The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 - Confederate States of America |
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advance Alexandria Annapolis arms arrived artillery Assistant Adjutant-General attack Baltimore battalion battery battle Beauregard Beverly Blackburn's Ford bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Bull Run camp Capt Captain cavalry Centreville Colonel column command companies directed division duty E. D. TOWNSEND enemy enemy's Fairfax Court-House field fire flank Fort McHenry Fort Monroe forward front Garnett General-in-Chief guard guns Hagerstown Harper's Ferry HDQRS HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT hill honor horses howitzer Infantry instant IRVIN MCDOWELL July July 13 July 21 June killed Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Major-General Manassas Maryland MCCLELLAN McDowell ment miles morning move movement o'clock a. m. obedient servant occupied officers Ohio PATTERSON Pennsylvania pickets position Potomac railroad re-enforcements rear received regiment respectfully retreat Richmond rifled river road sent shot SIMON CAMERON skirmishers tion troops turnpike U. S. Army Virginia Virginia Volunteers wagons Washington WINFIELD SCOTT woods wounded York
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Page 51 - All your rights shall be religiously respected, notwithstanding all that has been said by the traitors to induce you to believe that our advent among you will be signalized by interference with your slaves. Understand one thing clearly. Not only will we abstain from all such interference, but we will, on the contrary, with an iron hand, crush any attempt at insurrection on their part.
Page 322 - ... to take it. Three times was he repulsed by different corps in succession, and driven back, and the guns taken by hand, the horses being killed, and pulled away. The third time it was supposed by us all...
Page 322 - ... provisions served out to them the day before, many no doubt either did not eat them, or threw them away on the march, or during the battle, and were therefore without food. They had done much severe fighting. Some of the regiments which had been driven from the hill in the first two attempts of the enemy to keep possession of it had become shaken, were unsteady, and had many men out of the ranks.
Page 33 - ... well-disposed citizen will be disturbed in his lawful occupation or business ; that private property will not be interfered with by the men under my command, or allowed to be interfered with by others, except in so far as it may be used to afford aid and comfort to those in rebellion against the government whether here or elsewhere, all of which property, munitions of war, and that fitted to aid and support the rebellion, will be seized and held subject to confiscation...
Page 496 - ... extent with each other, and taking part as needed ; all from the outset displaying that marvellous capacity of our people as artillerists which has made them, it would appear, at once the terror and the admiration of the enemy. As was soon apparent, the Federalists had suffered severely from our artillery, and from the fire of our musketry on the right, and especially from the left flank, placed under cover, within whose galling range they had been advanced. And, we are told in their official...
Page 496 - Around the eastern and southern brow of the plateau, an almost unbroken fringe of second growth pines gave excellent shelter for our marksmen, who availed themselves of it with the most satisfactory skill. To the west, adjoining the fields, a broad belt of oaks extends directly across the crest on both sides of the Sudley road...
Page 749 - General McDowell's army in full retreat through Centreville. -The day is lost. Save Washington and the remnants of this army. . . The routed troops will not reform.
Page 321 - ... up with infantry. The leading brigade (Burnside's) had to sustain this shock for a short time without support, and did it well. The battalion of regular infantry was sent to sustain it, and shortly...
Page 477 - ... fire, and some example, had the happiest effect on the spirit of the troops. Order was soon restored and the battle re-established, to which the firmness of Jackson's brigade greatly contributed. Then, in a brief and rapid conference, General Beauregard was assigned to the command of the left, which, as the younger officer, he claimed, while I returned to that of the whole field.
Page 320 - Saturday its contents were ordered to be issued to the command, and the men required to have three days' rations in their haversacks. On Saturday orders were issued for the available force to inarch. As reported to yon in my letter of the 19th ultimo, my personal reconnoissauce of the roads to the south had shown that it was not practicable to carry out the original plan of turning the enemy's position on their right. The affair of the 18th at Blackburn's Ford showed he was too strong at that point...