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Mount Airy (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
It was ascertained that Stuart was tearing up the tracks near Hood's Mill, the next station east of Woodbine, and that he was moving northward. Information was sent to headquarters, and by 4 o'clock P. M. Gregg's division was concentrated at Mount Airy, north of Ridgeville, where it was supplied with a scanty allowance of rations and forage. Five o'clock found it on the march for Westminster, with the 3d Pennsylvania of McIntosh's brigade in advance. Having been on almost continuous duty, nuiry it was ascertained that these had in a similar manner been open the day before for the reception of Stuart and his men. At Manchester a halt of a few hours was made, during which the men consumed what was left of the rations procured at Mount Airy, gave their horses the last grain of feed they had with them, and obtained a little sleep. Mounting again we moved north along the Carlisle pike for half a mile, and then by the Grove Mill road to Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania, on the Norther
Hanover Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
e houses remained closed, and upon inquiry it was ascertained that these had in a similar manner been open the day before for the reception of Stuart and his men. At Manchester a halt of a few hours was made, during which the men consumed what was left of the rations procured at Mount Airy, gave their horses the last grain of feed they had with them, and obtained a little sleep. Mounting again we moved north along the Carlisle pike for half a mile, and then by the Grove Mill road to Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania, on the Northern Central Railroad, where we arrived during the forenoon of July 1st. Our movements at this place illustrate to some extent the uncertainties of the campaign. After a short delay General Gregg received an order to proceed south toward Baltimore. Scarcely was the division drawn out on the road when a second order came directing him to turn about and move north as rapidly as possible toward York. Just as we were starting in the latter direction the final o
York, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
pike for half a mile, and then by the Grove Mill road to Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania, on the Northern Central Railroad, where we arrived during the forenoon of July 1st. Our movements at this place illustrate to some extent the uncertainties of the campaign. After a short delay General Gregg received an order to proceed south toward Baltimore. Scarcely was the division drawn out on the road when a second order came directing him to turn about and move north as rapidly as possible toward York. Just as we were starting in the latter direction the final order came to send Huey's brigade back to Manchester, Maryland, and to march with McIntosh's and Irvin Gregg's brigades west-ward to Gettysburg. After losing some valuable time in consequence of these conflicting orders, we (McIntosh's and Gregg's brigades) advanced over a crooked road to Hanover, where we went into bivouac. At Hanover we found the streets barricaded with boxes, old carriages and wagons, hay, ladders, barbers' p
Taneytown (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
upon Lee's advancing columns, and committed the Union army to battle at Gettysburg. The reports which, at noon of the 1st of July, reached the new commander at Taneytown, brought news that Reynolds had fallen, together with intimations of disaster to his adventurous column. The first act of General Meade, as commander-in-chief iast-indicated advantage certainly is fictitious. Why should the transmission of orders to the more distant points have been more rapid from Gettysburg than from Taneytown? The manner in which the Fifth and Sixth corps were actually brought up showed no loss of time in effecting the concentration of the army. The charge that Meade, in remaining at Taneytown, declined to assume the proper responsibilities of his position, is unfounded and unjust. How could the Union commander know that he might not the very next hour hear of a collision at some other point? His true place, until he had made up his mind where to concentrate, was the most central point.
