Reports of the Operations of the Army of Northern Virginia: From June 1862, to and Including the Battle at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, Volume 1R.M. Smith, public printer, 1864 - Confederate States of America |
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A. P. Hill action Adjutant advance Alabama Anderson army arrived artillery Assistant Adjutant attack battalion bivouacked bridge camp Captain captured casualties cavalry charge Chickahominy Cold Harbor column command creek crossed D. H. Hill direction driven duty enemy enemy's batteries engaged Ewell fell fight force ford front gallant gallantly Georgia Georgia regiment ground guns halted Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS heavy fire honor Huger hundred yards immediately infantry Jackson Jones July June killed and wounded Lawton Lieutenant Colonel line of battle Longstreet loss Magruder Major Malvern Hill Manassas mand Mechanicsville ment mile morning moved forward movement night North Carolina o'clock obedient servant occupied officers open field ordered pickets pieces placed Port Republic position prisoners railroad reached rear received regi respectfully retired retreat Richmond rifle river road sent Sharpsburg shell shot side skirmishers soon South Stuart tion troops turnpike Virginia cavalry Virginia regiment Warrenton woods
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Page 120 - A simultaneous daring charge was made, and the enemy driven pell-mell into the river. Then commenced the most terrible slaughter that this war has yet witnessed. The broad surface of the Potomac was blue with the floating bodies of our foe. But few escaped to tell the tale. By their own account, they lost three thousand men killed and drowned from one brigade alone.
Page 121 - In this charge, in which upward of 1,000 men fell killed and wounded before the fire of the enemy and in which fourteen pieces of artillery and nearly a regiment were captured, the Fourth Texas, under the lead of General Hood, was the first to pierce these strongholds and seize the guns.
Page 8 - He immediately formed his line nearly parallel to the road leading from that place toward McGehee's house, and soon became hotly engaged. The arrival of Jackson on our left was momentarily expected, and it was supposed that his approach would cause the extension of the enemy's line in that direction. Under this impression Longstreet was held back until this movement should commence. The principal part of the Federal Army was now on the north side of the Chickahominy.
Page 13 - The arduous service in which our troops had been engaged, their great privations of rest and food, and the long marches without shoes over mountain roads, had greatly reduced our ranks before the action began.
Page 179 - Had McClellan massed his whole force in column, and advanced it against any point of our line of battle, as was done at Austerlitz, under similar circumstances, by the greatest captain of any age, though the head of his column would have suffered greatly, its momentum would have insured him success and the occupation of our works about Richmond, and consequently the city, might have been his reward.
Page 12 - His left rested near Crew's house, and his right near Binford's. Immediately in his front the ground was open, varying in width from a quarter to half a mile, and, sloping gradually from the crest, was completely swept by the fire of his infantry and artillery. To reach this open ground our troops had to advance through a broken and thickly wooded country, traversed, nearly throughout its whole extent, by a swamp, passable at but few places, and difficult at those. The whole was within range of the...
Page 14 - Under ordinary circumstances the Federal Army should have been destroyed. Its escape was due to the causes already stated. Prominent among these is the want of correct and timely information. This fact, attributable chiefly to the character of the country, enabled General McClellan...
Page 33 - 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 238 - Justiciars of co-ordinate authority, one on the north and the other on the south of the...
Page 9 - On the right the troops moved forward with steadiness, unchecked by the terrible fire from the triple lines of infantry on the hill, and the cannon on both sides of the river, which burst upon them as they emerged upon the plain. The dead and wounded marked the way of their intrepid advance, the brave Texans leading, closely followed by their no lees daring comrades.