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A. P. Hill alry arms Army of Northern artillery attack battle Burgess Mill Butler Butler's brigade Butler's division camp captured cavalry charge City Point Cold Harbor Colonel command Confederate corps Courthouse crossed despatches detached dismounted enemy enemy's engaged eral expedition Federal cavalry Federal infantry fight fire Fitz Five Forks force gallop Gordonsville Grant ground Hamp Hampton's division Hancock Hatcher's run headquarters horses infantry J. E. B. Stuart James river killed Kilpatrick losses M. C. Butler Major-General Meade ment miles military morning mounted movement night Northern Virginia numbers officers orders Pamunkey river Petersburg pickets position Potomac prisoners raid Reams station rear recruits regiments retreat Richmond right flank road Rosser sabre says scouts sent Shenandoah Valley Sheridan soldiers South Carolina Stony Creek tion Trevilian troopers troops Virginia Central railroad W. H. F. Lee's division Wade Hampton wagons Weldon railroad Wilson wounded
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Page 176 - Had not success elsewhere come to brighten the horizon, it would have been difficult to have raised new forces to recruit the Army of the Potomac, which, shaken in its structure, its valor quenched in blood, and thousands of its ablest officers killed and wounded, was the Army of the Potomac no more.
Page 176 - Now, so gloomy was the military outlook after the action on the Chickahominy, and to such a degree by consequence had the moral spring of the public mind become relaxed, that there was at this time great danger of a collapse of the war.
Page 359 - You cannot regret as much as I did, that you were not with us at our final struggle. The absence of the troops which I had sent to North and South Carolina was, I believe, the cause of our immediate disaster. Our small force of cavalry (a large portion of...
Page 165 - This was a hard contested engagement, with heavy loss, for the number of troops engaged, to both sides, and was fought almost immediately in front of the infantry line of our army, which was busily occupied throwing up breast-works. After dark, our own and the enemy's dead being buried, we moved to the rear of the infantry, and went into camp on the morning of the next day (the 29th) in the vicinity of Old Church. In the battle at...
Page 174 - ... up with the fires of death. It took hardly more than ten minutes of the figment men call time to decide the battle. There was along the whole line a rush, the spectacle of impregnable works, a bloody loss, then a sullen falling-back ; and the action was decided.
Page 175 - Confederates, elated at the skillful manner in which they had constantly been thrust between Richmond and the Union army, and conscious of the terrible price in blood they had exacted from the latter, were in high spirit, and the morale of Lee's army was never better than after the...
Page 412 - ... and the whole command was flying before the most formidable cavalry charge I ever have witnessed ; Colonel Spencer and a large portion of my staff were virtually taken prisoners.
Page 174 - Rapidly as the result was reached, it was decisive ; for the consciousness of every man pronounced further assault hopeless. The troops went forward as far as the example of their officers could carry them : nor was it possible to urge them beyond; for there they knew lay only death, without even the...
Page 55 - Hampton was one of the party, to whom we should address ourselves. It was so dark that I could not distinguish him from any of his men. Upon being informed that we were a committee of citizens, and that there was no organized force in the town, and no military commander at the post...