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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The surrender at Appomattox Court House. (search)
e hotel, and he had spoken with them as well as with Wright about sending some communication to Lee that might pave the way to the stopping of further bloodshed. Dr. Smith, formerly of the regular army, a native of Virginia and a relative of General Ewell, now one of our prisoners, had told General Grant the night before that Ewell had said in conversation that their cause was lost when they crossed the James River, and he considered that it was the duty of the authorities to negotiate for peaEwell had said in conversation that their cause was lost when they crossed the James River, and he considered that it was the duty of the authorities to negotiate for peace then, while they still had a right to claim concessions, adding that now they were not in condition to claim anything. He said that for every man killed after this somebody would be responsible, and it would be little better than murder. He could not tell what General Lee would do, but he hoped he would at once surrender his army. This statement, together with the news that had been received from Sheridan saying that he had heard that General Lee's trains of provisions which had come by r
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
es), Col. Robert E. Bowen; Palmetto (S. C.) Sharp-shooters, Capt. Alfred H. Foster. Kershaw's division, During the retreat Kershaw's and G. W. C. Lee's divisions, with other troops from the defenses of Richmond, were commanded by Lieut.-Gen. Richard S. Ewell. Maj.-Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw. Du Bose's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Dudley M. Du Bose, Capt. J. F. Espy: 16th Ga., Lieut. W. W. Montgomery; 18th Ga., Capt. J. F. Espy, Lieut. G. J. Lasseter; 24th Ga., Capt. J. A. Jarrard; 3d Ga. Batt'n Shard commanders is mainly compiled, viz.: Cabell's of the First Corps, Nelson's of the Second Corps, Lane's and Eshleman's of the Third Corps, and Sturdivant's of Anderson's Corps. There were also some forces from the defenses of Richmond, known as Ewell's Reserve Corps, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Thomas J. Spencer, which are not embraced in the foregoing list. The loss of Lee's army in killed and wounded is not known. The number paroled at Appomattox was, of infantry, 22,349; cavalry, 1559; ar
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 8: the siege and capture of Fort Donelson. (search)
n defense of their country. In the Capitol were stores of correspondence and other papers captured from Pillow and his fellow-traitors, and these were placed at the disposal of the author, who also had the good fortune to meet in Nashville General Ewell, one of the most estimable of the Confederates who took up arms against the Government, as a man and as a military leader. He kindly allowed him to make abstracts of his later reports, in manuscript, concerning operations in the Shenandoah Vernment, as a man and as a military leader. He kindly allowed him to make abstracts of his later reports, in manuscript, concerning operations in the Shenandoah Valley, in which he and Stonewall Jackson were associated, and also furnished him with information relative to the evacuation of Richmond, and the destruction of a great portion of it by fire immediately succeeding that event, when Ewell was in command of the post. That subject will be considered hereafter. Tail-piece — bomb-shel
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 14: movements of the Army of the Potomac.--the Monitor and Merrimack. (search)
econnoissance of the corps of Howard and Sumner toward the Rappahannock, George Stoneman. moved back to Alexandria. Stoneman's advance retired at the same time, followed some distance, in spite of mud and weather, by the cavalry of Stuart and Ewell, a battery of artillery, and some infantry. Stoneman's report to General McClellan, March 16, 1862. Then the Confederates moved leisurely on and encamped, first behind the Rappahannock, and then in a more eligible position beyond the Rapid Annpontoon bridges, telegraph materials, and an immense amount of equipage. The only loss sustained in this work of transportation consisted of S mules and 9 barges, the cargoes of the latter being saved. The movements of Stonewall Jackson, General Ewell, and other active commanders in the Upper Valley of the Shenandoah and its vicinity, had made it important to strengthen Fremont in the Mountain Department, and for that purpose Blenker's division of ten thousand men was withdrawn from the Ar
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 15: the Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula. (search)
an exciting race in that Valley Jackson and Ewell hard pressed, 395. battle of Cross Keys, 396.e the dawn. The equally vigilant Banks Richard S. Ewell. was on the alert, and at daylight his t about to retreat, Colonel Crutchfield came to Ewell with orders from Jackson to fall back to Newtois evident from the manuscript daily record of Ewell's brigade, consulted by the writer, that to Ewmen, who were made prisoners. The record of Ewell's Adjutant, mentioned in note 1, page 891, wasback, at the moment when Milroy had penetrated Ewell's center, and was almost up to his guns. Thatle settlement was known as the Cross Keys. Ewell, whose position was an excellent one, intendedh, and was occupying the town when Fremont and Ewell were fighting at Cross Keys. The vanguard of ed Jackson, for he would have cut him off from Ewell, who was fighting Fremont a few miles distant.ial new bridge on the site of the one fired by Ewell's rear-guard. After spending a little time th[10 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 16: the Army of the Potomac before Richmond. (search)
