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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, XXVII. (search)
was almost as immovable as the eternal hills when settled, was grasping some subject of importance, the arguments against his own desires seemed uppermost in his mind, and, in conversing upon it, he would present those arguments to see if they could be rebutted. In illustration of this, it is only necessary to recall the fact that the interview between himself and the Chicago delegation of clergymen, appointed to urge upon him the issue of a proclamation of emancipation, took place September 13, 1862, more than a month after he had declared to the Cabinet his established purpose to take this step. He said to this committee: I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet! After drawing out their views upon the subject, he concluded the interview with these memorable words:-- Do not misunderstand me, because I have mentioned these objections. They indicate the difficulties which have thus
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 16: the lost order --South Mountain. (search)
months, if it should not destroy us. But later, the lost despatch having turned up at headquarters of General McClellan, that commander apprised the authorities of the true condition of affairs in the following: Headquarters, Frederick, September 13, 1862, 12 M. (Received 2.35 A. M., September 14.) To The President: I have the whole rebel force in front of me, but am confident, and no time shall be lost. I have a difficult task to perform, but with God's blessing will accomplish it. I th placed to co-operate at Chambersburg. My respects to Mrs. Lincoln. Received most enthusiastically by the ladies. Will send you trophies. All well, and with God's blessing will accomplish it. Geo. B. McClellan. Frederick City, Md., September 13, 1862, 11 P. M. ( Received 1 P. M., September 14.) Major-General H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief: Rebellion Record, vol. XIX. part II. p 281. An order from General R. E. Lee, addressed to General D. H. Hill, which has accidentally come into m
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 20: review of the Maryland campaign. (search)
cavalry leader, hurried his troops and cleared the way to South Mountain on the 13th. From day to day the Confederates marched their dispersing columns, from day to day the Union columns converged in easy, cautious marches. At noon of the 13th, General Lee's order distributing his forces and a despatch from the Governor of Pennsylvania were handed General McClellan,--the former the celebrated lost despatch, given on a previous page,--the latter reading as follows: Harrisburg, Pa., September 13, 1862. Major-General George B. McClellan: When may we expect General Reynolds here Services needed immediately. Longstreet s division is said to have reached Hagerstown last night. Jackson crossed the Potomac at Williamsport to capture Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry. We are assembling militia rapidly at Chambersburg. Can we do anything to aid your movements A. G. Curtin Governor of Pennsylvania. This told of the change of march of my brigades from Turner's Pass to Hagerstown,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The finding of Lee's lost order. (search)
inding of General Lee's lost dispatch, Special orders no. 191, and the manner in which it reached General McClellan, I beg leave to submit the following account: The Twelfth Army Corps arrived at Frederick, Maryland, about noon on the 13th of September, 1862. The 27th Indiana Volunteers, of which I was colonel at that date, belonged to the Third Brigade, First Division, of that corps. We stacked arms on the same ground that had been occupied by General D. H. Hill's division the evening b Your letter of the 9th inst has reached me. I cannot, at this interval of time, recall the name of the finder of the papers to which you refer — it is doubtful whether I ever knew the name. All that I can say is that on or about the 13th of September, 1862,--just before the battles of South Mountain aid Antietam,--there was handed to me by a member of my staff a copy (original) of one of General Lee's orders of march, directed to General D. H. Hill, which order developed General Lee's inten
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 18: Lee's invasion of Maryland, and his retreat toward Richmond. (search)
iles a day since he entered Maryland, watching rather than pursuing, for reasons already alluded to, and Lee doubtless supposed that pace would be kept up. When Lee's plan was discovered, on the day after he moved westward from Frederick, Sept. 13, 1862. the National army was in the vicinity of that city, excepting Franklin's corps of about seventeen thousand men, which was several miles nearer Harper's Ferry. Between him and that post was only the division of McLaws, not more than twenty tat you are wrong. The capture of this place will throw us back six months, if it should not destroy us. Beware of the evils I now point out to you. You saw them when here, but you seem to forget them in the distance. --Letter to McClellan, September 13, 1862. The National army moved in pursuit, from Frederick, in two columns, the right and center toward Turner's Gap, in South Mountain, in front of Middletown, Burnside leading the advance; and the left, composed of Franklin's corps, toward C
