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marching to the battle-field, on the day of the 1st, reached there about 7 P. M., a little in advaned from Emmittsburg early on the morning of the 1st, to accompany Wadsworth's division on the way tlity of further pursuit on the afternoon of the 1st, owing, he says, to information subsequently ace seen to advantage. During the night of the 1st, skirmish lines were established in the interve 5th corps, left Union Mills the morning of the 1st, and marching by Hanover, reached the ground abick with the sixth corps left Manchester on the 1st, and after a march of over thirty miles, was ongive battle. At 6 P. M., on the evening of the 1st, he dispatched a joint message to Howard and Doce, held by General Lee during the night of the 1st, that the attack should be made by Longstreet aany at 5 o'clock P. M., on the afternoon of the 1st, and that Lee then declared his intention, of aty for rest since the struggle began on the first inst. We were told at that point to go into camp,
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tended in his book, to say anything that might reflect upon the memory or reputation of his two distinguished comrades, Generals Ewell and Early, for it would be directly in opposition to the spirit indicated in his article, where he speaks of General Longstreet, and says: It is a source of profound regret that he and his friends should have been into such unprofitable and ill tempered controversy with the friends of our immortal chieftain. He does, however, speak as follows: On the first day neither General Early nor General Ewell could possibly have been fully cognizant of the situation at the time I was ordered to halt. Then General Gordon goes on and describes the scene, and says further: It is not surprising, from the full realization of the consequences of disobedience even then, but for the fact that the order to halt was accompanied by an explanation that General Lee was several miles away, and did not wish to give battle at Gettysburg. He then goes on with t
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tuart's forces reached the army during the day of the 2nd, in time, he says, to thwart a movement of the enemy' by Hanover, reached the ground about 8 A. M., on the 2d, covering a distance of twenty-six miles, and took poirty miles, was on the ground by the afternoon of the 2d, and one division supported the fifth corps in its enattlefield, anticipated a renewal of the fight on the 2d, and even contemplated an attack himself. He was sack upon the enemy tomorrow, and on the morning of the 2d, a note was addressed by the Chief of Staff to the cored. It is even said that so late as 3 P. M., on the 2d, he sent a dispatch in cypher to Halleck, that if thencerted attack at an early hour on the morning of the 2d, must have been issued, as shown by the report of Earlure of Wright to hold the position he had won on the 2d, filled the minds of many with mistrust, when it was ived near the battlefield during the afternoon of the 2d, was ordered to attack the next morning, and General
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long since ceased. In his report Sheridan gives as his reason for relieving Warren his want of promptness in executing his orders, and Warren in his report claims that as far as practicable he was prompt in executing them. The fighting around Petersburg. After the rout of the right wing of Lee's army, it appeared possible to destroy or capture the whole of Lee's army before it could move from position, and with that in view, Grant ordered that as early as possible on the morning of the 2d, assaults should be made along the whole line—by Parke, from the Appomattox to the Jerusalem Plank Road; by Wright from the Plank Road as far as his command extended; by Ord, with the Army of the James, between him and Humphreys, and by Humphreys, upon the intrenchments about Burgess' Mill, whilst Sheridan, with the cavalry and the Fifth Corps, was to sweep around and clear out everything to the Appomattox River. Longstreet, not having found out that the Army of the James had been withdraw
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cuting an order Colonel W. H. Browne, of the Forty-fifth Regiment, gave me to gallop off, stop one of the artillery companies that was retreating, and open fire on the enemy, who had surrounded the Forty-fifth, and were playing havoc with them by shooting them and demanding surrender. I did as was ordered, and had shot four times with cannon into the enemy on the right and left of the Forty-fifth, thereby enabling Colonel Browne to escape with the Forty-fifth, and retreat safely. On the fourth fire, I made with the artillery a volley from the Yankee sharpshooters killed several horses of the artillery company, one officer and wounded one, and a minie ball passed through me and knocked me nearly off my horse. Lieutenant Steele, of Monroe county, an officer of the artillery company near by, shouted out to me: Cling to your horse, Major, he will take you right to the ambulances, which were a little ahead of me. This I did, and then I was taken off the battlefield. General McCausl
