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Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
ting for all that men held dear, with the selfish spirit of the soldier of fortune, himself the only god of his idolatry. I have been thus particular in giving this incident, because it has been by various writers of the life of Lee confounded with the other two incidents of a like character which I have before given. In fact, to our great Commander, so low in his opinion of himself and so sublime in all his actions, these were matters of small moment; and when written to by a friend in Maryland (Judge Mason), after the war, as to whether such an incident ever occurred, replied briefly, Yes; General Gordon was the General—alluding thus concisely to the incident of the early morning of the 12th, when General Gordon led the charge, passing over the similar occurrences entirely, in his characteristic manner of never speaking of himself when he could help it. But that which was a small matter to him was a great one to the men whom he thus led At nightfall our line of battle still co
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
rowing his left flank back from the trenches, confronted their advance. Gordon soon arranged the left of his division to make an effort to recapture the lines by driving the enemy back with his right. As he was about to move forward with his Georgia and Virginia brigades in the charge, General Lee, who had reached the front a few minutes before, rode up and joined him. Seeing that Lee was about to ride with him in the charge, the scene of the 6th of May was repeated. Gordon pointed to his South Carolina regiment. These bodies, amounting to between seven and eight thousand men, came to him on the Chickahominy. Our cavalry was also reinforced during the latter days in May by two regiments from South Carolina and a battalion from Georgia. The victory of the 3d of June, at Cold Harbor, was perhaps the easiest ever granted to Confederate arms by the folly of Federal commanders. It was a general assault along a front of six miles and a bloody repulse at all points, and a partia
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
s General Lee had sent Breckinridge back towards the Valley on June 8th, and General Early, with the Second corps (now numbering about eight thousand muskets—it having suffered more than either of the other corps), on the 12th to meet Hunter at Lynchburg, and restored Hoke's division to General Beauregard at Petersburg, the odds against him were much increased, as he had now with him only from twenty-five to twenty-seven thousand infantry. These bold movements show what he thought of the con the last forty days of the campaign, had been held in inglorious inaction at Bermuda Hundreds by Beauregard, except when a portion of it was sent to share the defeat of June 3d on the Chickahominy, while the third and fourth columns, foiled at Lynchburg, were wandering in disorderly retreat through the mountains of West Virginia, entirely out of the area of military operations. Lee had made his works at Petersburg impregnable to assault, and had a movable column of his army within two days ma
France (France) (search for this): chapter 45
he places sacred to the myth of William Tell, transplanted by pious, patriotic fraud from the legends of another people to inspire the youth of that mountain land with the hatred of tyrants and the love of heroic deeds; or when he contemplates that wonderful monument by Thorwalsden, on the shores of Lake Lucerne, in commemoration of the fidelity in death of the Swiss Guard of Louis Xvi—a colossal lion, cut out of the living rock, pierced by a javelin, and yet in death protecting the lily of France with his paw—he asks himself how many men of the nations of the world have been inspired with a love of freedom by the monuments and heroic stories of little Switzerland? Comrades, we need not weave any fable borrowed from Scandinavian lore into the woof of our history to inspire our youth with admiration of glorious deeds in freedom's battles done. In the true history of this Army of Northern Virginia, which laid down its arms not conquered, but wearied with victory, you have a record o
Drewry's Bluff (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
by the enemy. Though Grant met with partial success in carrying the outer lines, held by a mere handful of troops, yet Beauregard's small force, strengthened by his brigades withdrawn from the Bermuda Hundred lines and by the return of Hoke's division from Cold Harbor, held him in check at the interior lines until General Lee's arrival with reinforcements on the 18th of June. General Lee remained on the north side of the James until June 15th. On the night of that day he camped near Drewry's Bluff. On the 16th and 17th of June he superintended personally the recapture of the Bermuda Hundred lines by Fields's and Pickett's divisions. These lines had been occupied by Butler after the withdrawal of Beauregard's troops for the defence of Petersburg on the day be fore. The incident of the volunteer attack of our men on these lines, various incorrect versions of which have been given, happened thus: By the afternoon of the 17th all of the line had been retaken except a portion in fro
