The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 - Confederate States of America |
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advance Answer Army of Virginia arrived artillery Assistant Adjutant-General attack battery bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Buckland Mills camp Capt Captain cavalry Centreville column command companies court dated Headquarters Department direction dispatch E. M. STANTON enemy enemy's engaged field fire flank force forward Fredericksburg Frémont Front Royal Gainesville Groveton guns Harper's Ferry Harrisonburg horses infantry IRVIN MCDOWELL June killed King's division Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Longstreet Major-General McDowell Manassas Junction McClellan ment miles Milroy morning Mount Jackson move movement N. P. BANKS night o'clock a. m. obedient servant officers Ohio pickets Pope Port Republic position Potomac quartermaster Question railroad Rappahannock re-enforcements rear rebel received regiment respectfully retreat Ricketts river road Secretary Secretary of War sent Shenandoah Shields Sigel skirmishers staff Strasburg Thoroughfare Gap tion town troops turnpike U. S. Army valley Virginia wagons Warrenton Washington Winchester witness woods wounded
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Page 98 - At your earnest call for reinforcements, he is sent forward to co-operate in the reduction of Richmond, but charged, in attempting this, not to uncover the city of Washington ; and you will give no order, either before or after your junction, which can put him out of position to cover this city.
Page 231 - Wool's command, I understand it is doing for you precisely what a like number of your own would have to do if that command was away.
Page 98 - York rivers, than by a land march. In order, therefore, to increase the strength of the attack upon Richmond, at the earliest moment, General McDowell has been ordered to march upon that city by the shortest route. He is ordered, keeping himself always in position to save...
Page 231 - My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. I do not forget that I was satisfied with your arrangement to leave...
Page 223 - That any movement, as aforesaid, en route for a new base of operations, which may be ordered by the General-in-Chief, and which may...
Page 223 - That no more than two army corps (about fifty thousand troops) of said Army of the Potomac shall be moved en route for a new base of operations, until the navigation of the Potomac from Washington to the Chesapeake Bay shall be freed from the enemy's batteries and other obstructions, or until the President shall hereafter give express permission.
Page 231 - Banks's corps, once designed for Manassas Junction, was diverted and tied up on the line of Winchester and Strasburg, and could not leave it without again exposing the upper Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This presented, or would present when McDowell and Sumner should be gone, a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington.
Page 223 - ... transportation, sufficient for an immediate transfer of the force to its new base can be ready at Washington and Alexandria to move down the Potomac ; and
Page 712 - General Ashby bore to my command, for most of the previous twelve months, will justify me in saying that, as a partisan officer, I never knew his superior. His daring was proverbial, his powers of endurance almost incredible, his tone of character heroic, and his sagacity almost intuitive in divining the purposes and movements of the enemy.
Page 162 - SIR : The command to which you have been assigned, by instructions of the President, as military governor of the District of Columbia, embraces the geographical limits of the District, and will also include the city of Alexandria, the defensive works south of the Potomac, from the Occoquan to Difficult creek, and the post of Fort Washington. " I enclose a list of the troops and of the defences embraced in these limits.