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W. T. Sherman (search for this): chapter 1.5
die with honor. About the middle of March Sherman had established his large army about Goldsboro City Point, where he conferred with Grant. Sherman would be ready as soon as spring hardened the with Johnston, and strike a decisive blow at Sherman before Grant could come to his assistance. Tthat he would unite with Johnston and destroy Sherman and then turn on Grant; or else take up a new except in the case of Johnston's army to General Sherman. Ordnance Office, War Department, Decembeith great loss in his Red river campaign, and Sherman, after the defeat of his cavalry, compelled ts had met with no corresponding back-sets. Sherman had penetrated near Atlanta, but with considewal from the James would ensure the defeat of Sherman. A week before Grant had written Sherman aboSherman about reinforcing him, concurring in the latter's view about showing no despondency, and expressing thegotiations. It admits of little doubt, if Sherman had been held off at Atlanta as Grant was at [1 more...]
M. W. Ransom (search for this): chapter 1.5
he enemy's shot and shell. During the greater part of the three hours elapsing between the capture and recapture of Steadman, these troops had been under this heavy fire, from which they could not find shelter and to which they could not effectively reply, and were all the while obedient to orders and displaying the most unflinching courage. General Lee, in a dispatch sent to the Secretary of War at 11.20 P. M. that day, says: All the troops engaged including two brigades under Brigadier General Ransom, behaved most handsomely. The conduct of the sharpshooters of Gordon's corps, who led the assault, deserves the highest commendation. Their conduct was indeed splendid. Their situation, as we have seen, became so distressing that the officers were ordered to make their men run out of the works in squads, and get back into their own lines as best they could. It required considerable time to communicate the order from the several division headquarters down to the men through their
J. R. McKenzie (search for this): chapter 1.5
uding all non-combatants, sick, etc.), gives the effective fighting strength of the Army of the Potomac at 69,000 infantry and 6,000 field artillery; that of the Army of the James at 32,000 infantry, 3,000 field artillery and 1,700 cavalry under McKenzie, and Sheridan's enlisted men, exclusive of officers of the cavalry, at 13,000—a total in round numbers of 124,700 men, according to General Humphreys. Badeau, Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, Vol. III, p. 438, states: On the 25th of ough the train moved on different roads and the wagons were driven two and three abreast wherever practicable, they were often longer than the line of the troops which marched on their flank for their protection. Sheridan's cavalry, including McKenzie, numbered over 5, 0000 effective officers and men on 29th March. This force made more than three times the number of effective Confederate cavalry at that time. A formidable cavalry force swarmed upon the flanks and sometimes the front and rear
Gen Tidball (search for this): chapter 1.5
nfederate accounts—and the space immediately around it, although they had handsomely repulsed several of the first attempts to drive them from the captured works. In a short time, probably less than an hour after the first alarm was given General Tidball, commanding the artillery of the Ninth 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 reservee, and General 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 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 t
Kershaw (search for this): chapter 1.5
Johnston, it is certain if there had been food to sustain the bodies of these men their unquenched courage would have written a different history for the retreat from the Petersburg lines. Movements to April Fifth. Longstreet crossed the Appomattox at Pocahontas bridge and moved along the north side of the river, intending to recross at Bevil's bridge, but that being out of repair, used the pontoon at Goode's bridge. Gordon taking the Hickory road, recrossed at Goode's bridge, and Kershaw's and Custis Lee's divisions, comprising Ewell's command at Richmond, crossed the James at Richmond and moving on the Genito road followed by Gary's cavalry, crossed the Appomattox on the Danville railroad bridge. Grant sent Sheridan and the Fifth corps to move on the south side of the river, to follow Lee's army and strike the Danville road between its crossing of the Appomattox and the crossing of the Lynchburg road at Burkeville Junction. General Meade himself, with the Second and Sixth
Gregg (search for this): chapter 1.5
