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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Kilpatrick's and Dahlgren's raid to Richmond. (search)
e James, enter Richmond on the south side, after liberating the Belle Isle prisoners, and unite with Kilpatrick's main force entering the city from the north at 10 A. M. of Tuesday, March 1st. General Meade aided the enterprise with simultaneous demonstrations of the Sixth Corps and of Birney's division of the Third against Lee's left, and of Custer's cavalry division toward Charlottesville. Reaching Spotsylvania Court House at early dawn of February 29th, Kilpatrick moved south through Chilesburg to the Virginia Central Railroad, which [he struck during the day at Beaver Dam Station, The telegraph operator was seized, the wires were cut, the track was destroyed, and the station buildings were burned. Detachments were also sent to destroy bridges and track on the Fredericksburg Railroad, and during the raid the amnesty proclamation was distributed. At nightfall the main body moved forward and crossed the South Anna at Ground Squirrel Bridge. Early on Tuesday, March 1st, the colum
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan's Richmond raid. (search)
s little brushes occurred. In one of these the 1st North Carolina Cavalry charged our rear-guard, consisting of the 6th Ohio Cavalry and a section of the 6th New York Battery. In the melee a Confederate officer cut his way through the column to the rear piece; placing his hand on the gun he exclaimed, This is my piece. Not by a d----d sight, replied a cannoneer, as with a well-planted blow of his fist he knocked the would-be captor off his horse and took him prisoner. Passing through Chilesburg late in the afternoon, the leading brigade of Merritt's division (Custer's) took the trot and charged into Beaver Dam Station, on the Virginia Central Railroad, at an opportune moment. Two trains of cars carrying wounded Note.--for an account of the Kilpatrick-Dahigren raid, see p. 95; and of the Trevilian raid, see p. 233. and prisoners from Spotsylvania were about to start for Richmond. In a moment 378 Union captives rent the air with their cheers; the guard accompanying the trains
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 25 (search)
g which the wounded lying between the armies were removed and the dead buried. Next day, June 7. our left was extended to the Chickahominy, finding the enemy in force opposite Sumner's and Bottom's bridges; while Sheridan was dispatched with two divisions of cavalry around Lee's left, to tear up the Virginia Central railroad in his rear, which he did: crossing the Pamunkey at Aylett's, breaking the Fredericksburg road at Chesterfield station, and thence pushing over the North Anna by Chilesburg and Mount Pleasant, over the upper branches of the North Anna, June 10. striking the Central railroad at Trevilian's, routing a body of Rebel horse, under Wade Hampton, that interfered with his operations, and breaking up the road nearly down June 12. to Louisa C. H.; but, soon finding the Rebels too numerous and pressing, he retraced his steps to Trevilian's, where he had a sharp, indecisive, sanguinary fight, and then drew off; making his way to Spottsylvania C. H., and thence by G
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
road, General Slocum's left wing leading. The right wing (General Logan) followed the next day, viz., the 12th. Meantime, General O. O. Howard had been summoned to Washington to take charge of the new Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, and, from that time till the army was finally disbanded, General John A. Logan was in command of the right wing, and of the Army of the Tennessee. The left wing marched through Hanover Court-House, and thence took roads well to the left by Chilesburg; the Fourteenth Corps by New Market and Culpepper, Manassas, etc.; the Twentieth Corps by Spotsylvania Court-House and Chancellorsville. The right wing followed the more direct road by Fredericksburg. On my way north I endeavored to see as much of the battle-fields of the Army of the Potomac as I could, and therefore shifted from one column to the other, visiting en route Hanover Court-House, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, Dumfries, etc., reaching Alexandria during the afternoon of May 19
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 4 (search)
s Richmond raid, probably the most daring and sensational of these more or less independent operations, had for its object, not so much the destruction of Confederate property, as to draw Stuart and his cavalry away from the Union army's long lines of supply-trains, and then to defeat the great Confederate trooper. In May, 1864, Sheridan's splendid body of horsemen, ten thousand in number and forming a column thirteen miles in length, moved out from the vicinity of Spotsylvania, through Chilesburg and Glen Allen Station. At Yellow Tavern the A still smoking wreck on the path of the Federal raiders This photograph shows the ruins of the bridge over the North Anna, which were still smoking when the photographer arrived with the Union troops at the end of Sheridan's raid. He had ridden nearer to Richmond than any other Union leader before its fall. On the night of May 11, 1864, his column of cavalry could see the lights of the city and hear the dogs barking, and the following
