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Loudoun (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
its defenses, both by land and water, in the most perfect condition. Without waiting to hear from President Davis, after having been joined by the divisions of D. H. Hill and McLaws, Hampton's cavalry and several batteries, which he had ordered forward from Richmond, Lee issued orders September 2d, for his army to march to the vicinity of Leesburg, but by way of Dranesville, as if threatening Washington, in order to bring his men into the more inviting Piedmont country of the county of Loudoun, abounding in grain and cattle, and to place it where he could easily cross the Potomac, if his Maryland campaign were not forbidden by the Confederate government. In writing to President Davis again, on the 4th, he expressed no fears as to the fighting ability of his army, but was only uneasy about his supplies of ammunition and subsistence. Jackson led the advance, Lee still marching left in front, giving the strictest of orders in reference to the marching and resting of his men, tha
Piedmont, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
l batteries, which he had ordered forward from Richmond, Lee issued orders September 2d, for his army to march to the vicinity of Leesburg, but by way of Dranesville, as if threatening Washington, in order to bring his men into the more inviting Piedmont country of the county of Loudoun, abounding in grain and cattle, and to place it where he could easily cross the Potomac, if his Maryland campaign were not forbidden by the Confederate government. In writing to President Davis again, on the 4thice, whatever it may be; and while the Southern people will rejoice to welcome you to your natural position among them, they will only welcome you when you come of your own free will. This magnanimous declaration fell upon cold ears, for the Piedmont region, in which Frederick is situated, contained few sympathizers with the Confederate cause. The majority of its people were contented and well-to-do owners of small farms, most of them of German descent, whose affiliations were more with Pen
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ince the commencement of the war for the Confederate army to enter Maryland; but he would not conceal the condition of that army after the fiecome, when, on the 5th day of September, to the martial strains of Maryland, My Maryland from every band in the army, and with his men cheerinthe 8th he issued a stirring proclamation, calling upon the men of Maryland to join the men of his command, gathered within their borders fromreignty to their State. In closing he said: This, citizens of Maryland, is our mission, so far as you are concerned. No constraint upon hts, across the Potomac, the southwestern end of the Blue ridge in Maryland, are both occupied and defended at the same time; for each of thesrom Virginia, and with defensive works to protect in the rear from Maryland. The instructions of Lee's order were, that Jackson should marced during the night of the 14th, and batteries were in position on Maryland and Loudoun heights, and in front of Bolivar heights, ready to enf
Boonsboro (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ow Jackson across the Blue ridge and halt at Boonsboro, in the Great valley, at the western foot ofing its crest with his rear, and encamped at Boonsboro; Stuart still held back Mc-Clellan's advanceell on his left near Turner's gap, where the Boonsboro and Frederick road crosses, and added to theus defense of the South mountain passes near Boonsboro had won a day from McClellan and given Jacksngstreet and D. H. Hill from the vicinity of Boonsboro, and fell back across Antietam river in the oad leading north of east from Sharpsburg to Boonsboro was another bridge, opposite the center of attack on the center of Lee's lines, on the Boonsboro road, by the 25,000 veterans under Porter an intently watched, from a rock, south of the Boonsboro road, on the summit of the hill east of SharSharpsburg commanded the road leading toward Boonsboro and held in check any Federal advance on hishe other insured its success by arresting at Boonsboro the combined armies of the enemy, advancing [5 more...]
