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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
South-east, General W. H. F. Lee had made an unsuccessful attack, on the 10th of February, upon Gloucester Point on York River, and a few days later, on the 25th, he cannonaded the Federal ships in the Rappahannock, while his cousin, crossing that river some distance below Falmouth, surprised a Federal post and captured about one hundred prisoners at a place called Leedstown. Finally, in Northern Virginia, Captain McNeil, on the 16th of February captured a Federal convoy near Romney. On the 26th, General Jones, prior to his expedition along the Monongahela, made a bold move in the Valley of the Shenandoah, and, surprising two cavalry regiments which had been sent by Milroy for the purpose of checking his course, dispersed them near Strasburg, taking two hundred prisoners. A detachment of his brigade even pushed on as far as the Potomac, and, crossing the river in boats, captured about sixty Federals near Poolesville in Maryland. The Federal mounted men were not so sprightly as th
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
saster of Hartsville, assume the offensive against Morgan, who covers Bragg's right wing. On the 26th, General Palmer surprises a detachment of Southern cavalry at Woodbury, taking about one hundred ith the remainder of his column, makes another attack against his positions on the morning of the 26th, but fails, as Carter has failed the day before; and being no doubt unable to again bring his disagain the Federals who undertook to break the monotony of camp-life by some bold strokes. On the 26th one of their detachments advanced to within twelve miles of McMinnville, dispersing a squad of SoJune these troops were ordered to furnish some detachments which were to meet at Clarendon on the 26th. But heavy rains swelled the streams and broke up the roads to such a degree that, after unparaloops. These two brigades of cavalry numbered nearly three thousand men. During the night of the 26th, Green made them dismount and attack the fort with great vigor. But the two hundred and twenty-f
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
lways happens everywhere under similar circumstances, against monopolists—broke out first at Salisbury in North Carolina on the 19th of March and at Raleigh on the 26th; then even at Richmond on the 2d of April, and on the 15th at Mobile. In order to ward off the evil, at least for the future, the government conceived the idea ofway at the east. Delayed by the necessity of letting his horses graze again, he was unable to get beyond the Occoquan, which he reached at Wolf Run Shoals on the 26th, and arrived in two columns on the 27th at Burke's and Fairfax Stations. He found everywhere traces of the departure of the Federal army, gathered some provisions' disaster, brought on by his obstinacy in not evacuating the place at that time, had not enlightened him in the least. Consequently, when, on the evening of the 26th, Hooker telegraphed him that he intended to abandon this post, whose garrison, wanted elsewhere, was only a useless bait for the enemy, and asked him if he had any