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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter I (search)
ration from further solicitude for the safety of the Maryland and Pennsylvania borders. The President's appreciation of the victory was expressed in a despatch so like Mr. Lincoln that I give a fac-simile of it to the reader. This he supplemented by promoting me to the grade of brigadier-general in the regular army, and assigning me to the permanent command of the Middle Military Department, and following that came warm congratulations from Mr. Stanton and from Generals Grant, Sherman, and Meade. The battle was not fought out on the plan in accordance with which marching orders were issued to my troops, for I then hoped to take Early in detail, and with Crook's force cut off his retreat. I adhered to this purpose during the early start of the contest, but was obliged to abandon the idea because of unavoidable delays by which I was prevented from getting the Sixth and Nineteenth corps through the narrow defile and into position early enough to destroy Ramseur while still isolate
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter III (search)
pper Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and this alone would probably take the whole of Crook's command, leaving me a wholly inadequate number of fighting men to prosecute a campaign against the city of Richmond. Then, too, I was in doubt whether the besiegers could hold the entire army at Petersburg; and in case they could not, a number of troops sufficient to crush me might be detached by Lee, moved rapidly by rail, and, after overwhelming me, be quickly returned to confront General Meade. I was moreover, that my transportation could not supply me further than Harrisonburg, and if in penetrating the Blue Ridge I met with protracted resistance, a lack of supplies might compel me to abandon the attempt at a most inopportune time. I therefore advised that the Valley campaign be terminated north of Staunton, and I be permitted to return, carrying out on the way my original instructions for desolating the Shenandoah country so as to make it untenable for permanent occupa
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter V (search)
ver. When I joined the General he informed me that the President was on board the boat — the steamer Mary Martin. For some days Mr. Lincoln had been at City Point, established on the steamer River Queen, having come down from Washington to be nearer his generals, no doubt, and also to be conveniently situated for the reception of tidings from the front when operations began, for he could not endure the delays in getting news to Washington. This trip up the James had been projected by General Meade, but on account of demands at the front he could not go, so the President, General Grant, and I composed the party. We steamed up to where my cavalry was crossing on the pontoon-bridge below the mouth of the Dutch Gap canal, and for a little while watched the column as it was passing over the river, the bright sunshine presaging good weather, but only to delude, as was proved by the torrents of rain brought by the succeeding days of March. On the trip the President was not very cheerfu
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter VI (search)
, just as we desired, and the general-in-chief realized this the moment he received the first report of my situation; General Meade appreciated it too from the information he got from Captain Sheridan, en route to army headquarters with the first tiay, and take the force threatening Sheridan in rear at Dinwiddie, and move on the enemy's rear with the other two. G. G. Meade, Major-General. An hour later General Grant replied in these words: headquarters armies of the United States, Dabney's Mills, March 31, 1865, 10:15 P. M. Major-General Meade, Commanding Army of the Potomac. Let Warren move in the way you propose, and urge him not to stop for anything. Let Griffin go on as he was first directed. Griffin had been orderech along Stony Creek, meanwhile, to be utilized as circumstances might require when Warren attacked. The order of General Meade to Warren the night of March 31-a copy being sent me also — was positive in its directions, but as midnight came with
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter VII (search)
, followed by the Sixth, joining us then. General Meade arrived atJettersville an hour earlier, bu again make our pursuit a stern-chase; but General Meade, whose plan of attack was to advance his right. Taking me with him, we went over to see Meade, whom he then directed to advance early in the was moving right then. On this same occasion Meade expressed a desire to have in the proposed attt to him. When, on the morning of the 6th, Meade advanced toward Amelia Court House, he found, I did not permit the cavalry to participate in Meade's useless advance, but shifted it out toward t line had been received, for I not being under Meade's command, he had paid no attention to my move. Price gave the story of the battle, and General Meade, realizing its importance, sent directionsed. Wright could not do else than comply with Meade's orders in the case, and I, being then in ign, but his purpose was partly frustrated by General Meade's action next morning in assuming directio[3 more...]
