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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 11: battle of Bull Run (search)
nion column of 28,568 men and 49 cannon. Centreville was in 1861 an inconsiderable village with ide scattered along a ridge. The road from Centreville to Manassas Junction followed the trend of nd comprehensive: Dixon Miles's division to Centreville; Hunter to get as near Centreville as he coCentreville as he could and have water; while Heintzelman was to move up to the Little Rocky Run on the road, hence to Centreville. A postscript gave zest to his message to Tyler, who was in front of Miles: Observe w Runyon's at Alexandria were grouped around Centreville. McDowell, too, had his plan. Saturday night (July 20th), at his unpretentious Centreville headquarters, he assembled his division and brigaons; Miles's division will be behind you at Centreville for a reserve. Hunter, you go over Cub Runy enough, instead of taking a short road to Centreville, the unreasoning multitude went back the loermont man within reach: To the old camp at Centreville. Rally at the Centreville camp. No orga
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 13: General E. V. Sumner and my first reconnoissance (search)
project; 4th, via the Virginia Peninsula, and 5th, to ascend the south bank of the James. At Centreville he was only in position to meet the first or second. That move of a division to a point oppon and the Chesapeake Bay. This, too, Jolmston seems to have anticipated. His abandonment of Centreville was completed by the close of the 9th and his action in this was known on my front that same d the bridge building, which did not deceive Johnston nor arrest his preparations for leaving Centreville, but rather quickened them, set the ball in motion. A brigade, E. Kirby Smith's, stationed ar joined the main Confederate army at Manassas Junction. The news, a few days later, came: Centreville is evacuated. It startled and disappointed everybody at Washington. The peninsular plan nowia and settled back into our old ways of living, so that the news of the actual evacuation of Centreville stirred us up as it did the rest of the army. The night of March 9th, after the news came, I
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 14: the Peninsular campaign begun; Yorktown (search)
battle, succeeded in holding Jackson at bay, and after a terrific conflict forced him up the Shenandoah Valley. But the battle itself served to call back to West Virginia General A. S. Williams's division, which belonged to Banks and was already en route to Manassas with orders to relieve our troops, that we might go back to Alexandria and follow our comrades via the Chesapeake to the Virginia Peninsula. Banks himself with his Fifth Corps never did succeed in making that contemplated Centreville and Manassas march to cover Washington. But provisional troops from Washington were at last sent out to replace ours, watch against Confederate raids in that quarter, and secure the Manassas field as a shield to the capital. Stonewall Jackson's interruption of well-conceived and well-ordered proposals caused such apprehension on all sides that the President gave the following order, which I have always wished he had not been worried into issuing: Adjutant General's Office, April 3, 1
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 17: Second battle of Bull Bun (search)
ision and part of Jackson's wing had got north of Centreville, and that Stuart had gone from Burke's Station al moved to a strong position several miles west of Centreville, slightly north of Groveton. He placed his men b How easy now for A. P. Hill to dillydally about Centreville, till our.forces should rush that way via Manassang's division, of McDowell's corps, coming toward Centreville from Gainesville along the Warrenton Pike, unexpeemarkable day found Pope with his headquarters at Centreville. He now saw plainly that he had been outgeneralen him. Now, for Pope to get back his army from Centreville, from Manassas, and from wherever the night of th 29th, Heintzelman was turned again westward from Centreville; he led three divisions under Hooker, Kearny, andpe slowly drew back his command to the heights of Centreville. During these exciting operations I was an obsin haste to Alexandria, and then, at last, out to Centreville. By forced marches, moving night and day, and fo
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 18: the battle of South Mountain (search)
on replaced an unparalleled confusion and brought cheerfulness and hopefulness to us all. Hooker became commander of McDowell's old First Corps. Sumner retained the Second. One division of the Fourth Corps was present under Couch. Porter still had the Fifth, and Franklin the Sixth. The Ninth was commanded by General Cox after Reno's death. The Twelfth Corps was commanded by General Mansfield; the cavalry by Alfred Pleasonton. After Chantilly, Lee, whom we left in force not far from Centreville, after one day's delay for rest and refitting, marched to Leesburg, near the Potomac, in Northwestern Virginia. He was beginning an invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, for he could there obtain more supplies than Virginia, denuded by the war, could furnish. Such a movement also transferred the theater of the war beyond the borders of the Confederacy. Confederate hopes were based on Maryland. Would not a victory on her soil aid her downtrodden and oppressed people to set themselves
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 23: campaign of Gettysburg (search)
as follows: twelve miles, nineteen, eighteen; rested two days, and then marched seventeen. I was a little feverish at Centreville, but am now quite recovered. This corps (the Eleventh) has marched in very orderly style and all my orders are obeyedt issued the necessary orders to place his army farther north. We marched on the 14th to occupy Manassas Junction and Centreville, while three other corps-the Second, Sixth, and Twelfth-had set out the 13th, aiming for the neighborhood of Fairfax Con the Rappahannock, followed us toward Manassas, to reinforce Reynolds if the occasion should arise. It was there at Centreville that he remained two days, the 15th and 16th. On June 17th Reynolds's wing, including the Fifth Corps, was pressed Leesburg, Va.; the Fifth, still under General Meade, somewhere near Adlie. The Second Corps had been pushed out from Centreville to Thoroughfare Gap. The remainder of the army was not far from the Eleventh Corps. General Hooker was endeavoring to