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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
Charleston for eighteen months steadily, and we did not do $50,000 worth of actual damage; we did not kill as many men in Charleston as we burned tons of powder. There will be no more bombardments of forts even, since the fiasco of Porter at Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Bombardments as matters of importance in war will take their place with bayonet wounds and sword cuts. I was casting my eye the other day over a page of the consolidated report of the wounds received at the battles of North Anna, from May 21 to May 26, 1864. In these engagements the total strength of the army was 51,659, and the whole number of wounded was 1,046. There was just one bayonet wound and no sword cut. Yet we all remember we were told how reckless the enemy was in charging upon our men sword in hand and with bayonets fixed. As to the expenses of the bombardment of our cities: If England had declared war, by the rules and laws of war that act would have confiscated all the debts our people owed to t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
e greatly depressed. It grew lighter and lighter, and there before us, fully revealed, was a long, high line of intrenchments, with heavy redoubts, where cannon were massed at the angles, silent, grim. No wasteful fire shot forth from that line. Now and then a man rose up out of the Confederate rifle-pits, and a rifle-ball flew close above us, no longer singing high in the air. Sadly we looked at one another. We knew that the men who had fought us in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, North Anna, and Cold Harbor were in the works, sleeping, gaining strength to repulse our assault, while their pickets watched for them. At intervals tiny columns of smoke rose from behind their line . . . It was broad daylight. I had eaten my breakfast and was looking over the field of yesterday's fighting. Some dead men lay on the ground; but the scarcity of those in gray plainly showed that they had no stomach for fighting, that they were raw, undisciplined militia, who had abandoned their pow
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
e Butler of his command, 827-828. Nicholay & Hay's Life of Lincoln, critical references to, 219, 227, 243, 260, 264, 421. Nim's battery, 460. Ninth Connecticut regiment, story of, 311, 316, at Baton Rouge, 483; at Camp Moore, 460. Ninth New Jersey, position at Drury's bluff, 663. Norfolk, Union forces occupy, 617; Butler confers with Porter at, 785; goods received and examined at, 843; yellow fever prevented, 847; needy assisted, 848; Shepley sent to Fortress Monroe, 871. North Anna, reference to battle of, 710. Northumberland Co., Va., Confederate scouts in, 785. Nottingham Square, Butler goes to school at, 44-46. O Odell investigates causes of Butler's removal, 833; Butler's answer to, 833. Oliver, Gen. H. K., 172. One Hundred and Forty-Eighth New York Volunteers' expedition into Chesapeake Bay, 617. Orr, South Carolina secession commissioner, 156. Ord, Major-General, Butler's order to, regarding movement to surprise Confederate forces around R
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 168 (search)
Doc. 156.-fight at the North Anna, Va. General Pope's despatch. headquarters army of Virginia, July 24. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: A cavalry expedition, sent out by Gen. Kingody of Stuart's cavalry came up to attack them. These too were defeated, driven across the North Anna River, and pursued till within sight of Hanover Junction. Several prisoners, a large number of h at Carmel Church. At daybreak I saw the church but no camp, the rebels having crossed the North Anna River a few days before. A woman having informed me that a scouting party came along at seven A. command immediately charged upon the rebels, who broke like sheep, and rushing down to the North Anna River, abandoned horses, arms, clothing, and every thing, and plunged pell mell into the stream. nd paper, found in the rebel camp, stated that Gen. Stuart was building a bridge across the North Anna River, over which he intended, with two thousand men, to commit depredations in this direction.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 31 (search)
d was only three miles distant. My horses and men being jaded, and having only about eight hundred men, I determined not to pursue. Continued back to Gordonsville, having travelled some seventy or eighty miles. Tuesday, May 5th.--Rested, having sent out scouting parties. Heard by telegram from Richmond that the enemy were everywhere. Wednesday, May 6th.--Having received information that the enemy were recrossing the railroad, moved down upon his left flank; came upon his rear at North Anna River; took some seventeen or eighteen prisoners. Their rear guard had crossed the river and torn up the bridge. It had been raining all day and the river was past fording. Hearing that this was only one party, and that another column was moving lower down, went in that direction; found they had all crossed the North Anna, and destroyed the bridges behind them. Moved that night in the direction of Louisa Court-House. Bivouacked in three miles of Court-House. Thursday, May 7th.--Went to
