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David Hunter (search for this): chapter 2.14
The story, which from subsequent testimony, positive and direct, was fully substantiated, was at the time hardly credited by Mr. Lincoln himself, yet there appeared to most of his advisers who were present such imminent danger and such vast interests at stake that his friends became importunate, urging him to start at once so as to pass through Baltimore many hours before the advertised time. He took this course, but with evident reluctance. At that time Colonel E. V. Sumner and Major David Hunter were among Mr. Lincoln's many reliable friends — a sort of voluntary escort. Sumner protested. He was vehement.. What the President elect of the United States make a secret and strategic approach to his own capital? Shall he skulk in such a manner as that proposed? No Let an army, with artillery to sound his salvos, escort him publicly through the rebel throng This incident indicates the indomitable spirit of Sumner, always exhibited from the time of his entry into the United State
Joseph E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 2.14
to choose the heroic at whatever cost. Joseph E. Johnston when a subordinate was once under Sumner's command. Johnston, with other officers, was required to attend reveille every morning. On one o guess just what our army would attempt. But Johnston, our enemy at Centreville, Va., was shrewder lellan and so no time was to be lost, because Johnston knew that our preparations in the way of transports were already far advanced. Johnston commenced his rearward movement the day before the publind the bridge building, which did not deceive Johnston nor arrest his preparations for leaving Centre objective all the time was not Richmond but Johnston's army. After we had finished the bridge b to grove, as we pressed on. That cavalry was Johnston's rear guard, when his army was in motion soume his outpost and picketing force as soon as Johnston halted. Sumner stopped his general movement awakened dreamer and pushed out in pursuit of Johnston with more than twenty-five miles the start, c
Lawrence Kip (search for this): chapter 2.14
times daringly to gather forage and provisions, but, indeed, we wished to be doing something in the line of enterprise as a preparation for the active work to which we all looked forward expectantly for the spring. Our bold, strict, straightforward, hospitable division general and his son and aid, Lieutenant S. S. Sumner, who combined his father's frankness, bravery, and impulse, and his mother's social amenities, with the gifted and genial adjutant general, Major J. H. Taylor, and Lieutenant Lawrence Kip, an aid well practiced in the ways of polite society, always welcomed us to headquarters, pleasant to visit and worthy to imitate. General W. H. French, who commanded the next brigade, the Second, was a man advanced in years, who had graduated at West Point seventeen years before me. He had a mind of unusual quickness, well replenished by a long experience in his profession. French somehow was able to take more men into action and have less stragglers than any of his parallel c
Abraham Lincoln (search for this): chapter 2.14
the time great excitement on the subject. Mr. Lincoln had left his home in Illinois on February 1ed from Washington and promptly conveyed to Mr. Lincoln the startling information from Senator Sewantiated, was at the time hardly credited by Mr. Lincoln himself, yet there appeared to most of his V. Sumner and Major David Hunter were among Mr. Lincoln's many reliable friends — a sort of volunta of Colonel Sumner's early intimacy with President Lincoln, he was colonel of the First regular cavis was to enable the loyal to rise, a thing Mr. Lincoln greatly desired, and to break up all rail cce, but it originated in the great heart of Mr. Lincoln, who hoped almost against hope to win the sbtless excited himself by so many delays, Abraham Lincoln ordered on March 8th: That the Army and Name or equal intrenchments at either place. Mr. Lincoln instinctively felt that the true objective ssas. In spite of McClellan's objection, Mr. Lincoln had caused him to organize his Potomac forc
George B. McClellan (search for this): chapter 2.14
h the insurgents. It never appeared fair to McClellan to bind him by stringent orders and then at ng note to Buell the inference which came to McClellan from the President's known attitude — an infeven then loyal to humanity, maintained that McClellan was doing his simple duty and could not be cpionage from probing and revealing his plan, McClellan carefully guarded his lips. None of us couleek and Fredericksburg; 3d, that via Urbana, McClellan's favorite project; 4th, via the Virginia Peopposite Dumfries meant the Urbana route for McClellan and so no time was to be lost, because Johnsident, a large party faction urging him, and McClellan, in which several general officers took sidee a part. As a result of many councils, not McClellan's favorite Urbana project, but his second chorganize his Potomac force into army corps. McClellan complied on March 13th, so that Sumner, durirge enough to sleep on. The main body of McClellan's army, which had started up like a suddenly[16 more...]
