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Palmetto (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ride up to me in that way, I instantly unhooked my belt and sheathing my sword handed it to the General with the assurance that I should be proud if he would accept it, as a token of what I could not then fully set forth in words. He did accept it and outdid me in the expression of sentiments. One of the noble captains (Rehfuss) of the g98th Pennsylvania instantly handed me one that lay on the line we had carried, --I should say, perhaps, he had carried,--and which was a fine sword with a Palmetto engraved scabbard. I took it until our muster out, when I returned it to Captain Rehfuss, with words of remembrance which he seemed to appreciate. This sword of mine has a peculiar history since that time. General Griffin at the close of the war was ordered to a command in Texas, and took this sword with him. Here the yellow fever breaking out he was advised by the War Department to take a leave of absence and return to his home for a season. He declined; saying that his duty was whe
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ns arose like prophecy of old. We felt the swing and sweep; we saw the enemy turned front and flank across the White Oak Road; Sheridan flashing on our wheeling flank, cutting communications, enfilading the Claiborne entrenchments; our Second Corps over the main works, followed up by our troops in the old lines seizing the supreme moment to smash in the Petersburg defenses, scatter and capture all that was left of Lee's army, and sweep away every menace to the old flag between us and the James River,--mirage and glamour of boyish fancy, measuring things by its heart; daydreams of men familiar with disaster, drenched and famished, but building, as ever, castles of their souls above the level river of death. It was with mingled feelings of mortification, apprehension, and desperation that, in the very ecstasy of these visions, word came to us of Sheridan's latest despatch to Grant the evening before, that Pickett's Division of infantry was deployed along the White Oak Road, his rig
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Soon the roar of Gregory's guns rose in the woods like a whirlwind. We sounded bugles Forward! and that way we go; mounted officers leading their commands, pieces at the right shoulder until at close quarters. The action and color of the scene were supported by my horse Charlemagne, who, though battered and torn as I was, insisted on coming up. We belonged together; he knew that as well as I. He had been shot down in battle twice before; but his Morgan endurance was under him, and his Kentucky blood was up. What we had to do could not be done by firing. This was foot-and-hand business. We went with a rush, not minding ranks nor alignments, but with open front to lessen loss from the long-range rifles. Within effective range, about three hundred yards, the sharp, cutting fire made us reel and shiver. Now, quick or never! On and over! The impetuous 185th New York rolls over the enemy's right, and seems to swallow it up; the 198th Pennsylvania, with its fourteen companies
Five Forks (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
's, about one thousand, were also ordered to Five Forks. These reinforcements did not reach Five Fo Sheridan was directed to gain possession of Five Forks early in the morning. We could not help feed time to march from Sutherland's Station to Five Forks, and thence half-way to Dinwiddle Court Houss of infantry and cavalry to Fitzhugh Lee at Five Forks, where they arrived about sunset. What we cridan that he was on the White Oak Road near Five Forks, on the afternoon of the 30th, had replied tng the White Oak Road, his right reaching to Five Forks, and the whole rebel cavalry was massing at n the second of April, after the exigency at Five Forks had called away most of its defenders,--Genehe was attacked, by a dash up between us and Five Forks, we would have swiftly inaugurated the begin single division when he was ordered to take Five Forks on the day before, and was driven back by a good military position to the exposed one at Five Forks, it was good tactics to fall upon them and s[18 more...]
Fulton, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
and Fifth Corps, in which the Army of the James had also to participate somewhat, and the losses were quite severe. This is what was known as the battle of the White Oak Road. Contrasts are sometimes illumining. When our assault on the enemy's right, March 31st, was followed by General Miles' attack on the Claiborne entrenchments on the second of April, after the exigency at Five Forks had called away most of its defenders,--Generals Anderson and Johnson, with Hunton, Wise, Gracie, and Fulton's Brigades being of the number,--and the whole rebel army was demoralized, General Grant, now free to appreciate such action, despatches General Meade at once: Miles has made a big thing of it, and deserves the highest praise for the pertinacity with which he stuck to the enemy until he wrung from him victory. Verily, something besides circumstances can alter cases. The understanding of this affair has been confused by the impression that it was the Second Corps troops which attacked a
Dinwiddie Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Our line is now unbroken from Appomattox to Dinwiddie. I now feel like ending the matter, if possnce toward Five Forks being driven back upon Dinwiddie, for his conduct in which he received only p Road, and holding his main body inactive at Dinwiddie a whole day through. And after Warren had a clandestinely engaged to Philip Sheridan of Dinwiddie. A new anxiety now arose. Just as we haeceding. I believed it was receding towards Dinwiddie; that was what had deepened my thoughts. Teickett's infantry and driven pell-mell into Dinwiddie. He could hardly hold himself there. The pydton Road, to move immediately down towards Dinwiddie. Pearson got to the crossing of the main str Road? Sheridan cannot maintain himself at Dinwiddie without reinforcements, and yours are the on this very day, driven back discomfited into Dinwiddie, he was not blamed; he was praised,--and in esults: one, to let the cavalry linger about Dinwiddie and threaten Lee's communications, so as to [1 more...]
