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George B. McClellan (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
The first stand of Stonewall's men McClellan's last advance: the crossing after Antietam nd, was taken in October, 1862. On the 26th McClellan crossed the Potomac here for the last time i village of about four hundred inhabitants), McClellan had his headquarters during the reorganizati, riding post-haste from Washington, reached McClellan's tent at Rectortown, and handed him Stanton now threatened the capital of the Republic, McClellan, commanding the Army of the Potomac, pushed on the doomed Federal garrison. On that day McClellan received word from Miles that the latter cou wouldn't have been caught in this trap. McClellan had failed to reach Harper's Ferry in time tLee's army under D. H. Hill and Longstreet. McClellan had come into possession of Lee's general orand McLaws had not yet reached the field. McClellan spent the day arranging his corps and givingotwithstanding his advantage of position. McClellan sent several urgent orders to advance at all[14 more...]
John A. McClernand (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
the Potomac, as he had done at Harrison's Landing. Puzzled to understand how Lee could have circumvented a superior force on the Peninsula, he was now anxious to learn why a crushing blow had not been struck. Lincoln (after Gettysburg) expressed the same thought: Our army held the war in the hollow of their hand and they would not close it! On Lincoln's right stands Allan Pinkerton, the famous detective and organizer of the Secret Service of the army. At the President's left is General John A. McClernand, soon to be entrusted by Lincoln with reorganizing military operations in the West. he determined to withdraw from Maryland. On the night of the 18th the retreat began and early the next morning the Confederate army had all safely recrossed the Potomac. The great mistake of the Maryland campaign from the standpoint of the Confederate forces, thought General Longstreet, was the division of Lee's army, and he believed that if Lee had kept his forces together he would not have b
Chilton (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
rance of how the battle went. Outnumbered he knew his troops were; outfought he knew they never would be. Longstreet, Hood, D. B. Hill, Evans, and D. R. Jones had turned back more than one charge in the morning; but, as the day wore on, Lee perceived that the center must be held. Sharpsburg was the key. He had deceived McClellan as to his numerical strength and he must continue to do so. Lee had practically no reserves at all. At one time General Longstreet reported from the center to General Chilton, Lee's Chief of Staff, that Cooke's North Carolina regiments--till keeping its colors at the front — had not a cartridge left. None but veteran troops could hold a line like this, supported by only two guns of Miller's battery of the Washington Artillery. Of this crisis in the battle General Longstreet wrote afterward: We were already badly whipped and were holding our ground by sheer force of desperation. Actually in line that day on the Confederate side were only 37,000 men, and op
Ambrose Everett Burnside (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
ent at Rectortown, and handed him Stanton's order relieving him from command. Burnside was appointed his successor, and at the moment was with him in the tent. Withhange of countenance, McClellan handed him the despatch, with the words: Well, Burnside, you are to command the army. Whatever may have been McClellan's fault, the mtle of three hours duration. Meanwhile, the First and Ninth Army Corps, under Burnside, encountered a stronger force at Turner's Gap seven miles farther up. The batt. General Porter with two divisions of the Fifth Corps occupied the center and Burnside was on the left of the Union lines Back of McClellan's lines was a ridge on whmorning, giving ground at last to Sumner's fresh troops. On the Federal left, Burnside (at the lower bridge) failed to advance against Longstreet's Corps, two-thirdso Porterstown and Rohersville) was not forced till late in the afternoon, when Burnside, after a series of delays and ineffectual attempts, managed to throw his troop
Jeff Thompson (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
imony of the stubbornness with which the Confederates stood their ground in the most heroic resistance of the day. North of this sunken road was the original position of the Confederate center under General D. H. Hill when the battle opened at dawn. As the fighting reached flood-tide, Hill sent forward the brigades of Colquitt, Ripley, and McRae to the assistance of Jackson at the left. The men (says Hill) advanced with alacrity, secured a good position, and were fighting bravely when Captain Thompson, Fifth North Carolina, cried out: They're flanking us! This cry spread like an electric shock along the ranks, bringing up vivid recollections of the flank fire at South Mountain. In a moment they broke and fell to the rear. Rallied again at the sunken road, the forces of Hill now met the combined attack of the divisions of French and Richardson of Sumner's Corps, freshly come on the field. It was resistance to the death; reenforced by the division of Anderson, Hill's men, in the fa
