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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 230 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 200 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 162 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 114 6 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 101 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 87 9 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 84 4 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 70 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 58 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 55 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.14 (search)
General W. F. Smith, who had been promoted to the rank of major-general shortly after the battle of Chattanooga on my recommendation, had not yet been confirmed. I found a decided prejudice against his confirmation by a majority of the Senate, but I insisted that his services had been such that he should be rewarded. My wishes were now reluctantly complied with, and I assigned him to the command of one of the corps under General Butler. I was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well founded. After the appearance of General Grant's paper in The century magazine for February, 1886, General William F. Smith made the following reply, which was printed in that magazine for May, 1886: General Grant makes this general charge without assigning a reason for it or attempting to justify it by citing any instance in which I had failed in any duty I had been called upon to perform. This gives me the right to call General Grant himself as a witness in
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., General Grant on the Wilderness campaign. (search)
d it until relieved by the Sixth Corps and General Smith's command, The Wilderness Tavern. From M. by the Sixth Corps and the troops under General Smith, the other corps being held in readiness t right of the Sixth Corps, and in front of General Smith. During the attack the enemy made repeateent back to Bermuda Hundred and City Point General Smith's command by water via the White House, totler were verbal, and were for him to send General Smith immediately, that night, with all the troon the enemy could bring troops against us. General Smith got off as directed, and confronted the entwo divisions of the Second Corps, reached General Smith just after dark, and offered the service of these troops as he (Smith) might wish, waiving rank to the named commander, who he naturally supp at 6 o'clock that evening by the troops under Smith and the Second and Ninth corps. It required u(our left) of those previously captured by General Smith, several pieces of artillery, and over fou
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.27 (search)
nion was entertained by many that it would march upon Richmond via Petersburg. Others thought its aim was Weldon. On either hypothesis we should have been prepared to meet the assault in time, and, clearly, we were not. As a matter of fact, when the Ninth Corps, under General Burnside, came from east Tennessee, it simply went to increase the strength of the Army of the Potomac. But the forces under General Butler, with the addition of the corps commanded by General Gillmore and by General Smith, amounted to about thirty thousand men, General William F. Smith estimates the force at forty thousand. [See p. 207.] On the basis of the Official records it would appear to have been about 36,000.--editors. and were evidently being prepared for a determined advance upon Petersburg. Thus was the projected cooperation of Meade's and Butler's armies to be inaugurated. This gave the clew of the situation to the immediate advisers of President Davis. They realized, at last, the useles
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cold Harbor. (search)
ch and long delay. In the afternoon, however, Smith was in position on the right of the Sixth CorpHancock on the left, Wright in the center, and Smith on the right. Warren and Burnside were still the Union line to Beulah Church. At 6 o'clock Smith and Wright drove the enemy through the woods and intrenched a new line. Warren was north of Smith. On June 2d Hancock formed on the left of Wrif advance of the center. The same was true of Smith's command upon the right. What resulted from similarly destructive fire was poured in upon Smith, and from both flanks on the Sixth Corps in thilencing batteries in their respective fronts: Smith, that he could go no farther until Wright adva, that it was impossible for him to move until Smith and Hancock advanced to his support on the rigrters; so much so that copies of Hancock's and Smith's dispatches were sent to Wright and copies ofith one another by telegraph with this result: Smith was satisfied that the fire which he would pro
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Operations South of the James River. (search)
n the enemy's pickets on the City Point road, moved to the left and was engaged the entire day exposed mainly to artillery fire, without any apparent action on the part of the Eighteenth Corps. We believed ourselves again deserted, and at seven in the evening the cavalry was withdrawn, and the column was just fairly on the return when the noise of the assault so long expected broke upon us about four miles to our right. It was all over in a few moments, and, as we subsequently learned, General Smith had carried the entire line in his front. The Army of the Potomac began to arrive on the night of the 15th, and was on hand to support the Eighteenth Corps in the position it had captured. On the 20th I received orders to report to General James H. Wilson for the purpose of cooperating in his raid against the Danville Railroad. At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 22d the Cavalry Division of the Army of the James took the advance, with orders to proceed, via Reams's Station on the Wel