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March 30th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 30
friends at Five Forks. The rain that had been falling all night gave no sign of stopping, but kept pouring down all day long, and the swamps and quicksands mired the horses, whether they marched in the roads or across the adjacent fields. Undismayed, nevertheless, each column set out for its appointed duty, but shortly after the troops began to move I received from General Grant this despatch, which put a new phase on matters: headquarters armies of the United States, Gravelly Run, March 30, 1865. Major-General Sheridan: The heavy rain of to-day will make it impossible for us to do much until it dries up a little, or we get roads around our rear repaired. You may, therefore, leave what cavalry you deem necessary to protect the left, and hold such positions as you deem necessary for that purpose, and send the remainder back to Humphrey's Station Humphrey's Station was back on the military railroad. where they can get hay and grain. Fifty wagons loaded with forage will be
James Allen (search for this): chapter 30
Third New Jersey, Lieutenant-Colonel William P. Robeson. Second New York, Colonel Alanson M. Randol. Second Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel A. Bayard Nettleton. Second brigade: Colonel William Wells. Eighth New York, Major James Bliss. Fifteenth New York, Colonel John J. Coppinger. First Vermont, Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Hall. Third brigade: Colonel Henry Capehart. First New York, Captain John J. O'Brien. First West Virginia, Captain S. Bentley Howe. Second West Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel James Allen. Third West Virginia, Major John S. Witcher. Second division. （Army of the Potomac.) Major-General George Crook. first brigade: Brigadier-General Henry F. Davies. First New Jersey, Colonel Hugh H. Janeway. Tenth New York, Colonel M. Henry Avery. Twenty-fourth New York, Colonel Walter C. Newberry. First Pennsylvania, Major Hampton S. Thomas. Second United States Artillery, Battery A, Lieutenant James H. Lord. Second brigade: Colonel J. Irvin Gregg. Fourth Pennsylvania, Li
M. Henry Avery (search for this): chapter 30
lonel John J. Coppinger. First Vermont, Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Hall. Third brigade: Colonel Henry Capehart. First New York, Captain John J. O'Brien. First West Virginia, Captain S. Bentley Howe. Second West Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel James Allen. Third West Virginia, Major John S. Witcher. Second division. （Army of the Potomac.) Major-General George Crook. first brigade: Brigadier-General Henry F. Davies. First New Jersey, Colonel Hugh H. Janeway. Tenth New York, Colonel M. Henry Avery. Twenty-fourth New York, Colonel Walter C. Newberry. First Pennsylvania, Major Hampton S. Thomas. Second United States Artillery, Battery A, Lieutenant James H. Lord. Second brigade: Colonel J. Irvin Gregg. Fourth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander P. Duncan. Eighth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel William A. Corrie. Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel John K. Robison. Twenty-first Pennsylvania, Colonel Oliver B. Knowles. First U. S. Artillery, Batteries H and I, Li
Benham (search for this): chapter 30
t.) by the Weldon road and the Jerusalem plank-road, turning west from the latter before crossing the Nottoway, and west with the whole column before reaching Stony Creek. General Sheridan will then move independently under other instructions which will be given him. All dismounted cavalry belonging to the Army of the Potomac, and the dismounted cavalry from the Middle Military Division not required for guarding property belonging to their arm of the service, will report to BrigadierGeneral Benham to be added to the defenses of City Point. When I had gone over the entire letter I showed plainly that I was dissatisfied with it, for, coupled with what the General had outlined orally, which I supposed was the other instructions, I believed it foreshadowed my junction with General Sherman. Rawlins thought so too, as his vigorous language had left no room to doubt, so I immediately began to offer my objections to the programme. These were, that it would be bad policy to send me down
James Bliss (search for this): chapter 30
nd. Sixth United States, Major Robert M. Morris. artillery: Fourth United States, Batteries C and E, Captain Marcus P. Miller. Third division: Brigadier-General George A. Custer. first brigade: Colonel Alexander C. M. Pennington. First Connecticut, Colonel Brayton Ives. Third New Jersey, Lieutenant-Colonel William P. Robeson. Second New York, Colonel Alanson M. Randol. Second Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel A. Bayard Nettleton. Second brigade: Colonel William Wells. Eighth New York, Major James Bliss. Fifteenth New York, Colonel John J. Coppinger. First Vermont, Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Hall. Third brigade: Colonel Henry Capehart. First New York, Captain John J. O'Brien. First West Virginia, Captain S. Bentley Howe. Second West Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel James Allen. Third West Virginia, Major John S. Witcher. Second division. （Army of the Potomac.) Major-General George Crook. first brigade: Brigadier-General Henry F. Davies. First New Jersey, Colonel Hugh H. Jan
John C. Breckenridge (search for this): chapter 30
