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Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
the hands of the Confederates; and when the Richmond government, having adopted a more rigorous policy, objected to the transmission of such articles, they were sent to the exchanged prisoners, who, for want of immediate relief, would frequently have died before reaching their homes. Finally, not satisfied with affording soldiers material aid, this department assumed toward the soldiers the role of guide and protector. On the one hand, five offices—at Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Louisville, and New Orleans—took charge of collecting the money due to them, of assisting them in making out their papers and accounts, and of protecting them against swindlers; while, on the other hand, in the four firstmentioned cities there were offices connected with the hospitals which centralized the information that could be obtained concerning all soldiers who had been at any time, even for the briefest period, under the care of the medical department. These offices enabled families to find
Cox Number One Ditch (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
h waters the valley bear the same name: one is called Cress' Ridge, the other Cress' Run. The open country situated west of these elevations offers an easy passage tiles and a half from Gettysburg envelops the extremity of this ridge, crosses Cress' Run, passes over Cress' Ridge, and, striking the Dutch road a little to the northver Rock Creek and that over White Run, a stream which receives the waters of Cress' Run a little before reaching this road. In order to accomplish this it is necessdvance again, so as to cover the right flank of the army, has proceeded along Cress' Run, south of the Hanover road. He thus keeps in view the eastern slopes of Wolff the highway follows a ridge but slightly elevated and running parallel with Cress' Run. The plain which stretches out, a little more than half a mile in width, betthe Dutch road follows. On the south the plain is bounded by hills adjoining Cress' Run, and which the Hanover road traverses near the Howard house before reaching t
Jefferson City (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
the enemy's column, which, by its formation in line of battle, has become Kilpatrick's right. But the latter, who wishes, above all, to cut off his adversaries from the Gettysburg road, concentrates his forces upon this point, while Custer, coming to his assistance, soon gains ground over the Southerners. Stuart, on his part, hoping to find Early on the Susquehanna, and not daring to venture between the bulk of the enemy's infantry and cavalry, has decided to proceed eastward, by way of Jefferson, in order to reach the neighborhood of York. This is precisely the direction that Kilpatrick is most anxious to see him take, so that he is not at all uneasy on account of this movement. Hampton, who with scarcely any opposition, has entered the town, which the Federals have abandoned for the purpose of strengthening their right, covers once more the march of the train. While Kilpatrick is giving some rest to his worn-out troops, deferring till next day their departure for Heidlersburg,
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
We have seen him at his brilliant debut charging the gate of Mexico in 1847 with Kearny's squadron. A Virginian by birth, like Lee and Jackson, he possessed on that soil, so fruitful in valiant soldiers, a beautiful residence near the city of Williamsburg, in the heart of the old colony of English Cavaliers. This dwelling, of brick and wood, square built, with a lofty flight of steps, of sombre aspect, and standing alone in the centre of a vast clearing, surrounded by a magnificent forest, hadgton.—Ed. was proceeding toward Frederick to take an active part in Meade's operations, the troops that Halleck had so improperly left in the peninsula of Virginia had likewise taken the field. The Fourth army corps, assembled at Yorktown and Williamsburg under Keyes, was transported by water about the 20th of June to White House, where a brigade of cavalry had preceded it by land. The instructions given to Keyes directed him to start from this point for the purpose of cutting the railroads ru
Mummasburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
n, after having bivouacked at Gettysburg and Mummasburg, reached the neighborhood of Berlin on the 2uth-westward to Fairfield, north-westward to Mummasburg, and thence to Shippensburg by way of the mo to strike a road passing by Hunterstown and Mummasburg, a village situated only about five miles north-west of Gettysburg, in the direction of Mummasburg, called Oak Hill, on account of the thick fo on that side, and took position between the Mummasburg road and the railway-cut. Gamble, on his leand of Schimmelpfennig, and Barlow's, by the Mummasburg road to the right of Doubleday, and to leave the left by the extremity, Oak Hill and the Mummasburg road, it is equally liable to be turned on t. Iverson, Ramseur, and Daniel, crossing the Mummasburg road, make a semi-diversion to the left for following the ridge of the hill, reached the Mummasburg road at its culminating point despite the fiad connecting the Carlisle road with that of Mummasburg—a road lined with fences, which enable Schim[1 more...]
