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John J. Peck (search for this): chapter 1
ent Longstreet with two divisions to operate against General J. J. Peck in the vicinity of Suffolk, on the south side of the Longstreet to command the troops operating against General John J. Peck, at Suffolk. Ever since the Confederates lost Norf scenes in 1862 and 1863. In September, 1862, Major-General John J. Peck was placed in command of nine thousand men at Sus, were on the line of the Blackwater, menacing that post. Peck comprehended the great importance of his position, and immeich is a careful copy, on a small scale, of one made by General Peck's engineers, and kindly lent by that commander to the win April, Longstreet prepared to make a sudden descent upon Peck. He determined to march with an overwhelming force, cross eriously menace, if not actually Operations of Major General J. J. Peck commanding at Suffolk, Va. And vicinity. endangeand property, with some thousands of contrabands. General J. J. Peck's Report, May 5, 1863. The importance of the ser
J. J. Peck (search for this): chapter 1
ns there, 41, 42. the siege of Suffolk by Longstreet, 43. Peck's defense of Suffolk Longstreet driven away services of tand his strength in numbers (then increased), and to weaken Peck's command. It was reported that he had gone to South Carolcessor of Burnside, See page 315, volume II. had ordered Peck to send three thousand soldiers to oppose Hill. Being in rcapturing the cavalry outposts of the Nationals on the way. Peck was ready for him, and Longstreet found in that officer an Longstreet was in possession of complete drawings of all of Peck's works, and had determined to get in his rear and surprisef the Nansemond. He captured 6 guns and 200 prisoners. General Peck mentioned with commendation Generals Corcoran, Terry, D63. Longstreet, foiled and disheartened, turned his back on Peck and retreated, pursued as far as the Blackwater by National On the 15th of February, 1865, General Meade wrote to General Peck, saying: That with the united force under your command,
Pease (search for this): chapter 1
lines; Colonels Gurney and Waddrop, commanding reserves; Colonels Spear and Onderdonk, of the cavalry. and Captain Follet. chief of artillery. The forts were in charge of the following officers: Fort Union, Colonel Drake; Nansernond, Colonel Hawkins; Halleck, Colonel Sullivan; Draw-bridge Battery, Colonel Davis; Battery Mansfield, Colonel Worth; the Redan and Battery Sosecrans, Colonel Thorpe; Battery Massachusetts, Captain Johnspn; Battery Montgomery, Colonel England; Battery Stevens, Colonel Pease; Fort Dix, Colonel McEvilly. and the Confederates, with overwhelming numbers, tried in vain every skill and strategy of modern warfare to accomplish their object. Finally, on the day when Hooker and Lee had their severe battle at Chaneellorsville, May 3, 1863. Longstreet, foiled and disheartened, turned his back on Peck and retreated, pursued as far as the Blackwater by National troops under Generals Corcoran and Dodge, and Colonel Foster. Thus ended the remarkable siege of Suffolk, w
Parsons (search for this): chapter 1
a toll-gate in the rear. A sanguinary conflict quickly ensued. Bartlett dashed forward, captured the school-house garrison, and, with furious onset, drove the Confederates, and seized the crest of the hill. The triumph and possession was brief. Wilcox soon drove him back, released the school-house prisoners, and seized their custodians, and, with General Semmes, pushed the Nationals back to Sedgwick's reserves, near the toll-gate, where the well-served batteries of Williston, Rigby, and Parsons, under Colonel Tompkins, checked the pursuers. The conflict had been short, sharp, and sanguinary, and increased Sedgwick's loss in the morning at Fredericksburg to about five thousand men. Wearied and disheartened, the National troops, like their foes, slept on their arms that night, with little expectation of being able to advance in the morning. Hooker, at the same time, seemed paralyzed in his new position. His army was being beaten in detail, and the result of the battle at Salem Ch
J. P. Owen (search for this): chapter 1
r the Tabernacle Church, half way between Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg, where strong intrenchments were thrown up. There a plank road and a turnpike diverged, and met again at Chancellorsville, Along these Jackson ordered a general advance, Owen's cavalry leading. Jackson commanded in person the column on the plank road, and that on the turnpike was led by General L. McLaws. Hooker had also disposed his army for battle. He was aware of the peril of fighting with the Wilderness at hise left; Slocum's and a division of Sickles's the center, and Howard's the right, with Pleasanton's cavalry near. The Confederate line extended from the Mine road on their right to the Catharine Furnace on the left, having the Virginian cavalry of Owen and Wickham on the right, and Stuart's and a part of Fitzhugh Lee's on the left, at the Furnace. McLaws's forces occupied the ridge on the east of the Big Meadow Swamp, and Anderson continued the line to the left of McLaws. Such was, the general
Onderdonk (search for this): chapter 1
