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Ambrose E. Burnside (search for this): chapter 2.20
results for the previous failure. When General Burnside determined to occupy Fredericksburg it wathe river if my command had the advance. General Burnside closed the conference by stating that hisle or more back from the river. oh! said Burnside, I know where Lee's forces are, and I expect ent offered a fair hope of success. When General Burnside left us we were all of the opinion that ht our way out under great disadvantages. Had Burnside been forced into a move by the Administrational battle, if one were then necessary. Would Burnside adopt our plan, and if so, why this delay whi state that in the Third interview I had with Burnside, after the battle, he said, I should have ordeen required to make them. It seems that General Burnside went to bed as soon as he arrived at his after the battle I had four interviews with Burnside. The first was on Sunday, the 14th of Decembhe fate of soldiers and changed the subject. Burnside also said that he did not lead the Ninth Corp[18 more...]
John Gibbon (search for this): chapter 2.20
under Meade, which was to be supported by the division of Gibbon on the right and next to the Sixth Corps. The Third divis batteries, and Meade pushed on, supported on his right by Gibbon, and, after severe fighting, carried the crest, capturing rs. In the dense woods on the height, the connection with Gibbon A Jack-knife record on the Stone wall of the Bernard Hou Meade, after a stubborn contest, was finally driven back, Gibbon yet holding his ground. Two regiments from the Third Corps arriving were sent to Gibbon's left, but were soon overpowered, and they were forced back with Gibbon. The enemy made a sGibbon. The enemy made a strong show of following up their success, but the arrival of two fresh brigades from the Third Corps checked them and drove them back to their sheltered positions. Gibbon's division, after its retreat, was relieved by Sickles's division of the Thidvance. the military reader will see that had Meade and Gibbon had behind them, when they carried the enemy's lines, the
George G. Meade (search for this): chapter 2.20
at 8:30 A. M., with his center division under Meade, which was to be supported by the division of , under Doubleday, was in reserve and guarding Meade's left. it came into action shortly after MMeade's advance, to repel a threatened attack from a large force of cavalry which developed between eft and the Massaponax Creek.--W. B. Franklin. Meade crossed the ravine in his front, and directed the crest was silenced by three batteries, and Meade pushed on, supported on his right by Gibbon, atone wall of the Bernard House. was lost, and Meade, after a stubborn contest, was finally driven heir extreme right, having a reverse fire upon Meade, when he advanced up the crest, maintained theance. the military reader will see that had Meade and Gibbon had behind them, when they carried d we had gained no important advance. after Meade's division had been withdrawn from the front hed at Fredericksburg. From a photograph. Meade, who was still at headquarters, was expressing
William B. Franklin (search for this): chapter 2.20
pied Fredericksburg without opposition, had his orders justified him in crossing the river.--W. B. Franklin. General Burnside opened the conference by stating that within a few days he proposed too which we thought he had assented, or that no serious attack was to be made from the left.--W. B. Franklin. the Sixth Corps had two divisions in line and one in reserve. It remained in an exposeck from a large force of cavalry which developed between our left and the Massaponax Creek.--W. B. Franklin. Meade crossed the ravine in his front, and directed his course toward a point of woods comioward the pontoon-bridges between two soldiers, and he was not seen again in that vicinity.--W. B. Franklin. during this day, as in all days of battle, many sad and many humorous incidents occurreridges gave the enemy time to accumulate his forces before he was able to order the attack.--W. B. Franklin. at the fourth interview he stated that the mistake was that Franklin did not get the or
James A. Hardie (search for this): chapter 2.20
t do you attribute his failure to accomplish that? A. to the great strength of the position, and the accumulation of the enemy's forces there. General Burnside then explained that the delay in building the bridges gave the enemy time to accumulate his forces before he was able to order the attack.--W. B. Franklin. at the fourth interview he stated that the mistake was that Franklin did not get the order early enough; that he had started it at 4 o'clock in the morning, but that General Hardie, to whom the order was committed, had stopped an hour and a half in camp to get breakfast. I then told him that we should have had the order before midnight in order to form such a column of attack as we had proposed. for a few days General Burnside was dazed by the defeat and grief-stricken at the loss of life; but he soon recovered, and planned and attempted to carry out his harmless mud campaign, his last at the head of the army of the Potomac. Traffic between the lines during
John F. Reynolds (search for this): chapter 2.20
5 o'clock, the First Corps, under Major-General John F. Reynolds, marched to take position at the be enemy. the First Corps, under Major-General John F. Reynolds, followed the Sixth, and, forming such circumstances. General Franklin, General Reynolds, and myself were on the most intimate soceneral interest to the command, and after General Reynolds had placed his Corps in position we met a that flank. Besides this we had in front of Reynolds open country of sufficient width to turn the d soon be received, General Franklin gave General Reynolds and myself orders to do all the preliminaitless manner until about 3 o'clock, when General Reynolds said: I know I have hard work ahead of me pass below Smithfield,--a hamlet occupied by Reynolds on the previous evening,--to seize if possibland rifle-pits. in obedience to his orders Reynolds moved to the attack at 8:30 A. M., with his cnd of the army. in the third interview General Reynolds was with me. Burnside said that the men o[1 more...]
