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Edward Johnson (search for this): chapter 45
t a part of the line was weak on Rodes's right and General Edward Johnson's salient, has often been asserted. The reason fon full view of it. He at once sent an aiddecamp to General Edward Johnson, on Rodes's right, and mounting his horse, assiste be ready to move at a moment's notice. On that night General Johnson, hearing the enemy massing on his front, sent a messag. The delay of the artillery and consequent disaster to Johnson's division are matters of record. The actual loss in capty, which the enemy did not get, however, for twenty hours. Johnson's message to his corps commander about the massing of the rode rapidly forward, but did not know of the disaster to Johnson's division until he reached the front. Before he arrived ine advancing through the woods, it having overrun General Edward Johnson's division, capturing his lines and a large numbery being able to take possession of them. What was left of Johnson's division had been immediately attached to Gordon's comma
Mahone (search for this): chapter 45
sanguine of success in this attack; but the main plan miscarried through some mishap, though one or two minor successes on this our left flank—notably one by General Mahone's division—were effected. But, alas! in the midst of these operations on the North Anna, General Lee was taken sick and confined to his tent. As he lay po impression whatever on our lines. The easy repulse of the Federal corps on this occasion, and the result of the attack made by Hill with a part of Wilcox's and Mahone's divisions on the Second and Sixth corps, near the Jerusalem plank road, on the 21st, when sixteen hundred prisoners and four pieces of artillery were captured by Mahone, made it plain that the opportunity had arrived for a decisive blow. So, on the night of the 22d General Lee sent for General Alexander, the accomplished Chief of Artillery of Longstreet's corps, and made arrangements for the disposition of the artillery for an attack on the morning of the 24th. The attack was to begin
Rosser (search for this): chapter 45
ed and desperate assaults were repulsed. Before night Wadsworth's division and a brigade from Warren's corps were sent to help Hancock, thus making a force of more than forty thousand men, which was hurled at these devoted ten thousand until 8 o'clock P. M., in unavailing efforts to drive them from their position. Ewell's corps, less than sixteen thousand strong, had repulsed Warren's corps on the old turnpike, inflicting a loss of three thousand men or more and two pieces of artillery. Rosser, on our right, with his cavalry brigade, had driven back largely superior numbers of Wilson's cavalry division on the Catharpin road. These initial operations turned Grant's forces from the wide sweeping marches which they had begun, to immediate and urgent business in the Wilderness. The army which he had set out to destroy had come up in the most daring manner and presented itself in his pathway. That General Lee's bold strategy was very unexpected to the enemy, is well illustrated by t
Meade (search for this): chapter 45
ns turned Grant's forces from the wide sweeping marches which they had begun, to immediate and urgent business in the Wilderness. The army which he had set out to destroy had come up in the most daring manner and presented itself in his pathway. That General Lee's bold strategy was very unexpected to the enemy, is well illustrated by the fact recorded by Swinton, the Federal historian, that when the advance of Warren's corps struck the head of Ewell's column, on the morning of the 5th, General Meade said to those around him, They have left a division to fool us here, while they concentrate and prepare a position on the North Anna; and what I want is to prevent these fellows from getting back to Mine Run. Mine Run was to that General, doubtless, a source of unpleasant reminiscences of the previous campaign. General Lee soon sent a message to Longstreet to make a night march and bring up his two divisions at daybreak on the 6th. He himself slept on the field, taking his headquarter
J. E. B. Stuart (search for this): chapter 45
the command of Longstreet's two divisions, to confront his columns at Spotsylvania Courthouse. Stuart, too, threw his cavairy across Grant's line of march on the Brock road. The enemy's cavalry (division) failing to dislodge Stuart, gave up the accomplishment of that work to the Fifth corps (Warren's). When Anderson arrived at Spotsylvania Courthouse, he found the cavalry (Fitz. Lee's divisionight with the Fifth corps and Torbert's cavalry division. Torbert was checked on his right, and Stuart, with the assistance of several brigades of infantry sent to him by Anderson, soon created in thand a tendency to stampede—ascribed by him, however, to want of rest and Wilderness experience. Stuart stopped their advance, and they fell to entrenching of their own accord. The conduct and skill of Stuart in this fight on the 8th, on which so much depended, always met the warm approval of the Commanding-General, and he spoke of it, with grateful remembrance, in the days of March, 1865, when d
Winfield Scott Hancock (search for this): chapter 45
by the Second corps, under General Hancock. Hancock had orders, with his corps and Getty's divisibrigade from Warren's corps were sent to help Hancock, thus making a force of more than forty thouson the right, was not in condition to receive Hancock's attack at early dawn on the morning of the ring his own front, thus completely defeating Hancock's force and sending it reeling back on the Brtion of the line still held by the enemy. As Hancock's left and centre were thus checked by Gordonrest of his division to Ramseur's assistance, Hancock was thrown completely back on that portion of by General Grant about 6 A. M., to reinforce Hancock, and somewhat later he sent two divisions of weakened his lines to reinforce our troops in Hancock's front, made an attack, which was repulsed wdering utterly futile the success achieved by Hancock's corps at daybreak, was a wonderful feat of left at Jericho ford, without opposition, and Hancock soon overcame the few men left in the old ear[4 more...]
