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June 16th (search for this): chapter 2.11
. The Third corps, on the 15th June, left Fredericksburg en route for Culpeper and the Shennandoah Valley, via Front Royal, accompanied by its artillery battalions, viz.: Lieut.-Colonel Ga'rnett's, Major Poague's, and Lieutenant-Colonel Cutt's, attending the divisions of Generals Heth, Pender, and Anderson, and Majors McIntosh's and Pegram's battalions as a corps reserve. In this advance, general headquarters being with the First corps, my own were thereby also chiefly regulated. On June 16th, after a week at Culpeper of such artillery preparation and supervision as were requisite and practicable, I marched towards the Valley, attending near the Commanding-General to be ready for such service as might be required. On the 25th, the army having sufficiently rested in camp near Millwood and Berryville, crossed the Potomac, the Third corps at Shepherdstown, the First at Williamsport — the Comir.anding-General being with the latter, and my duties lying near him. On Wednesday,
June 21st (search for this): chapter 2.11
rtillery, and several colors, (General Lee's report), marched into Loudoun county upon the right flank of the army, and was engaged in a series of conflicts, terminating with Pleasonton's cavalry corps and Barnes' division of infantry, upon the 21st June, which caused him to retire to the vicinity of Ashby's Gap in the Blue Ridge, our infantry being upon the western side of the mountains. 165 Leaving the brigade before mentioned to hold the position, Stuart then, in the exercise of a discretital. Thus, it will be seen, including the brigade and battalion of cavalry which composed the vanguard of the army, that over one-half of the cavalry was left in position to be used by General Lee. Hooker, in his dispatch to his President, June 21st, (Report on the Conduct of the War, volume 1, page 279,) referring to Stuart's command, says: This cavalry force has hitherto prevented me from obtaining satisfactory information as to the whereabouts of the enemy; they had masked all their mov
June 25th (search for this): chapter 2.11
ents of the Federal army. Stuart, with his experience, activity, and known ability for such work, should have kept interposed always between the Federal army and his own, and whilst working close on Meade's lines, have been in direct communication with his own army commander. It is well known that General Lee loitered, after crossing the Potomac, because he was ignorant of the movements and position of his antagonist. For the same reason he grope(l in the dark at Gettysburg. From the 25th of June to July 2d, General Lee deplored Stuart's absence, and almost hourly wished for him,and yet it was by his permission his daring chief of cavalry was away. General Stuart cannot, therefore, be charged with the responsibility of the failure at Gettysburg. Did such failure arise from Ewell and Hill not pushing their success on the 1st of July? I have always been one of those who regarded it a great misfortune that these two corps commanders did not continue to force the fighting upon that
June 26th (search for this): chapter 2.11
is Walter Taylor's estimate, page 113, Four years with General Lee,) and prevented that body of troops from being made use of in other ways — which force, Butterfield says, Hooker (before being relieved) contemplated throwing, with Slocum's corps, in General Lee's rear; and finally, that there was inflicted a loss upon the enemy's cavalry of confessedly near 5,000. （Stuart's report, p. 76, August No., 1876, Southern Historical Society Papers.) The Federal army crossed the Potomac upon the 26th June. General Lee heard it on the night of the 28th, from a scout, and not from his cavalry commander. Stuart crossed between the Federal army and Washington on the night of the 27th, and necessarily, from his position, could not communicate with General Lee. He sent information about the march of Hancock towards the river, and after that was not in position to do more. The boldness of General Lee's offensive strategy, in throwing his army upon one side of the Potomac whilst leaving his adve
June 30th (search for this): chapter 2.11
orning. In reference to the numbers of the Second, Third, and Twelfth corps, our returns of June 30th give their strength, present for duty, as follows: Second corps,12,088 men. Third corps,11iams' and Geary's divisions of the Twelfth corps, under Slocum-numbering together by return of June 30th, 8,056. The number collected in the First corps amounted to 2,450-(Bates, page 82, and alsol the troops then up. Mark the point-the the Second corps, Hancock's, 12,088, by the return of June 30th, was in bivouac three miles in rear on the night of the 1st, (nearly as far from the Federal aage 309, Committee on the Conduct of the War); the Second corps being put at 12,088 (return of June 30th); the Thrid, including the two brigades not then up, 10,000 (General Humphrey's letter to me);ered to their names-Wadsworth's testimony, page 413). The Twelfth corps, by the return of the 30th of June, numbered 8,056. These six corps numbered, then, on the 2d of July, before the Sixth corps r
July 1st (search for this): chapter 2.11
upying Cemetery Heights upon the afternoon of July 1st. Others confidently agree with Colonel Tays two brigades in the Federal front on the first of July; that it kept the Sixth Federal corps, soml and Hill not pushing their success on the 1st of July? I have always been one of those who regaruit of General Howard on the afternoon of the 1st July at Gettysburg, they would have driven him ove the corps (Fifth), and on the evening of the 1st July I marched through Hanover and along the road essary for me to know on the evening of the 1st of July what dispositions of my artillery to make fions from General Hill, on the night of the 1st of July, he told me that the orders were for the atcorps) reached the ground towards midnight of July 1st, leaving one brigade at Emmettsburg — with me was practically concentrated on the night of July 1st, and could have attacked, if necessary, at dabut 1,200 organized on the afternoon of the 1st of July, after their little difficulty with Ewell a[4 more...]
