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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Left flank movement across the Chickahominy and James-General Lee-visit to Butler-the movement on Petersburg-the investment of Petersburg (search)
n accounting of the breaking out afresh of the wound he had received at Gettysburg. During the day Meade assaulted and carried one more redan to his right and two to his left. In all this we lost very heavily. The works were not strongly manned, but they all had guns in them which fell into our hands, together with the men who were handling them in the effort to repel these assaults. Up to this time Beauregard, who had commanded south of Richmond, had received no reinforcements, except Hoke's division from Drury's Bluff, City Point, Va., June 17, 1864, 11 A. M. Major-Gen. Halleck, Washington, D. C. The enemy in their endeavor to reinforce Petersburg abandoned their intrenchments in front of Bermuda Hundred. They no doubt expected troops from north of the James River to take their place before we discovered it. General Butler took advantage of this and moved a force at once upon the railroad and plank road between Richmond and Petersburg, which I hope to retain possession
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Expedition against Fort Fisher-attack on the Fort-failure of the expedition-second expedition against the Fort-capture of Fort Fisher (search)
forcements the moment they saw our troops landing. The Governor of North Carolina called for everybody who could stand behind a parapet and shoot a gun, to join them. In this way they got two or three hundred additional men into Fort Fisher; and Hoke's division, five or six thousand strong, was sent down from Richmond. A few of these troops arrived the very day that Butler was ready to advance. On the 24th the fleet formed for an attack in arcs of concentric circles, their heavy iron-cladthe works. Here he saw that the fort had not been injured, and so reported to Butler, advising against an assault. Ames, who had gone north in his advance, captured 228 of the reserves. These prisoners reported to Butler that sixteen hundred of Hoke's division of six thousand from Richmond had already arrived and the rest would soon be in his rear. Upon these reports Butler determined to withdraw his troops from the peninsula and return to the fleet. At that time there had not been a man
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 23: battle of Fredericksburg (continued). (search)
(Va.) battery, Lieut. V. J. Clutter; Letcher (Va.) Art., Capt. G. Davidson; Pee Dee (S. C.) Art., Capt. D. G. McIntosh; Purcell (Va.) Art., Capt. W. J. Pegram. Ewell's division, Brig.-Gen. Jubal A. Early:--Lawton's Brigade, (1) Col. E. N. Atkinson, (2) Col. C. A. Evans; 13th Ga., Col. J. M. Smith; 26th Ga., Capt. B. F. Grace; 31st Ga., Col. C. A. Evans; 38th Ga., Capt. William L. McLeod; 60th Ga., Col. W. H. Stiles; 61st Ga., Col. J. H. Lamar, Maj. C. W. McArthur. Trimble's Brigade, Col. R. F. Hoke; 15th Ala.; 12th Ga.; 21st Ga., Lieut.-Col. Thomas W. Hooper; 21st N. C. and 1st N. C. Battn. Early's Brigade, Col. J. A. Walker; 13th Va., Lieut.-Col. J. B. Terrill; 25th, 31st, 44th, 49th, 52d, and 58th Va. Hays's (1st La.) Brigade, Gen. Harry T. Hays; 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th La. Artillery, Capt. J. W. Latimer; Charlottesville (Va.) Art., Capt. J. McD. Carrington; Chesapeake (Md.) Art., Lieut. John E. Plater; Courtney (Va.) Art., Lieut. W. A. Tanner; 1st Md. Batt., Capt. Willia
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Petersburg and Richmond: December 31st, 1864. (search)
Lieut.-Col. Charles Richardson: La. Battery, Capt. R. P. Landry; Va. Battery, Capt. J. D. Moore; Va. Battery, Capt. C. R. Grandy; Va. Battery, Capt. Nathan Penick. Lane's Battalion, Maj. John Lane: Ga. Battery, Capt. J. T. Wingfield; Ga. Battery, Capt. G. M. Patterson; Ga. Battery, Capt. H. M. Ross. Owen's Battalion, Maj. W. M. Owen: Va. Battery, Capt. J. H. Chamberlayne; Va. Battery, Capt. Crispin Dickenson; Va. Battery, Capt. D. N. Walker. Anderson's Corps, Lieut.-Gen. R.:H. Anderson. Hoke's division (started for Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 20th, 1864), Maj.-Gen. R. F. Hoke. Hagood's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Johnson Hagood: 11th S. C., Col. F. H. Gantt; 21st S. C., Col. R. F. Graham; 25th S. C., Col. C. H. Simonton; 27th . C., Col. P. C. Gaillard; 7th S. C. Batt'n, Maj. J. H. Rion. Colquitt's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. A. H. Colquitt: 6th Ga., Lieut.-Col. S. W. Harris; 19th Ga., Col. J. H. Neal; 23d Ga., Col. M. R. Ballenger; 27th Ga., Capt. E. D. Graham; 28th Ga., Capt. J. A. Johnson. Clin
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the campaign of the Carolinas. (search)
il 9th, upon which date it was partly reorganized. Army of Tennessee.--General Joseph E. Johnston, General G. T. Beauregard (Second in command). Escort: Capt. E. M. Holloway. Hardee's Corps, At Bentonville consisted of the divisions of Hoke, McLaws, and W. B. Taliaferro. Maj.-Gen. Lafayette McLaws was assigned April 10th to command the District of Georgia. Lieut.-Gen. William J. Hardee. Escort and Scouts, Capts. W. C. Raum and J. B. L. Walpole. Artillery, Col. A. J. Gonzales. Bidated 1st, 2d, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 15th, 19th, and 24th Ark., and 3d Confederate), Col. E. A. Howell; 1st Tex. (consolidated 6th, 7th, 10th, and 15th inf., and 17th, 18th, 24th, and 25th Tex., dismounted cavalry), Lieut.-Col. W. A. Ryan. Hoke's division, From the Department of North Carolina, commanded by Genera] Braxton Bragg. Maj.-Gen. R. F. Hoke. Clingman's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Thomas L. Clin gman: 8th N. C., Lieut.-Col. R. A. Barrier; 31st N. C., Lieut.-Col. C. W. Knight; 36th
