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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 191 19 Browse Search
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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 42 12 Browse Search
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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 15: the rest at Harrison's Landing. (search)
on caused them to make a hasty departure and then a force was crossed which fortified the hill and no further trouble came from that direction. At this time Gen. Halleck had been called from his duties in the Mississippi and made Commanding General of the U. S. Army, with headquarters at Washington. On the night of August 3,d division, Second Corps; which Division was assigned to cover the retreat of the army to the Chickahominy River, upon its evacuation of Harrison's Landing. Gen. Halleck, commander-in-chief, was opposed to any further demonstrations against Richmond from the position then occupied by the Army of the Potomac. McClellan, howevero further demonstration at that time against Richmond. (This was exactly the plan adopted by Grant two years later, by which he took Richmond and destroyed Lee.) Halleck, however, deemed the idea dangerous and impracticable and so, after a stay of six weeks at Harrison's Landing, during which time the army had recovered from its l
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 16: the march down the Peninsula. (search)
languishing in Libby Prison. The embarkation of the army from the Peninsula took place from three points, simultaneously,—Yorktown, Fortress Monroe and Newport News. Every conceivable thing that would float was brought into requisition,—steamers, transports, ferry boats, tugs, schooners, barges, flatboats and scows. The waters at each of these points were black with them. The ten thousand sick and wounded had first to be provided for, and this necessitated much correspondence between Halleck and McClellan. The former worried at what he was pleased to consider delay, on account of Pope's movement at the head of the newly formed Army of Virginia which needed the co-operation of McClellan's army, and the latter insisted that no earthly power could do better with the inadequate transportation at this command, which he requested should be increased. The Second Army Corps of Sumner was the last to leave the Peninsula. The rest of two days had done much toward recuperating the me
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
............ 285 Hall's Brigade, ............................................... 205, 241, 246 Hall, Charles A., ...................................................... 146 Hall, Ephriam A., Jr.,........................51, 152, 192, 258, 261, 276, 299 Hall, Gen. Norman J. ................................ 158, 185, 233, 239, 247 Hall, Samuel A., ........................................................ 143 Hall, Thomas, .................................................... 323, 329 Halleck, Major General,..............................114, 115 Ham, George B.,...................................................... 249 Ham, George P., ...................................................... 262 Hamilton, William, ................................................... 291 Hampton, Va.,.................................................... 55, 118 Hancock, General, 177, 178, 209, 213, 215, 223, 225, 226, 229, 230, 239, 242, 321, 357 Hancock's Night Walkers. .......................