Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History, Volume 5Clement Anselm Evans Confederate publishing Company, 1899 |
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A. P. Hill advance army artillery assault attack battalion batteries battle Beauregard Boonsboro Bragg bridge Brig.-Gen brigade Brigadier-General Capers Capt Captain captured Carolinians cavalry charge Charleston Colonel command companies Confederate corps crossed D. H. Hill defense division drove Edisto Ellison Capers enemy enemy's engaged eral Evans Federal field fight fire flank fleet force Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter Fort Walker forts front gade gallant Georgia Gillmore Gregg gunboats guns Hagood Hampton Hampton legion harbor Hill's infantry Jackson James island Jenkins Johnson Kershaw killed Lee's legion Lieut Lieut.-Col Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Longstreet loss Manassas mand Manigault McClellan McLaws ment miles morning Morris island Moultrie moved night officers ordered Pemberton picket position prisoners railroad rear regiment reinforced reported repulsed retreat Richmond Rifles river road Savannah sent Sharpsburg sharpshooters shot South Carolina South Carolina brigade Stono Sullivan's island Sumter troops Twenty-fourth Virginia Wagner Walker wounded
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Page 212 - 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.
Page 212 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it ; and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 211 - General : I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course, I like.
Page 212 - What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders.
Page 212 - I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to...
Page 165 - Richmond, I would press closely to him, fight him if a favorable opportunity should present, and at least try to beat him to Richmond on the inside track. I say "try;" if we never try, we shall never succeed.
Page 139 - At the same time it was hoped that military success might afford us an opportunity to aid the citizens of Maryland in any efforts they might be disposed to make to recover their liberties. The difficulties that surrounded them were fully appreciated, and we expected to derive more assistance in the attainment of our object from the just fears of the Washington government than from any active demonstration on the part of the people, unless success should enable us to give them assurance of continued...
Page 14 - All proper facilities will be afforded for the removal of yourself and command, together with company arms and property, and all private property, to any post in the United States which you may select. The flag which you have upheld so long and with so much fortitude, under the most trying circumstances, may be saluted by you on taking it down.
Page 164 - Sir: You remember my speaking to you of what I called your over-cautiousness. Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing ? Should you not claim to be at least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim?
Page 138 - The war was thus transferred from the interior to the frontier, and the supplies of rich and productive districts made accessible to our army. To prolong a state of affairs in every way desirable, and not to permit the season for active operations to pass without endeavoring to inflict further injury upon the enemy, the best course appeared to be the transfer of the army into Maryland.