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Leesburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
d. To break the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was essential to our operations, and if the bridge at Cheat River and the Grand Tunnel could be destroyed so as to prevent the use of that railroad for the duration of the war the effect upon public opinion in Western Virginia would doubtless be of immediate and great advantage to our cause. If the enemy has withdrawn from your front to attack on the east side of the mountain, it may be that an attempt will be made to advance from Leesburg to seize the Manassas Gap road and to turn Beauregard's position.... In that event, if your scouts give you accurate and timely information, an opportunity will be offered to you by the roads through the mountain-passes to make a flank attack in conjunction with Beauregard's column, and with God's blessing to achieve a victory alike glorious and beneficial.... I wish you would write whenever your convenience will permit, and give me fully both information and suggestions. Twenty-five hu
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
al other officers of that grade. A few hours after my arrival, Governor Letcher gave me the appointment of major-general. The commander-in-chief assigned me to the service of organizing and instructing the volunteers then just beginning to assemble at the call of the Governor. He himself was then selecting the points to be occupied by these troops for the protection of the State, and determining the number to be assigned to each. Norfolk, a point near Yorktown, another in front of Fredericksburg, Manassas Junction, Harper's Ferry, and Grafton, seemed to be regarded by him as the most important positions, for they were to be occupied in greatest force. I was assisted in my duties by Lieutenant-Colonel Pemberton, Majors Jackson and Gilham, and Captain T. L. Preston. Near the end of April, however, the second named was promoted to a colonelcy and assigned to the command of Harper's Ferry, held until then by Colonel Kenton Harper. I was employed in this way about two weeks
Hagerstown (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
he first week in June the Seventh and Eighth Georgia and Second Tennessee regiments had arrived. About the 10th of the month, General Patterson, who had been organizing and instructing his troops at Chambersburg, advanced from that place to Hagerstown. According to the information we could obtain from scouts and intelligent people of the country, they amounted to about eighteen thousand men. The organization of this army, as published in a newspaper of Hagerstown, corresponded very well witHagerstown, corresponded very well with this estimate; for twenty-four regiments of infantry were enumerated in it, and several small bodies of regular artillery and cavalry. This statement is from memory. The garrison of Harper's Ferry had then been increased to almost seven thousand men of all arms. At sunrise on the 13th the Hon. James M. Mason brought from Winchester intelligence, received there the night before, that two thousand Federal troops, supposed to be the advanced guard of General McClellan's army, had marched int
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
into the Valley of Virginia from Pennsylvania and Maryland-and that it was occupied in that idea, and my commFurnace Ridge) side. Two main routes lead from Maryland and Pennsylvania into the Valley of Virginia, mees partially sustained by our scouts and friends in Maryland, who reported that the armies of Generals Pattersot resistance, by General Lee's troops, coming from Maryland. My objections to Harper's Ferry as a positionhe Valley of Virginia, and our communications with Maryland, held to be very important. General Lee wrote the latter would interrupt our communication with Maryland, and injure our cause in that State.... The objTenth and Thirteenth Virginia, Third Tennessee and Maryland regiments, and Groves's battery; and Bartow's of ts's battery. As the intelligence obtained from Maryland indicated that General Patterson was preparing to t to commit such an act of war against citizens of Maryland, when we were receiving aid from the State then, a
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
w in the crowds assembled at all the railroad-stations the appearance of great enthusiasm for the war against subjugation-so much as to give me the impression that all of the population fit for military service might have been brought into the field, if the Confederate Government could have furnished them with arms and ammunition-which, unfortunately, it had not provided. That government depended for arms, for the war then imminent, mainly upon those found in the arsenals at Fayetteville, Charleston, Augusta, Mount Vernon, and Baton Rouge; United States muskets and rifles of discarded pattern, the number supposed to be about seventy-five thousand; above forty thousand muskets belonging to the State of Virginia in course of rapid conversion from flint to percussion lock by Governor Letcher's orders; and twenty thousand lately procured for the State of Georgia, by Governor Brown. I reached Harper's Ferry soon after noon of the 23d of May, accompanied by Colonel E. Kirby Smith, Aft