ned to ride over to General Grant's headquarters on Gravelly Run, and get a clear idea of what it was proposed to do, for it seemed to me that a suspension of operations would be a serious mistake. Mounting a powerful gray pacing horse called Breckenridge (from its capture from one of Breckenridge's staff-officers at Missionary Ridge), and that I knew would carry me through the mud, I set out accompanied by my Assistant AdjutantGeneral, Colonel Frederick C. Newhall, and an escort of about ten oBreckenridge's staff-officers at Missionary Ridge), and that I knew would carry me through the mud, I set out accompanied by my Assistant AdjutantGeneral, Colonel Frederick C. Newhall, and an escort of about ten or fifteen men. At first we rode north up the Boydton plank-road, and coming upon our infantry pickets from a direction where the enemy was expected to appear, they began to fire upon us, but seeing from our actions that we were friends, they ceased, and permitted us to pass the outposts. We then struggled on in a northeasterly direction acrosscountry, till we struck the Vaughn road. This carried us to army headquarters, which were established south of Gravelly Run in an old corn-field. I rode
George G. Briggs (search for this): chapter 30
Subsistence. Surgeon James T. Ghiselin, Medical Director. Captain George L. Gillespie, Chief Engineer. Captain Ocran H. Howard, Chief Signal Officer. Army of the Shanandoah. Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt. first division. Brigadier-General Thomas C. Devin. first brigade: Colonel Peter Stagg. First Michigan, Lieutenant-Colonel George R. Maxwell. Fifth Michigan, Lieutenant-Colonel Smith H. Hastings. Sixth Michigan, Lieutenant-Colonel Harvey H. Vinton. Seventh Michigan, Lieutenant-Colonel George G. Briggs. Second brigade: Colonel Charles L. Fitzhugh. Sixth New York, Major Harrison White. Ninth New York, Major James R. Dinnin. Nineteenth New York (First N. Y. Dragoons), Major Howard M. Smith. Seventeenth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel Coe Durland. Twentieth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel Gabriel Middleton. Third (reserve) brigade: Brigadier-General Alfred Gibbs. Second Massachusetts, Colonel Caspar Crowninshield. Sixth Pennsylvania, Colonel Charles L. Leiper.
Ambrose E. Burnside (search for this): chapter 30
ral Grant began talking of our fearful plight, resulting from the rains and mud, and saying that because of this it seemed necessary to suspend operations. I at once begged him not to do so, telling him that my cavalry was already on the move in spite of the difficulties, and that although a suspension of operations would not be fatal, yet it would give rise to the very charge of disaster to which he had referred at City Point, and, moreover, that we would surely be ridiculed, just as General Burnside's army was after the mud march of 1863. His better judgment was against suspending operations, but the proposition had been suggested by all sorts of complaints as to the impossibility of moving the trains and the like, so it needed little argument to convince him, and without further discussion he said, in that manner which with him meant a firmness of purpose that could not be changed by further complainings, We will go on. I then told him that I believed I could break in the enemy'
Henry Capehart (search for this): chapter 30
man; so early on the 29th I moved my cavalry out toward Ream's Station on the Weldon road, Devin commanding the First Division, with Colonels Gibbs, Stagg, and Fitzhugh in charge of the brigades; the Third Division under Custer, Colonels Wells, Capehart, and Pennington being the brigade commanders. These two divisions united were commanded by Merritt, as they had been since leaving Winchester. Crook headed the Second Division, his brigades being under General Davies and Colonels John I. Greggond Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel A. Bayard Nettleton. Second brigade: Colonel William Wells. Eighth New York, Major James Bliss. Fifteenth New York, Colonel John J. Coppinger. First Vermont, Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Hall. Third brigade: Colonel Henry Capehart. First New York, Captain John J. O'Brien. First West Virginia, Captain S. Bentley Howe. Second West Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel James Allen. Third West Virginia, Major John S. Witcher. Second division. （Army of the Potomac.) M
Paul Chadbourne (search for this): chapter 30
regg. Fourth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander P. Duncan. Eighth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel William A. Corrie. Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel John K. Robison. Twenty-first Pennsylvania, Colonel Oliver B. Knowles. First U. S. Artillery, Batteries H and I, Lieut. Chandler P. Eakin.[Detached with Artillery Brigade, Ninth Army Corps.] Third brigade: Colonel Charles H. Smith. First Maine, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan P. Cilley. Second New York Mounted Rifles, Major Paul Chadbourne. Sixth Ohio, Major John H. Cryer. Thirteenth Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen R. Clark. Our general direction was westward, over such routes as could be found, provided they did not embarrass the march of the infantry. The roads, from the winter's frosts and rains, were in a frightful state, and when it was sought to avoid a spot which the head of the column had proved almost bottomless, the bogs and quicksands of the adjoining fields demonstrated that to make a detour was to
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