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
epulsing Sheridan towards evening, left the cavalry deployed across his front to baffle his observation, while Pickett should anticipate and forestall the movement of Bartlett's Brigade, and come across conversely from that Crump Road to fall upon our untenable flank position, it would have opened all eyes to the weakness and error of our whole situation. What would have become of us, only some higher power than any there could say. So we part, after this strangely broken acquaintance,--Sheridan, the Fifth Corps, and White Oak Road. Whether the interventions that brought intended purposes and effects to nought were through the agency of supernal or infernal spirits, we must believe that it was by one of those mysterious overrulings of Providence, or what some might call poetic justice, and some the irony of history, that it befell Sheridan to have with him at Five Forks and at Appomattox Court House — not slow nor inconspicuous — the deprecated, but inexpugnable, old Fifth Cor
Hanover Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Chapter 3: the White Oak Road. With customary cognizance of our purposes and plans, Lee had on the 28th of March ordered General Fitzhugh Lee with his division of cavalry — about 1300 strong — from the extreme left of his lines near Hanover Court House, to the extreme right in the vicinity of Five Forks, this being four or five miles beyond Lee's entrenched right, at which point it was thought Sheridan would attempt to break up the Southside Railroad. Longstreet had admonished him that the next move would be on his communications, urging him to put a sufficient force in the field to meet this. Our greater danger, he said, is from keeping too close within our trenches. Manassas to Appomattox, p. 588. Such despatch had Fitzhugh Lee made that on the evening of the twenty-ninth he had arrived at Sutherlands Station, within six miles of Five Forks, and about that distance from our fight that afternoon on the Quaker Road. On the morning of the 29th, Lee had also despatched Gener
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
rong, was sent to the entrenchments along the Claiborne Road, and Roberts's Brigade of North Carolina cavalry, to picket the White Oak Road from the Claiborne, the right of their entrenchments, to Five Forks. On the thirtieth, the Fifth Corps, relieved by the Second, moved to the left along the Boydton Road, advancing its left towards the right of the enemy's entrenchments on the White Oak Road. Lee, also, apprehensive for his right, sent McGowan's South Carolina Brigade and McRae's North Carolina, of Hill's Corps, to strengthen Bushrod Johnson's Division in the entrenchments there; but took two of Johnson's brigades-Ransom's and Wallace's — with three brigades of Pickett's Division (leaving Hunton's in the entrenchments), to go with Pickett to reinforce Fitzhugh Lee at Five Forks. W. H. F. Lee's Division of cavalry, about one thousand five hundred men, and Rosser's, about one thousand, were also ordered to Five Forks. These reinforcements did not reach Five Forks until the eveni
Stuart (search for this): chapter 5
enty-ninth he had arrived at Sutherlands Station, within six miles of Five Forks, and about that distance from our fight that afternoon on the Quaker Road. On the morning of the 29th, Lee had also despatched General R. H. Anderson with Bushrod Johnson's Division- Gracie's, Ransom's, Wise's, and Wallace's Brigades --to reinforce his main entrenchments along the White Oak Road. It was these troops which we had encountered on the Quaker Road. Pickett's Division, consisting of the brigades of Stuart, Hunton, Corse, and Terry, about five thousand strong, was sent to the entrenchments along the Claiborne Road, and Roberts's Brigade of North Carolina cavalry, to picket the White Oak Road from the Claiborne, the right of their entrenchments, to Five Forks. On the thirtieth, the Fifth Corps, relieved by the Second, moved to the left along the Boydton Road, advancing its left towards the right of the enemy's entrenchments on the White Oak Road. Lee, also, apprehensive for his right, sent
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