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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, I. The Army of the Potomac in history. (search)
he whole Virginia seaboard gave many other secondary bases and lines of operation, free from the objections above mentioned. This is undoubtedly true; yet the statement must be taken with the limitations that belong to it. The most important of these lines are the Peninsula between the York and James rivers, and the route by the south side of the James. The former was adopted by General McClellan in the spring of 1862, and the latter was eventually taken up by General Grant in the summer of 1864, after having, in a remarkable campaign, crossed every possible line of operation against Richmond. But it is manifest that Richmond could be operated against from the coast only by an army that was in condition to leave Washington out of the question. The secession of Virginia made the Potomac the dividing line between two warring powers; and the unfortunate location of the national capital on the banks of that river, and on an exposed frontier, profoundly affected the character of militar
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 3 (search)
Army of the Potomac, than its conduct in such retreats as that on the Peninsula and in the Pope campaign, and in such incessant fighting as the Rapidan campaign of 1864. II. plans of campaigns. Three months of varied and fruitful activity thus passed, and the close of autumn found around Washington an army both formidable. This paper, with many others relating to his own personal correspondence with General McClellan, was given the writer by the late President during the summer of 1864. It is marked in Mr. Lincoln's hand as having been made about the 1st of December, 1861. If it were determined to make a forward movement of the Army of the ss of public credit; of the Jacobinism of Congress; General McDowell's manuscript was submitted by the present writer to President Lincoln, during the summer of 1864, and he indorsed its entire contents as a true report of these war-councils, with the exception of the above phrase, the Jacobinism of Congress. His autograph ind
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
e in my immediate front, he had resolved to attack them. Official Reports of Battles. Richmond, 1864. During the night of the 30th, there came a storm of unwonted violence; and this circumstance, w Longstreet's left. Johnston: Report of Seven Pines: Confederate Reports of Battles, Richmond, 1864. The divisions were to move at daybreak; but the horrible condition of the roads, resulting from went forward on the Williamsburg road, Hill's Report: Official Reports of Battles. Richmond, 1864. and presently struck Casey's division. The advance position beyond Seven Pines, held by that ofder, and took possession of the redoubts and rifle-pits. Official Reports of Battles. Richmond, 1864. When, therefore, a severe flank fire was opened by the force that had made this detour, the divirence; and it is a point of difference that epitomizes the whole progress of the war from 1862 to 1864. By the time Lee found himself on the defensive along the Chickahominy, a long experience had ta
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, V. Pope's campaign in Northern Virginia. August, 1862. (search)
iews of the danger and impracticability of the plan, seeing that two years afterwards he adopted that precise plan, and took Richmond and destroyed Lee by it! Nor can it be said that circumstances, so far as regards the defence of Washington, differed in the one case from those in the other-excepting that they were such as to warrant the adoption of the plan by General McClellan much more than by General Grant—for in 1862 there were ten men left behind for the defence of Washington to one in 1864. There appears to have been at first an intention on the part of the Administration to adopt this judicious course; but a train of events, partly the work of man and partly the effect of circumstances, presently arose, that not only frustrated this design, but wrenched the army wholly from the Peninsula, and transferred the theatre of operations to the front of Washington and then to the soil of the loyal States. What these events were I shall now set forth. Just before the commenceme
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 8 (search)
cut off Hooker from United States Ford. To relieve Rodes' division which had made the attack, he sent forward A. P. Hill's division; and being intensely anxious to learn the true position of his antagonist, he personally went forward through the dark woods, and with a portion of his staff rode out beyond his own lines to reconnoitre the ground, instructing the troops not to fire, unless cavalry approached from the direction of the enemy. Life of General Jackson, by an Ex-Cadet (Richmond, 1864), p. 182. The same circumstance is detailed in Cooke: Life of Jackson, p. 253. Finishing his examination of the ground, he turned back with his staff to re-enter his own lines; but in the darkness, his troops, mistaking, as it is supposed, the party for a body of Federal cavalry on the charge, fired a volley which killed and wounded several of his staff, and pierced Jackson with three bullets. On being removed to the rear, his arm was amputated, and he seemed in the way of recovery, but pneu
