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Paul McNeil (search for this): chapter 1.33
panied Colonel Fontaine as his adjutant. Mrs. Fontaine also accompanied her husband to Western Virginia and spent the entire winter in the home of the late Colonel Paul McNeil, of the Little Levels of Pocahontas county. This gentleman had represented Pocahontas county in the Constitutional Convention of 1861, and the writer is hiturnpike does, but had to keep on the east side of the river all the way down to Beverley's. One company of cavalry went in advance of the infantry. This was Captain McNeil's, and was selected because they were the best mounted men. After going a short distance, General Imboden told Captain McNeil to pick out five or six of the sCaptain McNeil to pick out five or six of the swiftest horses and put them far enough in front to apprise him of any approach. Billie was one of the horses chosen, and I rode him, Billie was in all his glory that day. The first party we struck was a foraging party, after corn and hay, with thirty-two good mules in the wagons. We rode right into them before they knew of our p
McDowell (search for this): chapter 1.33
ay that made the great military reputation of General George B. McClellan, and the earthworks that we had just chased the Yankees out of were probably the product of his brain. General McClellan was at Beverley reposing on his Rich Mountain laurels, where he and Rosecrans had more thousands than Colonel Heck had hundreds, when the administration at Washington in their dire discomfiture after the 21st of July, sent for him to come, and that with all possible speed to take the command of General McDowell's defeated and disorganized army, and on his arrival at Washington, he was hailed as the Young Napoleon. In approaching Northwestern Virginia from the east, Beverley is the key to all that country, and none knew this fact better than the Federals, and the boast was often made by even the private Federal soldiers that Beverley would never be taken, and this had been the fear of our leaders that we would have to go around Beverley, and if Beverley had not been captured, as the writer now
George Patton (search for this): chapter 1.33
f Virginia. This false movement on the part of the Confederates was made in order to throw the Federal scouts off the track, which it did most completely. Beginning at Lewisburg, the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment, under the command of Colonel George Patton, marched east to the White Sulphur, and there turned north and passed through the Eastern part of Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties into Highland county. The troops in Pocahontas county, consisting of the Nineteenth Virginia Cavalry and Virginia Calvary, some independent companies and one good battery of four pieces of artillery. The Sixty-second Regiment, a large regiment then, was immediatly behind General Imboden's staff, and with fife and drum they moved out. Next came Colonel Patton, as true a knight as ever put lance to rest, at the head of the Twenty-second Regiment. Next came Colonel William L. Jackson, whose face was beaming with joy, at the head of the Ninteenth Regiment of Cavalry. Next Colonel Dunn, at the head
Halleck (search for this): chapter 1.33
ent with every power of his nature in behalf of his government, was bound to go, and not long thereafter was relieved of his command and retired in disgrace to private life. Just one year before the Northern people, with tongue and pen, had compared him to the great Napoleon. Then it was Ambrose Burnside was put in command of the Army of the Potomac. A man whose zeal and ambition were consuming him, and in his rash efforts to do what neither of his predecessors had been able to do, General Halleck, his chief at Washington, telegraphs him on the 10th day of December, 1862 (see War of Rebellion, Series I., Vol. LI., Part I, supplement page 955), I beg of you not to telegraph details of your plans, nor the times of your intended movements. No secret can be kept which passes through so many hands. Nevertheless, three days after the date of this dispatch, General Burnside did fight the great battle of Fredericksburg, where he was overwhelmingly defeated. The United States Congress
Bob Moorman (search for this): chapter 1.33
the whole regiment began to clamor, Yonder is Billie, (the name of the horse). Colonel Barbee, who was the lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, rode to my side, and seeing that I was much perturbed, introduced himself to me, and in a very pleasant way gave me a short history of the horse. He had been bred in Kentucky, and the Colonel had ridden him a year, but, on account of his weight, he had ruined his back and rendered the horse unfit for service. Colonel Barbee had sold him to Captain Bob Moorman, of Greenbrier county, and the latter had sold him to my father. In the meantime, the soldiers had gathered around him until he was completely hemmed in on all sides, and there I sat, a bashful seventeen-year-old boy, not enjoying in the least notoriety that Billie had given me. The Twenty-second Regiment that day had fully nine hundred men, and Virginia had no troops in the field that made a better record than that splendid regiment of men, and the writer can still recall distinctly
