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Pender (search for this): chapter 13
his history of that regiment at Cedar Mountain: The fact still remains, that it was a shockingly mismanaged battle; and every man of us knows now, what General Gordon and Colonel Beals believed then, that the woods was our best position. The enemy poured regiment after regiment upon our lines. General Banks evidently had no idea of the immense number of Rebels in his front. They had a continuous line from the road up to Gordon's right, which they overlapped so far that it would seem as if Pender's (Rebel) brigade was out of musket-range. As further evidence of Banks's ignorance of the field, the forces, and the management of his troops, we find in General Pope's letter to the committee, that when he was hastening to the field, supposing of course that the enemy had attacked Banks, and that he was still holding his position, I received, when near the field, word from him that he was driving the enemy, which information I at once communicated to Ricketts' division. Instead of a vi
Siegel (search for this): chapter 13
, that he [Banks] should push his skirmishers well to the front, and attack the enemy with them; explaining fully that the object was to keep back the enemy until Siegel's corps and Ricketts' division could be concentrated and brought forward to his support. Roberts was directed to remain with Banks until further orders; and he aoboration. And again, in the same letter: The object in sending Banks's corps to the front to take and hold a strong position against the advancing enemy until Siegel's corps and Ricketts' division could be united in his rear, was so plain and so clearly understood by every man of ordinary intelligence, that I find it impossiblake, to their advantage, and hold these positions, as I thought, if attacked. I then told him that General Pope wanted him to hold the enemy in check there until Siegel's forces could be brought up, which were expected that day, and all his other forces united to fight Jackson's forces. The italics are mine. In the light o
John W. Geary (search for this): chapter 13
Officially given as 1,661 killed and wounded, and 732 missing,--total, 2,393. Enemy, 1,300 killed and wounded. and were gradually driven back to their former position, at which point Ricketts came up. And again, The Massachusetts regiments There was but one, the Second. behaved with especial gallantry; and although I regret that Banks thought it expedient to depart from my instructions, it gives me pleasure to bear testimony to his gallant and intrepid conduct. And again, Williams, Geary, Augur, Carroll, Gordon, Crawford, and Greene behaved with distinguished gallantry. It may be asked why, after the severe language we have quoted from Pope, upon Banks's disobedience of his orders, there should have been so much mildness about it in Pope's first despatches to Halleck and in the former's official report upon this subject. Pope has answered the question in his letter to the committee, saying, I endeavored in my official report to avoid the censure justly chargeable upon Ba
C. S. Winder (search for this): chapter 13
regiments and four companies I should have added to the assaulting column would have been nothing to the six brigades of the enemy in reserve, and could not have given us the victory. Banks knows this now: possibly even Crawford understands it. The fight we made against the overpowering numbers of the enemy was far more useful to Pope's army in the events that followed the night, than had we been ordered up in time, to dash ourselves, with Crawford's brigade, uselessly against those of Winder's and Hill's divisions. This is the first time I have publicly noticed this accusation by Banks, and should not now (believing it unworthy of notice) but for the part it bears in this history. In dismissing it, I should add that Banks affirms that he sent me half-a-dozen times an order to move to support Crawford. In his behalf I think it should be stated, that General Banks honestly thinks that if he sent me such orders, I am entirely responsible whether I received them or not. Did he
A. P. Hill (search for this): chapter 13
nd four companies I should have added to the assaulting column would have been nothing to the six brigades of the enemy in reserve, and could not have given us the victory. Banks knows this now: possibly even Crawford understands it. The fight we made against the overpowering numbers of the enemy was far more useful to Pope's army in the events that followed the night, than had we been ordered up in time, to dash ourselves, with Crawford's brigade, uselessly against those of Winder's and Hill's divisions. This is the first time I have publicly noticed this accusation by Banks, and should not now (believing it unworthy of notice) but for the part it bears in this history. In dismissing it, I should add that Banks affirms that he sent me half-a-dozen times an order to move to support Crawford. In his behalf I think it should be stated, that General Banks honestly thinks that if he sent me such orders, I am entirely responsible whether I received them or not. Did he send them?