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
red shale which cover the surface of this region of country, permitting the fused material from beneath to rise and fill them on cooling with trap-dykes or greenstone and syenitic greenstone. The rock, being for the most part very hard, remained as the axes and crests of hills and ridges when the softer shale in the intervening spaces was excavated by great water-currents into valleys and plains. Professor Jacobs: Later Rambles over the Field of Gettysburg; United States Service Magazine, 1864. These ridges run in a direction nearly parallel with the South Mountain range, and give a rolling and diversified surface to the landscape. The town of Gettysburg nestles at the base of one of these ranges. At the distance of half a mile to the west of the town is another ridge, called, from the theological seminary that stands thereon, Seminary Ridge, and a mile further west run two other parallel swells of ground separated by Willoughby Run. It was in the plain between these two latter
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
ehensions I had entertained, that of cross. ing the river in the face of an active, large, well-appointed, and ablycom-manded army, and how so large a train was to be carried through a hostile country and protected.—Grant: Report of Operations of 1864-5, p. 6. But the trouble in regard to the trains really began when the army reached the Wilderness, being there shut up in the restricted triangle between the Rapidan and Rappahannock. The line of march of the Army of the Potomac, after crossithe whole of Johnson's division of Ewell's corps (including General Johnson), twenty pieces of artillery, and thirty colors. The remainder of the force fled to the rear in great confusion. Hancock: Report of the Second Epoch of the Campaign of 1864. It happened that the storming column struck the line of works at the point where it formed a salient; so that, having burst open this angle, Hancock had driven in a wedge between the right and centre of the enemy, and was in position to rift
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
city.—Hancock: deport of the Fifth Epoch of the Campaign of 1864. met him when he was some miles distant from Petersburg. Ht. Hancock: Report of the Fifth Epoch of the Campaign of 1864. These instructions were not promptly complied with, nor ineral hundred prisoners. Meade: Report of the Campaign of 1864. In the afternoon the Ninth Corps made another attack, in ws. Hancock: Report of the Fifth Epoch of the Campaign of 1864. After heavy fighting, and the failure of two attacks, Burn—the one he now occupies.—Meade. Report of the Campaign of 1864. (Made November, 1864). This required new dispositions, ans, with no better results.—Meade: Report of the Campaign of 1864. The constant inspiration of these attacks had been theill bring this narrative up to the close of the campaign of 1864. the movement to Deep Bottom.—The first of these operatie troops opposed to Butler. Meade: Report of Campaign of 1864. For this purpose General Warren, with two divisions of
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
o-operative forces throughout the general theatre of war, is made apparent by the single fact that during the winter months succeeding the close of the campaign of 1864, so far from its being any longer a desirable object to capture Petersburg and Richmond, Grant's efforts were mainly directed to restraining the Confederates from e Carolinas and the seaboard States and radiated over the great productive territory of the central zone. By the capture of Atlanta, gained in the midsummer of 1864, Sherman grasped one of the main ganglia of the Southern railroad system. This was a loss terrible indeed to the Confederates, and narrowing the sphere of their ahe moral energy of the South: it is enough here to mark the result as it influenced the fortunes of the armies in the field. General Grant, during the winter of 1864, expressed in a strong figure the belief that the fighting population of the Confederacy was exhausted. They have, said he, robbed the cradle and the grave. But
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
able obstruction and annoyance, 170; urged the withdrawal from the Peninsula, 170; whim to hold Harper's Ferry, 200; his interference with Hooker's intended movements on Lee's rear, 321; vicious distribution of the Union army under independent commanders, 321; refusal to abandon Maryland Heights, 822. Hancock, report on, at battle of Fredericksburg, 251; at Gettysburg, 334; report of battle of the Wilderness, 423; details of battle of the Wilderness, 425; report of fifth epoch, campaign of 1864, 505; at Reams' Station, 535; movement towards Southside Railroad, 541; report of operations on Boydton plankroad, 546; leaves to organize new First Corps, and never rejoins his old command, 547. Hanover Junction, Porter's defeat of Branch at, 124. Harper's Ferry, United States arsenal abandoned in 1861,26; topography of, 206; the first Confederate camp at, 28; Lee's advance against, 200; Jackson's movement towards, 205; completely invested by Confederate occupation of the heights round