Romney (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
General of the United States. defense of West point officers, who resigned, from Unjust attack. assigned to duty of organizing Virginia troops. ordered by President Davis to take command at Harper's Ferry. convinced, on examination, that it was untenable. correspondence, on the subject, with General Lee and the Confederate authorities. General Beauregard assigned to command of Confederate army at Manassas. movements of General Patterson. withdrawal from Harper's Ferry. affair near Romney. General Patterson again marches on Martinsburg. battle offered at Darkesville. General McDowell advances on Manassas. Precautions preparatory to assisting General Beauregard. The composition of the convention assembled in Richmond in the spring of 1861, to consider the question of secession, proved that the people of Virginia did not regard Mr. Lincoln's election as a sufficient cause for that measure, for at least two-thirds of its members were elected as Union men. And they and th
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ive. In a letter, dated July 10th, the President said: . ... Your letter found me trying by every method to hasten reenforcements to you. ... Colonel Forney's regiment will, I suppose, get off in the morning, if not this evening, and more shall follow as fast as the railroad will permit. . .. And in another, dated the 13th: . . .. Another (regiment) for the war came yesterday. It was fully equipped, and to-day has gone to your column .... I could get twenty thousand from Mississippi, who impatiently wait for notice that they can be armed. In Georgia, numerous tenders are made to serve for any time, at any place, and to these and other offers I am still constrained to answer, I have not arms to supply you. . . . The rich country around us furnished abundant supplies of provision and forage, which the farmers and millers willingly sold on credit to the quartermasters and commissaries of the army. We neither received nor required assistance from the Commissary De
Mount Vernon (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
led at all the railroad-stations the appearance of great enthusiasm for the war against subjugation-so much as to give me the impression that all of the population fit for military service might have been brought into the field, if the Confederate Government could have furnished them with arms and ammunition-which, unfortunately, it had not provided. That government depended for arms, for the war then imminent, mainly upon those found in the arsenals at Fayetteville, Charleston, Augusta, Mount Vernon, and Baton Rouge; United States muskets and rifles of discarded pattern, the number supposed to be about seventy-five thousand; above forty thousand muskets belonging to the State of Virginia in course of rapid conversion from flint to percussion lock by Governor Letcher's orders; and twenty thousand lately procured for the State of Georgia, by Governor Brown. I reached Harper's Ferry soon after noon of the 23d of May, accompanied by Colonel E. Kirby Smith, Afterward lieutenant-gene
Fort Fisher (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ttern, the number supposed to be about seventy-five thousand; above forty thousand muskets belonging to the State of Virginia in course of rapid conversion from flint to percussion lock by Governor Letcher's orders; and twenty thousand lately procured for the State of Georgia, by Governor Brown. I reached Harper's Ferry soon after noon of the 23d of May, accompanied by Colonel E. Kirby Smith, Afterward lieutenant-general. acting adjutant-general, Major W. H. C. Whiting, Who fell at Fort Fisher, a major-general. of the Engineer Corps, Major E. McLean, of the Quartermaster's Department, and Captain T. L. Preston, assistant adjutant-general. Within an hour the commanding officer, Colonel Jackson, Who became so celebrated as lieutenant-general. visited me; learned the object of my coming, and read the order of the War Department, assigning me to the command he had been exercising. My order announcing the change of commanders, made by the President's authority, was sent to him ne
Winchester, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
c), and Martinsburg. These roads are met at Winchester by the principal one from Northwestern Virgin was completely under the enemy's control. Winchester was obnoxious to neither objection, but, on he 13th the Hon. James M. Mason brought from Winchester intelligence, received there the night before. That place is forty-three miles west of Winchester. As this information had come from the most to abandon Harper's Ferry and retire toward Winchester in such a contingency as the present, in thee enemy, and retire upon the railroad toward Winchester. ... Should you not be sustained by the popuColonel Hill's detachment was called back to Winchester. It being ascertained that some of the p a letter dated the 18th, addressed to me at Winchester, giving the President's further instructionslroad at Strasburg, on the turnpike through Winchester. The orders of the Government required the le, to prevent access to it from the side of Winchester and Berryville, and to maintain it until nig[16 more...]
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