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Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 28
B. Kohler. Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania (2), Captain Gottfried Bauer. One Hundred and Second Pennsylvania (1), Major James H. Coleman. One Hundred and Second Pennsylvania (2), Captain James Patchell. One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel John G. Paxt. Second brigade: （1) Brigadier-General Lewis A. Grant （2) Lieutenant-Colonel Amasa S. Tracy. （3) Brigadier-General Lewis A. Grant. Second Vermont (1), Lieutenant-Colonel Amasa S. Tracy. Second Vermont (2), Captain Elijah Wales. Second Vermont (3), Lieutenant-Colonel Amasa S. Tracy. Third Vermont (battalion), Major Horace W. Floyd. Fourth Vermont (1), Major Horace W. Floyd. Fourth Vermont (2), Colonel George P. Foster.[Corps officer of the day at the beginning of the battle; later, rejoined brigade and commanded the left of its line.] Fifth Vermont, Major Enoch E. Johnson. Sixth Vermont (battalion) (1), Captain Edwin R. Kinney. Sixth Vermont (battalion) (2), Captain Wm. J. Sperry. Eleventh Vermont (First Heavy Art<
Rectortown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
ntral railroad at Charlottesville, to destroy the bridge over the Rivanna River, while I passed through Manassas Gap to Rectortown, and thence by rail to Washington. On my arrival with the cavalry near Front Royal on the 16th, I halted at the house G. Wright, Commanding Sixth Army Corps. At 5 o'clock on the evening of the 16th I telegraphed General Halleck from Rectortown, giving him the information which had come to me from Wright, asking if anything corroborative of it had been received er and Cedar Creek, and had ordered three hundred cavalry to Martinsburg to escort me from that point to the front. At Rectortown I met General Augur, who had brought a force out from Washington to reconstruct and protect the line of railroad, and tHalleck: headquarters armies of the United States, Washington, D. C., October 16, 1864. To Major-General Sheridan, Rectortown, Va. General Grant says that Longstreet brought with him no troops from Richmond, but I have very little confidence in
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 28
int to the front. At Rectortown I met General Augur, who had brought a force out from Washington to reconstruct and protect the line of railroad, and through him received the following reply from General Halleck: headquarters armies of the United States, Washington, D. C., October 16, 1864. To Major-General Sheridan, Rectortown, Va. General Grant says that Longstreet brought with him no troops from Richmond, but I have very little confidence in the information collected at his headquarterhe surprise of the morning. The color-bearers, having withstood the panic, had formed behind the troops of Getty. The line with the colors was largely composed of officers, among whom I recognized Colonel R. B. Hayes, since president of the United States, one of the brigade commanders. At the close of this incident I crossed the little narrow valley, or depression, in rear of Getty's line, and dismounting on the opposite crest, established that point as my headquarters. In a few minutes som
Meadow Mills (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
message return to Winchester the ride to Cedar Creek the retreating Army rallying the troops rade movement, crossed to the north side of Cedar Creek. The work of repairing the Manassas Gap br, which held a line along the north bank of Cedar Creek, west of the Valley pike. Crook was postedround hill, which commanded the junction of Cedar Creek and the Shenandoah River, while Torbert retral Wright, who had been left in command at Cedar Creek: headquarters Middle Military division, Ocdred men which I had ordered before leaving Cedar Creek. We spent that night at Martinsburg, and eut three miles north of the line we held at Cedar Creek when the battle began. General Torbert wasremembered, was posted on the north bank of Cedar Creek, Crook holding on the left of the Valley piof Merritt was Custer covering the fords of Cedar Creek as far west as the Middle road. Generalstated, Wharton was thus permitted to cross Cedar Creek on the pike, and now that Early had a conti[6 more...]
