History of the Civil War in America: book 1. Richmond. book 2. The naval war. book 3. Maryland. book 4. Kentucky. book 5. Tennessee. book 6. Virginia. book 7. Politics. 1876 |
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Page 763 - The General commanding directs that you keep your whole command in position for a rapid movement down the Old Richmond road ; and you will send out at once a division at least, to pass below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's, on this side of the Massaponax, taking care to keep it well supported, and its line of retreat open.
Page 112 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 764 - ... view of avoiding the possibility of a collision of our own forces, which might occur in a general movement during the fog. Two of General Hooker's divisions are in your rear, at the bridges, and will remain there as supporte.
Page 244 - I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies.
Page 103 - These brigades advanced boldly to the front, and by their example, as well as by the steadiness of their bearing, reanimated our own troops, and warned the enemy that reinforcements had arrived. It was now dusk. The enemy, already repulsed several times, with terrible slaughter, and hearing the shouts of the fresh troops, failed to follow up their advantage.
Page 333 - two weeks only had elapsed since McClellan had taken command of this army, or rather this disorganized mob. He had not been able to transform it sufficiently to secure that regularity and perseverance in the march which, even more than steadiness under fire, constitutes the superiority of old troops.
Page 763 - I hope, compel the enemy to evacuate the whole ridge between these points. He makes these moves by columns, distant from each other, with a view of avoiding the possibility of a collision of our own forces, which might occur in a general movement during the fog. Two of General Hooker's divisions are in your rear at the bridges, and will remain there as supports. Copies of instructions to Generals Sumner and Hooker will be forwarded to you by an orderly very soon.
Page 763 - ... near Captain Hamilton's, on this side of the Massaponax, taking care to keep it well supported and its line of retreat open. He has ordered another column of a division or more to be moved from General Sumner's command up the Plank road to its intersection with the Telegraph road, where they will divide, with a view to seizing the heights on both of these roads.
Page 83 - They had, in point of fact, created a great commotion, shaken the confidence of the North in McClellan, and made the first experiment in those great cavalry expeditions which subsequently played so novel and so important a part during the war.
Page 55 - I think the time is near when you must either attack Richmond or give up the job and come to the defence of Washington.
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| Title | History of the Civil War in America: book 1. Richmond. book 2. The naval war. book 3. Maryland. book 4. Kentucky. book 5. Tennessee. book 6. Virginia. book 7. Politics. 1876 Volume 2 of History of the Civil War in America, Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris |
| Author | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris |
| Editors | Henry Coppée, John Page Nicholson |
| Translated by | Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro |
| Publisher | J. H. Coates & Company, 1876 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2008 |
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