ndered legions, or more respect from his foes. Grant's army made other captures here which are often forgotten. In the actions on the Petersburg lines, the affair near the High Bridge in which Read's force was destroyed, and that in which General Gregg was captured, and in other combats in the retreat, Lee's army had plucked from its pursuers, and safely guarded to Appomattox over fourteen hundred prisoners, including a battery of artillery and a Brigadier General of calvary. These prisonethe army left Amelia Courthouse. There was also the action at Sutherland's Station, April 2d; that at High Bridge, in which Reid's force was captured, and the fighting around Farmville, including the repulse of Humphreys, the affair in which General Gregg was captured, and also the action on the 9th at the Courthouse. The losses in all the actions which took place after the retreat was begun amounted to at least 12,000 men, and subtracting that number from the force with which Lee left the Pe
McGowan (search for this): chapter 1.5
I can make with the data at hand. One of Pickett's brigades had not reaceed him, and Anderson's whole division was not present. Of the cavalry reported February 20, 1865, a large number were dismounted. General Pickett estimates the total force as considerably less than stated in the text. These forces of Lee were concentrated at Five Forks on the evening of the 30th of March. General Lee struck the exposed flank of the Fifth corps and drove back two of its divisions with the brigades of McGowan, Gracie, Hunton and Wise, but the ground was wooded, and the third division of Warren's corps coming to his assistance, the retreat of his other two divisions was stopped, while an attack by Humphrey on the left of Wise's brigade, which was the extreme left of the Confederate attacking force, compelled the retirement of the Confederate force to their intrenchments. Foiled in the attempt to destroy the Fifth corps, and paucity of numbers constraining him to be cautious, Lee next attempte
Robert Edward Lee (search for this): chapter 1.5
cavalry cut through on the 9th, and some of them left for their homes, after it was known the army had surrendered, without waiting to be paroled with their commands when General Fitz Lee surrendered the cavalry a short time afterwards. General Robert E. Lee, in his letter announcing the surrender to President Davis, says: I have no accurate report of the cavalry, but believe it did not exceed 2,100 effective men. Hence, I have felt justified in estimating the number participating in the acts of captured small arms, in view of the well-known facts referred to, go strongly to prove that the number of infantry surrendered, with arms in their hands, was as about as stated by Confederate writers, and, more important than all, by General Robert E. Lee himself. Badeau, evidently 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 reason
James Longstreet (search for this): chapter 1.5
e, or detachment of cavalry; a division from Longstreet was also to report to him. From the best infs not over 8,000 troops. Those ordered from Longstreet did not arrive, the cavalry remained in its Battery Gregg to the Appomattox river, while Longstreet occupied the trenches north of the Appomattoefence of the inner line. For some reason Longstreet did not perceive the weakening of the force urg lines. Movements to April Fifth. Longstreet crossed the Appomattox at Pocahontas bridge reat by the south bank of the Appomattox. Longstreet reached Amelia Courthouse on the afternoon oof High Bridge, near Farmville, that night. Longstreet, whose command had halted all that day at Rionly outlet left the Confederate commander. Longstreet's command was in the rear, closely pressed by Meade's army. Between Longstreet and Gordon was an innumerable caravan of wagons, artillery, disang could be had. While this was going on, Longstreet had been closely pressed by the troops in re[2 more...]
Thomas G. Jones (search for this): chapter 1.5
Last days of the army of Northern Virginia. An address delivered by Hon. Thomas G. Jones, Governor of Alabama, before the Virginia division of the Association of the army of Northern Virginia at the Annual meeting, Richmond, Va., October 12th, 1893. The President, Hon. George L. Christian, having called the meeting to order, in glowing terms, introduced the orator. Governor Jones, after appropriately acknowledging the kind introduction of the chairman, said: Posterity will admit, as Greeley does in his American Conflict, that the Confederacy had no alternative to staying its arm at Sumter but its own dissolution. The smoke in Charleston ha. At the close of the address, Colonel Richard L. Maury offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be tendered Governor Thomas 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 archive
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