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October 17th (search for this): chapter 6
were then drawn back. On the 27th of September they evacuated a small work situated on an isolated height called Munson's Hill, which soldiers in the Union army were in the habit of pointing out from a distance to visitors and journalists, who came from the North to say that they had seen the enemy. The Federals entered the work on the following day, and afterwards successively took possession of the villages of Lewinsville, Vienna, and even Fairfax Court-house, on the 9th, 16th, and 17th of October. In the absence of more important military events, this movement, which had not cost a drop of blood, was made the subject of comment in the North, both by the press and the public, for several weeks. McClellan contented himself, nevertheless, with extending his positions, and laying out a plan for a new line of works two or three kilometres in advance of the old one. He thus left a space between the two armies which was to render their encounters still rarer than before. The inac
October 31st (search for this): chapter 6
discipline of those of Johnston, who had superseded Beauregard in the command of the Confederate army—the army of Northern Virginia. He had given to that army a total force of one hundred and fifty thousand men, whereas, in reality, on the 31st of October it only numbered sixty-six thousand two hundred and forty-three men in all, of whom only forty-four thousand one hundred and thirtyone were present in the field. One-third of this army was composed of non-combatants, sick men disabled by chto those appertaining to the command of the army of the Potomac, which, by absorbing his whole activity, diverted his attention for a time from those plans of campaign for the execution of which the public was waiting so impatiently. On the 31st of October General Scott, urged by numerous solicitations, and himself convinced that he had arrived at an age which required rest, tendered his resignation; and on the following day General McClellan, without, however, receiving a new grade, was inves
October 30th (search for this): chapter 6
nd quietly take a position between the Gauley and New Rivers. Shortly after this Lee was recalled and sent into South Carolina. Wise, who could not agree with Floyd, was deprived of his command, and a portion of the army under General Loring went into the valley of Virginia to swell the forces of Stonewall Jackson. In the mean while, notwithstanding the diminution of his troops, Floyd was not willing to give up the game. He crossed New River, marched down the left bank, and on the 30th of October took up a position on the heights of Cotton Hill. These hills overlook the confluence of the Gauley and New River, and command the road from Charleston to Lewisburg, by which Rosecrans was obtaining supplies for his army. In place of Gauley Bridge, which had been destroyed, the Federals had established a ferry-boat, the trips of which were soon interrupted by Floyd's artillery, which had been dragged with great difficulty to the summit of Cotton Hill. The Confederate skirmishers, at
October 29th (search for this): chapter 6
sissippi and the Alleghanies. Nobody would believe him, while many persons pronounced him crazy; and shortly after, he was deprived of a command of which he was deemed unworthy. Before long he was to be gloriously avenged for this temporary injustice. The troops which he had been constantly drilling and exercising had but a trifling encounter with the enemy. Several Federal detachments advanced by a forced march as far as the borders of Green River, below Bowling Green, and on the 29th of October they surprised the Confederate posts established there. One of these small bodies of troops entered Morgantown, almost without striking a blow, and destroyed the enemy's depots; another, crossing the river at Woolbury, put the garrison to flight after a brisk engagement fought among the houses of that village. In the mean time, McClellan had succeeded Scott in the supreme command. One of his first acts was to send General Buell on the 4th of November to replace Sherman in Kentucky.
October 26th (search for this): chapter 6
eastward towards Romney, while an infantry regiment, starting from Cumberland, in Maryland, was to arrive at the same time with himself before that town, passing through Frankfort and Springfield. This combined movement was effected on the 26th of October. The detachment from Cumberland reached the river, which south of the Potomac is called the Branch, a few kilometres below Romney; the bridge which crosses that water-course had been destroyed, and the passage was guarded by three hundred aground at the entrance of the port, and was lost. The Nashville, a side-wheel steamer and packet belonging to the New York and Charleston line, had been converted into a warvessel by the Confederate government in the latter port. On the 26th of October she went to sea under the command of Captain Pegram, formerly an officer of the Federal navy, who, even before cruising in the Atlantic, repaired to the English station at the Bermudas, where he procured fresh provisions and obtained, still
October 25th (search for this): chapter 6
cient supply of provisions for a long expedition. A few of them, like the Vanderbilt, were magnificent packets admirably adapted for that purpose; others again were old ships almost unfit for service; but the government had to take everything that could be found. The personnel of this fleet, belonging chiefly to the merchant marine, was not all that could be desired; but in an enterprise so speedily organized, and of such unprecedented magnitude, perfection was not looked for. On the 25th of October the whole fleet and the vessels with Sherman's army on board were assembled off Fortress Monroe; the order of sailing and of disembarkation had been arranged in minute details. The transportships were formed into three columns, each conveying a complete brigade; they were provided with long-boats, and had in tow a sufficient number of surf-boats to land four thousand five hundred men each trip. The point of attack was not definitely settled until the last moment, and its choice rema
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