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 1: Photographing the Civil War (search)
but instead of running the blockade with them, they were supplied on orders to trade. In many cases, for instance, the necessary iodides and bromides masqueraded as A triumph of the wet-plate It seems almost impossible that this photograph could have been taken before the advent of modern photographic apparatus, yet Mr. Gardner's negative, made almost fifty years ago, might well furnish a striking exhibit in a modern photographic salon. The view is of Quarles' Mill, on the North Anna River, Virginia. In grassy fields above the mill the tents of the headquarters of Grant and Meade were pitched for a day or two during the march which culminated in the siege of Petersburg. Among the prisoners brought in while the army was here in Camp was a woman clad in Confederate gray, apparently performing the duties of a scout. She was captured astride of a bony steed and asserted that she belonged to a battery of artillery. This wild creature, with her tangled black locks hanging down h
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 4: the strategy of the Civil War (search)
of firearms taught the commanders in the Civil War the habit of greatly strengthening every new position occupied with earthworks as formidable as possible. The works in the first picture were thrown up in a night by the Federals near North Anna River, Virginia, in 1864. It is apparent how they would strengthen the resistance of a small force to larger numbers who might advance across the open upon the position. In the second picture we see the salient of Fort Hell, with its ditch and abattitack. This was one of the fortifications about Petersburg, where the construction of fieldworks was developed to the highest point of efficiency. Formidable fieldworks in an advance: works thrown up in a night by the Federals near North Anna River, Virginia, in 186 Salient of Fort Hell will be replaced by the safe leader who is never brilliant, but makes no mistakes and at the same time commands the heaviest battalions. The absence of a broad and comprehensive plan of operations w
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 4 (search)
otsylvania. Spotsylvania and the bloody angle Quarles' mill, North Anna river — the goal after Spotsylvania But to Spotsylvania history will accor your horses : one of the grim jokes of war as played at Chesterfield bridge, North Anna The sign posted by the local authorities at Taylor's bridge, where the Telond, where Lee's strong V formation held it from further advance. to the North Anna River. On the 20th of May the march was resumed. The men had suffered great harossing of the North Anna by the Federals. The undisputed crossing at North Anna: three views of the pontoon-bridge laid for the cross of the corps of Warren lled and wounded, and five hundred prisoners. The undisputed crossing at North Anna: the old Jericho Mill on North bank; the Gentry house is on the eminence above ammunition train approaches the pontoon bridge The undisputed crossing at North Anna: the old Jericho Mill on North bank; the Gentry house is on the eminence abov
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Spotsylvania and the bloody angle (search)
Spotsylvania and the bloody angle Quarles' mill, North Anna river — the goal after Spotsylvania But to Spotsylvania history will accord the palm, I your horses : one of the grim jokes of war as played at Chesterfield bridge, North Anna The sign posted by the local authorities at Taylor's bridge, where the Telond, where Lee's strong V formation held it from further advance. to the North Anna River. On the 20th of May the march was resumed. The men had suffered great harossing of the North Anna by the Federals. The undisputed crossing at North Anna: three views of the pontoon-bridge laid for the cross of the corps of Warren lled and wounded, and five hundred prisoners. The undisputed crossing at North Anna: the old Jericho Mill on North bank; the Gentry house is on the eminence above ammunition train approaches the pontoon bridge The undisputed crossing at North Anna: the old Jericho Mill on North bank; the Gentry house is on the eminence abov
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
lumn carried the parapet of the Fort and planted the flag on one of its massive traverses. In an attempt to drive the Confederates entirely from the position General Ord was severely wounded. On September 30th the Confederate General R. H. Anderson, commanding Longstreet's Corps, attacked the captured fort, making three separate charges, but was repulsed with a loss of some two thousand men. Where Ord crossed the James Palisades and parapet at Fort Harrison May 23-28, 1864: North Anna River, Jericho Ford or Taylor's bridge, and Totopotomoy Creek, Va. Union, Second, Fifth, and Ninth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Maj.-Gen. Meade; Confed., Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. R. E. Lee. Losses: Union, 186 killed, 942 wounded, 165 missing; Confed., 2000 killed and wounded. May 24, 1864: Wilson's Wharf, Va. Union, 10th U. S. Colored, 1st D. C. Cav., Battery B U. S. Colored Artil.; Confed., Fitzhugh Lee's Cav. Losses: Union, 2 killed, 24 wounded; Confed
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