ng about eight miles in length. During the siege General Getty stormed and carried, with the Eighth Connecticut and Eighty-ninth New York, aided by Lieutenant Lamson and the gun-boats, a Confederate battery on the west branch of the Nansemond. He captured 6 guns and 200 prisoners. General Peck mentioned with commendation Generals Corcoran, Terry, Dodge, and Harland, and Colonels Dutton and Gibbs, commanding front lines; Colonels Gurney and Waddrop, commanding reserves; Colonels Spear and Onderdonk, of the cavalry. and Captain Follet. chief of artillery. The forts were in charge of the following officers: Fort Union, Colonel Drake; Nansernond, Colonel Hawkins; Halleck, Colonel Sullivan; Draw-bridge Battery, Colonel Davis; Battery Mansfield, Colonel Worth; the Redan and Battery Sosecrans, Colonel Thorpe; Battery Massachusetts, Captain Johnspn; Battery Montgomery, Colonel England; Battery Stevens, Colonel Pease; Fort Dix, Colonel McEvilly. and the Confederates, with overwhelming numb
J. Newton (search for this): chapter 1
ubleday, W. S. Hancock, J. Gibbon, W. H. French, D. D. Birney, H. G. Berry, A. W. Whipple, W. T. H. Brooks, A. P. Howe, J. Newton, C. Griffin, G. Sykes, A. A. Humphreys, C. Devens, A. Von Steinwehr, C. Schurz, S. Williams, J. W. Geary, A. Pleasantonf them. They felt quite secure in their advantageous position, and their sense of safety was increased when a portion of Newton's division, sent by Sedgwick to attack Barksdale, was repulsed, and driven back into the town in shattered columns. A flaulting parties, and storm the Confederate works along their entire occupied line. Two storming columns were formed from Newton's division, one of four, and the other of two regiments; The column of four regiments, on the right, was commanded by plank road, and on each side of it, the First New Jersey on the right, and the brigade of General Bartlett on the left. Newton's division followed, in support of Brooks's, and Sedgwick's artillery was posted at a toll-gate in the rear. A sanguinar
Neil (search for this): chapter 1
h New York and Eighty-second Pennsylvania, The left column, of three regiments, was commanded by Colonel Johns, of the Seventh Massachusetts, and was opposed of his own regiment and the Thirty-sixth New York. and another, of four regiments, under Colonel Burham, of the Sixth Maine, was directed to move up the plank road, and to the right of the others, directly against the rifle-pits at the foot of Marye's Hill. General Howe, with three storming parties under the command, respectively, of General Neil and Colonels Grant and Seaver, was ordered to move simultaneously upon the Confederate works on the left, near Hazel Run. The storming parties moved at near eleven o'clock in the morning. The onset was furious, and was gallantly resisted. Steadily the Nationals moved on, in defiance of a galling fire from artillery and small arms, driving Barksdale from his shelter at the stone wall, scaling Marye's Hill, seizing the rifle-pits and batteries, and capturing full two hundred prisoners,
John S. Moseby (search for this): chapter 1
ed by the afterward famous guerilla chief, John S. Moseby, dashed into the village of Fairfax Court-telegraph wires on their way. For this exploit Moseby was publicly commended by General Stuart, and he was promoted to major of cavalry. Moseby was a graduate of the University of Virginia, and a legiment of adventurers, who, one of them said, Moseby himself declared, could only be held together the fact, exultingly set forth in a history of Moseby's exploits by one of his followers (Major Scotwith his pistol, he shot his old friend dead. Moseby's military career, as described by his ardent vior of the recusant. The estimation in which Moseby was held; by the Government is shown by the ex rebel. camp of the guerrilla and freebooter, Moseby, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, capturing his arsistant Secretary of War. A few days after Moseby's bold exploit, the first purely cavalry battldesperate battle ensued, which continued John S. Moseby until late in the evening, when Averill w[6 more...]
N. A. Miles (search for this): chapter 1
going on, General G. K. Warren, with the troops sent by Hooker, just mentioned, came to Pleasanton's assistance; and soon afterward Sickles, with his two brigades (Birney's and Whipple's), joined in the contest. At this time Lee was making a vigorous artillery attack upon Hooker's left and center, formed by the corps of Generals Couch and Slocum, but the assailing force, whose heaviest demonstration was against General Hancock's front, was held in check by his skirmish line, under Colonel N. A. Miles. His troops consisted of the Fifty-seventh, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-sixth New York Volunteers, and detachments of the Fifty-second New York, Second Delaware, and One Hundred and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania. See Hancock's Report. And while Lee was thus failing, a heavier misfortune than he had yet endured befell him, in the paralysis of the right-arm of his power, by the fall of General Jackson. That officer, encouraged by the success of his first blow, was extremely anxious to pres
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