The Fifth Army Corps (Army of the Potomac): A Record of Operations During the Civil War in the United States of America, 1861-1865G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895 - 900 pages |
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... tion from his countrymen . He graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1845 , eighth in a class which numbered 123. In July , 1846 , as lieutenant in the 4th U. S. Artillery , he joined the army operat- ing against Mexico at Point ...
... tion from his countrymen . He graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1845 , eighth in a class which numbered 123. In July , 1846 , as lieutenant in the 4th U. S. Artillery , he joined the army operat- ing against Mexico at Point ...
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... tion of the railroad between Baltimore and Harrisburg against Baltimore rioters . By his discharge of this duty he gained the entire and never - shaken confi- dences of Secretary Cameron and Governor Curtin , of Pennsylvania . This ...
... tion of the railroad between Baltimore and Harrisburg against Baltimore rioters . By his discharge of this duty he gained the entire and never - shaken confi- dences of Secretary Cameron and Governor Curtin , of Pennsylvania . This ...
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... tion in the camps . The 62d Pennsylvania was organized at Pittsburg , Pa . , August 31 , 1861 , to serve for three years . Its movement to the front had commenced even before its organization was completed . Its first colonel , Samuel W ...
... tion in the camps . The 62d Pennsylvania was organized at Pittsburg , Pa . , August 31 , 1861 , to serve for three years . Its movement to the front had commenced even before its organization was completed . Its first colonel , Samuel W ...
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... tion broken up , but also unwilling that the commanding general shall be trammelled and embarrassed in actual skirmishing , col- lision with the enemy , and on the eve of an expected great battle . You , therefore , may temporarily ...
... tion broken up , but also unwilling that the commanding general shall be trammelled and embarrassed in actual skirmishing , col- lision with the enemy , and on the eve of an expected great battle . You , therefore , may temporarily ...
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... tion with them ; that you consult and communicate with nobody but General Fitz Fohn Porter , and perhaps General Franklin . I do not say these complaints are TRUE or JUST , but at all events it is proper you should know of their ...
... tion with them ; that you consult and communicate with nobody but General Fitz Fohn Porter , and perhaps General Franklin . I do not say these complaints are TRUE or JUST , but at all events it is proper you should know of their ...
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13th New York 18th Massachusetts 2d Maine 3d Brigade 4th Michigan 83d Pennsylvania advance ARMY OF VIRGINIA arrived artillery attack bank Battalion battery bridge brigade Brigadier-General Bull Run Burnside Butterfield camp Capt Captain cavalry Centreville charge Chickahominy Colonel column command Confederate Creek crossed D. H. Hill directed division enemy enemy's field Fifth Army Corps Fifth Corps fire Fitz-John Porter flank force Ford forward Fredericksburg front GEORGE SYKES Griffin guns headquarters Heintzelman Hill Hooker Jackson John Pope June killed Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle Little Round Top Longstreet Major-General Malvern Manassas mand McClellan McDowell Meade ment miles Morell Morell's morning moved movement night occupied officers Pennsylvania Reserves pickets pike Pope Potomac President railroad rear received regiment reserve retired Reynolds river sent Sharpshooters Sickles skirmishers Sykes Third Corps tion troops U. S. Artillery U. S. Infantry Union Union army Warren Warrenton Washington woods
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Page 410 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying, that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have; given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 850 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
Page 342 - The United States of America, To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas Isaac Gullett of Butler County, Ohio has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States...
Page 286 - ... Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before ; but it was one I never forgot afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.
Page 840 - AM) received, in consequence of my having passed from the Richmond and Lynchburg road to the Farmville and Lynchburg road. I am at this writing about four miles west of Walker's Church and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you. Notice sent to me on this road where you wish the interview to take place will meet me.
Page 31 - Affairs, and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs, who shall perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President of the United States...
Page 286 - Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do ; I kept right on.
Page 311 - War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, November 5, 1862. By direction of the President of the United States, it is ordered that Major-General McClellan be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac, and that Major-General Burnside take the command of that army. By order of the Secretary of War. ED TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General.
Page 675 - Lynchburg; and, when the cavalry got well off, to move the army to the south side of the James River, by the enemy's right flank, where I felt I could cut off all his sources of supply except by the canal...
Page 26 - First Corps to consist of four divisions, and to be commanded by MajorGeneral I.