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official diary of First corps, A. N. V., while commanded by Lieutenant-General R. H. Anderson, from May 7th to 31st, 1864. (search)
sence. Kershaw returns on the morning of the 20th. May 20th Quiet. Ewell's front reported to be uncovered. May 21st Ewell moves to our right and takes position along the Po. During the day the enemy is ascertained to be retiring from A. P. Hill's front. We prepare to move. Move in the afternoon by Dickerson's to the Mud Tavern, and thence down the Telegraph road, Ewell preceding us. Hill takes a western road. The supply trains and heavy baggage wagons moving via New Market, Chilesburg and Island Ford. We march all night, halting on the Telegraph road at 3 A. M. on the 22d. After two hours rest the march is resumed. The head of our column reaches the Northanna at 12.15 P. M., May 22d. Corse's and Kemper's brigades, Pickett's division, join us. Barton with Hill's column temporarily. Troops are put in bivouac on the south side of Northanna. May 23d Enemy reported advancing down Telegraph road. Our line is formed. The guard on the north side of the river is driv
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), C (search)
, 122; losses at, X., 126, 156. Chickamauga Creek, Ga.: Lee & Gordon's mills, at II., 270; The bloodiest battle-field of the Civil War, II., 270, 271, 298, 318; IX., 99, 111. Chickasaw, Ala., III., 344. Chickasaw, Miss., II., 204. Chickasaw Bayou, Miss.: II., 184, 200, 328; VI., 221. Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss., II., 182, 185, 202. Chickasaw,, U. S. S., VI., 247. Chicora,, C. S. S.: II., 330; VI., 124, 239, 272, 318. Childs, J. H., I., 331. Chilesburg, Va., IV., 124. Chillicothe,, U. S. S.: II., 330; VI., 206, 208, 228. Chilton, R. H., 59; X., 319. Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Va. , VII., 243, 263, 282 seq. Chimborazo, canal-boat, VII., 282. Chincoteague Inlet, Va., VI., 310. Chippewa,, U. S. S.: I., 362; III., 342. Chisolm, J. J., VII., 250. Choctaw,, U. S. S.: I., 77; II., 186, 336; VI., 207. Choper, R., VII., 115. Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. , VII., 234; X., 53. Chr
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Georgia Items. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Southern-rights meeting. Caroline Co., Va., April 15. A meeting of the citizens of the fifth Magisterial District of Caroline county, and of the lower end of Spotsylvania, was held at Chilesburg to-day. Col. F. Wood was called to the chair, and Wm. J. Hancock appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting having been explained, it was moved and seconded that the Chairman appoint a committee of five to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. The following gentlemen, viz: John G. Dickinson, E. D. Eve. Capt. R. P. Smith, Dr. N. R. James, and Wm. J. Hancock, being selected, retired for a short time, and made the following report: Whereas, we have no confidence in a majority of the members of the Convention now assembled in Richmond, and as there are but two alternatives for the Old Dominion — the one to remain in her present degraded condition, a suppliant at a Black Republican footstool; and the other to assume
The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Suffolk. (search)
One hundred dollars reward. --I will give the above reward for the apprehension and delivery to me, or in some jail that I may get her of my servant woman Kaly who absconded from my house, in Caroline county, on the night of the 4th inst. I understand she is attempting to make her way to Pond Gap, 19 miles beyond Staunton, where her husband is hired.--Katy is 20 years of age, 5 feet some inches in height, tolerably stoutly built, with broad face, full eyes, and thick lip; she speaks quickly, and is unassuming in manners. Wm F Luck. Chilesburg P C. Caroline co. Va. ap 21--1t*
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee raid into Pendleton. (search)
One hundred dollars reward. --I will give the above reward for the apprehension and delivery to me, or in some jail that I may get her of my servant woman Katy who absconded from my house, in Carolina county on the night of the 4th inst. I understand she is attempting to make her stay. Pend Gap, 18 miles beyond Staunton, where her husband is hired.--Katy is 20 years of age, 5 feet some inches in height, tolerably Black stoutly built, with broad face, full eyes, and thick lip; she speaks quickly, and is unassuming in manners. Wm F Luck. Chilesburg P O. Carotine co, Va. ap 21--1w*
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