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Stonewall (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
ecked Pickets on reserve — across this wheatfield the Union charge was swept back by Stonewall Jackson Where the commander heard the cannonading: Pope's headquarters during the battle oarters in the saddle. He could not know what the world later learned — that Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were generals before whose genius few opponents, however brave, could make headway. As afternoon the Federal batteries will plunge into range of a flaring crescent two miles long--Stonewall Jackson's guns; that those guns will roar destruction upon them for three hours without ceasined in this initial movement. The sagacious Lee had divined his intention and had sent General Stonewall Jackson with his and General Ewell's divisions on July 13th, to occupy Gordonsville. Ewell ar to the aid of the recently consolidated army under Pope. On August 9, 1862, the vanguards of Stonewall Jackson's army and of Pope's intercepting forces met at Cedar Mountain. Banks, with the Secon
Alfred N. Duffie (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
in the Fifth Connecticut all but eight. It was one of the most heroic combats of the war. A Leader of Cavalry. Colonel Alfred N. Duffie was in command of the First Rhode Island Cavalry, in the Cavalry Brigade of the Second Division of McDowell's (T, the day before the battle of Cedar Mountain, the cavalry had proceeded south to the house of Dr. Slaughter. That night Duffie was on picket in advance of General Crawford's troops, which had come up during the day and pitched camp. The whole divippahannoc was ordered, the cavalry again checked the Confederate advance. During the entire campaign the regiment of Colonel Duffie did yeoman's service. The leader of the charge: General Samuel W. Crawford, here seen with his staff, at Cedar Mountain. Col. Alfred N. Duffie The latter of the two possibilities seemed the more probable, and Pope was therefore ordered to push his whole army toward Gordonsville, in the hope that Lee, compelled to strengthen Jackson, would be too weak to
Franz Sigel (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
ssissippi had brought him into national importance. The corps of Banks, Fremont, and McDowell were consolidated to form this new army, called the Army of Virginia. General Fremont refused to serve under his junior, and his force was given to Franz Sigel, who had won fame in 1861 in Missouri. This picture was taken about two weeks after the reorganization was completed. The soldiers are those of McDowell's Corps. They are on the old battlefield of Bull Run, enjoying the leisure of Camp lifef no avail and he assumed command of the Army of Virginia on the 26th of June. McDowell and Banks made no protest; but Fremont refused to serve under one whom he considered his junior, and resigned his position. His corps was assigned to General Franz Sigel. The new commander, General Pope, on the 14th of July, issued an address to his army that was hardly in keeping with his modesty in desiring at first to decline the honor that was offered him. I have come to you from the West, he procla
Samuel W. Crawford (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
ut of his strong entrenchments at Harrison's Landing. Cedar Montain. The Hero of the Federal Attack. General Samuel W. Crawford, here seen with his staff, at Cedar Mountain led a charge on the left flank of the Confederate forces that camentain, the cavalry had proceeded south to the house of Dr. Slaughter. That night Duffie was on picket in advance of General Crawford's troops, which had come up during the day and pitched camp. The whole division came to his support on the next day During the entire campaign the regiment of Colonel Duffie did yeoman's service. The leader of the charge: General Samuel W. Crawford, here seen with his staff, at Cedar Mountain. Col. Alfred N. Duffie The latter of the two possibilities sle continued with the utmost fury. The ground was strewn with dead and dying Survivors of the fighting tenth When Crawford's troops were driven back by A. P. Hill, he halted on the edge of a wheatfield, where he was reenforced by the Tenth Mai
Henry Wager Halleck (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
Clellan remained inactive, had determined, by sending Jackson westward, to repeat the successful tactics of the previous spring in the Shenandoah valley. Such a move might result in the recall of McClellan. And so it happened. No sooner had Halleck assumed command of all the Northern armies than the matter of McClellan's withdrawal was agitated and on August 3d the head of the Army of the Potomac, to his bitter disappointment, was ordered to join Pope on the Rappahannock. Halleck was muchHalleck was much concerned as to how Lee would act during the Federal evacuation of the Peninsula, uncertain whether the Confederates would attempt to crush Pope before McClellan could reenforce him, or whether McClellan would be attacked as soon as he was out of his strong entrenchments at Harrison's Landing. Cedar Montain. The Hero of the Federal Attack. General Samuel W. Crawford, here seen with his staff, at Cedar Mountain led a charge on the left flank of the Confederate forces that came near b
Washington (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
