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Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
. 1, or Lee's Mill retreat up the peninsula Williamsburg Hanover Court House Seven Pines Jackson's wonderful valley campaign. While these new regiments were forming, the North Carolina regiefense. Preceding and preliminary to the great approaching battles around Richmond, occurred Jackson's remarkable campaign of 1862 in the Shenandoah valley. Jackson's matchless soldiership and alJackson's matchless soldiership and almost inspired energy brought new zeal to the Southerners, whose enthusiasm had been somewhat chilled by the reverses in North Carolina and in the Mississippi valley. Only to Kirkland's Twenty-first d Wharton's battalion of sharpshooters was accorded the honor of representing North Carolina in Jackson's foot-cavalry, and participating in his brilliant victories. The sharpshooters were regular mve them through the town. In the midst of a wild ovation that the citizens of Winchester gave Jackson's soldiers, and while every form of edible was being thrust upon the hungry North Carolinians,
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
many Northern writers, show an entire misconception of the purpose of this battle. They seem to think that it was part of Johnston's purpose to hold permanently the Fort Magruder line. Keyes says in his official report: If Hancock had failed, the enemy would not have retreated. This is far from the true state of affairs. As Colonel Maury observes: General Johnston had no intention of tarrying at Williamsburg, nor was the place defensible, for the enemy now had control of both York and James rivers, on each flank, and intended to push Franklin's division, kept on transports . . . rapidly up the York river in the vain hope of getting in our rear. General Johnston says: It was an affair with our rear guard, the object of which was to secure our baggage trains. Johnston's Narrative. General Webb, of the Federals, observes: The demonstration of the Union cavalry the previous afternoon, and Hooker's pressure the next morning, compelled them to face about to escape being run ov
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
or Clark for the defense of his own State against the Federal army at New Bern, and then in camp in North Carolina, but not yet armed. Major Gordon, who is thoroughly familiar with the affairs of the adjutant-general's office at that time, gives the following account of the negotiations for these regiments: On or about the night that General Martin received his commission as brigadier-general, the governor of North Carolina received a communication from the war department of the Confederate States giving him in full the plan of the campaign to crush McClellan's army, and asking the governor's co-operation with the North Carolina troops in camp, but not then turned over to the Confederate government, and also attempting to reconcile him to the moving of all the other troops in the State to the State of Virginia. The statement above that the war department would communicate the plans of one of the most famous campaigns of the world more than a month before a shot was fired, might
Rochambeau Village (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Chapter 4: The Federal movements against Richmond Peninsular campaign Dam no. 1, or Lee's Mill retreat up the peninsula Williamsburg Hanover Court House Seven Pines Jackson's wonderful valley campaign. While these new regiments were forming, the North Carolina regiments already transferred to the army of Virginia were engaged in the famous Peninsular campaign and the battles around Richmond. Just a few, weeks after the battle at New Bern, McClellan's army began to land e Union army, but to strike, if need be, and to protract the giving up of the lines as long as possible. Accordingly, on the nearer approach of McClellan the Confederates fell back upon the Warwick line of defenses. On the 16th of April, at Lee's Mill, or Dam No. 1, the first sharp trial of strength between the opposing forces took place. Gen. W. F. Smith's division was ordered to attack the Confederate works there, the object being, according to General McClellan, to force the enemy t
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ol. J. H. Lane; the Thirty-seventh, Col. C. C. Lee; and the Thirty-third, Lieutenant-Colonel Hoke; and also two temporarily attached regiments, the Twelfth North Carolina, Col. B. O. Wade, and Forty-fifth Georgia—in all seven regiments—and Latham's North Carolina battery, that joined him the night before the battle. In view of the hard fight that Branch gave him, it is not surprising that General Porter, writing the day after the battle, should say that Branch's force comprised about 8,000 Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia troops. But for General Webb, writing in 1881, and claiming to have sifted and collated for careful investigation the new material gathered by the war department, and now for the first time made a basis of the history of that time, Preface to Peninsula Campaign. to say—for him to say in the face of such a claim as that—that Branch's command must have been about 10,000 strong is, as the Federal General Palfrey sweetly says in commenting on some of McClellan'
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ring from one intrenchment to another, the North Carolina soldiers, in common with all their comrade, was commanded by Gen. L. O'B. Branch, of North Carolina, and of the seven regiments present all weng. There, as at Hanover, an officer from North Carolina directed the fiercest and most protracted et an intelligible idea of the part of the North Carolina troops in this great battle, it will be nesion as brigadier-general, the governor of North Carolina received a communication from the war depaut explanation, seem incredible. The State of North Carolina had at this time fifteen regiments, ean was fully made known to the governor of North Carolina. In brief, the plan, as told me by my chould find out the defenseless condition of North Carolina and move forward. Every night he telegrap000 strong. At the close of this campaign North Carolina had forty regiments in Virginia. The fiftd been somewhat chilled by the reverses in North Carolina and in the Mississippi valley. Only to Ki[11 more...]