McDonald (search for this): chapter 2.14
officer and a great gain to Burnside. He died from wounds received in the battle of Antietam. The Fourth Rhode Island had as chaplain an Episcopal clergyman, Rev. E. B. Flanders, much esteemed in our brigade. He was as efficient in the field as he had been in his home parish. I find an old letter in which my aid writes that I scarcely slept the night after I received that order. This was foolish, indeed, but it indicates how much I was attached to that regiment. One good soldier, Private McDonald, being on detail as my orderly, remained with me till his death in Georgia during the campaign of 1864. When the news of Burnside's attack reached us from Roanoke and thirty-five men were reported killed, I was as anxious as a father to hear of the safety of those who had gone out from my command. On January 4th, taking an aid with me, I hastened, as was then the custom when things went wrong, to Washington for redress. I found the venerable General Casey sitting in full uniform at
Thomas Francis Meagher (search for this): chapter 2.14
y's favorable opinion. He commended me for industry and energy. Those were the qualities for Sumner: he selected my brigade, French's, and later that of Thomas Francis Meagher. I was delighted at the change, for I did not like the rear, however important the work might be, and none probably was more important than the preparir position for his division. My brigade, the First, as I was the ranking brigade commander, was placed on the right north of the Pike, French's on the south, and Meagher's back toward the city. My camp was on Mr. Richards's farm. A charming grove of trees was behind the brigade, to the south of which were established my headquaench's was slightly in echelon with my brigade and arranged back and south of a house of Mr. Watkins, while Sumner himself occupied a Sibley tent near the house. Meagher's men were held some distance to the rear and opposite the center. Sumner had also near at hand the Eighth Illinois Cavalry and a six-gun battery of light artill
Nelson A. Miles (search for this): chapter 2.14
s. Among our colonels were Zook, who was killed at Gettysburg; Brooke, who, steadily advancing, attained the rank of major general in the regular army; Barlow, of the Sixty-first New York, who, by wounds received in several engagements went again and again to death's door but lived through a most distinguished career of work and promotion to exercise eminent civil functions after the war, and Miller, who fell in our first great battle. My brother, Lieutenant C. H. Howard, and Lieutenant Nelson A. Miles were then my aids. Sumner, noticing his conduct in action, used to say of Miles: That officer will get promoted or get killed. F. D. Sewall, for many months my industrious adjutant general, took the colonelcy of the Nineteenth Maine, and my able judge advocate, E. Whittlesey, at last accepted the colonelcy of another regiment. The acting brigade commissary, George W. Balloch, then a lieutenant in the Fifth New Hampshire, adhered to his staff department and was a colonel and chie
Miller (search for this): chapter 2.14
was able to take more men into action and have less stragglers than any of his parallel commanders. Among our colonels were Zook, who was killed at Gettysburg; Brooke, who, steadily advancing, attained the rank of major general in the regular army; Barlow, of the Sixty-first New York, who, by wounds received in several engagements went again and again to death's door but lived through a most distinguished career of work and promotion to exercise eminent civil functions after the war, and Miller, who fell in our first great battle. My brother, Lieutenant C. H. Howard, and Lieutenant Nelson A. Miles were then my aids. Sumner, noticing his conduct in action, used to say of Miles: That officer will get promoted or get killed. F. D. Sewall, for many months my industrious adjutant general, took the colonelcy of the Nineteenth Maine, and my able judge advocate, E. Whittlesey, at last accepted the colonelcy of another regiment. The acting brigade commissary, George W. Balloch, then a
Parker (search for this): chapter 2.14
s was then the custom when things went wrong, to Washington for redress. I found the venerable General Casey sitting in full uniform at the head of a court-martial. His uniform looked very bright and clean to me coming from camp. Moving a chair close to General Casey I appealed to him to get me another regiment and one as well drilled as possible. After listening to my whispered argument he said: Oh, I will give you a good selection. You had better take the Sixty-fourth New York --Colonel Parker. So very soon the Sixty-fourth New York came to fill the vacancy left by the Fourth Rhode Island. At that time General Sumner was in Washington. Just before this visit he had met with a serious accident and had gone to Washington, where he could receive better nursing than was possible in camp. Sumner was riding one day and crossing some fields not far from headquarters, when his horse stepped into a blind post hole and fell, throwing the general forward to the ground. Injury was
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