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Charles E. Morgan (search for this): chapter 1.5
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 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—<
T. S. Garnett (search for this): chapter 1.5
ted 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 Ellett. Treasurer—Private Robert J. Bosher. Executive Committee-Colonel W. E. Cutshaw (chairman), Private J. T. Gray, Captain E. P. Reeve, Captain John Cussons, and Captain W. Gordon McCabe. On motion, the meeting adjourned. [From the Richmond, Va., Star, December 7
Lindsay Walker (search for this): chapter 1.5
Lynchburg, and several train loads of supplies sent to feed Lee's army. Our infantry was not yet up, and worn and scattered as the troops were after a long march, it was impossible to concentrate sufficient force to attack that night. General Lindsay Walker's artillery was attacked on the evening of the 8th near Appomattox Station, but the attack was repulsed. Some of the enemy's cavalry dashed in that same evening near the Courthouse, but were held in check by some of our cavalry. Whatever and the losses were 12,000, it would leave Lee, 24,000 of his line of battle strength of all arms on the day of the surrender. Deduct from this number forty-seven hundred for artillery and cavalry, and it would give Lee 19,300, or if we include Walker's command, 20,700 infantry on the morning of the surrender. Is it any wonder that more than half of this number had not the strength to bear their muskets? It must be remembered, also, that the greater portion of Lee's troops had been fighting
Alexander (search for this): chapter 1.5
d duty left 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 prevent
McLaughlin (search for this): chapter 1.5
he battle near Cemetery Heights, concurred with Gordon that the troops must be speedily withdrawn, and the latter dispatched a staff officer to the different commanders to direct their men to run back in squads and get into the Confederate lines as best they could. This was effected without any counter attack in front of Steadman. The Confederate loss in this battle was nearly 3,500, and the enemy's a little over 1,000. General Gordon captured and brought back 560 men, including Brigadier General McLaughlin, and two Coehorn mortars. Thus failed a brilliant stroke which promised great results. The troops had fought with vigor and determination, and the failure of the attack was due to untoward circumstances or chance, which cannot always be guarded against in war. The Behavior of the troops. A Northern and a Southern writer both take a different view of the conduct of the troops here and assert that it demonstrated a loss of their old time fire and vigor, and that they could n
David Minton Wright (search for this): chapter 1.5
weak on our right, furiously attacked the Confederate lines at several places, but with the exception of the capture of an entrenched picket line in front of General Wright's corps met with little success. Our loss in these affairs was about one thousand, and the enemy's is believed to be about the same. The situation of the cret march on the night of the 27th and took position in the rear of the Second corps, relieving it from its position in the trenches. The Sixth corps, under General Wright, numbering over 19,000 men, and the Ninth corps, under General Parke, of about the same strength, remained in the trenches south of Petersburg, with instructthe trenches in the Petersburg lines was now a mere picket line, the men being from five to seven yards apart, and at dawn on Sunday, the 2d, Grant ordered Parke, Wright and Ord to assault. With the exception of three places in front of Petersburg, Gordon held his lines, but the sixth and second corps brushed through the cob-web
Lincoln (search for this): chapter 1.5
esentative government in carrying on a long war of invasion. Such crises more than once threatened to bring invasion to a halt, during the last two years of the war. In 1863 there was intense opposition to the draft and the methods of President Lincoln's administration, both in the East and in the West. The terrible draft riots in New York city occurred while Meade was yet about Gettysburg. Had he been defeated there, the Government would have been compelled to call back its invading con. All sources show that at this time there was great danger of a complete collapse of the war spirit of the North, and if the military successes at Atlanta and Winchester and Cedar Creek in September and October had not opportunely come to Mr. Lincoln's rescue just before the presidential election of November following, the Peace Party would have prevailed. Indeed, even after the fall of Atlanta, if Early, whose army had so nearly crushed Sheridan's on the 19th of October, had been able to
Washburn (search for this): chapter 1.5
s of the war, compelled to surrender. Ewell had about 9,000 men all told, and about 6,000 of these were killed, wounded or captured, including General Ewell and five other general officers made prisoners. General Read, of Ord's staff, with Colonel Washburn and a force of eighty cavalry and about 500 infantry, had been sent to destroy the high bridge, but they were intercepted about mid-day on the 6th by Rosser and Munford, and after a severe fight, in which Read and Washburn were killed and a Washburn were killed and a number of the men also, the remainder surrendered. Gordon's command reached this side of High Bridge, near Farmville, that night. Longstreet, whose command had halted all that day at Rice's Station to enable the other corps to unite with them, marched that night on Farmville, and on the morning of the 7th, moved out on the road, passing through Appomattox Courthouse and Lynchburg. Here rations were issued for the first time since the 2d April. The advance of the enemy was so close that t
Ulysses S. Grant (search for this): chapter 1.5
fficial record it appears that in March, 1865, Grant had: Present for duty—officers, 5,288; enlistee sickness in proportion in Lee's army than in Grant's. General Lee himself gives a vivid and satain from every quarter of the globe to add to Grant's magazines; while it floated a powerful navy racy. His design was, if possible, to destroy Grant's left wing, or failing in that, to make him st could leave as strong a force as Lee had, in Grant's works, which were stronger than Lee's, and through the lines to seek an interview with General Grant, and Gordon thereupon sent flags which Shee tree, and the tender by Lee of his sword and Grant's refusal to receive it. Whether he fought d not over fifty thousand men of all arms when Grant commenced operations on the 29th of March. Leume III., page 607. He says Lee, when asked by Grant the number of rations needed for his army, repd ensure the defeat of Sherman. A week before Grant had written Sherman about reinforcing him, con[61 more...]
Coehorn (search for this): chapter 1.5
hts, concurred with Gordon that the troops must be speedily withdrawn, and the latter dispatched a staff officer to the different commanders to direct their men to run back in squads and get into the Confederate lines as best they could. This was effected without any counter attack in front of Steadman. The Confederate loss in this battle was nearly 3,500, and the enemy's a little over 1,000. General Gordon captured and brought back 560 men, including Brigadier General McLaughlin, and two Coehorn mortars. Thus failed a brilliant stroke which promised great results. The troops had fought with vigor and determination, and the failure of the attack was due to untoward circumstances or chance, which cannot always be guarded against in war. The Behavior of the troops. A Northern and a Southern writer both take a different view of the conduct of the troops here and assert that it demonstrated a loss of their old time fire and vigor, and that they could no longer be depended upon f
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