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Hunton (search for this): chapter 1.5
the data at hand. One of Pickett's brigades had not reaceed him, and Anderson's whole division was not present. Of the cavalry reported February 20, 1865, a large number were dismounted. General Pickett estimates the total force as considerably less than stated in the text. These forces of Lee were concentrated at Five Forks on the evening of the 30th of March. General Lee struck the exposed flank of the Fifth corps and drove back two of its divisions with the brigades of McGowan, Gracie, Hunton and Wise, but the ground was wooded, and the third division of Warren's corps coming to his assistance, the retreat of his other two divisions was stopped, while an attack by Humphrey on the left of Wise's brigade, which was the extreme left of the Confederate attacking force, compelled the retirement of the Confederate force to their intrenchments. Foiled in the attempt to destroy the Fifth corps, and paucity of numbers constraining him to be cautious, Lee next attempted the destruction
Edward Warren (search for this): chapter 1.5
act as circumstances might require. The Second and Fifth corps, Humphreys' and Warren's, were at the same time instructed to press close up to the Confederate lines,hed his lines still thinner so as to add to the force confronting Humphreys and Warren. General Lee ordered Fitz Lee's cavalry to Five Forks, and they arrived in the, Gracie, Hunton and Wise, but the ground was wooded, and the third division of Warren's corps coming to his assistance, the retreat of his other two divisions was stily taken possession of it while the Confederate infantry had been engaged with Warren, but Lee moved Pickett and Bushrod Johnson over the White Oak road to Five Forkhat battle was elaborately investigated. It seems both the Cavalry Corps and Warren's, in some instances claimed the capture of the same prisoners, and the officiareater than their assailants. Grant's troops, however, fell back under fire in Warren's fight, so did Sheridan's towards Dinwiddie. Grant's troops were repulsed at
Custis Lee (search for this): chapter 1.5
nd fairness, states that the total effective of Lee's army on the 25th day of March, 1865, was infa,041 cavalry and 5,392 artillery, it would give Lee, six weeks before the final operations began, 4lonel Taylor's statement in Four Years with General Lee, that Lee had at that time only 39,879 avaiduty, and all the officers and men in arrest in Lee's army, Badeau subtracts only 8,433 for men not,433, the aggregate Badeau ascribes to Lee, and Lee would have only 64,705 effectives, including thmond. If we apply Badeau's rule for estimating Lee's effective strength, by deducting a little ovehe service; (6) the supply of fresh meat to General Lee's army was precarious, and if the army felldisplaying the most unflinching courage. General Lee, in a dispatch sent to the Secretary of Warhad, in Grant's works, which were stronger than Lee's, and thus hold or contain Lee within his own n of Grant's troops, which was sure to be made, Lee's only resource was to strip his already thread[56 more...]
William Kean (search for this): chapter 1.5
s Association be tendered Governor Thomas G. Jones, of Alabama, for his able address on The Last Days of the Army of Northern Virginia, and that a copy of same be requested for publication and the archives of the Association. Adopted unanimously. Major Thomas A. Brander moved that a committee of five be appointed to propose the names of the officers and the Executive Committee for the ensuing year. Adopted; and the following gentlemen were appointed: Thomas A. Brander, E. C. Minor, William Kean, Charles E. Morgan and A. W. Garber. Other Addresses. In response to calls, Captain W. Gordon McCabe responded in a brief but beautiful address. By this time the committee returned, and reported the names of the following gentlemen as officers for the ensuing year, and the report was unanimously agreed to: President-Judge George L. Christian. First Vice-President—Judge T. S. Garnett. Second Vice-President-General Thomas L. Rosser. Third Vice-President—Hon. R. T. Barto
Miles (search for this): chapter 1.5
ess came to its relief. Orders for the retreat. When the Confederate lines were carried, orders were given for the evacuation of Richmond and the concentration of the army at Amelia Courthouse. General Anderson was directed to move up along the Appomattox to Amelia Courthouse, and he was joined on the road by the remnants of Pickett's command and some troops of Hill's corps, under General Cooke, who handsomely repelled with severe loss two attacks on him near Sutherlin's Station by General Miles; but Miles was reinforced, and by a third attack succeeded in forcing these troops from the field in some confusion. The rear was covered by Fitz Lee, whose cavalry had done brilliant service in the action at Five Forks, and in stemming the pursuit undertaken by Sheridan's cavalry after the Confederate infantry had broken. The morale of the troops. The troops who left the Petersburg lines on the retreat with Lee were of no ordinary mould. Each was a veteran of years of terrible
R. H. Sutherland (search for this): chapter 1.5