George B. McClellan (search for this): chapter 1.33
s headquarters, that had been in the saddle. Later, north of the Potomac; the battle of Sharpsburg was fought when General McClellan went down in defeat the last time. This was more than the flesh and blood of which Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet were made, could stand; and poor McClellan, although a man of fine war talent, and having exerted that talent with every power of his nature in behalf of his government, was bound to go, and not long thereafter was relieved of his command and retired day of July, 1861. It ,was the capture of this town on that day that made the great military reputation of General George B. McClellan, and the earthworks that we had just chased the Yankees out of were probably the product of his brain. GeneraGeneral McClellan was at Beverley reposing on his Rich Mountain laurels, where he and Rosecrans had more thousands than Colonel Heck had hundreds, when the administration at Washington in their dire discomfiture after the 21st of July, sent for him to com
John Imboden (search for this): chapter 1.33
uld see joy in their faces. First came General John Imboden, at the head of his brigade, composed oarge regiment then, was immediatly behind General Imboden's staff, and with fife and drum they moveof the raid and accompanied the raiders. General Imboden, when he got into Randolph county, had fu that General Jones was on this raid gave General Imboden and his men greater courage and confidencem. As soon after daylight as possible General Imboden had his army in motion and every man belounted men. After going a short distance, General Imboden told Captain McNeil to pick out five or sever saw that major, but, as I saw one of General Imboden's aids riding the major's mare the next d dash was to be made for the breastworks, General Imboden wanted the infantry as close as possible. seven miles north of him, and the advance of Imboden and Jackson was eleven miles south of him on c was it in appearance. In the meantime, General Imboden's command spread all over the counties of
Edward Johnson (search for this): chapter 1.33
could mount Billie from the ground. I managed to get two of my first cousins on the horse at different times from a high bank, but it affected the hip and leg so they took cramp and had to get off immediately. No wonder! These were the legs that made up Stonewall Jackson's foot cavalry, and when you reflect what they had already done, how could they be anything else but stiff? The first night we camped on the battlefield of Camp Bartow, twenty miles west of Hightown. Here it was Colonel Ed. Johnson defeated the Federals on the 3d day of October, 1861. The next morning it was raining, and began to snow as we began to ascend that mighty barrier, Cheat Mountain. The snow fell fully six inches on the top of Cheat Mountain that day, and many of the men who were scantly dressed suffered fearfully from the cold. But we pushed on through the storm and reached Huttonsville, a distance of twenty miles from where we had camped the night before. By this time it was fully known among
Robert E. Lee (search for this): chapter 1.33
first Regiments of Virginia Infantry were withdrawn from General Lee's army a few days before the battle of Chancellorsville long the Potomac, and such was the status of events with General Lee's army until April, 1863. In the spring of 1862 the Cre than a year, and we then thought of them as a part of General Lee's army, and coming this way in the dead hours of the nigom Richmond, where he had seen Mr. Davis and had come by General Lee's headquarters on the Rappahannock River, and that GenerGeneral Lee's army was hard up for meat rations, and the plan had been made up to raid Northwest Virginia and capture and drive Soth colors flying and to the step of martial music, since General Lee had fallen back from Valley Mountain in September, 1861.rds were directed to take them as quickly as possible to General Lee's army. No country could have been more abundantly supp military standpoint were, to supply the meat rations of General Lee's Army, and on the strength supplied by some of those ca
William L. Jackson (search for this): chapter 1.33
boden Raid than any other one person was William L. Jackson, who became a brigadier of the Confederaicant. It was my first meeting with Colonel William L. Jackson, and I will now try to describe him back ride the day he reached my father's. Colonel Jackson's mission to my father's house was to seeake beef then and the next summer. This, Colonel Jackson said had been determined on by the authoinformed Colonel Fontaine that night that he (Jackson) had been authorized by the authorities of Rithe Nineteenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment. Colonel Jackson had letters from the department to Colonegovernment had taken this step because of Colonel Jackson's known popularity in the Northwest part if the contemplated raid succeeded, that Colonel Jackson would recruit sufficiently to organize a y lacked five hours of getting in the rear of Jackson, ten miles west of the Warm Springs, but JackJackson went through without the loss of a man or a horse, and while Averill went on and fought the bat[13 more...]
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