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Personal Reminiscences (search for this): chapter 8
reports of his subordinates, the directions that he gave them, and his telegraph despatches, one finds the most lifelike description of all the incidents of the struggle and the motives which inspired each movement, and finds fortuitous or voluntary errors, which, on being later accredited, have covered the faults of the one and unjustly condemned the others. We have largely borrowed, for the same campaigns, from the following works: Four Years with General Lee, by Colonel Taylor; Personal Reminiscences of General Lee, by the Rev. J. Wm. Jones; Life of General Lee, by J. Esten Cooke; Pickett and his Men, by W. Harrison; and for that of Vicksburg a narration of the siege by a resident has furnished us with some curious details. Let us quote, in short, among our authors, the most illustrious of all, General Sherman, to whom we owe, under the form of Memoirs, the most original, brilliant, and instructive pages which have ever been written on the war. General Sherman, who has never bee
Thomas A. Scott (search for this): chapter 8
as Junction, and thence led them to battle. Page 249. Elzey takes the place of Kirby Smith in the command of the latter's brigade. Page 254. The official documents we have before us, and particularly one despatch from Patterson to General Scott, dated July 20, informing the latter of the departure of Johnston's troops for Manassas Junction, do not justify us in persisting to blame General Patterson as we have done: by mistake we exaggerated his forces; besides, he had with him only n to their homes. But even if he had had a more numerous and better organized army at his disposal, he could not long have prevented Johnston from escaping him, as the latter had in his rear a line of railway connecting him with Beauregard. General Scott, in advising him to watch and detain the Confederates, told him that the battle between Beauregard and McDowell would take place on the 18th. Now, on that day Johnston was still at Winchester; he only started during the day; and Patterson di
A. N. Porter (search for this): chapter 8
general, taking advantage of the inactivity of Porter's corps, which was opposed to him, had sent Hot from his left to his right in order to watch Porter, had brought back again to the left, near Jace battle. Our second mistake was in blaming Porter for having remained immovable while hearing the on that side. During this time McDowell and Porter were carrying out the new instructions they haking him in front with his forces and those of Porter combined, to bring King back to the rear in orthe defiles of the Alleghanies. Consequently, Porter, while McDowell was pursuing his way with King to take a position between Kemper and Jones. Porter, therefore, by his mere presence had succeededld promptly have supported Jones and Wilcox if Porter, interpreting his instructions differently, handorsing the reproaches Pope has lavished upon Porter, we have been led, while writing this new acco This recital, in fact, clearly proves that if Porter exhibited too much prudence in a situation whi[12 more...]
Hotchkiss (search for this): chapter 8
which have been successively experienced by each of the two parties. Before commencing the narration of the decisive battle of Gettysburg we provoked on the causes of Lee's defeat a discussion of this kind, which has been to us of great help; it has been published in the Southern Historical Society's Papers, thanks to the kindness of the editor, the Rev. J. Wm. Jones, who solicited on this point the opinion of some of the principal officers of the Confederate army. The special works of Hotchkiss and Allan on Chancellorsville, of Bates on Gettysburg—the one written from the Southern standpoint, the other from the Northern—as well as the maps published by the former and that of Bachelder of Gettysburg, have been for us invaluable guides. But the most useful documents for such a work are those which emanate from the actors themselves, and which are written at the first moment, when facts are too recent to allow any glossing of the truth. Unfortunately, the printed reports of Lee an
J. L. Kemper (search for this): chapter 8
following provisional divisions: Hood (two brigades), accompanied by Evans' independent brigade; Wilcox (three brigades); Kemper (three brigades); D. R. Jones (three brigades). Anderson, with the last three brigades of the First corps, was too much icted the two corps of the Confederate army at the foot of the hill upon which Lee had posted a portion of his artillery. Kemper's division was on Evans' right; the first brigade, under Hunton, was drawn close to the latter; the other two, extending f-past 4 o'clock withdrew Wilcox's division from the place it occupied on his left, to send it to take a position between Kemper and Jones. Porter, therefore, by his mere presence had succeeded in drawing or in detaining at the extreme Confederate right six brigades; that is to say, one half of Longstreet's corps: two of Kemper's brigades, which did not participate in the fight that King was engaged in along the road, could promptly have supported Jones and Wilcox if Porter, interpreting his in
