grant to aid Mr. Gilmore and friend in passing
oldier in the Confederacy was in the service of Lee and Johnston, and although he himself was a vet and intrenched. We learn that Hardee's and Lee's corps commenced arriving at Jonesboroa early mined assault on our right made by Hardee's and Lee's corps — the flower of the rebel army in Georgn his left, a thick and sheltering pine grove. Lee's corps, in four lines, advanced gallantly uponspite of their superhuman efforts, not a man of Lee's corps placed foot on our parapet. Major-Gene Anderson, commanding Hindman's old division in Lee's corps, fell mortally wounded within thirty ya It was understood that two corps, Hardee's and Lee's, of the rebel army were concentrated there. the attack thoroughly. The enemy attacked with Lee's and Hardee's corps, and after a contest of overe met by the rebel infantry from Hardee's and Lee's corps, who made a desperate and determined atested the field against the corps of Hardee and Lee. You drove them discomfited from the field; cau[1 more...]
the enemy in his front showed signs of joining Lee, to follow him up to the full extent of his abiks. Major-General Meade was instructed that Lee's army would be his objective point; that wherenth of April; that it was my intention to fight Lee between Culpepper and Richmond, if he would stames. My idea, from the start, had been to beat Lee's army north of Richmond if possible. Then, afTo meet this movement under General Hunter, General Lee sent a force, perhaps equal to a corps, a p necessary to bring his command to bear against Lee's army, in cooperation with our forces in frontes, and also prevent the rapid concentration of Lee's and Johnston's armies. I had spent days ofds, which are now the only avenues of supply to Lee's army, you may return to this army, selecting , &c., U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. General R. E. Lee. On the morning of the ninth General retired to the vicinity of Burkesville. General Lee's great influence throughout the whole Sout[38 more...]
toneman on his raid toward Richmond, in rear of Lee's army. With one brigade, I preceded the Eleveing the rebel army, bearing a despatch from General Lee to General Anderson, and written only one hurg and Upperville, with such success, that General Lee abandoned his design of crossing the Potomaby holding it, could defeat the other; that General Lee knew this, and would undoubtedly make for id that he was more impressed with the idea that Lee intended crossing the Susquehanna river, and acusand strong, moving down to occupy Gettysburg; Lee thus doing exactly what I informed General Meadains caused the Potomac to rise so rapidly that Lee could not cross, and he was again brought face s army about the middle of September, 1863, General Lee's army being south of the Rapidan. The a the army was hastily marched to the rear. General Lee, finding he could move General Meade so easordered General Meade to advance and attack General Lee, Culpepper was again occupied, early in Nov[7 more...]
e among them, as they were obliged to do to take their allotted places in the line which had been planned for the movement in the morning. During the afternoon Admiral Lee transferred his flag from the steam frigate Minnesota, his former flag-ship, to the fine steamer Malvern, formerly the blockade-runner Ella and Annie, and came bank, a full regiment, route-step, arms at will, and bound Richmondward. The iron-clads move in order to a point two miles above City Point; come to anchor. Admiral Lee, who has been upon the Tecumseh during the afternoon, takes the gunboat Mount Washington and returns to his own ship. And now, after a day of intense excitemot of unexchanged rebels on board, now passed us for the point of exchange, which now is not City Point, but some place above the river, chosen at the option of Admiral Lee. On our right the bank now is low and marshy, yet with thick woods, while the opposite bank for a long distance is elevated twenty or twenty-five feet. It wa
Doc. 69. operations of General Lee's Army. Diary of a Confederate officer. Wednesday, May 4, 1864.--Received orders at 2:15 P. M., to move by plank-road to front. Enemy reported crossing atattery, six hundred or eight hundred yards in our front, and fired upon us during this time. General Lee rode up to my battalion next morning, saluted me by raising his hat, pulled off his gauntlet,eral Long had ordered all the guns out at dark. I informed General Ramseur, and went over to General Lee's headquarters to find General Long. He (General Lee) told me he did not intend for the gunsGeneral Lee) told me he did not intend for the guns to be brought out until the troops left. I then sent word back to General Ramseur and Captains D., J., and G., not to move until the troops moved, but the orders for N., P., and C. were not changedd to that part of our line to see how matters were progressing. In the orchard, just back of General Lee's headquarters, I was struck on the collar-bone and shoulder by a fragment of shell, which di
