Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, C.S.A.: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States |
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13th Virginia Regiment A. P. Hill advance afternoon army arrived artillery attack bank battalion battery battle Bower's Hill bridge brigade Bull Run camp Captain captured Cedar Creek Centreville Colonel column command corps Court-House crossed D. H. Hill D. H. Hill's direction enemy enemy's cavalry engaged Ewell Ewell's division field fighting fire Fisher's Hill Ford Fredericksburg Front Royal Gordon Gordonsville guns Harper's Ferry Hays heavy force Hill's division Hoke's brigade infantry Jackson Jackson's division Johnson's Junction Kershaw's killed Lawton's brigade Lee's Lieutenant Longstreet's loss Lynchburg Manassas Martinsburg Maryland McClellan McLaws miles morning Mount Jackson Mountain movement night North occupied officers picket pieces of artillery Plank road Potomac prisoners railroad reached rear received repulsed retired retreat Richmond right flank river Rodes route sent side skirmishers soon South tion town Trimble's troops Valley Pike Virginia Regiment wagons Warrenton Washington Winchester woods wounded
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Page 159 - One division of Sumner's and all of Hooker's corps, on the right, had,. after fighting most valiantly for several hours, been overpowered by numbers, driven back in great disorder, and much scattered, so that they were for the time somewhat demoralized.
Page 262 - I have abstained from burning the railroad buildings and car shops in your town because, after examination, I am satisfied the safety of the town would be endangered, and acting in the spirit of humanity, which has ever characterized my government and its military authorities, I do not desire to involve the innocent in the same punishment with the guilty. Had I applied the torch, without regard to consequences, I would have pursued a course that would have been fully vindicated as an act of just...
Page 72 - Hancock's operations, although they moved with great rapidity, he had been confronted by a superior force. Feigning to retreat slowly, he awaited their onset, and then turned upon them : after some terrific volleys of musketry he charged them with the bayonet, routing and dispersing their whole force ; killing, wounding and capturing from 500 to 600 men, he, himself losing only thirty-one men.
Page 415 - The events of the last month had satisfied me that the commander opposed to me was without enterprise, and possessed an excessive caution which amounted to timidity. If it was his policy to produce the impression that his force was too weak to fight me, he did not succeed, but if it was to convince me that he was not an able or energetic commander, his strategy was a complete success, and subsequent events have not changed my opinion.
Page 344 - The 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th,' 17th and 18th were consumed in manoeuvring and awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from Washington.
Page 148 - General Howard faced the third line to the rear preparatory to a change of front to meet the column advancing on the left; but this line now suffering from a destructive fire both in front and on its left, which it was unable to return, gave way towards the right and rear in considerable confusion, and was soon followed by the first and second lines.
Page 390 - The timber had been felled within cannon range all around and left on the ground, making a formidable obstacle, and every possible approach was raked by artillery. On the right was Rock Creek, running through a deep ravine, which had been rendered impassable by the felling of the timber on each side...
Page 401 - I now came to the conclusion that we had stood this mode of warfare long enough, and that it was time to open the eyes of the people of the North to its enormity, by an example in the way of retaliation.
Page 89 - The same report puts his numbers, on the 26th of June, at about 180,000, and the specific information obtained regarding their organization warrants the belief that this estimate did not exceed his actual strength.
Page 148 - Williams's corps, this latter division withdrew. Entering the woods on the west of the turnpike, and driving the enemy before them, the first line was met by a heavy fire of musketry and shell from the enemy's breastworks and the batteries on the hill commanding the exit from the woods. Meantime a heavy column of the enemy had succeeded in crowding back the troops of Gen.