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John P. Nicholson (search for this): chapter 1
Editor's note. in editing this volume I have endeavored to see that the translation conformed to the original and made clear its meaning. The notes appended, I hope, will be understood as explanatory, not controversial; for, whatever opinion may be formed concerning the author's judgments, it can be affirmed that he has sought to write with truth and without bias for either side. John P. Nicholson. Philadelphia, June 4, 1883.
June 4th, 1883 AD (search for this): chapter 1
Editor's note. in editing this volume I have endeavored to see that the translation conformed to the original and made clear its meaning. The notes appended, I hope, will be understood as explanatory, not controversial; for, whatever opinion may be formed concerning the author's judgments, it can be affirmed that he has sought to write with truth and without bias for either side. John P. Nicholson. Philadelphia, June 4, 1883.
1876 AD (search for this): chapter 2
he following morning, March 17, the column left Morrisville, and reached Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock at an early hour. The right bank was lined with the enemy's sharpshooters. Lieutenant S. A. Brown, with a platoon of mounted men of the First Rhode Island, rushes into the river under the fire of the Confederates, arrives in their midst, takes twenty-five prisoners, disperses the rest, and opens a passage for the division. See Sabres and Spurs—First Rhode Island Cavalry. By Denison, 1876. The Southern cavalry, thus taken by surprise, got back as well as they could to their horses, which they had had the imprudence to leave at too great a distance from them, and then hastened to carry the news of the approach of the Unionists to Fitzhugh Lee. This general had been informed of their march the day previous. A despatch from Lee's Headquarters had apprised him of Averell's departure, while his scouts, keeping a vigilant watch over all the movements of the enemy, had informed him
May (search for this): chapter 2
fight, its effective force was not only augmented by the return of deserters, but also by the addition of some ten thousand men. Unfortunately, there were in its ranks nearly twenty-three thousand men whose term of service expired in the month of May. These consisted of thirty-three New York regiments and two from Maine, which, out of a total of 20,842 men, numbered 16,472 who had enlisted for two years at the breaking out of hostilities in April, 1861; also eight regiments of Pennsylvania, mntrance of this water-course into York River. These troops, stationed in a small fort under the protection of the gunboats, were a menace to the Confederates who occupied the peninsula, and they kept the entrance to the river free. At the end of May, Keyes, fearing lest the Southerners might succeed in capturing this garrison, withdrew it; but on the 4th of June he got up a new expedition, in conjunction with the naval forces, in the waters of the Mattapony. Taking advantage of the fact that
July (search for this): chapter 2
undecided. The Confederacy, as we have shown at the close of the preceding volume, seemed to gather strength in the midst of these attacks so frequently repulsed, and it was reasonable to believe that the North would be tired out before the South became exhausted. It will be seen how the perseverance of the free States and the courage of their soldiers succeeded at last in conquering adverse fortune in the course of that year. But, before narrating the decisive events of the month of July which marked the decline of the Confederate power, we shall yet have to record more than one check to the Federal arms. We will begin by following into new conflicts the two large armies which we have left fronting each other in Virginia, separated by the Rappahannock, and which are about to measure strength once more on the banks of that river before going to seek another battlefield in Pennsylvania. We shall then return to the operations of which the Mississippi was the theatre during
February (search for this): chapter 2
had been provisionally detached, as we have stated, from the fleet. But her return was no longer a sufficient reinforcement for the future. Three new monitors, the Passaic, the Patapsco, and the Nahant, having been equipped during the month of February, were immediately sent to DuPont; four others were soon to follow. Their arrival was the signal for the grand attack which was relied upon for subjugating the cradle of secession. In the mean while, the three first-named vessels were despatche that these operations, in order to be successful, should be combined between the War and Navy Departments. It was time, for, as we have stated, the fine army corps which Foster had brought to Hilton Head from North Carolina in the beginning of February had remained inactive since then. Whether General Hunter was waiting for the result of the campaigns which were being prosecuted along the borders of the Nansemond, the James, and the Potomac, or rather that his attention was distracted from hi
1862 AD (search for this): chapter 2
nd Lee's armies. In the second volume we have brought the narrative of the operations undertaken along the coast of the Southern States to the close of the year 1862. We have seen the Federal navy pursuing a double object: on the one hand maintaining its indisputable superiority on the sea by closing all access to the coast topass to the second part—that is to say, to that which relates to the coast of South Carolina, of Georgia, and East Florida. We left the Federals at the close of 1862 masters of a large number of points along that coast. Their central depot is in the bay of Port Royal, where their fleet finds excellent shelter for victualling pnerable guardian forbade them to approach. The system of defence against naval attacks had, in fact, been completed by General Ripley with the close of the year 1862. Two batteries had been erected, so as to flank eastward and westward the half circle of sandbanks of which Moultrie occupied the most salient part: the first, nam
December (search for this): chapter 2
hese acquisitions, and the latter months of that year had been marked by so many disastrous checks to them that the restoration of the Union by force of arms seemed to be farther off than ever. It was idle to rely upon the resources of the North, upon its stubbornness, or the strength which would accrue to it by the Emancipation Proclamation; there was good reason to doubt of its success when the results obtained came to be compared with the efforts they had cost. At the East the month of December alone had seen the Army of the Potomac exhaust its strength in vain against the redoubts of Fredericksburg, whilst Sherman, on the Mississippi, experienced a bloody check before Vicksburg; finally, at the centre, the last day of the year had been marked by the sad battle of Murfreesboroa, so desperately fought and yet so undecided. The Confederacy, as we have shown at the close of the preceding volume, seemed to gather strength in the midst of these attacks so frequently repulsed, and i
March (search for this): chapter 2
merical advantage the well-trained regiments of Stuart. Toward the middle of March they at last decided to go in search of the latter in order to measure strengthefended its entrance. At the approach of the mild season, from the middle of March, the Confederates determined to employ the forces assembled in those latitudesemained with him, to which were soon added a few recruits. During the month of March he undertook, to this effect, several reconnoissances into the interior of the a few lines to the small feats of arms which were performed during the month of March along that portion of the coast which is now occupying our attention. It was s us resume the narrative which has been for a moment interrupted. The month of March, when storms were yet too frequent to enable the monitors to keep at sea in the part, commanded by General Jones. The latter opens the campaign at the end of March by coming down the Kanawha in small boats with a few companies of his best troo
March 14th (search for this): chapter 2
s promised ten thousand men, three thousand of whom were to be detached from the Fourth army corps. Hill, who was in command of a large division, had made the Carolinians believe, and through them the Federals, that his forces were much more numerous. Longstreet, on his part, having spread the rumor that he was going to lead his troops to Charleston, the Federal military authorities had yielded credence to it, and were the less reluctant to take away one brigade from Peck that on the 14th of March the latter had received with Getty's division, detached from the Ninth corps, the effective force of which amounted to from nine to fourteen thousand men. This is what Longstreet, who was perfectly well informed by his spies of all that was taking place in the Federal camps, was waiting for, in order to strike a decisive blow against Suffolk. On the 10th of April the troops intended to join Foster took the cars that were to convey them from Suffolk to Norfolk: just as the first train wa
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