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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 19. the siege of Suffolk, Virginia. (search)
h Lee at Chancellorsville. If Lee, with fifty odd thousand, forced General Hooker over the Rappahannock, no doubt that with ninety thousand he would have demoralized his army. Independent of the credit of holding Longstreet's army from Lee, my command is entitled to great honor for saving itself, many thousand contrabands, the Navy Yard, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, two railways, eighty odd miles of track, and the navigation of the James and Hampton Roads. The value of this latter service may be appreciated by supposing I had been overwhelmed by Longstreet. Defeat at Chancellorsville and Suffolk would indeed have disheartened the people and embarrassed the government at one of the most critical periods of its domestic and foreign relations. With such defeats the nation would have had no glorious Gettysburg in 1863, to gladden loyal hearts by stemming and turning back the aggressive tide of rebellion. I am, very respectfully Your obedient servant, John Peck, Major-General.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Telegrams. (search)
ith Lee at Chancellorsville. If Lee, with fifty odd thousand, forced General Hooker over the Rappahannock, no doubt that with ninety thousand he would have demoralized his army. Independent of the credit of holding Longstreet's army from Lee, my command is entitled to great honor for saving itself, many thousand contrabands, the Navy Yard, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, two railways, eighty odd miles of track, and the navigation of the James and Hampton Roads. The value of this latter service may be appreciated by supposing I had been overwhelmed by Longstreet. Defeat at Chancellorsville and Suffolk would indeed have disheartened the people and embarrassed the government at one of the most critical periods of its domestic and foreign relations. With such defeats the nation would have had no glorious Gettysburg in 1863, to gladden loyal hearts by stemming and turning back the aggressive tide of rebellion. I am, very respectfully Your obedient servant, John Peck, Major-General.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 94 (search)
commander, and he proposes to return to Newbern to-morrow. I cannot learn that there is any considerable force of the enemy on the river now, though such is the report from various sources. I very much doubt if there is any design of bringing the thing (iron-clad) down. Still there may be, as they say, when the Neuse-Ram is ready. I am desirous of seeing more troops in this State, &c. Commander Flusser, also, wrote to Commander Davenport, Senior Naval Officer, viz.: I think General Peck misinterpreted General Wessels' letter. We have had no scare here yet, and not even a small one for several days. These able commanders had so much confidence in their ability to hold their positions against anything the enemy could bring against them, that they sent back the reinforcements sent them. This action placed me entirely at rest respecting affairs at Plymouth. On Monday (eighteenth) afternoon, about 5:30 P. M., I received advices by deserters that General Corse was in f
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 7: first Western tour.—1847. (search)
ored Pittsburgh friends—J. B. Vashon and son (George B.), Dr. Peck, Dr. Delaney (editor of the Mystery, black as jet, M. R.al debility. . . . Saturday forenoon, Milo [Townsend], Dr. Peck, Dr. Weaver, Aug. 14, 1847. Charles Schirras, and myselfape of solid matter. Saturday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, Dr. Peck (he is a fine, Aug. 14. promising colored young man, son of my old friend John Peck, now of Pittsburgh, and formerly of Carlisle), who has lately graduated at the Rush Medical Colle distance of forty miles. J. W. Walker, S. S. Foster, and Dr. Peck helped to fill up the gap at the meetings. To-day, I Au, and we sang together a number of songs before we left. Dr. Peck . . . was my companion—Mr. Jackson, a colored citizen of andlord came out and took off our luggage, supposing that Dr. Peck was Mr. Douglass. I requested him to show us a chamber, saying a word. As soon as he left us, I said to my friend Peck, Dr., I am inclined to think, from the looks of the landlor
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
June 6, 1775, at Charlestown.—See Frothingham's Siege of Boston, 111-113. Sketches of both these men are given in the Genealogies. E. Russell's Salem Gazette, under date of May 5, 1775, reports them missing—supposed to be on board one of the men of war. A Journal kept during the Time that Boston was Shut up in 1775-6, by Timothy Newell, Esq., one of the Selectmen of the Town (see Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. i., fourth series, p. 262), contains the following, under date of June 6, 1775: Mr. John Peck, Mr. Frost, Mr. Brewer, and sundry others, discharged from on board the Admiral, in exchange of prisoners, viz. Major Dunbar, Capt. Gould, and a number of wounded soldiers. Smith's Address contains very full particulars of the doings in Menotomy during the retreat of the British. Two incidents of the conflict as they continued their retreat below Cooper's Tavern are here reproduced from that work:— Edward Hall, 1st. Lieut. of the Royal 43d Regiment, was wounded in the arm at C<
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], 50 dollars reward (search)
y taken place between Major General Pickett, of the Confederate army, and Major General Peck, commanding the Yankee forces at Newbern, N. C. In the fight near Newberntil I learn your action in the premises." Gen. Pickett, in his reply, gives Peck to understand that the paragraph is without foundation and ridiculous, but takesery man you hang, I will hang ten (10) of the U. S. A." The next letter of Peck encloses a list of fifty three names, whom he alleges "are loyal and true North tice many who have up to this time escaped their just deserts. He returns to Gen. Peck the names of those who have been tried and convicted by Court- Martial for dethe 2d North Carolina regiment. I am, very respectfully, your ob't serv't, John Peck, Major-General. Headq'r Department, N. Carolina, Petersburg, Va., Feb.paragraph of my letter of the 16th inst. I am, General, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, G. E. Pickett, Maj.-Gen. Major-General John Peck, U. S. A.