The Battle of ChancellorsvilleE. T. Bates, 1882 - 261 頁 |
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A. P. Hill's Acquia advance ammunition Anderson's arrived artillery attack Bank's ford Battalion battery battle of Chancellorsville battle of Fredericksburg bridges brigade Burnside campaign Captain cavalry Chancellorsville charge Colonel column commenced Conduct direction division early Early's Eleventh corps Ely's ford enemy enemy's eral field Fifth corps fight fire force ford road forward Fredericksburg front Gordonsville ground guns Hazel grove headquarters Hill Hooker horse Howard infantry intrenchments Jackson Jackson's corps Lee's line of battle major-general commanding McLaws miles morning move movement night North Carolina o'clock officers official report plank road Pleasanton posi position Potomac pushed railroad Rapidan Rappahannock rear rebel army received regiments Richmond rifle-pits right flank Rodes says Schurz Second corps Sedgwick sent Sickles side skirmishers Slocum soldier Stoneman Stuart Sykes tavern testimony Third corps tion Trimble's Twelfth corps Union army Union line United States ford Virginia wounded
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第 18 頁 - 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. 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...
第 210 頁 - Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed ; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The...
第 226 頁 - Order AP Hill to prepare for action ! pass the infantry to the front rapidly ! tell Major Hawks " — then stopped, leaving the sentence unfinished.
第 112 頁 - I will have to retire my troops to re-form them, they are so much broken by this fire." But Jackson, rallying his strength, with firm voice said: "You must hold your ground, General Pender; you must hold your ground, sir!
第 59 頁 - IT is with heartfelt satisfaction the Commanding General announces to the Army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.
第 18 頁 - 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.
第 172 頁 - Poised on the top of a huge wave of fate, Which hangs uncertain to which side to fall. And whether it will heave us up to land, Or whether it will roll us out to sea, Back out to sea, to the deep waves of death, We know not, and no search will make us know; Only the event will teach us in its hour.
第 193 頁 - In withdrawing from the south bank of the Rappahannock, before delivering a general battle to our adversaries, the army has given renewed evidence of its confidence in itself, and its fidelity to the principles it represents.
第 18 頁 - 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.
第 173 頁 - Here the enemy had assumed a position of great natural strength, surrounded on all sides by a dense forest filled with a tangled undergrowth, in the midst of which breastworks of logs had been constructed, with trees felled in front so as to form an almost impenetrable abatis. His artillery swept the few narrow roads by which his position could be approached from the front, and commanded the adjacent woods.