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Port Royal (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
on the other hand, worn out by Stoneman's raid, needed a few weeks' rest to recuperate. The authorities at Washington might have reinforced the Army of the Potomac by discontinuing or reducing the number of useless posts and garrisons, but the most sad experience had failed to induce them to abandon this system of scattering the troops. At the very moment when all the Confederate forces were leaving the coast to join Johnston in the West or Lee in Virginia, a whole army corps was left at Port Royal, one division at New Berne, two at Suffolk, and one in the peninsula of Virginia, to waste away without a purpose, without any plan of campaign; whilst in the district which the Army of the Potomac was called upon to defend, entire corps, such as the Washington garrison under Heintzelman, Stahel's six thousand cavalry in the neighborhood of Manassas, and Milroy's division in the Valley of Virginia, acted independently of Hooker and under the immediate direction of Halleck; the commander-in
Gades (Spain) (search for this): chapter 4
ntage had not prevented its being beaten at Chancellorsville. It conquered at Gettysburg because chance afforded it strong positions, which Buford and Reynolds preserved for it, and which Meade turned to excellent account. Eight days after his appointment this fortunate chieftain gave his soldiers a decisive victory: there was the less reason for begrudging him his glory because, being born on European soil, he could not aspire to the Presidency, Gen. Meade was born Dec. 31, 1815, at Cadiz, Spain, where his parents, who were American citizens, temporarily resided. His father, Richard W. Meade, at the time held the appointment of United States Naval Agent at the port of Cadiz, and Gen. Meade was born under the American flag. Whatever question there may be as to what the law might have been at the time of Gen. Meade's birth, the reverse of what is stated in the text seems to have been settled by the Act of Congress of February 10, 1855, the passage of which was brought about by
Gaines Mill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
se of all the troops assembled in Maryland, without taking into consideration those imaginary divisions in departments which had so frequently embarrassed his predecessors. The first despatch he received from Halleck authorized him to remove at his pleasure the garrison of Harper's Ferry: the forces of Schenck and Couch were also placed under his command. His successor at the head of the Fifth corps was General Sykes, an energetic officer who had particularly distinguished himself at Gaines' Mill. Meade set to work at once on the 28th, without allowing the army time to feel the interregnum. Hooker had informed him that Lee, not having brought along his bridge-equipage, could certainly not think of crossing the Susquehanna with his army, and that, consequently, after having reached that river, his design must be to follow the right bank, so as to cut off Baltimore and Washington from the Northern States. While the enemy was describing this large arc of a circle, the Federal army
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ngth of this opposition. Mr. Horatio Seymour, who had distinguished himself by the vehemence of his attacks upon the administration, was elected governor of New York. Out of one hundred and twenty-four Representatives elected, the opposition succeeded in obtaining sixty-seven, thus gaining thirty seats over the delegation elected two years before—an advantage which reduced, but did not destroy, the preponderance of the Republican party, which could always count upon the suffrages of the New England States. The returns of these local elections gave to the Democrats a small majority of 35,000 votes out of 2,422,000 voters, whilst in the same States Mr. Lincoln had received in 1860 a majority of more than two hundred thousand votes over his competitors. Public opinion was therefore shaken: the most zealous partisans. of the President's policy acknowledged that a general vote on the question of emancipation, and even on the war, might not perhaps be in his favor. It is true that a c
Summit Station (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
During this time Rodes had been marching upon Berryville, but the prey he had hoped to find there had escaped. McReynolds was on his way to Winchester, not by the direct road, which he knew to be too much exposed, except by making a large circuit to the north. The Confederate cavalry alone was able to follow him. Rodes, deceived as to the direction he had taken, and having entirely lost his track, went to look for him toward Martinsburg, and bivouacked on the evening of the 13th at Summit Station, between Winchester and Charlestown. The day of the 14th was to decide Milroy's fate and that of his troops. Daylight having appeared, he could no longer think of evacuating the place in the presence of the enemy's forces that were menacing him; but he had taken advantage of the night to abandon the positions he had occupied the day before, and to concentrate his small band among the forts and in the northern part of the city. Early in the morning Ewell had reconnoitred the ground