Boonsboro (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
thusiasm for such daring, Those two regiments deserve to have immortal inscribed on their banners. Whether the Fifth and Twenty-fourth would have succeeded in routing Hancock had they not been ordered to fall back, or had the other two regiments pushed rapidly to their assistance, must, as General Hill says, forever remain an undecided question. Colonel McRae evidently thought they would. However, the student of the Confederate war history knows from the slaughter at Malvern Hill and Boonsboro, at Gettysburg and Fredericksburg, how well-nigh impossible it is for the most dauntless infantry to drive an American foe from an artillery and musketry crowned plateau. Even if the rest of the brigade had come when sent for, it hardly seems possible for two regiments, already crippled by many casualties, numbering together not over 1,000 before any loss, aided by only two fresh regiments, all without any artillery, to have put to flight five full regiments and ten pieces of artillery, p
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ce, must, as General Hill says, forever remain an undecided question. Colonel McRae evidently thought they would. However, the student of the Confederate war history knows from the slaughter at Malvern Hill and Boonsboro, at Gettysburg and Fredericksburg, how well-nigh impossible it is for the most dauntless infantry to drive an American foe from an artillery and musketry crowned plateau. Even if the rest of the brigade had come when sent for, it hardly seems possible for two regiments, alreral General Palfrey sweetly says in commenting on some of McClellan's figures, one of those extraordinary, inconceivable, aggravating things that stirs up everything that is acrid in the nature of those who follow his career. Antietam to Fredericksburg, p. 39. What was the Confederate strength? Branch, in his congratulatory order to his brigade (July 24th), states that his total force was about 4,000. This would make his seven regiments average about 600 men to the regiment, a high a
Balaklava (Ukraine) (search for this): chapter 5
's horse was killed and he was disabled. Captains Garrett, Lea and Jones were all shot down, as were many of the subalterns Among them were Lieut. Thomas Snow, of Halifax, who was killed far in advance of his company, cheering on his men; and Lieutenants Boswell, Clark and Hays. Four hundred and fifteen men of this regiment answered to morning roll-call on that day; before night, the blood of 290 fed the soil of that bleak hill. Such losses are rarely chronicled. The Light Brigade at Balaklava took 600 men into action and lost only 247. Twenty-four commissioned officers of the Fifth regiment led their men up that slope; only four came out unhurt. No wonder that their antagonist for that day, General Hancock, said, in a generous burst of enthusiasm for such daring, Those two regiments deserve to have immortal inscribed on their banners. Whether the Fifth and Twenty-fourth would have succeeded in routing Hancock had they not been ordered to fall back, or had the other two regi
West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
, by the picturesque figure on his right, the discomfiture of his left. But reading between the lines, the highest compliment was for the two Confederate regiments. From Manassas to Appomattox. Draper, the New York historian, adds: The manner in which the Confederate rear guard turned upon their pursuers at Williamsburg and gave them a bloody check will always exact the applause of military critics. Civil War in America. On the 7th of May, at Eltham's landing, nearly opposite West Point, Va., Franklin's division of McClellan's army disembarked from transports for the purpose of getting in the rear of Johnston's retreating army. The purpose, however, was frustrated, for Franklin found G. W. Smith on the ground, and Whiting's division attacked him there. Captain Reilly's battery and Colonel Pender's Sixth North Carolina regiment were under fire, but not seriously engaged. The next battle in Virginia was at Slash church, near Hanover Court House, on the 27th of May. This
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