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Hunter (search for this): chapter 10
ch matters was too much for one of Banks's listeners, the unlucky Major Copeland, who, despite the telegram for his removal after the unfortunate proclamation, was here again with Banks temporarily abiding, until service could be secured with General Hunter in the Southern Department. On the second of July Banks telegraphed Copeland from Washington, There is nothing to communicate upon affairs South. Have received your despatches. The secretary will assign you to General Hunter. Put our foGeneral Hunter. Put our force into condition to move as soon as possible. Will spend you word when I return,--think to-morrow. Copeland, listening to the promptings of the evil one, believed that now was the time for him to make the United States Government abandon conservatism, as he called it; Copeland's Pamphlet Statement, p. 22. so he determined to take the first step, and sent a despatch in secret cipher to his friend Dunbar of the Boston daily Advertiser, Ibid., p. 22. which should not only accomplish th
Burnside (search for this): chapter 10
the national capital, and provide for a further prosecution of the attack upon Richmond. After consideration, it was determined to use the Army of Virginia mainly, while covering the front at Washington and securing the valley of the Shenandoah, in forcing such heavy detachments from the main body of the enemy as to enable the Army of the Potomac to withdraw from its position at Harrison's Landing, and take shipping for Aquia Creek or Alexandria, The general-in-chief, accompanied by General Burnside, who had come from North Carolina to Fortress Monroe with his army, visited General McClellan at Harrison's Bar. The question of the withdrawal of that army was submitted to a council of officers, and, against the wishes and protests of McClellan, was determined upon. It was to be removed at once to Fredericksburg. See Report of Congressional Committee, Operations of the Army of the Potomac, p. 13. and so to embarrass the enemy, should he move northward, as to give all time possible f
Knipe (search for this): chapter 10
r hatred, which might have pleased the Administration, but found little favor with us. I think General Pope's freedom of speech infected his command with a general mania for discussing men and measures. It was not an uncommon event for generals and colonels to meet at my tent, and express their views in words stronger than those generally used in war councils,--cuss words of such vigor, when they fell from the lips of our division commander, that all were appalled into silence, save Colonel Knipe of the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania; and when he began, Williams was silent. Ordinary words being totally inadequate to express one's feelings, swearing became an epidemic. On the sixth of August the Army of Virginia began its march for Culpeper Court House. General Pope's main purpose in thus moving forward was not to fight. His instructions required him to be very careful not to allow the enemy to interpose between himself and Fredericksburg, to which point the forces from the Peninsu
G. D. Bayard (search for this): chapter 10
to Sperryville crosses Robertson's River. General Bayard, with four regiments of cavalry, was near Thoroughfare Mountain, about half-way between Bayard and Buford, there was a signal station, which re to Crawford to move forward and support General Bayard I received reports from General Bayard thGeneral Bayard that the enemy was advancing upon him, and his cavalry forced to retire. Pope's Report. in holding th, Crawford's brigade of Banks's corps, and General Bayard, who had been stationed on the Rapidan, ats was pushing our cavalry back, and Buford and Bayard were constantly sending Pope word to that effert House, it might have been doubted; but with Bayard's report that he was falling back on Culpeper,h he sent Crawford with his brigade to support Bayard, and to assist him in determining the movementhis whole force, pursuing his way northerly on Bayard's line of retreat towards Culpeper. Crawford'osition on the low ground of Cedar Creek, with Bayard's cavalry in his front, and batteries on his f
Robert G. Shaw (search for this): chapter 10
in aiming, to enable them to do better than at Winchester, where not one of the enemy could show himself with impunity at a thousand yards. My military family consisted of officers taken from the Second Massachusetts Regiment; this was due to the kindness of the Secretary of War, who promoted, at my request, to the rank of captains, Lieutenant H. B. Scott, as assistant adjutant-general, Lieutenant Wheaton, as commissary of subsistence, and Lieutenant M. M. Hawes, as quartermaster. Lieutenant Robert G. Shaw, who subsequently, as colonel of the First Massachusetts Colored Regiment, was killed at Fort Wagner, served as an aid on my staff. Although General Pope was at Washington, in the District of Columbia, we began to receive at Little Washington, through the newspapers, furious orders, intended to inflame his army with zeal,--No lines of retreat, No bases of supply, Live upon the country, We have always seen the backs of our enemy, Discard your false notions, etc. On the 14th of
