The Civil War, Volumen2U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1902 - 63 páginas A good introductory booklet surveying the eleven most popular aspects of the 1861-1865 conflict. |
Términos y frases comunes
5th corps A. P. Hill advance afternoon Allan Aquia Creek arrived artillery assault attack Banks batteries battle Beauregard Bowling Green Bragg bridges brigade Buell Burnside campaign capture cavalry Centreville Chickahominy command Confederate army Corinth Creek crossed Culpeper Cumberland D. H. Hill defeat defence division Donelson East Tennessee enemy enemy's eral expected fact Federal army Federal force Federal troops fight flank Fort Donelson Fort Henry Franklin Fredericksburg Frémont front Gordonsville Grant guns Halleck Harper's Ferry Heintzelman Huger Jackson James River Johnston Junction Kentucky Lee's army Longstreet loss Malvern Hill Manassas McClellan McDowell McDowell's McLaws ment miles military morning move movement Nashville numbers officer operations Palfrey Pope Pope's Porter position Potomac railroad Rappahannock regiments reinforcements Report retired retreat Richmond road says sent Sharpsburg Shenandoah Valley side Sigel Smith soon success Sumner tion turnpike Union army Virginia Washington
Pasajes populares
Página 240 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Página 461 - American Orations FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME Selected as specimens of eloquence, and with special reference to their value in throwing light upon the more important epochs and issues of American history. Edited, with introductions and notes, by the late ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, Professor of Jurisprudence in the College of New Jersey.
Página 91 - I wanted to pursue, but had not the heart to order the men who had fought desperately for two days, lying in the mud and rain whenever not fighting, and I did (*8) not feel disposed to positively order Buell, or any part of his command, to pursue.
Página 271 - Heintzelman, Sigel, and Reno are moving on the Warrenton turnpike, and must now be not far from Gainesville. I desire that, as soon as communication is established between this force and your own, the whole command shall halt. It may be necessary to fall back behind Bull Run at Centreville to-night. I presume it will be so on account of our supplies.
Página 126 - You are instructed, laying aside for the present the movement on Richmond, to put 20,000 men in motion at once for the Shenandoah, moving on the line or in advance of the line of the Manassas Gap Railroad.
Página 236 - River, and even after you received the re-enforcements asked for, you admitted that you must reduce Fort Darling and the river batteries before you could advance on Richmond. It is by no means certain that the reduction of these fortifications...
Página 347 - More than half of the brigades of Lawton and Hays were either killed or wounded, and more than a third of Trimble's, and all the regimental commanders in those brigades, except two, were killed or wounded.
Página 30 - A terrible conflict ensued in my absence, which has demoralized a portion of my command, and I think the enemy is much more so If the gunboats do not show themselves, it will reassure the enemy and still farther demoralize our troops.
Página 234 - All points of secondary importance elsewhere should be abandoned, and every available man brought here ; a decided victory here and the military strength of the rebellion is crushed. It matters not what partial reverses we may meet with elsewhere. Here is the true defense of Washington.
Página 272 - If any considerable advantages are to be gained by departing from this order, it will not be strictly carried out. One thing must be had in view, that the troops must occupy a position from which they can reach Bull Run to-night or by morning. The indications are that the whole force of the enemy is moving in this direction at a pace that will bring them here by to-morrow night or next day.