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R. H. Anderson (search for this): chapter 6.54
s statement, Southern Historical Papers, June, 1879, page 299. General Anderson says in his report: My not occupying these redoubt was perhapsays he knew nothing of them, and so does Longstreet, and Hill, and Anderson, although they were all charged with their defence. Each is in siMcLaws' report of the battle of Williamsburg] until relieved by R. H. Anderson. Colonel Bratton, of the Sixth South Carolina, of Anderson's brAnderson's brigade, whose regiment was posted near the glacis of Fort Magruder, knew of them; for he reported them unoccupied [see his narrative--Southern the 4th and 5th. As McLaws occupied them on the 4th, why did not Anderson, who relieved him, occupy all the posts he occupied? Who relievedretired. That evening McLaws was relieved, as already said, by R. H. Anderson, commanding the brigades of Anderson and Pryor. In the morningAnderson and Pryor. In the morning, after much skirmishing, without advantage to the enemy, he appeared on the right, in force under Hooker, attacking with spirit, but, though
Benjamin Franklin (search for this): chapter 6.54
re that Magruder should not halt at all and that the other divisions should take up their march to the Chickahominy at early dawn — Longstreet being in the rear. So Smith moved on at day, then the trains followed, and Hill's infantry were filing into the road when orders came to halt and then to return to town. The enemy's van had come up and was disposed to skirmish with the rear guard--fresh troops were arriving every moment — there was no time to wait to deliver a regular battle, for Franklin was already sailing up the York — but our trains were not well away and 'twas deemed prudent for Hill to tarry as Longstreet might need aid; doubtless, too, General Johnston was not unwilling to turn and deal the enemy a blow to show how little demoralization his backward movement created, and how, though in retreat, his men were quite as ready and as able too to fight as when on a victorious advance. Thus Hill's trains went on, but his infantry and some artillery returned to Williamsburg <
Featherston (search for this): chapter 6.54
it consists of the following regiments, counting from the right: The Fifth and Twenty-third North Carolina, commanded respectively by Colonels Duncan K. McRae and Hoke; and the Thirty-eighth and Twenty-fourth Virginia commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Powhatan B. Whittle and Colonel William R. Terry; the Twenty-fourth Virginia being thus on the left, and the Fifth North Carolina on the right. This brigade is assigned to the attack, and the remainder of the division — the brigades of Rodes, Featherston and Rains, with the second company of Richmond howitzers — is held in reserve close by. Major-General D. H. Hill will lead and takes special charge of the right wing, the two North Carolina regiments; and the Virginians, of the left, will be led by General Early. Regardless of the rule which places commanding officers in rear of the line in a charge, Early, with his staff, takes position in front of his old regiment, the Twenty-fourth; and its field-officers, all mounted, do likewise.
H. B. McClellan (search for this): chapter 6.54
daring charge. * * * * * It contributed largely to detain McClellan, to demoralize his troops and to secure our retreat from , just out of sight and range. Although in command — for McClellan seems to have considered that the position for the genera extent of three brigades (Smith's two and Naglee's), General McClellan sent him immediately after his arrival from the rear. It is noteworthy, that although McClellan's army was in pursuit of a retiring foe, he himself, instead of being in the vace had expired, and to elect their officers! Nor did General McClellan ever again try the experiment of attacking General Joof hostile hand. In his first dispatch to Lincoln, General McClellan states that Hancock had repulsed Early's brigade by aold steel. But so in fact it was. And in answer to General McClellan and Mr. Swinton and others, the writer hereof, who legments and thanks for saving their comrade's life. General McClellan, with his usual exaggeration when counting Confederat
Winfield Hancock (search for this): chapter 6.54
redoubt on our extreme left, defended by General Hancock with five regiments and ten guns, affords, and to have resulted in the easy capture of Hancock's whole command, had due precaution been take no mood to detain the flying foe, and orders Hancock to retire. The latter, well knowing the lucknnoying to Fort Magruder, 'tis said, although Hancock showed no signs of making use of the positionhave been no necessity for this, however, for Hancock's fire had done no damage all day, and was noing to fall back farther for the night. (See Hancock's report, battle of Williamsburg.) The Confedteady are clearly heard. In a. word, General Winfield Hancock's five regiments and ten guns have beof Her Majesty's Scotch Fusileers, who was in Hancock's redoubt, and saw the charge, made himself kengagements of the war, and declared that General Hancock merited the highest praise So far from prwere evidently the main body itself. See General Hancock's official report of the arrangement of h[16 more...]