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 4
south, crosses Ashby's Gap after having successively passed through Dover, Middleburg, Rector's Cross-roads, Upperville, where several roads converge, and finally Paris, located in the very gorge of the mountain. It is this last-mentioned road that Stuart was following. Jones' arrival on the 19th, and Hampton's on the followinlatter the task of covering the retreat. This brigade is soon attacked by the Federals, who are emerging from Upperville, and is obliged to gain the approaches of Paris in great haste. The efforts it makes to delay the march of the enemy cost it dear, one of its colonels being left wounded on the field. Chambliss, who has come tn out. He halted and installed himself in the village of Upperville. On his right, Buford had continued his hot pursuit of Munford and Jones, who joined Stuart at Paris. While the former was skirting the foot of the Blue Ridge slopes with his division, his scouts climbed up the ridges. From the summit of this natural observatory
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
receding year, when its chieftain led it into Maryland for the first time. The extreme confidence te streets of the capital that he would invade Maryland at the head of eighty-five thousand men. Hook cut off General Kelley's communications with Maryland. As soon as Lee, who had remained at Culp, than that with which he had penetrated into Maryland the preceding year; but, on the other hand, that he would have to go through a campaign in Maryland, had sent two bridge-equipages, under proper ed to join his army as soon as it had entered Maryland: in fact, from this moment it covered Washingrigade was brought from the lower counties of Maryland, bordering on Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac d themselves around Poolesville, a village in Maryland situated not far from the river, at the interef determined to follow the Confederates into Maryland with the remainder of his army. Reynolds ledrd and Gregg, covering the rear, crossed into Maryland on the 27th.—Ed. converging in their turn tow[18 more...]
Upperville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ugh Dover, Middleburg, Rector's Cross-roads, Upperville, where several roads converge, and finally Pn his left, directing them to fall back upon Upperville, making the best resistance they could againhis brigades on the left time to join him at Upperville before he has been driven back upon Ashby's Confederates were ordered to fall back upon Upperville, their retreat once more emboldened the assae Buford's column come up after them between Upperville and Paris, and thus cut off his retreat in t to continue it at once, without stopping at Upperville. As his head of column was leaving this vacked by the Federals, who are emerging from Upperville, and is obliged to gain the approaches of Palted and installed himself in the village of Upperville. On his right, Buford had continued his hotd out for him. On the 19th he passed through Upperville, while his columns occupied defiles of the Bmen lost in the battles of Fleetwood, Aldie, Upperville, and Hanover, two hundred maimed or sick. ma
Hancock, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nd of battle toward the road they had just followed. Milroy, finding himself menaced on all sides, directed all the troops which yet remained under his control to follow the Martinsburg road, which was yet free, trying to delay the pursuit of the enemy in order that he might then push forward to the right in the direction of Harper's Ferry. But the column soon became divided. The largest portion gained the Alleghany ridges on the left in great disorder: it finally reached the Potomac at Hancock without being pursued, but still continued its precipitate retreat as far as Pennsylvania, where it caused consternation and alarm everywhere. Other bands of fugitives, among whom was Milroy, arrived at Harper's Ferry without having been molested. They had thus avoided Rodes, who, following an imaginary enemy, had pushed as far as Martinsburg, whence he had dislodged a detachment of Tyler's division in the evening. He had captured from the latter six guns and two hundred prisoners, but i
Chester Gap (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
d been in the habit of coming in contact with them. Accustomed to marching, not burdened with heavy loads—for they carried only a blanket, some cartridges, and a little bread—sleeping in the open air, relying upon the resources of the country for food, Ewell's soldiers advanced rapidly toward the Valley of Virginia. His three divisions and twenty batteries, which had left Culpeper on the 10th, passed through Sperryville, Gaines' Cross-roads, and Flint Hill, crossing the Blue Ridge at Chester Gap, and, pushing beyond Front Royal, reached the banks of the Shenandoah at Cedarville on the evening of the 12th. Ewell immediately made all necessary arrangements for reaping the greatest possible benefit from the ignorance which his adversaries were still laboring under in regard to his movements. Although he had already marched fifty miles since the day previous, Rodes led his division as far as Stone Ridge, five miles farther on the direct road to Berryville. It was, in fact, a quest
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