The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 |
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1st Regiment 2d Regiment 5th Regiment A. P. Hill April April 29 Army Corps ARMY OF NORTHERN Artillery Assistant Adjutant-General Baltimore battalion Battery bridge Brig Brigadier-General BUTTERFIELD CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH Capt Captain cavalry Cavalry Corps Chancellorsville Chief of Staff Clarksburg Colonel command of Major-General companies Confederate Creek cross D. H. Hill DANL DEPARTMENT OF WESTERN dispatch division duty enemy enemy's forage force Fredericksburg General-in-Chief George guns H. W. HALLECK HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT Heintzelman horses Imboden Infantry J. E. B. STUART James Jenkins John JOHN SEDGWICK JOSEPH HOOKER Lieut major-general commanding Major-General HOOKER March Maryland Mentioned Milroy move movement NORTHERN VIRGINIA obedient servant Pennsylvania Troops pickets Potomac R. E. LEE railroad Rappahannock re-enforce rebels received respectfully Richmond river road Robert SCHENCK Secretary of War Sedgwick sent supplies telegraph train Union Troops United States Ford Valley wagons Washington WESTERN VIRGINIA William York Troops
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Page 4 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 4 - 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 4 - 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 4 - 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 which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.
Page 142 - No noncommissioned officer or private can give his parole except through an officer. Individual paroles not given through an officer are not only void, but subject the individuals giving them to the punishment of death as deserters. The only admissible exception is where individuals, properly separated from their commands, have suffered long confinement without the possibility of being paroled through an officer.
Page 4 - 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 the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 63 - No sentence of a court-martial appointed by the commander of a division or of a separate brigade of troops, directing the dismissal of an officer, shall be carried into execution until it shall have been confirmed by the general commanding the army in the field to which the division or brigade belongs.
Page 791 - Providence, are now lost to us. But while we mourn his death, we feel that his spirit still lives, and will inspire the whole army with his indomitable courage and unshaken confidence in God as our hope and strength. Let his name be a watchword to his corps, who have followed him to victory on so many fields. Let his officers and soldiers emulate his invincible determination to do everything in the defence of our beloved country.
Page 4 - The short time that he has directed your movements has not been fruitful of victory, or any considerable advancement of our lines, but it has again demonstrated an amount of courage, patience, and endurance that under more favorable circumstances would have accomplished great results.
Page 477 - Sir : When I wrote on the 7th, I had an impression that possibly by an early movement you could get some advantage from the supposed facts that the enemy's communications were disturbed, and that he was somewhat deranged in position.