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Waterloo, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
how scant is British history in the names of great commanders. I believe Virginia alone in the late war produced more men for whom that title could be claimed than Great Britain in all her history. Heroes in abundance and accomplished officers she has produced; but her wars have been for the most part against inferiors—against Hindoos, and Persians, Afghans, Zulus, Chinese, Egyptians, Arabs and Matabeles. The greatest army of her own that she ever mustered was the 30,000 of Wellington at Waterloo. Her forces have generally co-operated with allies; or been swelled by hirelings and dependents, under her well-trained officers; her position has not been such as to develop campaigns such as we had in the late war, or to afford opportunities for such leaders as Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Ewell, A. P. Hill, Jackson, Stuart, and Early. The fact is that since the battle of Sedgmoor, fought August 5, 1665, between the Duke of Monmouth, some 6,000 strong, and the forces of King James II., unde
Cemetery Ridge (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ntended that the subsequent harshness of our enemies justified the course that Virginia and the South pursued. It is well known, and I am a personal witness of the fact, that as soon as he occupied the town of Gettysburg, in the first day's fight, he earnestly urged the immediate pursuit of the enemy. Unable for the moment to find Ewell, the corps commander, he sent a note to Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill, urging him to assume responsibility of ordering all the troops present to assail Cemetery Ridge at once; but before this could be arranged, General Ewell, and presently, General Lee appeared, and reports of cavalry threatening our left led to the determination to suspend operations until the morrow. Public opinion has generally concurred that a great opportunity went by; but Early, never pluming himself upon his prescience, has defended his superiors and endorsed the conclusion to which they came. His austere manners made the world look upon him as a cold, hard man, but nothing
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
Monmouth, some 6,000 strong, and the forces of King James II., under John Churchill, afterwards the Duke of Marlborough, in which Monmouth lost a thousand and Churchill some 300 slain, no conflict deserving the name of battle has been fought on English ground. Zzzsecret of England's demonstration. While it is true that during this domestic peace of over 200 years, the British have carried the English flag victorious from the Seine to the Indus, from Calcutta to Quebec, from Madrid to Cairo, it has been more by the skill of diplomacy and strategy, and especially more by sea power than by the movements of great forces. If we except the American campaigns and Wellington's operations against Napoleon, all the English fighting done in two centuries would scarce amount to that of General Lee in the single county of Spotsylvania, and would not amount to the fighting done by Early. A sea shell, says Emerson, should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power bui
Rock Creek, Menard County, Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
lic satisfaction than any other campaign of the war. This is entirely due to the erroneous opinion that the city of Washington should have been taken, and this may be passed over as one of the absurdities of public sentiment on the conduct of the war. The popular impression that Early could have captured Washington is only a case in which the wish was father to the thought. The city was defended by 700 siege guns, abatis of trees had been placed before the earthworks, the high banks of Rock creek formed a natural fortification, and a series of forts mounted with heavy guns covered all the approaches, and were so arranged that if one were taken the others commanded it. There was a superabundance of field batteries, for Grant had sent back in the spring a hundred guns which encumbered his army. Early had but 8,000 muskets, while there were over 20,400 men in the defences of Washington—enough to defeat him before Wright's Corps and Emory's Division arrived. And here was the Sixth an
Lucknow (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
e trotting up the road, sounding the advance, and behind him came the skirmishers of Ramseur's Division with rapid strides. Just then the artillerists saw through the smoke the broad, white slouch hat and the black feather of Old Jube, who rode amongst them, and looking toward the enemy, exclaimed: No buttermilk rangers after you now, damn you, an expression not to be found in tactics, but of a kind sometimes mixed with gunpowder. Poor Tinsley! his last bugle call, like the bagpipes of Lucknow, foretold the rescue of Lynchburg; but on that field he found in a soldier's duty and with a soldier's glory, a soldier's death. Zzzwater and a good rest. On the afternoon of the 18th, Hunter, with his cavalry on each wing, his two infantry divisions and his artillery in the centre, advanced to the assault, but the attack was feeble and quickly repulsed, and Hunter's career was over. Rodes's Division arrived that afternoon from Charlottesville, and, though the artillery had not yet
Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ld not have been more unwelcome to my ears. Comparisons have been made between Jackson's and Early's campaigns, sometimes to the detriment of the latter. The differences in their situations should be remembered. Zzzfought under a Paling Star. First. Jackson fought when the prestige of the Confederacy was in the ascendancy. Early, when it was on the decline. Atlanta fell before Sherman the day before he defeated Crook, at Kernstown. Our misfortunes at Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Missionary Ridge and Knoxville, had taken place before Early's campaign begun. The waning resources of the Confederacy and the collapse of its finances, had changed the face of affairs. With Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee overrun, the Trans-Mississippi cut from us, and the lower basin useless, the enemy could concentrate at will against our forces in Georgia and Virginia. Second. The Valley was a garden and a granary when Jackson fought. Early fought in a desert, where the crow flying over i
Meadow Mills (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
. On the 22d Early posted himself across Cedar Creek near Strausburg. On the 23d news came whicnd he determined to assail. Zzzbattle of Cedar Creek. As the sequel shows, Sheridan had concl a feeling of security on the north bank of Cedar creek; but Early was only crouching to spring. Uis own and Wickham's Brigades, was to cross Cedar creek on the enemy's right flank and attack simuly try to rally his men on the south bank of Cedar creek and at Hupp's Hill, and he declares that iflliant plan was ever conceived than that at Cedar Creek. Nothing could have shown more boldness th,5671,8183,611 Fisher's Hill302109951,235 Cedar Creek3201,5401,0502,910 ———————— Aggregate5763,heridan at Winchester, and to attack him at Cedar creek. In both cases it was fight or run. To runger? It may be asked, he says, speaking of Cedar creek, why, with my small force, I made the attacs command, who had witnessed his heroism at Cedar Creek, pronounced a touching eulogy, taking for h
Big Shanty, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
d to the highest distinction therefor, Johnston manoeuvred well at Yorktown, struck McClellan a parting blow with fine address at Williamsburg, and then, like Albert Sidney Johnston, at Shiloh, fell wounded, as he was pressing the enemy at Seven Pines, when opportunity vanished. For two years he was not again in battle; until 1864, when he took command of a defeated army at Dalton, and conducted a masterly retreat to Atlanta, fighting as he fell back at Dalton, Resaca, New Hope Church, and Kennesaw, and indeed, all along the way, with courage, skill, and effect. Unfortunately removed from the command, ere his plans matured, there was no chance to judge them by the event; and when he returned to a broken but undismayed army, and led it in its last gallant fight, at Bentonville, it was only the prelude of surrender. General Beauregard defended Charleston and Savannah with great gallantry and engineering skill, but he was engaged in but three great actions during the war—Manassas, in
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.26
ronted General Lew Wallace, strongly posted with General Tyler's troops from Baltimore and Rickett's Division of the Sixth Corps, on the banks of the Monocacy, betwim. Zzzwashington, July 10, 1864. While the alarm-bells were ringing in Baltimore that Sunday morning, July 10th, Harry Gilmor struck the Philadelphia and Wilmsing officer, General Bradley T. Johnson, who had pushed on to the suburbs of Baltimore, that two corps of Grant's army had arrived at Washington, and, reluctantly, 00 strong. 3. Defeated Wallace at the Monocacy, and sent him whirling into Baltimore with an army of 6,000 to 7,000 strong. 4. Diverted from Grant's army the S way, and suggested that he (Hunter) should make headquarters, at Cumberland, Baltimore, or elsewhere and give Sheridan command in the Valley. Hunter asked to be rwas more than Lee had—all told. Many of Sheridan's men were at Washington, Baltimore and Chambersburg. But here is the return of what he had actually in the fiel
Calcutta (West Bengal, India) (search for this): chapter 1.26
gust 5, 1665, between the Duke of Monmouth, some 6,000 strong, and the forces of King James II., under John Churchill, afterwards the Duke of Marlborough, in which Monmouth lost a thousand and Churchill some 300 slain, no conflict deserving the name of battle has been fought on English ground. Zzzsecret of England's demonstration. While it is true that during this domestic peace of over 200 years, the British have carried the English flag victorious from the Seine to the Indus, from Calcutta to Quebec, from Madrid to Cairo, it has been more by the skill of diplomacy and strategy, and especially more by sea power than by the movements of great forces. If we except the American campaigns and Wellington's operations against Napoleon, all the English fighting done in two centuries would scarce amount to that of General Lee in the single county of Spotsylvania, and would not amount to the fighting done by Early. A sea shell, says Emerson, should be the crest of England, not only
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