Longstreet (search for this): chapter 45
nd infantry—fifteen thousand of which, under Longstreet and Anderson, a days' march from him, and thampaign. General Lee soon sent a message to Longstreet to make a night march and bring up his two dave become aware they were to be relieved by Longstreet. It is certain that owing to this impressio He sent an aid also to hasten the march of Longstreet's divisions. These came the last mile and aparallel columns, along the plank-road. General Longstreet rode forward with that imperturbable coohim. Just then I called his attention to General Longstreet, whom he had been seeking, and who sat o. With the first opportunity I informed General Longstreet of what had just happened, and he, with hen planned and put into execution, by which Longstreet put in, from his own and Anderson's divisionson, who had been promoted to the command of Longstreet's two divisions, to confront his columns at der, the accomplished Chief of Artillery of Longstreet's corps, and made arrangements for the dispo[5 more...]
Doles (search for this): chapter 45
n to bring him in, but the Federal sharpshooters were very active and rendered it impossible to get to him, and on the 11th May, when the Federal forces had withdrawn from that part of our line, there, amidst the blackened, swollen corpses of the assailants, whose sufferings had been more brief, lay this boy with the fresh, fair face of one just dead. On the afternoon of the 10th a portion of the Sixth corps (General Sedgwick's) succeeded in piercing Rodes's line on the front, occupied by Doles's Georgia brigade. General Lee had his quarters for the day on a knoll about a hundred and fifty yards in the rear of this part of the lines and in full view of it. He at once sent an aiddecamp to General Edward Johnson, on Rodes's right, and mounting his horse, assisted in rallying the troops and forming them for the recapture of the lines. Under his eye, Rodes's troops and Gordon's brigade, which had been brought up from the left, went forward in handsome style, recovering the lines and t
Ramseur (search for this): chapter 45
led back by this splendid charge of Gordon's brigades, so his right was met by Ramseur's North Carolina brigade, of General Rodes's division, who attacked and presseteadily back towards the angle. Rodes bringing up the rest of his division to Ramseur's assistance, Hancock was thrown completely back on that portion of the captur gallant Rodes, as they passed into the deadly fray. Coming in at a time when Ramseur was heavily pressed, the day was saved. This was the last reinforcement sent courage; but without unjust discrimination, we may say that Gordon, Rodes and Ramseur were the heroes of this bloody day. General Lee recommended Gordon to be made Major-General of date 12th May. Rodes and Ramseur were destined, alas! in a few short months, to lay down their noble lives in the Valley of Virginia. There was nds which the pious hands of our fair women shall lay on the tombs of Rodes and Ramseur and of the gallant dead of the battle of twenty hours at Spotsylvania. The
J. B. Kershaw (search for this): chapter 45
aving Anderson's division of Hill's corps on the Rapidan Heights, with orders to 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 in hand. He resolved to throw his heads of columns on tock's corps, in its attempt to threaten our left and rear, 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 the Second and Fifth corps, and to the grand assault by both of these corps simule well-known message to General Anderson, mentioning only Pickett's men On the next day, June 18th, General Lee marched to Petersburg with the van of his army, Kershaw's division, with which he at once reinforced Beauregard's troops in the line of defence. Both generals were on the field that day, when the assault along the who
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