R. B. McRae (search for this): chapter 6.54
enty-fourth Virginia of Early's brigade. By Colonel R. L. Maury. The Immortal Twenty-fourth.--The Yankee General Hancock said that the Fifth North Carolina and the Twenty-fourth Virginia, for their conduct in battle before Williamsburg, ought to have this word inscribed upon their banners. The Twenty-fourth in the fight of yesterday vindicated its title to this honor. * * * *.--Richmond Enquirer, June 2, 1862. The narratives of Colonel Bratton, of the Sixth South Carolina, and of Colonel McRae, of the Fifth North Carolina, published in the Papers of the Southern Historical Society for June and August last, describing the charge made by a small part of Early's brigade [the Twenty-fourth Virginia, supported by the Fifth North Carolina] at Williamsburg, upon a redoubt on our extreme left, defended by General Hancock with five regiments and ten guns, affords a proper occasion to record an account of the achievements there of the Twenty-fourth Virginia infantry, which bore the prin
Haden (search for this): chapter 6.54
shows. Terry, too, that gallant leader, ever in the van of many an after battle, has gotten the first of frequent shots' full in the face, and the dauntless Hairston also goes down desperately wounded so the writer, then but a youth, finds himself for the first time in command of his regiment, and the only mounted officer there. The Fifth North Carolina, with all its mounted officers, had not yet gotten up to the more advanced position of the Twenty-fourth Virginia. Captains Jennings and Haden, and Lieutenant Mansfield, too, the bravest of all these braves, lie dead upon the ground. Lieutenant Willie Radford, soldier and scholar, has freely given up his young life, so full of bloom and promise, in defence of home and dear native land, and lies with his face up to heaven and his feet to the foe, his noble brow, so lately decked with University honors, now pale and cold in death, and his Captain [afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel Bently], ever present in the field from Manassas even to
Allen (search for this): chapter 6.54
urg, running entirely across the Peninsula from Queen's creek of York to James river. Commencing near Saunder's pond on the York side near where the road crosses it, this line runs northwest for a mile or more, in which space are three redoubts; then due west some three hundred yards, passing another to Fort Magruder with several outlying smaller works, and thence westwardly in an irregular course, skirting a stream and swamp, some two miles more, passing six redoubts to the road leading to Allen's wharf on Jame river. The centre of this line was Fort Magruder, a large, well constructed closed earthwork, located about one mile from Williamsburg on the main road running down the Peninsula, which, just beyond, falks into the Yorktown and the Warwick roads. The redoubts to the right, on the James river side, were all occupied by Longstreet's division, which relieved Hill — guarding the rear on the 4th--and whose obvious duty was to cover all the lines on which the enemy could advanc
Shockley (search for this): chapter 6.54
ie Radford, soldier and scholar, has freely given up his young life, so full of bloom and promise, in defence of home and dear native land, and lies with his face up to heaven and his feet to the foe, his noble brow, so lately decked with University honors, now pale and cold in death, and his Captain [afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel Bently], ever present in the field from Manassas even to Appomattox, fell bleeding by his side many yards in front of their company, and Captain Lybrock and Lieutenant Shockley, too, fall wounded to the earth. But no pause is made. Ten minutes--fifteen--have passed while they cross that field of blood, and every other man is down. But the supports are approaching; not all the rest of the brigade, as was expected — or a part of the division, fresh and in order — but only a single regiment, the gallant Fifth North Carolina, who, seeing what odds the Virginians were fighting, had, as soon as it emerged into the field and found no enemy confronting them, soug
J. L. Kemper (search for this): chapter 6.54
hey done their devoir that even in submission the world admired and all brave hearts applauded their dauntless deeds. At odd times, when the Army of Northern Virginia was inactive, the brigade of which this regiment formed part — and which, from its earliest engagements, seemed to have attracted the attention of its commanders and gained their special confidence — went to Suffolk, North Carolina and Drury's Bluff in successful quests of glory and renown. After it was reorganized in 1862, Kemper commanded it, and Pickett was its Major-General until the sad disaster at Five Forks (1865). At Yorktown Early held the lines just outside the village. Outnumbered as the Confederates were, the incessant duty necessarily imposed upon them in picketing, skirmishing and constant watching by night and day without relief, was wearing and arduous in the extreme. The weather was wet, the troops without shelter, the trenches full of mud and water and the supplies but scant. This exposure and
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