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A. P. Hill advance arrived artillery Ashby Ashby's assault attack Banks battle of Kernstown Beauregard bridge campaign captured centre Centreville charge cheers Chickahominy Cold Harbor column commenced Confederate crossed D. H. Hill defeat direction division driven enemy enemy's eral Ewell Ewell's fall back Federal army Federal cavalry Federal commander Federal forces Federal line Federal troops fell field fighting fire flank forward Fredericksburg Fremont front Front Royal ground guns Harper's Ferry Harrisonburg heavy horse infantry Jackson James River Johnston Kernstown Lee's line of battle Longstreet main body Manassas Martinsburg McClellan McDowell ment miles military morning Mountain moved movement musketry night officers opened pieces of artillery Pope Port Republic position Potomac Railroad rapidly Rappahannock reached rear reënforcements regiments repulsed retired retreat Richmond Ridge river road Shenandoah skirmishers soldier soon Stonewall Brigade Stuart tion took town turnpike valley Virginia whole Winchester woods wounded
Popular passages
Page 136 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, , Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 444 - Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees...
Page 360 - President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Your army must move now, while the roads are good.
Page 98 - MY DEAR SIR: — You and I have distinct and different plans for a movement of the Army of the Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River; mine to move directly to a point on the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours.
Page 313 - It is for you to decide your destiny, freely, and without constraint. This army will respect your choice, whatever it may be; and, while the Southern people will rejoice to welcome you to your natural position among them, they will only welcome you when you come of your own free will. RE LEE, General commanding.
Page 171 - Ashby bore to my command, for most of the previous twelve months, will justify me in saying that, as a partisan officer, I never knew his superior. His daring was proverbial, his powers of endurance almost incredible, his tone of character heroic, and his sagacity almost intuitive in divining the purposes and movements of the enemy.
Page 337 - Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost.
Page 138 - At your earnest call for reinforcements, he is sent forward to cooperate in the reduction of Richmond, but charged, in attempting this, not to uncover the city of Washington...
Page 138 - The President is not willing to uncover the capital entirely ; and it is believed that even if this were prudent, it would require more time...