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Chambersburg, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
arch. A Confederate reprisal on Pennsylvania soil Chambersburg as McCausland left it. As a reprisal for Hunter's raid , the Confederate General McCausland burned the town of Chambersburg, in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania. One high-min Gettysburg, General Lee had issued in the very town of Chambersburg his famous General order no. 73, in which he exhorted hrdon is authority for the statement that the burning of Chambersburg by his subordinate was a great shock to General Lee's ser. With a bold movement General McCausland swept into Chambersburg and demanded a ransom of war. Compliance was out of the in the mean time had taken a position at the One of Chambersburg's quiet streets The invasion of Pennsylvania had onliles this sinuous line made its way through the dark Chambersburg — a landmark in Early's invasion of the North After ition under General McCausland to invade Pennsylvania. Chambersburg, in the Cumberland Valley, which was burned by McCausla
Georgetown (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
to carry out the plans for a march into Maryland, in the hope of luring Hunter from his lair. So Early turned to the north with his seventeen thousand troops, and marching under the steady glare of a July sun, two weeks later, his approach was the signal for the Union troops at Martinsburg, under Sigel, to fall back across the Potomac to Maryland Heights. The road to Washington was thus blocked at Harper's Ferry, where Early intended to cross. He therefore was compelled to get over at Shepherdstown, while Breckenridge engaged Sigel at Harper's Ferry. Once across the river, Early's scouting parties quickly destroyed miles of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, cut the embankments and locks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, levied contributions upon the citizens of Hagerstown and Frederick, and pushed their tattered ranks of gray in the direction of the Federal capital. On the 9th of July, the advance lines of the Confederate force came to the banks of the Monocacy, where they Prot
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
almost laid in ruins. Even this was not the end, for after the occupation Captain Poe and his engineers found it necessary, in laying out the new fortifications, to destroy many more buildings throughout the devastated town. take the offensive against Forrest, and with fourteen thousand troops, and in a three days fight, demoralized him badly at Tupelo, Mississippi, July 14th-17th. Smith returned to Memphis and made another start for Sherman, when he was suddenly turned back and sent to Missouri, where the Confederate General Price was extremely active, to help Rosecrans. To avoid final defeat and to win the ground he had gained had taxed Sherman's powers to the last degree and was made possible only through his superior numbers. Even this degree of success could not be expected to continue if the railroad to the North should be destroyed. But Sherman must do more than he had done; he must capture Atlanta, this Richmond of the far South, with its cannon foundries and its great
Harrisonburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
suit of the Confederate cavalry, with the hope of scattering it and seizing New Market in time to cut off the Confederate retreat from Fisher's Hill. But at Milford, in a narrow gorge, General Wickham held Torbert and prevented the fulfilment of his plan; and General Early's whole force was able to escape. Day after day this continued until Early had taken refuge in the Blue Ridge in front of Brown's Gap. Here he received reenforcements. Sheridan in the mean time had gone into Camp at Harrisonburg, and for A Maryland village on the line of Early's retreat This is a winter scene in Poolesville, a typical village in this part of Maryland, overrun for the last time by Confederate armies in the summer of 1864. Early passed through the place on his second day's march from Washington, closely pursued by General Wright's force of Federals. After Early had made good his escape and threatened to levy heavy toll on the defenseless communities of Maryland and Pennsylvania if he were n
Winchester, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
, repulsed them, and continued on his way to Winchester, where General Averell, from Hunter's forcesook was sent up the Valley after him, but at Kernstown, near Winchester, on July 24th, he met a disWinchester, on July 24th, he met a disastrous defeat and made his way to the north side of the Potomac. Early, now in undisputed possessi found the Confederate forces centered about Winchester, and the Union army was ten miles distant, ws irretrievably lost. They fell back toward Winchester in confusion. As they did so, a great uproae of Sheridan, to send them whirling through Winchester. The Union pursuit continued until the twil returned at once by special train, reaching Winchester on the evening of the 18th. Just after da rally his soldiers on that famous ride from Winchester, twenty miles away. As he reined up his panong the broad valley highway that leads from Winchester, General Sheridan had galloped to where his flying mob. While riding leisurely away from Winchester about nine o'clock he had heard unmistakable[3 more...]