Carlisle, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
, terminating at the elevation of the town of Carlisle before reaching the Susquehanna. A parallel rg, Chambersburg, and Shippensburg, by way of Carlisle; the other, the Northern Central, connecting s Ferry. Ewell, by a forced march, reached Carlisle with his two divisions on the 27th: the next munition is nearly exhausted, and the town of Carlisle refuses to receive him. Uneasy, irritated, ha of Pennsylvania, he had called Early back to Carlisle; and the latter, promptly obeying orders, encng its steps along the Cumberland Valley from Carlisle to the vicinity of Chambersburg, and, turningadvancing between the Oak Hill slopes and the Carlisle road, are taken in flank by Rodes' artillery,ll back as far as a cross-road connecting the Carlisle road with that of Mummasburg—a road lined wits distance. His left, reaching as far as the Carlisle road, is endeavoring to form connection with instructions, was leaving the neighborhood of Carlisle in great haste for the purpose of joining his[6 more...]
Holly Springs (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
military reverses, had the immediate effect of driving away famine by throwing all the provisions that could yet be found on the market. But, as we have already observed, it finally brought about a result quite unexpected by those who had so eagerly clamored for the change. In fact, if in the winter of 1862-63 the Confederacy was almost starved out, this very famine was a bulwark as effective as its armies against invasion, and we have seen how at this period the loss of the depots of Holly Springs compelled Grant to beat a speedy retreat; whereas in the winter of 1864-65 the resources accumulated in Georgia enabled Sherman to accomplish his march to the coast, which two years previously would have been impossible. In the midst of these great difficulties the statesmen of the South found some encouragement and strong ground for hope in contemplating the difficulties which had likewise overtaken the government against which they were waging war. As we have stated elsewhere, the f
Dutch (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
having Gettysburg for its apex, and for its base a road called the Dutch road, Its local designation is the Low Dutch (or Salem Church) rge, crosses Cress' Run, passes over Cress' Ridge, and, striking the Dutch road a little to the north of the Reever house, seems to be expressng to the enemy a portion of their forces, have unmasked it. The Dutch road north of the highway follows a ridge but slightly elevated anddge, four hundred yards south-west of the cross-road connecting the Dutch road with the York turnpike. This cross-road passes through two sme on the slopes of Cress' Ridge, the other on the hillocks that the Dutch road follows. On the south the plain is bounded by hills adjoiningsh's line, which rests to the right on the woods situated along the Dutch road, and, to the left, on the Hanover road: the other two regimentns. Gregg, leaving his right firmly established on the wood on the Dutch road, brings his left toward Cress' Ridge, thus drawing near the po
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
hemently they might weaken the cause in behalf of which every family had sent its sons into the army. It had to be acknowledged at once that the rise in the price of articles of food was due not only to the depreciation of government paper, but also to two other causes still more serious—the diminution of the amount of these commodities and the difficulty in the way of transportation. Those districts of the Southern States which produced the largest quantity of cereals, Central and Western Tennessee and the Valley of Virginia, were in possession of the enemy; the latter also occupied the coast of North Carolina, whose fisheries formerly furnished the principal food of the black population. The harvest for the year 1862 had everywhere been very poor: it had been much worse in the Southern States, because the negroes had taken advantage of their masters' absence to do little work, and that carelessly; the institution, shaken to its very foundation, was no longer in force, in spite
Tullahoma (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
the Confederate armies would not only afford some relief to the populations of the South, which had been sorely tried for the last two years; they would show to Europe that the moment had arrived for reaching out a friendly hand to a power capable of maintaining its independence by such efforts. To Lee's army was awarded the great and perilous honor of performing this task. Pemberton had been shut up in Vicksburg with the remnants of his army since the 18th of May. Bragg's only care at Tullahoma was to free himself, without troubling himself about gaining the distant shores of the Ohio unless powerfully reinforced. It is true that Longstreet had proposed to Lee to go and reinforce Bragg with his army corps, in order to undertake, by way of Kentucky, the campaign of invasion which was to decide the fate of the war. But this campaign could not have produced the same results as that of which Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the mines of Pennsylvania were the immediate obj
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