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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Du Pont 's attack at Charleston . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Eighteenth Corps at Cold Harbor . (search)
The Eighteenth Corps at Cold Harbor. by William Farrar Smith, Brevet Major-General, U. S. A.
On the 27th of May an order came from Washington to me near Bermuda Hundred to concentrate sixteen thousand men under my command ready for removal by water to a point opposite White House on the Pamunkey, there to protect a corps of bridge-builders.
On the 28th I received the following order:
Headquarters, in the field, May 28th, 1864.
Major-General Smith, Commanding Eighteenth Corps:
The transportation for your column having arrived, although not in my judgment sufficient, yet in consequence of imperative orders from General Grant your column will move to his assistance.
You will use the utmost expedition in embarking and getting on. If you desire any cavalry to accompany you, please designate what regiments or battalions.
I grieve much that this weakness of the Army of the Potomac has called the troops away just as we were taking the offensive, and that the attack on Peter
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 10.75 (search)