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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 7: Seven Pines, or Fair Oaks. (search)
reconnoissance of the 30th was forwarded to Headquarters. I followed it, and found General Johnston ready to talk over plans for battle. General Huger had reported with three of his brigades, and was in camp near the outskirts of Richmond on Gillis Creek. The plan settled upon was that the attack should be made by General D. H. Hill's division on the Williamsburg road, supported by Longstreet's division. Huger's division, just out of garrison duty at Norfolk, was to march between Hill's righs to interpose serious barriers to the passing of artillery, and thus break up the battle of men. My march by the Nine Miles and lateral roads leading across to the Williamsburg road was interrupted by the flooded grounds about the head of Gillis Creek. At the same time this creek was bank full, where it found a channel for its flow into the James. The delay of an hour to construct a bridge was preferred to the encounter of more serious obstacles along the narrow lateral road, flooded by t
The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The reported occupation of Winchester by the enemy. (search)
ing during the preceding twenty-four hours, attained a great height during Wednesday night, and yesterday morning we within a few inches of the high water of May, 1862, and within about three feet of the highest point of the great flood of 1817. Mayor's Island was entirely submerged, only the tops of the houses being visible above the water, as was also a considerable portion of the low grounds of the Falls plantation and three or four hundred yards of Main street in the neighborhood of Gilli's Creek. All the wharves at Rocketts and the new Navy Yard were far under water, and at the latter place great quantities of valuable number was in danger of being washed away. The fine steamer West Point, belonging to the York River Railroad Company, which for two months has been sunk in the river off the foot of the dock, was turned over by the force of the current, and yesterday morning at eleven o'clock lay on her side, looking as it every next wave of the that boiled and surged around he