Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: Army of the PotomacU.S. Government Printing Office, 1863 - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, 1861 |
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... fire all the time , until the enemy reached their works in the neighborhood of Williams- burg , when the pursuit was checked . Governor Sprague was sent back to hurry the infantry support under General Hooker . After considerable delay ...
... fire all the time , until the enemy reached their works in the neighborhood of Williams- burg , when the pursuit was checked . Governor Sprague was sent back to hurry the infantry support under General Hooker . After considerable delay ...
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... fire upon them in front , and they also received a fire upon their flank . The superiority of the enemy was so over- whelming that Meade's division was forced back , as was also Gibbon's division . The enemy pursued until checked by ...
... fire upon them in front , and they also received a fire upon their flank . The superiority of the enemy was so over- whelming that Meade's division was forced back , as was also Gibbon's division . The enemy pursued until checked by ...
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... fire . Then you have to feed the horses , which is an important thing . Question . We want to be very particular about this thing , for there is an apprehension that we have too much cavalry , and it is very expensive . Answer . It is a ...
... fire . Then you have to feed the horses , which is an important thing . Question . We want to be very particular about this thing , for there is an apprehension that we have too much cavalry , and it is very expensive . Answer . It is a ...
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... fire ; but if you can do it stra- tegetically , penetrate their line and divide it into two parts , while you hold the one in check you can throw yourself upon the other and crush it . Now , I can- not tell whether that would be ...
... fire ; but if you can do it stra- tegetically , penetrate their line and divide it into two parts , while you hold the one in check you can throw yourself upon the other and crush it . Now , I can- not tell whether that would be ...
Page 141
... fire , we must dig a trench and throw up the earth so as to keep off the shot . Go forward a certain distance and make a parallel , then go forward again and make another parallel , and so approach the enemy . I do not propose to go out ...
... fire , we must dig a trench and throw up the earth so as to keep off the shot . Go forward a certain distance and make a parallel , then go forward again and make another parallel , and so approach the enemy . I do not propose to go out ...
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a. m. to-morrow advance Alexandria Answer Aquia creek arrived artillery attack batteries battle battle of Williamsburg Bottom's Bridge bridge brigade Burnside Captain cavalry Centreville chairman Chandler Chickahominy Colonel command committee met pursuant corps cross despatch direction division enemy enemy's fight following witnesses force Fort Monroe fortifications Fortress Monroe Franklin Fredericksburg Frémont front G. B. MCCLELLAN General-in-Chief Gooch guns H. W. HALLECK Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS ARMY Heintzelman horses infantry James river Major General H. W. Major General MCCLELLAN Manassas McDowell miles military morning move movement night o'clock Odell officers operations opinion peninsula pontoons position Potomac President pursuant to adjournment quartermaster Question railroad Rappahannock re-enforcements rebels received regiments retreat Richmond road Secretary Secretary of War sent side Sumner supplies suppose telegraph tion troops wagons WAR DEPARTMENT Warrenton Washington Williamsburg York river Yorktown
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Page 44 - I am instructed to telegraph you as follows: The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Your army must move now, while the roads are good.
Page 25 - I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle, or a repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Washington. We protected Washington, and the enemy concentrated on you.
Page 24 - I give you all I can, and act on the presumption that you will do the best you can with what you have, while you continue, ungenerously I think, to assume that I could give you more if I would. I have omitted and shall omit no opportunity to send you reinforcements whenever I possibly can- A.
Page 340 - If I cannot fully control all his troops, I want none of them, but would prefer to fight the battle with what I have, and let others be responsible for the results.
Page 518 - Washington and the enemy, but does not order it. He is very desirous that your army move as soon as possible. You will immediately report what line you adopt and when you intend to cross the river ; also to what point the reinforcements are to be sent.
Page 11 - 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 be intended to move upon the Chesapeake Bay, shall begin to move upon the bay as early as the 18th of March instant; and the General-in-Chief shall be responsible that it so moves as early as that day.
Page 528 - As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. But the enemy does now subsist his army at Winchester, at a distance nearly twice as great from railroad transportation as you would have to do without the railroad last named.
Page 325 - 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. "I suppose the whole force which has gone forward for you is with you by this time.
Page 316 - That the means of 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 528 - House, which is just about twice as far as you would have to do from Harper's Ferry. He is certainly not more than half as well provided with wagons as you are. I certainly should be pleased for you to have the advantage of the railroad from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, but it wastes all the remainder of autumn to give it to you, and in fact ignores the question of time, which cannot and must not be ignored.