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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
d he would then go straight back to see after Fremont. By ten o'clock of the same day he would meet his retreating skirmish line north of the river, arrest the retrograde movement and be ready, if Fremont had stomach for it, to fight a second pitched battle with his army, more than double the one vanquished in the morning. As to the measure of Shield's disaster, it was to be complete; dispersion and capture of his whole force, with all his material. As Napoleon curtly said at the battle of Rivoli, concerning the Austrian division detached around the mountain to beset his rear: Ils sont á nous; so it seems had Jackson decreed of Shields's men: They belong to us. This the whole disposition of his battle clearly discloses. I have described to you the position which Shields had assumed at Lewiston, with his line stretching from the forest to the river. Behind him were a few more smooth and open fields; and then the wilderness closed in to the river, tangled and trackless, overlooking
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stonewall Jackson. (search)
d he would then go straight back to see after Fremont. By ten o'clock of the same day he would meet his retreating skirmish line north of the river, arrest the retrograde movement and be ready, if Fremont had stomach for it, to fight a second pitched battle with his army, more than double the one vanquished in the morning. As to the measure of Shield's disaster, it was to be complete; dispersion and capture of his whole force, with all his material. As Napoleon curtly said at the battle of Rivoli, concerning the Austrian division detached around the mountain to beset his rear: Ils sont á nous; so it seems had Jackson decreed of Shields's men: They belong to us. This the whole disposition of his battle clearly discloses. I have described to you the position which Shields had assumed at Lewiston, with his line stretching from the forest to the river. Behind him were a few more smooth and open fields; and then the wilderness closed in to the river, tangled and trackless, overlooking
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Winter Campaigns. (search)
to be cured in collation of it. He did not scorn success obtained in the most irregular manner. He made break neck marches through the show, and fought battles when the thermometer was below zero Washington had winter quarters, such as they were, because Howe and Clinian had New York and Philadelphia, and he was obliged to watch them and keep them in check. Had he possessed the means of attacking them. he would have paid no respect to winter quarters as he showed at Trenton and Ponleton During the wars of the French Revolution operations never stopped for the winter innumerable great battles were fought in the dead of winter; as, for instance, Arcole, Rivoli, Hohenlinden, Austerlitz, Eylan, Cormuns, the Beresina, La Rothiere, Brienne, Orthes, Tonlouse, &c. The retreat of Sir John Moore took place in the depth of winter and Mantusa surrendered in February.--In fact the leaders of that day paid no respect to seasons and no respect, as far as we can see, has been paid to them since.
The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], the battle in the Southwest. (search)
him to reinforce them. He placed one body behind the Adige at Segnano, where the strait road crossed to Manitus. He placed another higher up, at Verona, where he had his headquarters. A third was stationed still higher up on the same river, at Rivoli, where the mountain comes sheer down upon the stream, and the lake on the other side washes its foot. He stationed a fourth at Brescia, at the point of the lake, where the road branching out from the Rivoli road comes around the water. As soon Rivoli road comes around the water. As soon as the enemy approached any of these outposts be was apprised of it, and having first discovered which was the real point of attack and which the false, he concentrated his whole force and attacked the enemy, who was obliged, from the nature of the country, to divide his own. In this way he repelled four separate attacks made in five months, and utterly destroyed the armies that made them. In 1814, in Champaigne, he repeated this series of manœuvres, and by means of an interior line was enabled
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