through the steam chest, blowing up the vessel. Those of the officers and crew who took to the north shore were taken prisoners. A few who reached the south bank were afterward picked up by the army gunboat, Charles Chamberlain. A deserter from Lee's army was captured, who stated that Lee had given Grant a very hard fight. Contrabands report Grant whipped, and falling back. It is life or death to us here as to which way the scales turn in reference to Grant's movement, and news from him isLee had given Grant a very hard fight. Contrabands report Grant whipped, and falling back. It is life or death to us here as to which way the scales turn in reference to Grant's movement, and news from him is most anxiously awaited. Some distance back from the shore, nearly opposite headquarter's boat, and near a brick house, a rebel signal flag has been in constant use. This afternoon, Lieutenant Bladenheizer, commanding the army gunboat, Brewster, with one hundred and twenty men from the Sixty-seventh Ohio regiment, landed and succeeded in capturing the party with all their flags, telescopes, &c. Lieutenant Bladenheizer was yesterday promoted to a Captaincy for gallant conduct.
could not hope to do so without detaching a considerable force from Lee's army, and to induce General Lee thus to weaken his army was one ofGeneral Lee thus to weaken his army was one of our principal objects in the movement. The following letter found on the body of General William E. Jones, killed at Piedmont, indicates thring necessary the speedy evacuation of the rebel capital. If General Lee was forced to detach a considerable force to oppose us, and preven foiled in his attempt to open communication with us; and that General Lee had been enabled to detach a large force of veteran troops, undel capital, and was thus calculated to create a diversion in favor of Lee at Richmond. That the enemy would fail to use his advantageous posiorce to protect it at all hazards; nearly one third of the flower of Lee's army, under Early, was detached for this purpose. Thus the great . Atlanta, unrelieved, fell before the conquering arms of Sherman. Lee's army, thus enfeebled, remained imprisoned in Richmond, and was nev
the stream; seriously interrupt the communications of the rebel capital southward, and eventually compel the evacuation by Lee's army of their strongly-fortified position on the Rapidan, thus forcing the rebels to give Grant battle, or press rapidly gunboats, under Brigadier-General Graham, and a naval force, consisting of five monitors and eleven gunboats, under Rear-Admiral Lee. The cavalry branch of the expedition is commanded by Brigadier-General A. V. Kautz, who, with a fine body of sev. On Friday morning General Butler despatched Major Ludlow of his staff back to Bermuda Hundred to communicate with Admiral Lee, inform him of the intended attack, and to urge upon him to co-operate with the monitors and gunboats. To this statem forward to the Danville and Richmond railroad This road being cut, every line of travel radiating from Richmond, by which Lee could receive supplies for his army, would be closed. To accomplish an end of such advantage to Grant as the crippling of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 93. the burning of Chambersburg. (search)
just received the day before from a rebel prisoner, invoking the blessing of Heaven upon her and hers for kind ministrations to a foe. The writer had been here with Lee, in June, 1863, and was on guard at the house, and was of course treated kindly. The sick of the same command, as well as those of McCausland's forces — then underurned, in retaliation for the burning of six houses in Virginia by Hunter. The burning of Chambersburg was therefore by order of one of the corps commanders of General Lee's army, instead of the work of a guerrilla chief, thus placing the responsibility squarely upon the shoulders of General Lee. We have in support of this the stGeneral Lee. We have in support of this the statement of Rev. Mr. Edwards, Episcopal clergyman of Hagerstown, who was taken as a hostage after Chambersburg had been destroyed. He was brought to General Early's headquarters at Williamsport, and there paroled to effect his exchange. General Early there informed him that he had directed Chambersburg to be burned in. retaliation