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, 1896 - 900 pages |
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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 Bottom Bridge brigade Brigadier-General Buchanan Bull Run Burnside Butterfield camp Capt Captain cavalry Centreville charge Chickahominy Colonel command Confederate Creek crossed D. H. Hill directed duty enemy enemy's eral field Fifth Army Corps Fifth Corps fire Fitz-John Porter flank force Fredericksburg front Griffin guns Hanover Court-House Heintzelman Hooker Jackson James River John Pope June killed Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle Long Bridge Longstreet Major Major-General Malvern Hill Manassas mand Massachusetts McClellan McDowell Mechanicsville ment miles Morell Morell's morning moved movement night occupied officers Pennsylvania Reserves pickets pike Pope position Potomac President Quaker road railroad Rappahannock rear received regiment reserve retired Reynolds Richmond sent Sharpshooters skirmishers Sumner Sykes troops U. S. Artillery U. S. Infantry Union Virginia Warren Warrenton Washington woods
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Page 799 - GENERAL: I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your proposition, ask the terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. "RE LEE, "General "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL US GRANT.
Page 807 - I propose to receive the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the government of the United States until properly...
Page 300 - 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 246 - ... 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 9 - 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 368 - 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.
Page 246 - 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 800 - States' forces under my command, and tend to the restoration of peace, I should be pleased to meet you at 10 A. M. to-morrow, on the old stage road to Richmond, between the picket lines of the two armies.
Page 368 - 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. 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. I much fear that the spirit...
Page 368 - 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. 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.