ade, to the extreme right of his entrenchments along the White Oak road, on the morning of the 29th, and Pickett's division, which had been relieved from the Bermuda Hundreds by Mahone, was transferred to the same point about day-light on the 30th. General Hill, commanding the Confederate corps on the right, stretched his lines still thinner so as to add to the force confronting Humphreys and Warren. General Lee ordered Fitz Lee's cavalry to Five Forks, and they arrived in the vicinity of Sutherland's station on the night of the 29th, the object of the concentration being to attack Sheridan and drive him back. Pickett's division was about 3,600 strong; Johnston's, 3,000; the cavalry of the two Lee's, about 4,000—making, with some other troops, a total of about 13,000 for the moveable column with which Lee hoped to strike some weak place in Grant's armor and crush his flanking force as he had so often done before. This is the best estimate I can make with the data at hand. One of
Thomas H. Carter (search for this): chapter 1.5
the rear, was ordered to the front to head the movement. All that remained of the old Second corps and of Ewell and Anderson's troops were sent to him. Mahone was to move on the left of our line of march, protecting it and the trains. Colonel Thomas H. Carter, with a number of his best guns, was to support the attack of Gordon, while Fitzhugh Lee, who had been recently assigned to the command of all the cavalry, was to move with the cavalry on the infantry right. Longstreet was to protect thcarried that day, including those of Anderson's troops, was out of all proportion to the number of men, and made the line appear almost scarlet. The sharp skirmish fire soon grew into a furious and heavy volume of musketry. The ever faithful Carter joined in with his deep-toned guns. The cavalry on our right pressed forward at a gallop, and wild and fierce shouts resounded throughout the heavens. As the sun drove away that Sunday morning mist, it looked down upon a scene that will forever
Caesar (search for this): chapter 1.5
lly illustrated by Napoleon throughout the greater part of his marvelous career. Charles XII of Sweden set it at naught. Frederick the Great won victory in spite of it, in the Seven Years War against nearly all Europe. Alexander, Hannibal and Caesar in ancient days taught that numbers did not necessarily win battles. The thought ignores Providence, and forgets the influences of moral forces in the work of war. All history sustains the profound philosopher, who declared that other maxim. nvasion. On such slender threads depend the fate of nations, and the chances of war give rise to many of them in a long contest such as ours was. Frederick the Great said that an army, like a serpent, moves on its belly, and it was a rule of Caesar's, in conducting invasions, that war must support war. In a thinly settled country like ours, war could not be made to support war; since under such conditions concentration starves itself. The offensive power of an army is gone at a long dist
James A. Walker (search for this): chapter 1.5
tes as if he thought Lee's return of February 20, 1865, included only the troops stationed in and around the Richmond and Petersburg lines. The return is copied in Badeau's work, and he comments upon it and analyzes it. That return, which was before his eyes when he wrote it, shows on its face that it included not only Lee's troops stationed around Richmond and Petersburg, but the troops as well of Early stationed in the Valley and then numbering 3,15 enlisted men, and also the troops under Walker on the railroad defences, numbering 1,414 enlisted men, and unattached commands numbering 504 enlisted men. Badeau assumes, indeed asserts, that the troops in the Valley and those on the Richmond and Danville defences were used in the final defence of the Richmond and Petersburg lines. Was he so ignorant of events of which he writes that he did not know that over half of Early's little force in the Valley included in that return was either killed, wounded or captured in battle near Waynesbo
Thomas A. Brander (search for this): chapter 1.5
e tendered Governor Thomas G. Jones, of Alabama, for his able address on The Last Days of the Army of Northern Virginia, and that a copy of same be requested for publication and the archives of the Association. Adopted unanimously. Major Thomas A. Brander moved that a committee of five be appointed to propose the names of the officers and the Executive Committee for the ensuing year. Adopted; and the following gentlemen were appointed: Thomas A. Brander, E. C. Minor, William Kean, CharleThomas A. Brander, E. C. Minor, William Kean, Charles E. Morgan and A. W. Garber. Other Addresses. In response to calls, Captain W. Gordon McCabe responded in a brief but beautiful address. By this time the committee returned, and reported the names of the following gentlemen as officers for the ensuing year, and the report was unanimously agreed to: President-Judge George L. Christian. First Vice-President—Judge T. S. Garnett. Second Vice-President-General Thomas L. Rosser. Third Vice-President—Hon. R. T. Barton. Secreta
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