July 2nd (search for this): chapter 2.11
t was fairly chargeable with tardiness on the 2nd July, in not making his attack earlier; and again Brushtown; and before dawn on Thursday, the 2nd of July, a staff-officer of General Sykes, then comas one of those. To the operations of the 2d of July I now direct attention, not with the view ofthe main attack early in the morning of the 2nd of July. If these reports furnished the sly undecessful if adopted. On the night of July 1st two corps of General Lee's army lay in close proxime to the part I took in the operations of the 2d July, and says that he had no idea that I (he) hads the position of the Federal forces on the 2nd of July: I begin on their right: At 6 A. M. Culphe battle-field of the Federal troops on the 2d of July as here given. I think it will show that an056. These six corps numbered, then, on the 2d of July, before the Sixth corps reached the field, 4erein lies the secret of his troubles on the 2d of July. He was fully alive, on his part, to the ne[5 more...]
August (search for this): chapter 2.11
Jones, 3,500; Robertson, 1,000. It is proper to state that the figures above refer to the enlisted men present for duty. The total effective strength (inclusive of officers) numbered, according to Walter Taylor, at that date, 10,292. (I am satisfied, from a conversation with General Robertson, that McClellan overestimates the number of men in Jones' brigade, and therefore underestimates the number in some of the other brigades.) There is no authenticated return after the above date until August. After the return above cited, the losses at Brandy Station fight, the three days fighting in Loudoun, the encounter at Westminster, Maryland, Hanover, Pennsylvania, and other points, occurred, together with the usual reduction of mounted troops from long and rapid marching. It is proper to say that the return quoted did not include the commands of Jenkins, Imboden, or White. General Stuart, in his report (August No., 1876, Southern Historical Society Papers, p. 76,) estimated Jenkins' br
November 6th (search for this): chapter 2.11
corps, he may rightly claim, and that there was no formal order issued displacing him from that position and substituting yourself. But you at the same time are fully justified in affirming that, with care not to mortify Colonel Walton, you were actually put in charge of the artillery of the First corps on the field — as a younger and more active man and a trained officer. The direction was given by General Longstreet, but it had my ready sanction. The letter of General Longstreet of November 6th, which Colonel Walton prints, only conflicts with the above in saying that I arrived at the head of the column, and in implying that Colonel Walton was absent — on both of these points I am sure that Colonel Walton himself will admit that General Longstreet is mistaken. General Longstreet also states that he considered me an engineer officer, but as he gave me an artillery command, I trust I am excusable in having spoken of it as such. It is proper to say, in closing, that nearly ever
December (search for this): chapter 2.11
r further work-something over 10,000 men. The four divisions engaged upon the Confederate side in the battle amounted to about 22,000. The loss after the repulse of the enemy, in Early's division, amounted to 586, (Early's review of Gettysburg, December number of Southern iHistorical Society Papers, 1877, page 257,) leaving him still about 4,500 fighting men. Heth says, (see his paper in Philadelphia Times, September 22d, 1877,) he went into that fight with 7,000 muskets, and lost 2,700 men kilaffirming that a little more marching, perhaps a little more fighting, would have gained for us the possession of the heights on the evening of the 1st of July. On the other hand, General Early, in a masterly review of those operations in the December number Southern Historical Society Papers, 1877, gives some strong reasons, which at the time prevented a further advance, made more convincing by the fact of its being well known that he desired to move on after the retreating Federals. I can
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