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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Longstreet's division — Yorktown and Williamsburg. (search)
in a few days by the divisions of Longstreet and G. W. Smith, a part marching down the Peninsula, as the transam number one and Lee's mill. The division of General Smith was held in reserve, portions of it occasionally A few Kentucky troops, in the division of General G. W. Smith, alone opposed their own conscription on the ut off Johnston's retreat. The divisions of Hooker, Smith, Kearney, Couch and Casey, preceded by a strong forc his guns and some caissons, and drove him back upon Smith's division of infantry, which had begun to arrive in his rear. Smith's division was, immediately on its arrival, deployed for an attack, but on moving forward tuns in Fort Magruder, and to open communication with Smith's division and the Yorktown road, on which Couch's, The co-operation which General Hooker expected from Smith's division, and the other troops coming up upon the f six guns. from his own, and Davidson's brigades of Smith's division, to make a wide detour towards the York r
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Peninsula — McClellan's campaign of 1862, by Alexander S. Webb. (search)
t at Seven Pines. Huger was to strike Keyes's left flank, and Johnston himself was to direct G. W. Smith's division against his right flank and prevent a retreat towards the Chickahominy. Hours wer camps to a third line of works a mile or two in the rear. Unfortunately Johnston did not order Smith forward promptly. Longstreet had been two or three hours engaged before General Johnston knew ing bridges just before they were carried away, and hastening forward arrived soon enough to stop Smith, and by engaging him in a stubborn and bloody contest until night, prevented his going to Longstes and the fresh troops of Hooker's and Richardson's divisions without any decided result, while Smith, now in chief command of the Confederates remained quiet in front of Sumner, though Magruder's l time was wasted in waiting for Huger; but a more serious fault was the delay in sending forward Smith's division on Longstreet's left. Next morning the battle might have been renewed with the whole