Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee |
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A. P. Hill advance afternoon Army of Northern arrived artillery attack batteries battle bridge brigade Burnside campaign captured cavalry centre Centreville Chancellorsville Chickahominy Cold Harbor Colonel column corps Court House Creek crossed Culpepper D. H. Hill directed division driven back enemy enemy's eral Ewell Ewell's Federal army Federal commander Federal line fire flank force Ford forward Fredericksburg front Gordonsville Government guns Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS ARMY heavy heights held Hill's Hooker hundred infantry intrenchments Jackson James River Johnston Lee's Report Longstreet loss Magruder Manassas McClellan McLaws Meade Mechanicsville miles morning Mountain moved movement night North Northern Virginia o'clock occupied officers once passed pieces of artillery Pope position Potomac prisoners R. E. LEE railroad Rapidan Rappahannock reached rear reënforcements regiment repulsed retreat Richmond Ridge road sent soldiers South Spottsylvania Court House Stonewall Jackson strong Stuart thousand tion troops Valley Warrenton Washington withdrawal wounded
Popular passages
Page 336 - ... and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 279 - All quiet along the Potomac to-night, Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming ; Their tents, in the rays of the clear autumn moon. Or the light of the watch-fires are gleaming.
Page 355 - I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy.
Page 343 - It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.
Page 404 - Never mind, General, all this has been MY fault — it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.
Page 632 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged ; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Page 179 - I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. "The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. "Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves. Let us look before us and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
Page 111 - You are instructed, laying aside for the present the movement on Richmond, to put 20,000 men in motion at once for the Shenandoah, moving on the line or in advance of the line of the Manassas Gap Railroad.
Page 632 - ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL : I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. RE LEE, General. "Lieutenant-General US GRANT.
Page 383 - There have, however, been instances of forgetfulness on the part of some, that they have in keeping the yet unsullied reputation of the army, and that the duties exacted of us by civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than our own.