Harry Heth (search for this): chapter 45
gade of Early's division, which was in North Carolina), and Heth's and Wilcox's divisions of A. P. Hill's corps, leaving Andked. The odds were very heavy against these two divisions (Heth's and Wilcox's), which were together about ten thousand strn back to their position of the night before. Wilcox's and Heth's divisions were placed in line a short distance to the lefrit of the men on this occasion, the Mississippi brigade of Heth's division, commanded by the gallant Colonel Stone, though ttempt to threaten our left and rear, by General Early with Heth's division, and the terrible repulses given by Anderson's cGeneral Lee had his position nearly all day near a point on Heth's line to the left of Spotsylvania Courthouse. Rodes sent e them down to General Rod, s, and rode slowly away towards Heth's lines. The Mississippians marched on with steady step toox's front, the splendid execution done by the artillery of Heth's line on the flank of the attacking party, and the counter
Walter H. Taylor (search for this): chapter 45
division came back in disorder, but sullenly and without panic, entirely across the plank road, where General Lee and the gallant Hill in person helped to rally them. The assertion, made by several writers, that Hill's troops were driven back a mile and a half, is a most serious mistake. The right of his line was thrown back several hundred yards, but a portion of the troops still maintained their position. The danger, however, was great, and General Lee sent his trusted Adjutant, Colonel W. H. Taylor, back to Parker's store, to get the trains ready for a movement to the rear. He sent an aid also to hasten the march of Longstreet's divisions. These came the last mile and a half at a double-quick, in parallel columns, along the plank-road. General Longstreet rode forward with that imperturbable coolness which always characterized him in times of perilous action, and began to put them in position on the right and left of the road. His men came to the front of disordered battle wi
C. W. Field (search for this): chapter 45
follow the next day, and ordering Longstreet to follow on with his two divisions (Kershaw's and Field's) from Gordonsville. So, on May 5th, General Lee had less than twenty-six thousand infantry inear, by General Early with Heth's division, and the terrible repulses given by Anderson's corps (Field's and Kershaw's divisions) to the repeated assaults of heavy columns, thrown against them from te had been retaken except a portion in front of the Clay House. The order had been given to Generals Field and Pickett to move against them from the lines which they held. But meantime the engineersers to make the attack were countermanded by General Lee. This countermanding order reached General Field in time, but did not reach General Pickett until his troops were already involved in the att, enfilading the enemy's line near the river, then the infantry of Hoke's division, sustained by Field's division, was to begin with the capture of the line next the river, and then sweep along the l
R. E. Lee (search for this): chapter 45
were across the river with him on the 5th. General Lee had less than fifty-two thousand men of alle beginning was revealed one great point in General Lee's bold strategy, and that was his profound and presented itself in his pathway. That General Lee's bold strategy was very unexpected to the nt reminiscences of the previous campaign. General Lee soon sent a message to Longstreet to make aanic, entirely across the plank road, where General Lee and the gallant Hill in person helped to rartillery pits on the left of the road where General Lee was giving directions and assisting Generalg his troops. It was here that the incident of Lee's charge with Gregg's Texas brigade occurred. e brave men and their magnificent behavior, General Lee spurred his horse through an opening in there line, as it rushed on, the cry, Go back, General Lee! go back! Some historians like to put thiurning operation on the evening of the 7th, General Lee, with firm reliance on the ability of a sma[7 more...]
Haw (search for this): chapter 45
fficers, Lee confined to his tent was not Lee on the battlefield. I know it is unprofitable now to consider what might have happened, but I cannot refrain from venturing to express the opinion, that had not General Lee been physically disabled, he would have inflicted a heavy blow on the enemy in his march from the Pamunkey to the Chickahominy. An officer, whose opinions are entitled to much consideration, has often expressed the opinion that the opportunity was offered for this blow near Haw's shop, where the Confederate cavalry, under Hampton and Fitz. Lee, met General Sheridan, sustained heavily by the Federal infantry. However that may be, Grant found Lee always in his front whenever and wherever he turned. After some desultory but sharp fighting on the Totopotomoy, he found his old adversary in position at Cold Harbor It may be worth noting that this Cold Harbor, now made famous by two great battles, is the old English name for an ordinary or tavern, where the traveler c
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