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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General Pope—Battle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
n any doubt as to the road? Pope claims that this doubt delayed the arrival of Siegel's corps several hours, and rendered it impracticable for it to be pushed to the front, as he had designed, on the afternoon of the next day. The morning of August 9 found Jackson, with his whole force, pursuing his way northerly on Bayard's line of retreat towards Culpeper. Crawford's brigade then occupied a strong position on the low ground of Cedar Creek, with Bayard's cavalry in his front, and batteriese's chief-of-staff, was the answer. I did not know it, said Banks; I thought he was just behind the woods, on Crawford's right. Although the consolidated report Pope's Official Report. of Banks's corps, made some days previous to the ninth of August, exhibited an effective force of something over 14,000 men,--made up of infantry, 13,343; artillery, 1,224; cavalry, 4,104: total, 18,671,--less 3,500 infantry and artillery left at Front Royal and Winchester, Pope in his official report dis
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 9: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
distance of about twenty miles. Instead of obeying these orders, he sent a note (which the latter received after night on the 8th), dated at Sperryville at 6.30 P. M., asking by what road he should march to Culpeper Court House. This delay of Siegel's detained him until too late for the action,--delayed him, as Pope says, Pope's Official Report by the singular uncertainty of what road he ought to pursue. Nor was this all. At this vital hour, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the ninth of August, Siegel's corps had not yet arrived at Culpeper, and, worse than that, when it did arrive, the men were hungry as well as jaded, for they were without rations. I had given notice, says Pope, that the whole army of Virginia should always be ready to move at the shortest notice, and should habitually keep two days rations in their haversack; and this Pope seems to have thought sufficient to assure, beyond peradventure, the arrival of Siegel at Culpeper with food at all events on the day
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 10: General Banks's orders and responsibility. (search)
understand it. And yet again, before the McDowell Court of Inquiry, Pope testified under oath that on the morning of August 9, in a personal interview at my headquarters at Culpeper, I gave Banks instructions. I told him if the enemy advanced too attack Jackson, save with his skirmishers. Second, we have the order communicated at 9.45 in the morning of the ninth of August by Colonel Lewis Marshall, Pope's adjutant-general, and reduced to writing by Major L. H. Pelouze, Banks's adjutant-form of sworn testimony before the McDowell Court of Inquiry. General Roberts testifies: Early in the morning of the ninth of August I was sent to the front of the army with directions, when Banks should reach a position where the night before I hadmnation must fall upon the commander who in the presence of all that transpired in his front from the morning of the ninth of August until his final fatal assault upon the enemy, made that assault, with the knowledge that in his rear, a distance of