History of the Campaign of the Army of Virginia, Under John Pope ...: From Cedar Mountain to Alexandria, 1862 |
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A. P. Hill advance afternoon Alexandria Army of Virginia arrived artillery attack August Banks Banks's corps battery brigade Bristoe Station Buford Bull Run Captain captured cavalry Centreville Colonel column command Confederate Court-Martial cross daylight dispatch enemy enemy's eral Ewell's division Federal army field fight fire Fitz-John Porter flank force forward front Gainesville Groveton guns Halleck Heintzelman Hill's division Hood's Hooker hour infantry J. E. B. Stuart Jackson Jackson's corps Kearny King's division line of battle Longstreet Major-General Manassas Junction McClellan McClellan's Reports McDowell McDowell's corps ments miles Milroy morning moved movement night numbers o'clock pike Pope Pope's army Pope's Official Report Pope's Virginia Campaign Porter's corps position Potomac railroad rear reënforcements regiments Reno Reports and Campaigns retreat Reynolds Reynolds's Ricketts river road Schurz sent Sigel Sigel's corps skirmishers Stuart Sulphur Springs Taliaferro tion turnpike wagons Warrenton Junction Warrenton turnpike Washington Waterloo bridge whole woods wounded
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Page 340 - Pope; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe.
Page 418 - I cannot express to you the pain and mortification I have experienced to-day in listening to the distant sound of the firing of my men. As I can be of no further use here, I respectfully ask that, if there is a probability of the conflict being renewed to-morrow, I may be permitted to go to the scene of battle with my staff, merely to be with my own men, if nothing more ; they will fight none the worse for my being with them. If it is not deemed best to entrust me with the command even of my own...
Page 433 - Centreville in plain view of the battle, and made no attempt to join. What renders the whole matter worse, these are both officers of the Regular Army, who do not hold back from ignorance or fear. Their constant talk, indulged in publicly and in promiscuous company, is that "the Army of the Potomac will not fight;" "that they are demoralized by withdrawal from the Peninsula, etc.
Page 251 - If, upon marches, guards, or in quarters, different corps of the army shall happen to join, or do duty together, the officer highest in rank of the line of the army, marine corps, or militia, by commission, there on duty or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is needful to the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President of the United States, according to the nature of the case.
Page 435 - The destinies of our country, the honor of our arms, are at stake, and all depends now upon the cheerful co-operation of all in the field. This week is the crisis of our fate. Say the same thing to my friends in the army of the Potomac, and that the last request I have to make of them is, that, for their...
Page 249 - Sigel and Reno are moving on the Warrenton Turnpike, and must now be not far from Gainesville. I desire that as soon as communication is established between this force and your own, the whole command shall halt.
Page 303 - General Porter had in his front no considerable body of the enemy. I believed then, as I am very sure now, that it was easily practicable for him to have turned the right flank of Jackson, and to have fallen upon his rear ; that if he had done so, we 406 40T should have gained a decisive victory over the army under Jackson before he could have been joined by any of the forces of Longstreet...
Page 303 - Porter an order to march towards the enemy in a particular direction, to send him, in addition, specific orders to attack, it being his clear duty, and in accordance with every military precept, to have brought his forces into action wherever he encountered the enemy, when a furious battle with that enemy was raging during the whole day in his immediate presence. I believe, in fact I am positive, that at...
Page 314 - ... you in on the enemy's right flank. I desire you to push forward into action at once on the enemy's flank, and, if possible, on his rear, keeping your right in communication with General Reynolds. The enemy is massed in the woods in front of us, but can be shelled out as soon as you engage their flank. Keep heavy reserves, and use your batteries, keeping well closed to your right all the time.
Page 432 - Manassas without a fight, and in plain hearing, at less than three miles distance, of a furious battle, which raged all day. It was only in consequence of peremptory orders that he joined -me next day. One of his brigades, the brigadier-general of which professed to be looking for his division, absolutely remained all day at Centref ille, in plain view of the battle, and made no attempt to join.