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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 17: Second battle of Bull Bun (search)
d sixty thousand. Lee moved toward Pope, at first directly. Pope now had all of McDowell's corps and part of Burnside's. The rest of the latter was retained to guard the lower fords of the Rappahannock. As soon as Lee began to advance in earnest, Pope drew back to the north side of the Rappahannock, placing Banks to keep his center near the railroad crossing. McDowell was designated to hold the left and lower crossings, and Sigel the right and upper, while the active cavalry now under Buford and Bayard took care of Pope's extreme right flank. After a few skirmishes Lee began a turning operation. On August 22d, the day I reached Philadelphia on my way back to the army, Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, preceded by Stuart's cavalry, up the Rappahannock as far as Sulphur Springs, well beyond Pope's power to defend. Lee then, with Longstreet, followed slowly. In the face of this strategic move, Pope decided to retire from the Rappahannock, but Halleck interposed and directed Pope
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 24: the battle of Gettysburg begun (search)
er Pleasonton, well forward-one division under Buford aiming for Gettysburg, and the others fightingng the suburbs at 11 A. M., when he discovered Buford's division rapidly approaching. Pettigrew, wh on the extreme left of Meade's general line. Buford's division of cavalry cooperated with this winery before nine o'clock. Without hesitation Buford's command opened fire upon them, enfilading th his First Corps was on the field and soon met Buford near the seminary. It appears that Reynoldst. Wadsworth, with Cutler's brave troops, and Buford still there to help him, deployed, pressed foroubleday to hold the First, and the cavalry of Buford to remain with him. Reynolds's last call for hng my senior aid, Major C. H. Howard, to visit Buford, I rode off to the left, passing in the rear ot on the left of Baltimore pike. I instructed Buford to pass to the extreme left and extend the newen route. The First and Eleventh Corps and General Buford's cavalry did their duty nobly that first [11 more...]
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 25: the battle of Gettysburg; the second and third day (search)
ack the evening before, for Slocum's division had come up and been placed. Sickles had heeded my call and was on hand with a part of his corps. He and Geary and Buford's cavalry together then took care of the left. Out batteries had been placed, and then the simple fact that so much help had already arrived gave heart to our oforps arriving, was placed in reserve; and all the army reserve of artillery Hunt carefully placed in the angle between the Baltimore pike and the Taneytown road. Buford's cavalry had gone to the rear for rest and to protect the trains, and, by some unaccountable misunderstanding, no cavalry whatever was in the vicinity of our lefs (the Fifth and the Eleventh) marched thirty miles to the Middletown Valley. The 8th, Schurz's division, was dispatched to Boonsboro. This preferred to support Buford's cavalry, which had some time before met the retreating Confederates and been engaged for hours. My other divisions guarded the mountain pass there till the arr