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter VIII (search)
other side of the bivouac was a line of battle — a heavy rear-guard-confronting, presumably, General Meade. I decided to attack at once, and formations were ordered at a trot for a charge by Custo brought with him a despatch, the duplicate of one that had been sent General Grant through General Meade's lines back on the road over which Lee had been retreating. General Longstreet renewed pomattox Court House was quiet, for inevitable surrender was at hand, but Longstreet feared that Meade, in ignorance of the new conditions on my front might attack the Confederate rearguard. To prevent this I offered to send Colonel J. W. Forsyth through the enemy's lines to let Meade know of my agreement, for he too was suspicious that by a renewed correspondence Lee was endeavoring to gain ticonsequence of a message from General Grant consenting to the interview asked for by Lee through Meade's front that morning — the consent having been carried by Colonel Babcock. When I entered Mc
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter IX (search)
the Republic. The surrender at Appomattox put a stop to all military operations on the part of General Grant's forces, and the morning of April 10 my cavalry began its march to Petersburg, the men anticipating that they would soon be mustered out and returned to their homes. At Nottoway Court House I heard of the assassination of the President. The first news came to us the night after the dastardly deed, the telegraph operator having taken it from the wires while in transmission to General Meade. The despatch ran that Mr. Lincoln had been shot at 10 o'clock that morning at Willard's Hotel, but as I could conceive of nothing to take the President there I set the story down as a canard, and went to bed without giving it further thought. Next morning, however, an official telegram confirmed the fact of the assassination, though eliminating the distorted circumstances that had been communicated the night before. When we reached Petersburg my column was halted, and instructions
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
. the turning column, composed of the corps of Meade (Fifth), Howard (Eleventh), and Slocum (Twelftour the divisions of Griffin and Humphreys, of Meade's (Fifth) corps pushed out on the left toward Church, two miles west of Chancellorsville. Meade's corps, with a division of Couch's, formed th, was Reynolds's corps. On the National left, Meade's corps, with their faces toward Fredericksburs did not receive the needed re-enforcements. Meade was occupied by a force menacing his front. RMcLaws upon Darius N. Couch. Slocum and Meade. McLaws, pressing along the plank road from the direction of Fredericksburg, attacked Meade, when the skirmish line of Hancock's division repuls house. On this line were the fresh troops of Meade and Reynolds, which had not been called into terred with five of his corps commanders Generals Meade, Reynolds, Howard, Couch, and Sickles. Sloo judge. On the 15th of February, 1865, General Meade wrote to General Peck, saying: That with t[3 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
r and Lee, 52. the armies flanking the Blue Ridge a raid into Pennsylvania, 53. alarm in Pennsylvania Lee's errand and orders, 54. preparations for opposing Lee alarm in Philadelphia, 55. Lee's Army across the Potomac Hooker superseded by Meade, 56. Meade invested with discretionary powers Lee's March of invasion checked, 57. preparations for battle cavalry battle at Hanover, 58. the hostile armies concentrating at Gettysburg opening of the contest at Gettysburg, 59. death of GenMeade invested with discretionary powers Lee's March of invasion checked, 57. preparations for battle cavalry battle at Hanover, 58. the hostile armies concentrating at Gettysburg opening of the contest at Gettysburg, 59. death of General Reynolds, 60. battle of Seminary Ridge, 61. defeat of the Nationals, 62. preparations for renewing the struggle, 63. position of the opposing armies at Gettysburg, 64. perilous situation of the National left, 65. a struggle for little Round Top, 66. death of Generals Vincent and Weed, 67. battle of Gettysburg, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, and 73. flight of the Confederates, 74. they escape into Virginia, 75. the author's visit to the battle-field at Gettysburg, 76, 77, 78, 79. soldier's
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 14: in command of the Army of the James. (search)
und as unprepared for attack as it had been reported, I desired that Lee might be detained from sending any part of his army to Richmond, and asked that the Army of the Potomac lying in front of Lee might make a movement upon him as a feint. General Meade being sick, General Sedgwick, who was in command, was ordered to co-operate with me. But after considerable correspondence he telegraphed that he could not get ready in time. On the 4th of March I received notice that General Kilpatrick haign. It will thus be seen that my opinion, given to the War Department upon taking command of this department, that Plymouth and Washington were worse than useless to us, was unhappily verified. On the 9th of April, General Grant wrote to General Meade a letter See Appendix No. 17. in which he set out his whole plan of campaign, which shows how fully at that time the plan of my operations became a fixed fact, and further, how fully it was determined that General Grant should strike the l
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