Stonewall (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
Antietam — the invasion of the North The first stand of Stonewall's men McClellan's last advance: the crossing after Antietam This splendid landscape photograph of the pontoon bridge at Berlin, Maryland, was taken in October, 1862. On the 26th McClellan crossed the Potomac here for the last time in command of against invasion through the Valley of Virginia, but once the Confederates had crossed it, a veritable trap. General Halleck ordered it held and General Lee sent Stonewall Jackson to take it, by attacking the fortress on the Virginia side. Jackson began his march on September 10th with secret instructions from his commander to en mortally wounded, that the was in command and Antietam: the first to fall. This photograph was taken back of the rail fence on the Hagerstown pike, where Stonewall Jackson's men attempted to rally in the face of Hooker's ferocious charge that opened the bloodiest day of the Civil War--September 17, 1862. Hooker, advancing
Ambrose E. Burnside (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
us now look on the other part of the field. Burnside held the Federal left wing against Lee's righun at the other end of the line. In front of Burnside was a triple-arched stone bridge across the A Lee's left and center suffered so severely. Burnside's delay at the bridge could not have been mortory for the Federals. Even at the time when Burnside's tardy advance began, it must have prevailedrning of the 17th, McClellan sent an order to Burnside to advance on the bridge, to take possession it. It must have been about ten o'clock when Burnside received the order as McClellan was more than two miles away. Burnside's chief officer at this moment was General Jacob D. Cox (afterward Goveral urgent orders to advance at all hazards. Burnside forwarded these to Cox, and in the fear that along the whole line of battle now ensued. Burnside, however, received another order from McClellsion) checked Hill for a breathing space; but Burnside's forces were steadily pushed back until at n[1 more...]
A. P. Hill (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
ith Jackson in the affair at Harper's Ferry. A. P. Hill's men, arriving from Harper's Ferry that sam New Hampshire, seized a position which exposed Hill's men to an enfilading fire. (In the picture Goubled effort. Out of the dust the brigades of Hill debouched upon the field. Their fighting blood of eighteen miles. Without waiting for orders, Hill threw his men into the fight and the progress oied Confederates had not the fresh troops of A. P. Hill averted the disaster. Antietam: after theugh the town the anxiously awaited forces of A. P. Hill. From that moment the Federals got no nearer Sharpsburg. Hill drove them back steadily beyond the church, recapturing the battery which they h little church as well as to the Confederates. Hill's men, taking Rodman's division in flank, pourey Scammon, who (leading Cox's division) checked Hill for a breathing space; but Burnside's forces wethat they had taken from the Federal stores. Hill had come just in time to save Lee's headquarter[7 more...]
Knap (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
he awful counter-stroke of Early's reinforced division and, stubbornly resisting, was hurled back with frightful loss. Early in the morning of September 17, 1862, Knap's battery (shown below) got into the thick of the action of Antietam. General Mansfield had posted it opposite the north end of the West Woods, close to the Confe held their ground and stemmed the Confederate advance. Near this spot General Mansfield was mortally wounded while deploying his troops. About noon a section of Knap's battery was detached to the assistance of General Greene, in the East Woods. A regiment that fought at South Mountain — the thirty-fifth New York Colonel T. G. Morehead: a Hero of Sedgwick's charge Knap's battery, just after the bloody work at Antietam But General Halleck had ordered him to hold Harper's Ferry to the last, and Miles interpreted this order to mean that he must hold the town itself. He therefore failed to occupy the heights around it in sufficient strength
H. K. Douglas (search for this): part 1.2, chapter 1.5
and that Mr. Whittier, who has given us the popular poem under the title of her name, was misinformed. However, Colonel H. K. Douglas, who was a member of Jackson's staff, relates, in Battles and leaders of the Civil War, an interesting incident wo the young women, raised his hat, and remarked to some of his officers, We evidently have no friends in this town. Colonel Douglas concludes, This is about the way he would have treated Barbara Frietchie. On the day after Jackson left Frederickd that firing at the Ferry had ceased and suspected that the garrison had surrendered, as it had. The Confederate Colonel Douglas, whose account of the surrender is both absorbing and authoritative, thus describes the surrender in Battles and leaillery were aiding them. The two lines, says General Palfrey, almost tore each other to pieces. General Starke and Colonel Douglas on the Confederate side were killed. More than half of Lawton's and Hays' brigades were either killed or wounded.
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