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ole army of the enemy, and repulsed every attack along his entire front of more than four miles in extent. The whole of the following day you stood prepared to renew the conflict on the same ground, and retired next morning without molestation across the Potomac. Two attempts subsequently made by the enemy to follow you across the river have resulted in his complete discomfiture and being driven back with loss. Achievements such as these demanded much valor and patriotism. History records few examples of greater fortitude and endurance than this army has exhibited, and I am commissioned by the President to thank you in the name of the Confederate States for the undying fame you have won for their arms. Much as you have done, much more remains to be accomplished. The enemy again threatens with invasion, and to your tried valor and patriotism the country looks with confidence for deliverance and safety. Your past exploits give assurance that this confidence is not misplaced
Cedar Mountain (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
discarded the sling. From his headquarters in the vicinity of Winchester, on the 2d of October, Lee issued an address to his soldiers, in which he said: In reviewing the achievements of the army during the present campaign, the commanding general cannot withhold the expression of his admiration of the indomitable courage displayed in battle and its cheerful endurance of privation and hardship on the march Since your great victories around Richmond, you have defeated the enemy at Cedar Mountain, expelled him from the Rappahannock, and after a conflict of three days, utterly repulsed him on the plains of Manassas, and forced him to take shelter within the fortifications around his capital. Without halting for repose, you crossed the Potomac, stormed the heights of Harper's Ferry, made prisoners of more than 11,000 men, and captured upward of seventy-five pieces of artillery, all their small-arms and other munitions of war. While one corps of the army was thus engaged, the other
Midland (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
lcome you when you come of your own free will. This magnanimous declaration fell upon cold ears, for the Piedmont region, in which Frederick is situated, contained few sympathizers with the Confederate cause. The majority of its people were contented and well-to-do owners of small farms, most of them of German descent, whose affiliations were more with Pennsylvania to the north than with Virginia to the south of them. It would have been quite different had Lee arrived among the men of Midland or Tidewater Maryland; but he had no time to wait on political action, for McClellan had gathered up full 90,000 men, veterans and new recruits, and, without orders from the authorities at Washington, was marching to again attack Lee. This made it important for him to at once turn his attention to military affairs. The alarm that followed the retreat of Pope to Washington had somewhat subsided, but there was no telling what Lee, Jackson and Stuart might attempt to do, and so Banks was held
Chantilly (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
Chapter 19: The Maryland campaign against McClellan. Resting at Chantilly, with every reason to be well content with what he had accomplished during the three months that he had personally commanded the army of Northern Virginia, and anxious to keep the Federal invaders from the soil of Virginia, Lee, on the 3d of September, suggested to President Davis that now was the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confederate army to enter Maryland; but he would not conceal the condition of that army after the fierce contests it had just passed through, so he continued: The army is not properly equipped for an invasion of an enemy's country. It lacks much of the material of war, is feeble in transportation, the animals being much reduced; the men are poorly provided with clothes, and in thousands of instances are destitute of shoes. Still we cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeav
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
action, that was about to begin. The glorious autumn days of the Southland had come, when, on the 5th day of September, to the martial strains of Maryland, My Maryland from every band in the army, and with his men cheering and shouting with delight, Jackson forded the Potomac at Edwards' ferry, where the river was broad but shallow, near the scene of Evans' victory over the Federals in the previous October, and where Wayne had crossed his Pennsylvania brigade in marching to the field of Yorktown in 1781. By the 7th of the month, Lee had concentrated the most of his army in the vicinity of Frederick City, in a land teeming with abundance. He had issued the most stringent orders, forbidding depredations on private property and requiring his quartermasters to purchase and pay for supplies for his army. On the 8th he issued a stirring proclamation, calling upon the men of Maryland to join the men of his command, gathered within their borders from their sister Southern States; appeal
Cumberland Valley (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
placed another battery and a portion of cavalry. Lee's entire force, of all arms, at the close of the 16th, was about 25,000 men, with which to oppose McClellan's 87,000. Orders of urgency called McLaws and A. P. Hill to promptly bring forward from Harper's Ferry their 10,000 fighting men. As early as 3 o'clock on the morning of the 17th, two hours and a half before the rising of the sun, Hooker sent forward his skirmishers in the East woods, and as the sun looked over the lovely Cumberland valley from the crest of the South mountain, he boldly and impetuously urged forward his lines of I 2,500 muskets against Jackson's front of but 3,500. Six Confederate batteries, well disposed in front of Jackson's line, wrought havoc with this advancing host, but its lines closed up and swept forward, their right extending across the Hagerstown turnpike, their thirty guns answering those of the Confederates, from the high Poffenberger ridge, while twenty long range guns roared in enfilade f
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