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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 26 6 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 14 2 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 5 1 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
in command of the reserve artillery on the Peninsula, relieved General Barry as chief of artillery, and remained in that position till the close of the war. General Pleasonton commanded the cavalry division. The army with which McClellan set out on the Maryland campaign, made an aggregate of eighty-seven thousand one hundred and housand men, held the centre, while Burnside remained inactive on the left, not having yet passed the Antietam. The left of Sumner's command was sustained by Pleasonton's cavalry division and the horse batteries, to whose support most of Sykes' division (Porter's corps) in the afternoon crossed the Antietam Now, between twelve ent stores, and after making the entire circuit of the Union army, recrossed the Potomac below the mouth of the Monocacy. He was all the way closely pursued by Pleasonton with eight hundred cavalry, but though that officer marched seventy-eight miles in twenty-four hours, he was unable to intercept or overtake his fast-riding riv
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 8 (search)
thousand six hundred and sixty-one. (infantry and artillery), with a body of twelve thousand well-equipped cavalry, Pleasonton: Official Returns, May 27th. and a powerful artillery force of above four hundred guns. Hunt: Report of Artillery Opsuccess, the result of which he communicated to Hooker, General Sickles asked for re-enforcements; and, at his request, Pleasonton's cavalry and two brigades of infantry were sent him. As one of these brigades was taken from the Twelfth Corps, and th staff opposed their persons and drawn sabres to the panic-stricken fugitives. But it chanced that at this moment, General Pleasonton, who had gone out with his cavalry to re-enforce Sickles, was returning, and on learning the giving way of the righlfth Corps, under Captain Best, and Hay's brigade of the Second Corps, formed a line to check the enemy in front, while Pleasonton and Sickles assailed his right flank; and fifty pieces of artillery, vomiting their missiles in wild curves of fire ath
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
before, was much reduced by the severe service to which it had been put. General Pleasonton, who succeeded General Stoneman in the command of the cavalry, gives its eventy-seven horses—one-third its strength by the March report.—Report of General Pleasonton, May 27th. there was now less disproportion between the two armies than gof General Hooker to General Halleck, June 6th. Accordingly, on the 9th, General Pleasonton, with two divisions of cavalry under Buford and Gregg, supported by two ps his right and rear and united with the division under Buford, whereupon General Pleasonton retired his command across the Rappahannock. This engagement between the and Manassas, covering the approaches to Washington, while the cavalry under Pleasonton was thrown out to feel towards the passes of the Blue Ridge. Here Longstreeth Corps to Leesburg, the Fifth to Aldie, and the Second to Thoroughfare Gap. Pleasonton, meanwhile, followed up Stuart, driving him on the 20th through Middleburg, a
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 10 (search)
pper on the 11th to find that the whole army had moved behind the Rappahannock some hours before. He then halted during the rest of the 11th at Culpepper, while Stuart pressed the rear of Meade's column, which was covered by the cavalry under Pleasonton. Buford's division of troopers had crossed the Rapidan at Germanna Ford on the night of the 10th, after the Confederates had begun their movement, but was met on the morning of the 11th by Fitz Hugh Lee's horsemen; whereupon Buford, falling back over the Rapidan, united at Brandy Station with Pleasonton's main body of cavalry, and then followed the army across the Rappahannock. On the following morning, Monday, October 12th, Lee advanced from Culpepper; but finding that Meade had been too quick for him, and that his first turning movement had failed, owing to the rapid retreat of his opponent, he determined, instead of following up Meade by the direct line of his retreat, to make a new flank movement by routes to the west, with
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
rt Gregg, 602; evacuated by Lee, 604; Lee's retreat from, and pursuit of—see Retreat. Petersburg mine fiasco, the, 518; Burnside's choice of assaulting column by lot, 521; Burnside's corps, the morale of before the assault, 521; effect of the explosion, 523; General Ledlie's assault after the explosion, 522; the disaster at the crater, 524; reports of Committee on the Conduct of the War and military court of inquiry, 524. Piedmont, the battle of, 469. Pipe Creek—see Gettysburg. Pleasonton's report of strength of cavalry after Chancellorsville, 310. Po, the river—see Spottsylvania. Pope, campaign in Northern Virginia, 167; placed in command of Army of Virginia (McDowell, Banks and Fremont), 168; his military reputation, 168; his bombastic nonsense on assuming command, and its popularity, 169; thought he could march to New Orleans with such an army as McClellan's, 169; Cedar Mountain, the battle of, 173; retrograde movement, 175; Jackson manoeuvring to flank his right, <