Rienzi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
eneral Grant, and also saying that I would like to see Halleck; the telegram ending with the question: Is it best for me to go to see you? Next morning I sent back to Wright all the cavalry except one regiment, which escorted me through Manassas Gap to the terminus of the railroad from Washington. I had with me Lieutenant-Colonel James W. Forsyth, chief-of-staff, and three of my aides, Major George A. Forsyth, Captain Joseph O'Keefe, and Captain Michael V. Sheridan. I rode my black horse, Rienzi, and the others their own respective mounts. Before leaving Cedar Creek I had fixed the route of my return to be by rail from Washington to Martinsburg, and thence by horseback to Winchester and Cedar Creek, and had ordered three hundred cavalry to Martinsburg to escort me from that point to the front. At Rectortown I met General Augur, who had brought a force out from Washington to reconstruct and protect the line of railroad, and through him received the following reply from General H
Fishers Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
n consequence of the arrival of the enemy's infantry at Fisher's Hill, and the receipt, the night before, of the following ded him to believe, on the night of the 13th withdrew to Fisher's Hill; so, concluding that he could not do us serious hurt frt everything was all right, that the enemy was quiet at Fisher's Hill, and that a brigade of Grover's division was to make a ops that had turned Early's flank at the Opequon and at Fisher's Hill, I ordered them to be pushed forward; and the alacritynd hence off their line of retreat through Strasburg to Fisher's Hill. The eagerness of the men soon frustrated this anticiprasburg, the pike makes a sharp turn to the west toward Fisher's Hill. and here Merritt uniting with Custer, they together fnvalescents and other absentees, had moved quietly from Fisher's Hill, in the night of the 18th and early on the morning of tnandoah River directly east of the Confederate works at Fisher's Hill, march around the northerly face of the Massanutten Mou
New York State (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
ing detached to Petersburg. Colonel Alexander and Colonel Thom, both of the Engineer Corps, reported to accompany me, and at 12 o'clock we took the train. We arrived about dark at Martinsburg, and there found the escort of three hundred men which I had ordered before leaving Cedar Creek. We spent that night at Martinsburg, and early next morning mounted and started up the Valley pike for Winchester, leaving Captain Sheridan behind to conduct to the army the Commissioners whom the State of New York had sent down to receive the vote of her troops in the coming Presidential election. Colonel Alexander was a man of enormous weight, and Colonel Thom correspondingly light, and as both were unaccustomed to riding we had to go slowly, losing so much time, in fact, that we did not reach Winchester till between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, though the distance is but twenty-eight miles. As soon as we arrived at Colonel Edwards's headquarters in the town, where I intended stopping fo
Chester Gap (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
rmation had led him to believe, on the night of the 13th withdrew to Fisher's Hill; so, concluding that he could not do us serious hurt from there, I changed my mind as to attacking, deciding to defer such action till I could get to Washington, and come to some definite understanding about my future operations. To carry out this idea, on the evening of the 15th I ordered all of the cavalry under General Torbert to accompany me to Front Royal, again intending to push it thence through Chester Gap to the Virginia Central railroad at Charlottesville, to destroy the bridge over the Rivanna River, while I passed through Manassas Gap to Rectortown, and thence by rail to Washington. On my arrival with the cavalry near Front Royal on the 16th, I halted at the house of Mrs, Richards, on the north bank of the river, and there received the following despatch and inclosure from General Wright, who had been left in command at Cedar Creek: headquarters Middle Military division, October 16, 1
Cedar Creek (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
oburn, and the latter was finally compelled to withdraw to the north bank of Cedar Creek. Custer gained better results, however, on the Back road, with his usual dail from Washington to Martinsburg, and thence by horseback to Winchester and Cedar Creek, and had ordered three hundred cavalry to Martinsburg to escort me from thatbut Custer's troopers sweeping across the Middletown meadows and down toward Cedar Creek, took many of them prisoners before they could reach the stream-so I forgavehe centre and right, and all pushing ahead till we regained our old camps at Cedar Creek. Beyond Cedar Creek, at Strasburg, the pike makes a sharp turn to the west Cedar Creek, at Strasburg, the pike makes a sharp turn to the west toward Fisher's Hill. and here Merritt uniting with Custer, they together fell on the flank of the retreating columns, taking many prisoners, wagons, and guns, amonHill and join the left of Kershaw, when the crossing of the Valley pike over Cedar Creek became free. Lomax's cavalry, then in the Luray Valley, was ordered to j
Woodstock, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
After this catastrophe, Early reported to General Lee that his cavalry was so badly demoralized that it should be dismounted; and the citizens of the valley, intensely disgusted with the boasting and swaggering that had characterized the arrival of the Laurel brigade When Rosser arrived from Richmond with his brigade he was proclaimed as the savior of the Valley, and his men came all bedecked with laurel branches. in that section, baptized the action (known to us as Tom's Brook) the Woodstock races, and never tired of poking fun at General Rosser about his precipitate and inglorious flight. On the 10th my army, resuming its retrograde movement, crossed to the north side of Cedar Creek. The work of repairing the Manassas Gap branch of the Orange and Alexandria railroad had been begun some days before, out from Washington, and, anticipating that it would be in readiness to transport troops by the time they could reach Piedmont, I directed the Sixth Corps to continue its marc
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