ar Mountain. Battlefield of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. Here the Confederate army in its second advance on Washington first felt out the strength massed against it. After Lee's brilliant tactics had turned McClellan's Peninsula Campaign into a fiasco, the Confederate Government resolved to again take the offensive. Plans were formed for a general invasion of the North, the objective points ranging from Cincinnati eastward to the Federal capital and Philadelphia. Immediately after Washington got wind of this, Lincoln (on August 4th) issued a call for three hundred thousand men; and all haste was made to rush the forces of McClellan from the Peninsula and of Cox from West Virginia to the aid of the recently consolidated army under Pope. On August 9, 1862, the vanguards of Stonewall Jackson's army and of Pope's intercepting forces met at Cedar Mountain. Banks, with the Second Corps of the Federal army, about eight thousand strong, attacked Jackson's forces of some sixteen thou
George D. Bayard (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
n, the cavalry had proceeded south to the house of Dr. Slaughter. That night Duffie was on picket in advance of General Crawford's troops, which had come up during the day and pitched camp. The whole division came to his support on the next day. When the infantry fell back to the protection of the batteries, the cavalry was ordered to charge the advancing Confederates. Officers and men behaved admirably, and I cannot speak too highly of the good conduct of all of the brigade, reported General Bayard. After the battle the cavalry covered the retreat of the artillery and ambulances. On August 18th, when the retreat behind the Rappahannoc was ordered, the cavalry again checked the Confederate advance. During the entire campaign the regiment of Colonel Duffie did yeoman's service. The leader of the charge: General Samuel W. Crawford, here seen with his staff, at Cedar Mountain. Col. Alfred N. Duffie The latter of the two possibilities seemed the more probable, and Pope was
John Crane (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
disastrous for Jackson. At about six o'clock the brigade was in line. General Williams reported: At this time this brigade occupied the interior line of a strip of woods. A field, varying from 250 to 500 yards in width, lay between it and the next strip of woods. In moving across this field the three right regiments and the six companies of the Third Wisconsin were received by a terrific fire of musketry. The Third Wisconsin especially fell under a partial flank fire under which Lieut.-Colonel Crane fell and the regiment was obliged to give way. Of the three remaining regiments which continued the charge (Twenty-eighth New York, Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, and Fifth Connecticut) every field-officer and every adjutant was killed or disabled. In the Twenty-eighth New York every company officer was killed or wounded; in the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania all but five; in the Fifth Connecticut all but eight. It was one of the most heroic combats of the war. A Leader of Cavalry. Colonel Al
C. S. Winder (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
ly 13th, to occupy Gordonsville. Ewell arrived in advance of Jackson and held the town for the Confederates. In the line of fire Where the Confederate General Winder was killed at Cedar Mountain. It was while directing the movements of four advance batteries that General Winder was struck by a shell, expiring in a few houGeneral Winder was struck by a shell, expiring in a few hours. Jackson reported: It is difficult within the proper reserve of an official report to do justice to the merits of this accomplished officer. Urged by the medical director to take no part in the movements of the day because of the enfeebled state of his health, his ardent patriotism and military pride could bear no such restraance. Learning of this the latter halted and waited for an attack. He placed Ewell's batteries on the slope about two hundred feet above the valley and sent General Winder to take a strong position on the left. So admirably was Jackson's army stationed that it would have required a much larger force, approaching it from the pla
B. F. Butler (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.3
tion taken by the Confederate troops under General Ewell. The brigades of Trimble and Hayes were drawn up near this house, at some distance from the brigade of Early. After the battle the whole of Jackson's army was drawn up on the slopes near it. The fugitives: followers of Pope's retreat Virginia Negroes following Pope's soldiers in their retreat from Cedar Mountain. From the beginning of the war Negroes had been a subject of debate. Even before Bull Run, on May 26, 1861, General B. F. Butler had declared that all fugitive slaves would be considered as contraband of war. Congress, however, decided in August that all slaves confiscated should be held subject to the decision of the United States courts. In April of 1862, General Hunter, at Hilton Head, South Carolina, declared that all slaves in his military department were forever free, but a week later Lincoln annulled the proclamation. Hunter, however, raised a storm by organizing a regiment of fugitive slaves. It was
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