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Humphreys (search for this): chapter 1.5
e morning return of February 28, 1865, while Humphreys and other Northern writers speak of the retul of Grant's effective men, according to General Humphreys' method of computation, of 146,239. Ad troops at Norfolk and Fortress Monroe. General Humphreys, taking the morning reports of March 31, might require. The Second and Fifth corps, Humphreys' and Warren's, were at the same time instruchinner so as to add to the force confronting Humphreys and Warren. General Lee ordered Fitz Lee's ess throngs which accompanied the trains. Humphreys says (page 375): The roads were very heavy oe depended the salvation of the army. General Humphreys, who compiles the figures from official surrendered at Appomattox, according to General Humphreys, was 28,536, and according to the figureeventy-five rounds of ammunition per man. Humphreys does not deny the statement or attempt to rems in their hands at Appomattox, a writer of Humphreys' ability and great research, who had the aid[10 more...]
Hannibal (search for this): chapter 1.5
t them no alternative; but were it otherwise, can it be matter of reproach that they bared their own breasts to the storm rather than bequeath the battle to their children? The falsity of the so-called maxim, that God favors the heaviest battalions, was signally illustrated by Napoleon throughout the greater part of his marvelous career. Charles XII of Sweden set it at naught. Frederick the Great won victory in spite of it, in the Seven Years War against nearly all Europe. Alexander, Hannibal and Caesar in ancient days taught that numbers did not necessarily win battles. The thought ignores Providence, and forgets the influences of moral forces in the work of war. All history sustains the profound philosopher, who declared that other maxim. In war the moral is to the physical as three to one, and that maxim fights for the invaded against the invader. The history of Western Europe did not allow the conclusion that it would respect the thin blockade which prevented the exch
A. W. Garber (search for this): chapter 1.5
homas G. Jones, of Alabama, for his able address on The Last Days of the Army of Northern Virginia, and that a copy of same be requested for publication and the archives of the Association. Adopted unanimously. Major Thomas A. Brander moved that a committee of five be appointed to propose the names of the officers and the Executive Committee for the ensuing year. Adopted; and the following gentlemen were appointed: Thomas A. Brander, E. C. Minor, William Kean, Charles E. Morgan and A. W. Garber. Other Addresses. In response to calls, Captain W. Gordon McCabe responded in a brief but beautiful address. By this time the committee returned, and reported the names of the following gentlemen as officers for the ensuing year, and the report was unanimously agreed to: President-Judge George L. Christian. First Vice-President—Judge T. S. Garnett. Second Vice-President-General Thomas L. Rosser. Third Vice-President—Hon. R. T. Barton. Secretary—Captain Thomas Ellet<
Fitz John Porter (search for this): chapter 1.5
much worried by this statement, assails it in another note, Volume III., page 607. He says Lee, when asked by Grant the number of rations needed for his army, replied that he could not tell—among other reasons—because no returns had been made for several days. Yet Badeau goes on to say in spite of this statement of his chief, Taylor speaks of the men who, in line of battle on the 9th day of April, 1865, were reported present for duty. But Lee did not say that no returns had been made. General Porter, of Grant's staff, gives Lee's exact words: I have not seen any returns for several days. This conversation took place on the 9th. On the 12th, three days later, Lee had evidently seen returns, for on that day he wrote his official report of the surrender, in which he says, according to the reports of the ordnance officers, there were 7,892 organized infantry with arms, &c. Ordnance officers were required to issue a full supply of ammunition to the infantry before the line advanced on
Merritt (search for this): chapter 1.5
fiercely on the right, the Confederate line of battle, scarlet almost from the array of battle flags floating over it, went forth to death, driving before it masses of blue cavalry and artillery. Sheridan says his cavalry fell back slowly in accordance with orders. Ord says: In spite of Sheridan's attempt the cavalry was falling back in confusion before Lee's infantry. Crook says: The cavalry was forced to retire by overwhelming numbers until relieved by infantry, when we reorganized. Merritt and Custer say the same thing. Spring was just budding forth, and the morning sun glistening from budding leaf and tree, shed a halo about the red battle flags with the starry cross, as if nature would smile on the nation that was dying there. We pressed on and beyond the Courthouse. Fitz Lee and his cavalry rode unmolested on the Lynchburg road, but Gordon's infantry was impeded by a desperate resistance. Gordon's men captured a battery, and still pressed on. It was too late. The infan
Fitzhugh Lee (search for this): chapter 1.5