David B. Birney (search for this): chapter 2.20
h terminated to the right of the Richmond road. about 5 P. M. General Burnside came to the left wing, and after he had taken a hurried gallop along the lines General Franklin asked him to go to his tent, and there gave him the above-described plan as the only one that in our judgment offered a fair hope of success. When General Burnside left us we were all of the opinion that he agreed with us, and the last request, urgently pressed upon him, was that he should at once give the order for Birney's and Sickles's divisions of the Third Corps (Hooker's center Grand division) to cross the bridge and be ready to begin to relieve the Sixth Corps in the lines at dusk. Under the supposition that the orders asked for would soon be received, General Franklin gave General Reynolds and myself orders to do all the preliminary work possible; which being done, we returned to General Franklin's headquarters to await the arrival of the messenger from General Burnside. As the precious time passed b
Fielding Mansfield (search for this): chapter 2.20
ween which and the top of his head there must have been little space. During one of the feeble, skirmishing attacks made on the lines of the Sixth Corps later in the day, Brigadier-General George D. Bayard, killed at Fredericksburg. From a photograph. Meade, who was still at headquarters, was expressing great uneasiness lest the enemy should break through and capture the bridges. General Franklin quieted him by saying that the Sixth Corps could not be driven from its position. Mansfield, as the Bernard house was called, was a large, stone mansion, that looked down on the Rappahannock River close beneath it, and was approached by an imposing drive, while behind was an open grove of magnificent trees; in this grove was the headquarters of General Franklin. The house was evidently one of Virginia's ancestral homes, and had been in former days the center of generous hospitality. Though under artillery fire, it was used as a temporary hospital, and in it the brave Bayard die
December 10th (search for this): chapter 2.20
about my change of plan. I will make it known at the proper time. though General Franklin and myself were on the most intimate terms, and occupied the same tent, I gave him no hint of the change. Two or three days before the movement General Franklin was notified of the point selected for his crossing, and I then told him the story of the change of plan. he merely said, your command is the strongest, and you must take the advance. as I remember, it was on the afternoon of the 10th of December that General Franklin received an order to have the head of his command at a designated point on the river, about one and a half miles below Fredericksburg, and since known as Franklin's crossing, at daylight on the morning of the 11th, where he would at once begin crossing by bridges which would be found ready. on the morning of the 11th of December, at 5 o'clock, the First Corps, under Major-General John F. Reynolds, marched to take position at the bridges, and cover the crossing o
December 14th (search for this): chapter 2.20
floated a scattered pack of cards. The soldier, hearing the shouts of laughter, turned over to see what was the matter, and when he saw the mishap which had befallen him made a feeble effort to join in the laugh. between 1 and 2 A. M. Of December 14th a council of war of the From a photograph. killed at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. see p. 141. Grand division commanders was ordered, and General Burnside announced his intention of leading the Ninth Corps (his old command) in an of the river, and what remained of the forty thousand men of that command recrossed during the night without loss and without molestation from the enemy. after the battle I had four interviews with Burnside. The first was on Sunday, the 14th of December. I found him alone in his tent walking up and down, apparently in great distress of mind, and turning to me he said, oh! those men! oh! those men! I asked what he meant, and he said, those men over there! pointing across the river where
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