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of Bentonville. (search)
ring together these detached bodies of troops. Hoke's fine division from the Army of Northern Virgi and rendered gallant and efficient service. Hoke's division left the Army of Northern Virginia fnville next morning we moved by the left flank, Hoke's division leading, to the ground selected by Gcolumn appeared a very heavy attack was made on Hoke's division, and Bragg, fearing he could not mai says in his Narrative : The enemy attacked Hoke's division vigorously, especially its left — so vigorously that General Bragg apprehended that Hoke, although slightly intrenched, would be driven apidly moving down on our rear and left flank. Hoke then held our left, and General Johnston directmade repeated attacks during the day, mainly on Hoke's division. In all of them he was repulsed, an in command of this division, but it was really Hoke's division, and Hoke directed the fighting. ThHoke directed the fighting. These troops, concentrated only recently for the first time, were stationed at and near Smithfield, ei[4 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
hed for the Rappahannock, at Rappahannock Station, and French's moved toward the same stream at Kelley's Ford. Lee, then in position near Culpepper Court-House, had outposts at these crossings. At Rappahannock Station Sedgwick found the strong works thrown up previously by the Nationals on the north side of the river, and now covering a pontoon bridge, occupied by about two thousand men, of Early's division of Ewell's corps, under Colonel Godwin, composed of Hayes's Louisiana brigade, and Hoke's brigade of North Carolinians, just sent over. These works, consisting of a fort, two redoubts, and lines of rifle-pits, were on a ridge, with an open lowland traversed by a muddy ditch, and a dry moat, deep and broad, between them and the approaching Nationals. Sedgwick reached the vicinity at noon, and behind a hill, a mile away, he formed a battle-line, and then gradually advanced toward the river on each flank of the works, with General David A. Russell's division of the Sixth Corps (t
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 12: operations against Richmond. (search)
hich had been taken in transports around to White House. The two armies were now upon the old battle-field of Lee and McClellan two years before. The Confederate line, which had just been re-enforced by troops under Breckinridge, extended, with its cavalry on its flanks, a short distance from Hanover Court-House, down nearly to Bottom's Bridge. A. P. Hill's corps occupied its right, Longstreet's its center, and Ewell's its left. On the morning of the first of June, an attempt was made by Hoke's division to retake Cool Arbor. Sheridan had been ordered to hold it at all hazards, and he did so. His men dismounted, and fought desperately with their carbines. The assailants were repulsed, but were quickly re-enforced by McLaws's division. Wright's corps arrived in time to meet this new danger; and when, at three o'clock in the afternoon, General Smith came up, after a march of twenty-five miles, He had been erroneously directed to march to New Castle, instead of New Cool Arbor, a
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
and as Congress had made no provision for a medal to colored troops, I determined to have one struck, and designed the one you have, some two hundred of which were afterward distributed to these brave men the only silver medals given to private soldiers during the war. Battery Harrison was so important to the Confederates, that a desperate! attempt was made Oct. 1, 1864. to retake it under the immediate direction of General Lee, who massed some of his best troops against it, under Generals Hoke and Field. They were driven back with a loss of seven battle-flags, and the almost annihilation of Clingman's (North The Butler medal. Carolina) brigade. General Butler's Address to the Soldiers of the Army of the James, October 11, 1864. Meanwhile General Kautz had pushed up the Charles City road to the inner lines of the Confederates, within three or four miles of Richmond, where he was attacked Oct. 7, and driven back with a loss of nine guns and about four hundred men mad
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
about seven thousand Confederates under General R. F. Hoke. These consisted of three infantry brighe river was an out-post called Fort Warren. Hoke approached Plymouth so secretly, that he was withe struggle vigorously, and, in the mean time, Hoke opened fire on Fort Wessells, a mile nearer therrender. Plymouth was now closely besieged. Hoke pressed it heavily for a day or two, when the Aious effect. On the following day April 20. Hoke pushed his batteries to within an average distam led a brigade to the attack on the right, and Hoke conducted, in person, two brigades in the assaug and burning some buildings. From Plymouth, Hoke went to New Berne and demanded its surrender; a recaptured Bombshell, with her valuable guns. Hoke waited in vain for the Albemarle to help him insioned officers. From them Butler learned that Hoke's division had been detached from the army at Pthers were pressing on. Knowing the strength of Hoke's division, Butler was satisfied that a force, [1 more...]
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