James B. Ricketts (search for this): chapter 13
with them; explaining fully that the object was to keep back the enemy until Siegel's corps and Ricketts' division could be concentrated and brought forward to his support. Roberts was directed to ree front to take and hold a strong position against the advancing enemy until Siegel's corps and Ricketts' division could be united in his rear, was so plain and so clearly understood by every man of oThis was the last despatch from Banks, and before I received it I was halfway to the field with Ricketts' division, believing, from rapid artillery firing, that an engagement was going on, or might befield, word from him that he was driving the enemy, which information I at once communicated to Ricketts' division. Instead of a victorious Banks, Pope found a thoroughly whipped and beaten corps,--n300 killed and wounded. and were gradually driven back to their former position, at which point Ricketts came up. And again, The Massachusetts regiments There was but one, the Second. behaved wit
Strother (search for this): chapter 13
at Cedar Mountain what, in his ignorance, Banks fancied he had lost at Winchester, such sacrifices should have been made. A writer, once on Banks's staff, Strother: in Harper's Monthly for August, 1867. echoes him in these words: There was another motive underlying and probably controlling Banks's judgment: neither he nor tf officers to be called, whose names he gives, my own among the number. My testimony is found substantially in these pages. Others have spoken elsewhere. Says Strother, in his Recollections of a Virginia Campaign, before referred to: A Confederate officer said to me, Your attack under the circumstances was rash and meaningless of a victorious Banks, Pope found a thoroughly whipped and beaten corps,--not demoralized, it is true: no rout, no panic. Sullen and defiant they retired, says Strother, leaving nothing on the field but their dead, the graver cases of wounded, a couple of empty caissons, of which the horses had been killed, and a disabled gun s
George S. Greene (search for this): chapter 13
ed, and 732 missing,--total, 2,393. Enemy, 1,300 killed and wounded. and were gradually driven back to their former position, at which point Ricketts came up. And again, The Massachusetts regiments There was but one, the Second. behaved with especial gallantry; and although I regret that Banks thought it expedient to depart from my instructions, it gives me pleasure to bear testimony to his gallant and intrepid conduct. And again, Williams, Geary, Augur, Carroll, Gordon, Crawford, and Greene behaved with distinguished gallantry. It may be asked why, after the severe language we have quoted from Pope, upon Banks's disobedience of his orders, there should have been so much mildness about it in Pope's first despatches to Halleck and in the former's official report upon this subject. Pope has answered the question in his letter to the committee, saying, I endeavored in my official report to avoid the censure justly chargeable upon Banks for his management of that battle, though
Lee (search for this): chapter 13
be added. When Banks with this knowledge plunged into that abyss of horrors without calling for these reinforcements, he committed a blunder that even a politician might shudder at,--a crime that he cannot transfer to Pope. On the eleventh of August we returned to the same spot, near Culpeper, from whence on the 9th we went out to fight the battle of Cedar Mountain. After a few days (on the 14th), my brigade, with reduced numbers, moved out of Culpeper, hurrying to confront the march of Lee's victorious army. .From the Peninsula and from North Carolina new divisions and corps were marching to our aid. The music of the band of the Second echoed as gayly through the streets, as we turned our backs on the town, as if no lives had been extinguished in our regiment, and no grief pressed heavily on our hearts. We marched onward to Alexandria, to the grave of the Army of Virginia. I have endeavored to portray from my own notes written on the field, from my own memory of what I saw
B. S. Roberts (search for this): chapter 13
report of that action, My chief-of-staff, General Roberts, whom I sent forward early on the 9th to in that no military.man could fail to see it. Roberts was authorized to communicate it to Banks andhave the orders communicated to Banks through Roberts, Pope's chief-of-staff, now available to us iony before the McDowell Court of Inquiry. General Roberts testifies: Early in the morning of the nind join General Banks. Testimony of General B. S. Roberts, McDowell Court of Inquiry, Battle of nt orders from Pope, communicated through General Roberts to Banks while on the field, can the lattm as to his duty, could he not comprehend General Roberts's orders? I say nothing now of the exercrences, while on the field, between Banks and Roberts, and in the subsequent action of Banks, and tmy ? Turning to the sworn testimony of General Roberts, given before the McDowell Court of Inquisition and be reinforced if attacked, nor had Roberts, as Pope's chief-of-staff, imparted to Banks [9 more...]
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