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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The first day at Gettysburg. (search)
r men are nothing, a man is everything. General Meade in the field. From a photograph. Genthe army in front of Washington in ten months. Meade was an excellent officer of long service, who e leader designated by the President, and gave Meade their hearty support. He was succeeded in thet the Federal army had crossed the river, that Meade had relieved Hooker and was at Frederick. Lee near Rock Creek. On the night of June 30th Meade's headquarters and the Artillery Reserve were he map [p. 266] will show at what disadvantage Meade's army was now placed. Lee's whole army was nearing Gettysburg, while Meade's was scattered over a wide region to the east and south of that town. Meade was now convinced that all designs on the Susquehanna had been abandoned; but as Lee's orders were afterward cited as indicating General Meade's intention not to fight at Gettysburg. Tcoming up from the town, under orders from General Meade to assume the command. His person was wel[5 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.39 (search)
pproached at a swinging gallop. When near General Howard, who was then alone, he saluted, and with great animation, as if there was no time for ceremony, said General Meade had sent him forward to take command of the three corps. General Howard replied that he was the senior. General Hancock said: I am aware of that, General, but I have written orders in my pocket from General Meade, which I will show you if you wish to see them. General Howard said: No; I do not doubt your word, General Hancock, but you can give no orders here while I am here. Hancock replied: Very well, General Howard, I will second any order that you have to give, but General Meade haGeneral Meade has also directed me to select a field on which to fight this battle in rear of Pipe Creek. Then, casting one glance from Culp's Hill to Round Top, he continued: But I think this the strongest position by nature upon which to fight a battle that I ever saw, and if it meets your approbation I will select this as the battle-field. Ge
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Hancock and Howard in the first day's fight. (search)
port which show a determination on the part of Meade to fight at Pipe Creek. General Hancock says: out 11 A. M. I then proceeded in person to General Meade's headquarters, and, on reporting to him, My aide, Major Mitchell, was then sent to General Meade to inform him of the state of affairs, andn miles distant, and reported in person to General Meade. I then ascertained that he had already ghat General Sickles forward my dispatch to General Meade. General Sickles was at that time, about 1ate of things as then existing was sent to General Meade directly. About this time I left my chiefancock came to me about this time and said General Meade had sent him on hearing the state of affaial Hancock repaired to the headquarters of General Meade. The eventful day was over. The First ann on the part of general officers as since General Meade took command. In a resolution dated Jag Washington and Baltimore; and to Major-General George G. Meade, Major-General Oliver O. Howard, a
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Citizens of Gettysburg in the Union army. (search)
General Gordon with his brigade and White's battalion of cavalry on the pike through Cashtown toward Gettysburg, and moved with the rest of the command to the left through Hilltown to Mummasburg. The object of this movement was for Gordon to amuse and skirmish with the enemy while I should get on his flank and rear so as to capture his whole force. We, a few hundred men at the most, were in the toils; what should be done? We would gladly have marched to join the Army of the Potomac, under Meade, but where was it? Our colonel, left to his own resources, wisely decided to make an effort to return to Harrisburg, and immediately struck off from the pike, the Confederates capturing many of our rear-guard after a sharp skirmish, and sending their cavalry in pursuit of us. These latter overtook us in the afternoon at Witmer's house, about four and a half miles from Gettysburg on the Carlisle road, where after an engagement they were repulsed with some loss. After many vicissitudes, we f
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.42 (search)
ep it united, and so starve it, a course which Meade could compel by simple demonstrations. There nt would probably permit. In case of a defeat Meade's line of retreat would be comparatively short was, under the circumstances, a bold one, and Meade, as we shall see, took great risks. We left Trrangements should be made in advance, and General Meade gave instructions for examining the roads ed to headquarters and briefly reported to General Meade that the proposed line was a good one in iace his batteries on the new line. Seeing Generals Meade and Sickles, not far off, in conversation, and supposing that General Meade had consented to the occupation, I sent at once to the reserve fok to cover the ground, and it was too late for Meade to withdraw it. Sykes's Fifth Corps had alreadtified that he went to Little Round Top by General Meade's direction. In a letter dated July 13th,n began in earnest, on July 2d, I was with General Meade, near General Sickles, whose troops seemed[48 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.43 (search)
