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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
o make a charge with the bayonet into the woods occupied by the enemy. This operation was handsomely executed, and resulted in driving back the Confederates in confusion. Thus, when all was lost, Sumner's soldierly promptitude saved the day, as Moreau, flying to the assistance of Napoleon when hard pressed by the Austrians in Italy, chained victory to the standards of the French. O Moreau! exclaimed that illustrious war-minister Carnot, on hearing of this; oh, my dear Fabius, how great you wMoreau! exclaimed that illustrious war-minister Carnot, on hearing of this; oh, my dear Fabius, how great you were in that circumstance! how superior to the wretched rivalries of generals, which so often cause the best-laid enterprises to miscarry! Alison: History of Europe, vol. III., p. 327. The brave old Sumner now sleeps in a soldier's grave; but that one act of heroic duty must embalm his memory in the hearts of his countrymen. In this bloody encounter the Confederates lost nearly seven thousand men, and the Union army upwards of five thousand. But a severer loss befell the Confederates tha
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
n at, 391; cause of delays of Meade's advance, 392; delays of the Third Corps, 394; the difficulties in crossing the Rapidan, 392; Lee gains time to concentrate, 394; Meade's plan of attack, 396; Warren's intended attack on Lee's right, 395; Warren's attack impossible, and failure of the plan, 396; Warren's forlorn hope fastening their names to their coats, 397; Warren finds attack on Lee's right hopeless, 397; Meade withdraws his army, 397. Morale of an army, what constitutes it, 255. Moreau, a movement of compared with Sumner's crossing of the Chickahominy, 138. Mountain warfare, characteristics of, 36. Mud campaign, Banks' Ford, the crossing prevented by a storm, 259. Mustering out, haphazard policy of Government, 309. Napier, Sir, William, on judgment upon unsuccessful generals, 121. Napoleon, notes on invasion of England, 99; on fighting without line of retreat, 146; on the chessboard of war, 246; on attacking positions in front, 493; on changes of base, 498.