Pitcher (search for this): chapter 10
ne,--total enlisted men, 1,435; and Greene's brigade, which consisted of the 78th New York Volunteers, a battalion of the 1st District Volunteers, and McGilvray's 6th Maine battery,total enlisted men, 457: making the total for Augur's division actually on the field, 3,013. Greene's brigade reduced by detachments was thrown back on the extreme left, and held in support of a battery. This division in two lines, with its left extending in the direction of Cedar Mountain, was covered by Captain Pitcher's battalion of the 8th and 12th Regulars, with Knapp's battery near the centre of the line, McGilvray's on the extreme left, and Robinson's intermediate. In front the ground was open, with an occasional cornfield and clumps of underbrush, and gradually rising for nearly a mile. Generally along the whole line, with an unobstructed fire over the cornfields and plain, and themselves commanded by the mountain, were our batteries. McGilvray's, Robinson's, Gray's, Knapp's, and Muhlenberg
Fremont (search for this): chapter 10
essed ourselves to instant preparation for an active and important duty. The three corps of the new army were to be commanded by Generals McDowell, Banks, and Fremont. Our corps, no longer the Fifth of the Army of the Potomac, was to be known as the Second of the Army of Virginia, and was to be commanded by General Banks. Pope, at the date of this promotion, was Fremont's junior in rank,--a fact which the latter considered so offensive to his dignity that he refused to take the command assigned him; therefore Siegel was substituted, and Fremont retired, carrying with him everything but our regrets. General Pope's department covered the region which Fremont retired, carrying with him everything but our regrets. General Pope's department covered the region which holds, east of the Blue Ridge, the great battle-fields of the war. The troops were organized and posted to cover the city of Washington from any attack in the direction of Richmond, to assure the safety of the Shenandoah Valley, and to operate upon the enemy's lines of communication in the direction of Gordonsville,--thus hoping to
Gray (search for this): chapter 10
ntain, was covered by Captain Pitcher's battalion of the 8th and 12th Regulars, with Knapp's battery near the centre of the line, McGilvray's on the extreme left, and Robinson's intermediate. In front the ground was open, with an occasional cornfield and clumps of underbrush, and gradually rising for nearly a mile. Generally along the whole line, with an unobstructed fire over the cornfields and plain, and themselves commanded by the mountain, were our batteries. McGilvray's, Robinson's, Gray's, Knapp's, and Muhlenberg's (Bests). See Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, series i. vol. XII. part II. Reports of Augur, Williams, Crawford, etc. As one approaches Cedar Creek, going south towards Orange Court House, a gentle descent for half a mile leads to the low ground, through which the creek winds in a northwesterly and southeasterly course. Where the road begins its descent a thick wood skirts it on either side for some four hundred yards. From that point turn nort
Wheaton (search for this): chapter 10
l Andrews (who had received full promotion to the command of the Second Regiment) practised his men in aiming, to enable them to do better than at Winchester, where not one of the enemy could show himself with impunity at a thousand yards. My military family consisted of officers taken from the Second Massachusetts Regiment; this was due to the kindness of the Secretary of War, who promoted, at my request, to the rank of captains, Lieutenant H. B. Scott, as assistant adjutant-general, Lieutenant Wheaton, as commissary of subsistence, and Lieutenant M. M. Hawes, as quartermaster. Lieutenant Robert G. Shaw, who subsequently, as colonel of the First Massachusetts Colored Regiment, was killed at Fort Wagner, served as an aid on my staff. Although General Pope was at Washington, in the District of Columbia, we began to receive at Little Washington, through the newspapers, furious orders, intended to inflame his army with zeal,--No lines of retreat, No bases of supply, Live upon the cou
N. P. Banks (search for this): chapter 10
Mountain. Bearing peremptory orders to General Banks, I took the route by Harper's Ferry, delaymy were to be commanded by Generals McDowell, Banks, and Fremont. Our corps, no longer the Fifth July came to find us quiet in our camp, with Banks in Washington, from whence, on the 2d, he teleions by rail in the direction of Gordonsville, Banks was on the fourteenth of July ordered to send preceded by many drills, in some of which General Banks attempted and creditably performed divisio of battle was formed with Augur's division of Banks's corps (2d) on the left of the road lead-·ing with Crawford, or to support Crawford? asked Banks. Why, he was nowhere near Crawford, replied ttaff, was the answer. I did not know it, said Banks; I thought he was just behind the woods, on Crront he had in all not more than 8,000 men, Banks's force in the field was officially stated as d that of the enemy at 25,000. Testimony of Banks before the Committee on the Conduct of the War[25 more...]
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