om army headquarters met General Hancock and myself and summoned us both to General Meade's headquarters, where a council was to be held. We at once proceeded there long march from Manchester; Howard, Eleventh; and Slocum, Twelfth, besides General Meade, General Butterfield, chief of staff; Warren, chief of engineers; A. S. Wileverybody was in favor of remaining where we were and giving battle there. General Meade himself said very little, except now and then to make some comment, but I c that it would, perhaps, be well to formulate the question to be asked, and General Meade assenting he took a piece of paper, on which he had been making some memoraterial variation in the opinion of the members. When the voting was over General Meade said quietly, but decidedly, Such then is the decision ; and certainly he s In 1881 (eighteen years after the battle) I was shown in Philadelphia, by General Meade's son [Colonel George Meade], a paper found amongst General Meade's effects
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Kershaw's brigade at Gettysburg. (search)
, of the divisions of Birney, Barnes, and Caldwell, and of the Second, Third, and Fifth corps. Nowhere have I found any more forcible evidence of the nature and magnitude of this struggle by McLaws's and Hood's divisions than is contained in General Meade's report. He says: About 3 P. M. I rode out to the extreme left. . . . Having found Major-General Sickles, I was explaining to him that he was too far in the advance, and discussing with him the propriety of withdrawing, when the enemyer with a gallant resistance of the Fifth Corps, in checking and finally repulsing the assault of the enemy, who retired in confusion and disorder about sunset, and ceased any further efforts on our extreme left. In a supplementary report, General Meade amended this paragraph so as to include the First Division of the Twelfth Corps. Lockwood's brigade belonged to the Twelfth Corps, unattached.--editors. These mighty shocks of contending armies were sustained, on our part, by two divisio
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Lee's right wing at Gettysburg. (search)
force three or four times their number, General Meade's report shows that all of the Third and pe against troops attacking the Federal front. Meade knew that if the battle was renewed it would bes. As they came back I fully expected to see Meade ride to the front and lead Brigadier-General my mind was relieved of the apprehension that Meade was going to follow us. General Lee came uptch from the Union position. Finding that Meade was not going to follow us, I prepared to withl left on the 1st of July, Halleck telegraphed Meade as follows: Washington, D. C., July 1st,ay, just thirty minutes before my assault, General Meade telegraphed General Halleck at 3 P. M.: en a strong position, we should have dislodged Meade without a single blow; but even if we had been, and still hoped he would be able to dislodge Meade; but he made a mistake in sending such a smallcessful prestige as was that of the Prussians, Meade would have been obliged to attack us wherever [4 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., A reply to General Longstreet. (search)
t gave of the position of the Federal army, decided to follow up the fight. General Longstreet advised a movement across Meade's front to threaten his left and rear. Such a movement would have been difficult in the absence of Stuart; it could not have been executed in the position then occupied by the army with sufficient promptness to surprise Meade; and if successful it simply would have forced the Federal army back to some position nearer Baltimore and Washington where the issue of battle was still to be tried. General Longstreet begs the question when he assumes that Meade would then have been obliged to attack at a disadvantage. General Lee decided that this plan did not promise as good results as to follow up the partial victor, knowing that Lee had decided to attack that part of the Federal army in his front, knowing that every hour strengthened Meade and diminished the chances of Confederate success, and knowing that his corps was to open the battle and deliver the main
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The great charge and artillery fighting at Gettysburg. (search)
o the Potomac, and at night, in a pouring rain and over roads that were almost gulfs of mud, the army followed. Providence had evidently not yet taken a proper view of the situation. We had not finished the war, but had to go back to Virginia and start afresh. Yet the morale of the army seemed not at all affected. The defeat was attributed entirely to the position, and, if anything, it rather gave to the men confidence in what position could do for them if they had it on their side. Had Meade attacked us at Downs-ville, where we were stopped for several days by high water in the Potomac, I believe we should have repulsed him easily, barring exhaustion of ammunition. The retreat was a terrible march for the artillery, crippled as we were by the loss of so many horses in battle, and the giving out of many more on the stony roads for the lack of horseshoes. We were compelled to trespass on the reluctant hospitality of the neighboring farmers, and send squads in every direction t
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