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ntingencies — that he might catch a portion of Sherman's army separated from the rest; that Sherman would be so weakened by the necessity of guarding the long line of railroad to his base of supplies at Chattanooga, Nashville, and even far-away Louisville, as to make it possible to defeat him in open battle, or, finally, that Sherman might fall into the trap of making a direct attack while Johnston was in an impregnable position, and in such a situation he now was. Not yet, however, was Shermessed his antagonist back inch by inch for more than a hundred miles and was now almost within sight of the goal of the campaign — the city of Atlanta. But the single line of railroad that connected him with the North and brought supplies from Louisville, five hundred miles away, for a hundred thousand men and twenty-three thousand animals, might at any moment be destroyed by Confederate raiders. The necessity of guarding the Western and Atlantic Railroad was an ever-present concern with She
Macon (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
mmunications of Atlanta instead of against its intrenchments. On the night of August 25th he moved with practically his entire army and wagon-trains loaded with fifteen days rations. By the morning of the 27th the whole front of the city was deserted. The Confederates concluded that Sherman was in retreat. Next day they found out their mistake, for the Federal army lay across the West Point Railroad while the soldiers began wrecking it. Next day they were in motion toward the railroad to Macon, and General Hood began to understand that a colossal raid was in progress. After the occupation, when this picture was taken, Sherman's men completed the work of destruction. The death of the brilliant, dashing young leader, James B McPherson, was a great blow to the Union army. But thirty-six years of age, one of the most promising men in the country, and already the commander of a military department. McPherson was the only man in all the Western armies whom Grant, on going to the
Cedar Creek (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
good his escape and threatened to levy heavy toll on the defenseless communities of Maryland and Pennsylvania if he were not vigorously opposed, Grant selected Sheridan for the task of clearing the Valley of Confederates and finally destroying its value as a source of supplies for Lee's army. Sheridan waited until Early had been seriously weakened before he assaulted him; but when he struck, the blows were delivered with tremendous energy. The battles of the Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek (the latter made memorable by Read's famous poem, Sheridan's ride ), drove Early back to New Market and wholly broke the Confederate power in that part of Virginia. This photograph (loaned by Mr. George A. Brackett, of Annapolis), was taken when the Eighth Minnesota held it, in the winter of 1862. some time the two armies lay watching each other. The Federals were having difficulty in holding their lines of supply. With the Valley practically given up by Early, Sheridan was anxious
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ament, he accepted his adversary's game, and played it with a skill that was finally successful, as we shall see.--Major-General Jacob D. Cox, U. S.V., in >Atlanta. The two leading Federal generals of the war, Grant and Sherman, met at Nashville, Tennessee, on March 17, 1864, and arranged for a great concerted double movement against the two main Southern armies, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee. Grant, who had been made commander of all the Federal armies, was to takpes rested on two or three contingencies — that he might catch a portion of Sherman's army separated from the rest; that Sherman would be so weakened by the necessity of guarding the long line of railroad to his base of supplies at Chattanooga, Nashville, and even far-away Louisville, as to make it possible to defeat him in open battle, or, finally, that Sherman might fall into the trap of making a direct attack while Johnston was in an impregnable position, and in such a situation he now was.
Doherty (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
enzi, the beautiful jet-black war-charger, was bearing his master, the commander of the Federal army, to the field of disaster. Along the broad valley highway that leads from Winchester, General Sheridan had galloped to where his embattled lines had been reduced to a flying mob. While riding leisurely away from Winchester about nine o'clock he had heard unmistakable thunder-peals of artillery. Realizing that a battle was on in the front, he hastened forward, soon to be met, as he crossed Mill Creek, by the trains and men of his routed army, coming to the rear with appalling rapidity. News from the field told him of the crushing defeat of his hitherto invincible regiments. The road was blocked by the retreating crowds as they pressed toward the rear. The commander was forced to take to the fields, and as his steed, flecked with foam, bore him onward, the disheartened refugees greeted him with cheers. Taking off his hat as he rode, he cried, We will go back and recover our camps.
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