vers, and the road to Lynchburg was the only line of retreat. Lee resolved to cut through Sheridan's force, and Gordon, who had for several days covered the rear, was ordered to the front to head the movement. All that remained of the old Second corps and of Ewell and Anderson's troops were sent to him. Mahone was to move on the left of our line of march, protecting it and the trains. Colonel Thomas H. Carter, with a number of his best guns, was to support the attack of Gordon, while Fitzhugh Lee, who had been recently assigned to the command of all the cavalry, was to move with the cavalry on the infantry right. Longstreet was to protect the wagon train and hold back the enemy in the rear. The column of attack thus made up to cut through Sheridan consisted of about 2,500 muskets and about 2,200 cavalry. Upon this force depended the salvation of the army. General Humphreys, who compiles the figures from official records, states the number of cavalry paroled at Appomattox at
George B. Anderson (search for this): chapter 1.5
00 strong, was not included in the reports of Anderson's corps, and that Rosser's cavalry was also oy divining the purpose of the enemy, sent General Anderson with Bushrod Johnson's division and Wise'f Pickett's brigades had not reaceed him, and Anderson's whole division was not present. Of the cavtration of the army at Amelia Courthouse. General Anderson was directed to move up along the AppomatEwell's command arrived about 12 o'clock, and Anderson and Fitz Lee's cavalry on the morning of the ined of the old Second corps and of Ewell and Anderson's troops were sent to him. Mahone was to moveded the old Second corps and what was left of Anderson and Ewell's commands, and surrendered 6,773 ef colors carried that day, including those of Anderson's troops, was out of all proportion to the nusperate fighting of April 6th, when Ewell and Anderson's commands were captured, and when Gordon, afst at dusk on April 6th, and when Ewell's and Anderson's forces were captured. Our losses there can[1 more...]
Pickett (search for this): chapter 1.5
the White Oak road, on the morning of the 29th, and Pickett's division, which had been relieved from the Bermudation being to attack Sheridan and drive him back. Pickett's division was about 3,600 strong; Johnston's, 3,00 estimate I can make with the data at hand. One of Pickett's brigades had not reaceed him, and Anderson's wholuary 20, 1865, a large number were dismounted. General Pickett estimates the total force as considerably less nfantry had been engaged with Warren, but Lee moved Pickett and Bushrod Johnson over the White Oak road to Fivevements to his relief. About midnight on the 31st, Pickett's position being isolated, all the troops which hadalmost surrounded and routed the greater portion of Pickett's and Johnson's troops, which vainly endeavored to note, as to number captured there. The fragments of Pickett's command, with some troops sent by General Lee to e, and he was joined on the road by the remnants of Pickett's command and some troops of Hill's corps, under Ge
Hancock (search for this): chapter 1.5
brought or subsisted his army before Vicksburg. The historic ten months seige, which resulted in the fall of Richmond, would not have been written. The march to the sea and through the Carolinas could never have been undertaken if a hostile navy had not controlled the coast. Without the railroad Sherman could not have reached Atlanta, nor Rosencrans have obtained a foothold at Chattanooga. Who so impeaches the wisdom of our countrymen for engaging in unequal war, may equally denounce Hancock and Adams and Washington and Jefferson, who declared the infant colonies independent States, and defied the power of the greatest military government then on the globe. The private soldier of the A. N. V. Who that looked on the private soldier of the Army of Northern Virginia can ever forget his bright face, his tattered jacket, and crownless hat—his jests, which tickled the very ribs of death—his weary marches in cold and heat and storm—his pangs of hunger, his parching fevers, his<
Hartranft (search for this): chapter 1.5
corps, concentrated a number of field pieces on the hills in rear of Fort Steadman, about midway between it and Meade's Station, and opened a very savage fire. Hartranft's division which lay in reserve, the greater portion not being more than a mile and a half in rear of Steadman, was promptly marched to the rescue, and General HGeneral Hartranft, using the first troops which came up, made at great sacrifice two attacks on our troops outside the fort, to delay their deployment He was repulsed in these with heavy loss, but the effort was worth all it cost. It was Tidball's fire, Hartranft's attacks and the cross-fire of Haskell and McGilery, which prevented the timHartranft's attacks and the cross-fire of Haskell and McGilery, which prevented the timely deployment of the Confederate troops, after Fort Steadman fell, and not any lack of spirit of our men. In this last position they were subjected to a pittiless cross-fire of artillery and small arms to which they could not effectually reply. The situation of the troops who had entered the Union lines was now desperate. Gener
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