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 21: slavery and Emancipation.--affairs in the Southwest. (search)
would do it, he said. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. Finally a committee, composed of a deputation from a Convention of Christians of all of the denominations of Chicago, waited upon him, Sept. 13, 1862. and presented him with a memorial, requesting him at once to issue a proclamation of Universal Emancipation. The President, believing that the time had not yet come (though rapidly approaching) when such a proclamation would be proper, made an earnest and argumentative reply; saying, in allusion to the then discouraging aspect of military affairs under the administration of McClellan in the East and Buell in the West, What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especiall
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
& M. W. Chancellorsville, Va. 4 Siege of Petersburg, Va. 5 Gettysburg, Pa. 41 Weldon Railroad, Va. 7 Wilderness, Va. 55 Poplar Spring Church, Va. 1 Spotsylvania, Va. 17 Hatcher's Run, Va. 5 Bethesda Church, Va. 3 White Oak Road, Va. 3 Picket Line, Va. 2 Five Forks, Va. 6 Present, also, at Fredericksburg; Rappahannock Station; Mine Run North Anna; Totopotomoy; White Oak Swamp (1864); Appomattox. notes.--Organized at Rochester, N. Y., and mustered into service September 13, 1862, leaving the State on September 20. The regiment joined the Army of the Potomac in November, and was assigned to Warren's (3d) Brigade, Sykes's (2d) Division, Fifth Corps. It was present with this command at Fredericksburg, where it was under fire for the first time, a few of the men being wounded there. Colonel O'Rorke was killed at Gettysburg while leading his men into action on Little Round Top, where their prompt action aided largely in seizing that important position, the regim
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 15: Confederate losses — strength of the Confederate Armies--casualties in Confederate regiments — list of Confederate Generals killed — losses in the Confederate Navy. (search)
orgia Anderson's Jones's 12 116 -- 128 26th Georgia Lawton's Ewell's 37 87 -- 124 60th Georgia Lawton's Ewell's 22 101 -- 123 6th South Carolina Jenkins's Pickett's 13 102 -- 115 15th Alabama Trimble's Ewell's 21 91 -- 112 2d Louisiana Starke's Jackson's 25 86 -- 111 Richmond, Ky.             August 30, 1862.             2d Tennessee B. J. Hill's Cleburne's 17 95 -- 112 13th Tennessee Preston Smith's Cleburne's 12 35 1 48 Maryland Heights, Md.             Sept. 13, 1862.             7th South Carolina Kershaw's McLaws's 13 100 -- 113 Crampton's Gap, Md.             Sept. 14, 1862.             16th Georgia Cobb's McLaws's 24 56 107 187 24th Georgia Cobb's McLaws's 12 59 55 126 15th North Carolina Cobb's McLaws's 11 48 124 183 Antietam, Md.             Sept. 17, 1862.             3d North Carolina Garland's D. H. Hill's 46 207 -- Includes loss at South Mountain on the 14th.253 13th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 219 (search)
Doc. 206.-fight at Fayetteville, Va. Colonel Toland's report. Hadquarters Thirty-Fourth regiment, O. V. I., on the steamer Mary Cook, Ohio River, September 17, 1862. sir: I have the honor to report the following engagements of the forces under my command, during the four days commencing September tenth, 1862, and ending September thirteenth, 1862. On Wednesday, the tenth inst., I ordered four companies under command of Lieut.-Col. Franklin, Thirty-fourth regiment O. V. I., to make a reconnoissance to Cassidy's Mills, two companies to go on the Laurel Creek road, and the remaining two on the Raleigh road. He did not discover the enemy. Soon after the engagement had commenced in town, I sent a division under command of Capt. H. C. Hatfield, Co. A, to our right to skirmish and protect our train on the Gauley road. I then advanced with the two remaining divisions and attacked the enemy on his left, who was posted in the woods on the summit of a steep hill, overlooking
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
ervant, S. Crutchfield, Colonel and Chief of Artillery of Second Corps. Report of Colonel Crutciifield of capture of Harper's Ferry and battle of Sharpsburg. headquarters artillery Second corps, April 16, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. Faulkner, Assistant Adjutant-General: Colonel: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the artillery of this army corps in the capture of Harper's Ferry and battle of Sharpsburg, in September, 1862: On Saturday, September thirteen, 1862, the command of Lieutenant-General Jackson appeared before Harper's Ferry, on the southern side, having approached it from Martinsburg. That day was spent in reconnaissance. On Sunday a cannonade was opened on the enemy from the batteries of Brigadier-General John G. Walker from Loudoun Heights, and from those of Major-General McLaws from Maryland Heights. The enemy were strongly intrenched on Bolivar Heights and just around the house of the former superintendent of the armo
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