George G. Meade (search for this): chapter 8
eful documents for such a work are those which emanate from the actors themselves, and which are written at the first moment, when facts are too recent to allow any glossing of the truth. Unfortunately, the printed reports of Lee and his subordinates stop after the battle of Chancellorsville. However, the Rev. J. Wm. Jones has published a great number of them, furnished by the authors and their families, and has thus made up for this blank. On the other side we owe to the kindness of Colonel Meade, the general's son, the use of all the military papers of his father, which he kindly permitted us to have copied. In this voluminous collection, which contains the reports of his subordinates, the directions that he gave them, and his telegraph despatches, one finds the most lifelike description of all the incidents of the struggle and the motives which inspired each movement, and finds fortuitous or voluntary errors, which, on being later accredited, have covered the faults of the one
G. W. Smith (search for this): chapter 8
ponsible for the immobility of his right wing. We believe that the passage was not impossible: from eight o'clock till twelve the bridges were available. This was more time than was required to effect the passage of two divisions; a third (Slocum's) could even have crossed the river higher up, near Mechanicsville. A simple movement of Sumner toward his right would have sufficed to menace the rear of the Confederate troops if they had attempted to oppose this passage. The army of which G. W. Smith had just taken the command after the battle of the 31st was not in a condition during the new struggle that was taking place on the morning of the 1st to dispute the right bank of the Chickahominy to Franklin and Porter: their appearance on its left might therefore have turned its retreat into a positive disaster. From the first step taken in that direction they could have assisted Sumner without troubling themselves about the rise in the river on their rear for the future. We are convi
Kearny (search for this): chapter 8
that Longstreet, after having at first transferred it from his left to his right in order to watch Porter, had brought back again to the left, near Jackson's, but it arrived too late to take part in the battle. Our second mistake was in blaming Porter for having remained immovable while hearing the sound of battle in the direction of Groveton. Irrefutable testimony has proved to us that while the combat was limited to the extreme Federal right during the successive attacks of Hooker and Kearny—that is to say, during the whole afternoon—this sound did not reach the point where Porter was stationed; the distant booming of cannon, which alone could be heard had resounded so frequently in the forests of Virginia without announcing anything more than a trifling artillery-duel that people had ceased to pay any attention to it. It was only the sound of King's attack, much nearer than the attacks preceding it, which reached Porter's ears at the very moment he was preparing a movement whic
Emlen Franklin (search for this): chapter 8
's encampments—that is to say, in the vicinity of New Bridge, where two bridges were already nearly completed; that Generals Franklin and Porter having represented to him that these bridges would not be available for artillery before night, he decide said, had saved the Confederates from an imminent disaster. Since then, General McClellan on the one hand, and Generals Franklin and Porter on the other—that is to say, the three persons interested—having concurred in assuring us that the formeorces, did not deem it advisable to order so hazardous a movement as the passage of the Chickahominy by his right wing. Franklin and Porter, who were in command, took no part in this decision. They could not act without orders, and the general-in-cduring the new struggle that was taking place on the morning of the 1st to dispute the right bank of the Chickahominy to Franklin and Porter: their appearance on its left might therefore have turned its retreat into a positive disaster. From the fir<
Sigel (search for this): chapter 8
ion of the Fifth cavalry he saved several Federal batteries, to which he gave time to withdraw. Page 103. Instead of Richardson, read French. Page 285. Sigel and Reynolds occupy in the afternoon, after a slight skirmish, the road from Warrenton to Centreville—one at Groveton, the other more to the eastward. King, who, from Gainesville to Bristoe and Manassas Junction. Robertson's cavalry cleared Longstreet's flank on the other side of the railway. Before Longstreet's arrival Sigel's troops outflanked Jackson's right, and for a moment they even caused considerable alarm on his rear; but Stuart's cavalry soon put a stop to a movement which SigSigel was not strong enough to follow up vigorously; and at eleven o'clock Hood's arrival made Jackson's safety completely secure on that side. During this time McDowell and Porter were carrying out the new instructions they had received from Pope, who, as we have stated (page 288), directed them to march from Manassas Junction upon
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