Wade Hampton (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
ving. Since the war, while going over the field in company with Mr. Rummel, he told me that he had dragged thirty dead horses out of this lane.--W. E. M. Breathed's battery, unsupported, was only one hundred yards away, but my men were so disabled and scattered that they were unable to take it back. These flank attacks demoralized the Confederate column. Custer and McIntosh, whose tenacity had kept the head of the column at bay, now got the advantage. Many of the enemy had fallen, Wade Hampton was wounded, and at length the enemy turned. Their column was swept back to its starting-point, and the field was ours. After the repulse of the enemy's grand charge, McIntosh took the 1st New Jersey and part of the 3d Pennsylvania and Duvall's troop, and established a skirmish line along Little's Run, by Rummel's spring-house and along his lane toward the cross-road, the field of the hand-to-hand contest thus remaining in our possession. The Confederates established their line along
Frederick, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
detour on the right flank, had taken the direct road from Frederick, and at Hanover had intercepted the line of march of the s and Washington, the right wing of that army lay at Frederick, Maryland, while the left occupied Boonsboro' and Middletown, e corps, however, had been detached, but was returning to Frederick. It is in the disposition General Meade made of this corhe Potomac on the 25th, at Edwards's Ferry, moving toward Frederick and Boonsboro‘. It was this, and only this, which determiMore remains to be said. Meade's movement northward from Frederick, with his whole army, was a severer threat to Lee than a ct enough, provided the bulk of the army was to remain at Frederick; but had the army moved northward while Slocum followed uand more effective plan of moving straight northward from Frederick, instead of persisting in the division of the army which reater concentration to the Confederates. Meade, leaving Frederick on the 29th, moved rapidly northward, extending his wings
Carlisle, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
ir long and painful marches northward, and who threw the veteran corps of the Potomac upon the invading army? Widely spread as the Confederate army was when General Meade took command of the Union forces,--Longstreet at Chambersburg, Ewell at Carlisle and York,--it was a matter of course that the serious collision should be a surprise to one or the other party, and that accident should determine which should encounter its antagonist with the advantage in concentration. It turned out that the that formidable army; nor had the Confederate commander furnished any indication of his purpose. But on the same day, General Lee, having the evening before learned of the crossing of the Potomac by Hooker, recalled his advanced divisions from Carlisle and York, and threw forward Hill and Longstreet, with a view to a concentration at Gettysburg. During the 30th the two armies continued rapidly to approach each other, until, on the morning of the 1st of July, a stunning collision took place be
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
sh's and Irvin Gregg's brigades west-ward to Gettysburg. After losing some valuable time in consequm exhaustion, so that by the time we reached Gettysburg the 3d Pennsylvania did not number three hun in this computation.--editors. Meade at Gettysburg. by Francis A. Walker, Brevet Brigadier-Geneden upon. （Doubleday's Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. ) He adds the opinion that if he (Lee) had ore distant points have been more rapid from Gettysburg than from Taneytown? The manner in which thder the contingency of defeat. Moreover, at Gettysburg there was an especial reason for being prepa of the army or the retreat of the army from Gettysburg, which order was not issued owing simply to ever having had any idea of retreating from Gettysburg, he replied that he did not remember. What rieking with the fire of a hundred guns, and Gettysburg had been fought and won for the Union arms. to fall back to it; right, in pushing up to Gettysburg after the battle commenced; right, in remain[23 more...]
Chester, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
rdered him to return, and at the same time had sent word to Irvin Gregg to concentrate as much of his command as possible in the vicinity of Spangler's house. Custer, eager for the fray, had wheeled about and was soon on the field. Gregg at this juncture appeared and took command in person. Custer, as soon as he arrived, extended the left of the line along Little's Run with a portion of the 6th Michigan, dismounted, and at the same time Randol placed in position to the left and rear of Chester the second section of his battery under Lieutenant Kinney. At this stage the ammunition of that portion of the 3d Pennsylvania which was on the left, and of the 1st New Jersey, began to run short, and the 5th Michigan was ordered to relieve them. The latter was dismounted, and whilst it was moving to the front a dismounted regiment from W. H. F. Lee's brigade came to the support of the Confederate skirmishers. A heated contest followed, in which the 1st New Jersey and the 3d Pennsylvan
Grove Mill (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.57
wever, that some of the houses remained closed, and upon inquiry it was ascertained that these had in a similar manner been open the day before for the reception of Stuart and his men. At Manchester a halt of a few hours was made, during which the men consumed what was left of the rations procured at Mount Airy, gave their horses the last grain of feed they had with them, and obtained a little sleep. Mounting again we moved north along the Carlisle pike for half a mile, and then by the Grove Mill road to Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania, on the Northern Central Railroad, where we arrived during the forenoon of July 1st. Our movements at this place illustrate to some extent the uncertainties of the campaign. After a short delay General Gregg received an order to proceed south toward Baltimore. Scarcely was the division drawn out on the road when a second order came directing him to turn about and move north as rapidly as possible toward York. Just as we were starting in the latter
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