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comrades in the old army. And learning who he was, Hancock dismounted, and grasping Armistead's hand, told him with a soldier's sympathy, how sorry he was to see him wounded, and promised to send mementoes and messages to his loved ones in Virginia, and tried to cheer him with the hope that his wounds would not be mortal, as our hero said. But Armistead was right. He knew that death was near at hand. Carried from the field a prisoner, he lingered through the 4th of July and died on the 5th, leaving, says Martin, an example of patriotic ardor, of heroism and devotion to duty which ought to be handed down through the ages. When his kinsmen heard of his glorious death they came and took his body, took all that was mortal of him, down to Baltimore, and with reverent hands laid him to rest amongst his own people, in the church-yard of old St. Paul's, the hero of Gettysburg besides the hero of Fort McHenry. A granite obelisk marks the spot where he fell on Cemetery Ridge. The sw
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m of opinion it is my duty to pitch into his rear, although in doing so, the head of his column may reach Warrenton before I return. Will it be within the spirit of my instructions to do so. It would appear from this, that General Hooker's confidence in himself had either been destroyed, or he was in the anomalous position of being in command of a large army without the power of directing its movements. Hooker, however, was not entirely suppressed by the reply from Washington. On the 6th inst., General Sedgwick, with part of his corps, crossed the river on pontoons, below Fredericksburg, and made a demonstration on Hill's right, occupying the highway which led to Bowling Green in Hill's rear, but the movement did not appear to excite serious apprehension with the Confederates, although Hooker, South of Fredericksburg, was nearer Richmond than Lee at Culpeper, and although Hill was without a supporting musket nearer than Longstreet and Ewell, thirty miles away. On Sedgwick's adv
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Grant got ahead on the line of the railroad to Danville, and Lee had to turn off in the direction of Lynchburg, which took him back across the Appomattox at the High Bridge, near Farmville. Just before the column reached the river it was struck in flank and rear at Sailor's Creek, where the trains were blocked at the ford, and the rear part of the army halted to protect them; and nearly half the army was broken up and the greater part of it captured. Lee at Appomattox—surrender. On the 8th, General Lee, with the remainder of the army, resumed his march towards Lynchburg and reached Appomattox Courthouse; but during the evening of that day Sheridan, supported by Ord, cut across his line of march just beyond the courthouse, and in doing so, cut off from the rest of the army the artillery of A. P. Hill's corps, under the command of Brigadier-General R. Lindsay Walker, and the artillery of R. H. Anderson's corps, under the command of Colonel H. P. Jones. Sheridan evidently did not
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ter condition than it had ever been before, or ever was afterwards. On the 7th of June Stuart arranged for a grand review of his cavalry by General Lee, who was greatly pleased at their appearance, and on the following day, in writing a private letter to his family, he says, I reviewed the cavalry in this section yesterday. It was a splendid sight. The men and horses looked well. They had recuperated since last fall. Stuart was in all his glory, &c. At daylight on the morning of the 9th, under Pleasanton's directions, Buford with a division of cavalry crossed the Rappahannock at Beverly Ford, while Gregg with two divisions and the infantry crossed the stream about seven miles below at Kelly's Ford, the objective point of both columns being Brandy Station, about six miles north of Culpeper Court House, towards which the roads from the two fords converged. The south bank of the stream at the upper ford was picketed by a single company of cavalry, Jones' brigade being encampe
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this artillery—about one-half the artillery of Lee's army, without any infantry or cavalry with it—would have fallen an easy prey to his ambitious cavalry. After spending nearly the whole night of the 8th in marching around Sheridan, in the attempt to reunite the army, when it was light, finding that was impossible, Jones' artillery moved on to Lynchburg and reported to General L. L. Lomax, in command there, and Walker buried his guns near an old church and disbanded his command. On the 9th General Lee ordered Gordon and Fitz Lee to drive Sheridan away, that the army might resume its march, which they did very promptly, but found that Ord was there also and further efforts must be vain. The surrender of the army was then arranged for and the officers and men paroled. This ended the career of the Army of Northern Virginia, and the downfall of the Confederate States quickly followed. There were paroled 28,231 officers and men. But of that number only about 11,000 bearing
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