was necessarily detained to fight Jackson and Ewell, and to watch an active foe beyond the Rapid Ay as if McDowell was with him, and Jackson and Ewell were confronting that soldier on the Chickahomhat large forces, supposed to be Jackson's and Ewell's, forced his advance from Charlestown to-day.f Richmond, for word had come that Jackson and Ewell had just been fighting Fremont and Shields neaus thing to do at that crisis, for Jackson and Ewell had crossed the Beaver Dam Creek above, cut ofn the extreme left. of the Confederate line. Ewell's division, in the mean time, came into actionrces on flank and rear; and he sent Stuart and Ewell to seize the railway and cut McClellan's commuformed his line with the divisions of Jackson, Ewell, Whiting, and D. H. Hill, on the left (a large portion of Ewell's in reserve), and those of Magruder and Huger on the right, while A. P. Hill's ainent Professor B. S. Ewell (brother of General R. S. Ewell), the President of William and Mary Col
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 18: Lee's invasion of Maryland, and his retreat toward Richmond. (search)
But Miles did no such thing. At nine o'clock that night he allowed his cavalry, two thousand strong, under Colonel Davis, to depart, and before morning eleven of Ewell's guns were taken across the Shenandoah, and so planted as to assail the National batteries on Bolivar Heights, in reverse. At dawn no less than nine batteries op thickly in the morning with standing corn. Hood had been withdrawn during the night, and his troops had been replaced by the brigades of Lawton and Trimble, of Ewell's corps, with Jackson's Stonewall brigade under D. R. Jones, supported by the remaining brigades of Ewell. Jackson, surrounded by the remnant of his old command, Ewell. Jackson, surrounded by the remnant of his old command, was in charge of the Confederate left. That remnant, according to his report, was not more than 4,000 strong, it having been almost. decimated by fighting from the Rapid Anna to the Potomac, and by straggling in Maryland. In this encounter the Confederate leaders Lawton and Jones were wounded, and Early took the place of the f
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 258 (search)
Alexander R. Lawton, Georgia, commanding Coast of Georgia. 10. Those having a * affixed are dead, or have resigned since the commencement of the war. Gideon J. Pillow, Tennessee, Kentucky. 11. Samuel R. Anderson, Tennessee, Kentucky. 12. Daniel S. Donelson, Tennessee, Coast of South Carolina. 13. David R. Jones, South Carolina, Army of Potomac. 14. Jones M. Withers, Alabama, commanding Coast of Alabama. 15. John C. Pemberton, Virginia, Coast of South Carolina. 16. Richard S. Ewell, Virginia, Army of Potomac. 17. John H. Winder, Maryland, Richmond. 18. Jubal A. Early, Virginia, Army of Potomac. 19. Thomas B. Flournoy, Arkansas, died in Arkansas. 20. Samuel Jones, Virginia, Army of Potomac. 21. Arnold Elzey, Maryland, Army of Potomac. 22. Daniel H. Hill, North Carolina, Army of Potomac. 23. Henry H. Sibley, Louisiana, Texas frontier. 24. William H. C. Whiting, Georgia, Army of Potomac. 25. William H. Loring, North Carolina, Western Virgin
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
ographical Engineer, afterward commanded the Confederate forces at the first battle of Bull Run, July, 1861; also commanded the Confederate forces opposing General Sherman's March to Atlanta, 1865. George G. Meade, second lieutenant Topographical Engineers, afterward commanded the Army of the Potomac at the battle of Gettysburg, July, 1863. John Pope, second lieutenant Topographical Engineers, afterward commanded the Federal forces at the battle of Cedar Mountain, August, 1862. Richard S. Ewell, first lieutenant First Regiment of Dragoons, afterward commanded the Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, at the battle of Gettysburg. George Stoneman, second lieutenant First Regiment of Dragoons, afterward commanded the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac in the campaign known as Stoneman's cavalry raid, May, 1863. Alfred Pleasanton, second lieutenant Second Regiment of Dragoons, afterward chief of cavalry Army of the Potomac, at the battle of Gettysburg. Abner Doubleday,
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
rn, are in the Valley of the Shenandoah, occupying the line they did when McClellan crossed the Potomac last fall. We cannot learn that any great force has crossed into Maryland or Pennsylvania. Should this prove true, we shall have to go to the valley after them. Aldie, June 20, 1863. We came here yesterday afternoon to sustain Pleasanton, who has had several brilliant skirmishes with the enemy's cavalry in this vicinity, and who thought they were bringing up infantry. To-day we hear Ewell has crossed the Potomac at Williamsport. This indicates an invasion of Maryland, of which I have hitherto been skeptical. If this should prove true, we will have to rush after them. I had almost rather they would come here and save us marches. I am in pretty good spirits—a little disgusted at the smallness of my corps, only ten thousand men, but I believe they will do as much as any equal numbers. camp at Aldie, Va., June 23, 1863. Yesterday General Pleasanton drove the enemy's cava
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