The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley. 1864Free Press association, 1869 - 204 頁 |
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advance afterwards artillery attack Averill batteries Berryville Blue Ridge camp campaign Captain captured cavalry Cedar Creek charge Charlestown Clifton column commenced cover Crook Crook's command crossed Custer division of cavalry driving Early Early's Emory enemy enemy's cavalry entire field fight fire Fisher's Hill flank followed force ford Front Royal Getty Getty's Division ground guns Halltown halt Harper's Ferry Harrisonburg headquarters infantry Kershaw's division killed line of battle Luray Valley Major-General Martinsburg Merritt Middletown miles morning Mount Jackson moved movement Newtown night Nineteenth Corps occupied officers once Opequan creek ordered Petersburg Port Republic position Potomac prisoners reached rear rebel regiments retreat returned Ricketts river road routed Shenandoah Valley Sheridan side Sixth and Nineteenth Sixth corps skirmish line soldiers soon Strasburg success Summit Point Third Division tion Torbert troops valley pike Vermont Brigade vicinity wagons Warner Washington whole army Winchester wounded
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第 191 頁 - Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command ; such as cannot be consumed destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed ; they should rather be protected, but the people should be informed that so long as an army can subsist among them recurrences of these raids must be expected, and we are determined to stop them at all hazards.
第 185 頁 - I enclose you despatch which explains itself. If the enemy should be strongly re-enforced in cavalry, he might, by turning, our right, give us a great deal of trouble. I shall hold on here until the enemy's movements are developed, and shall only fear an attack on my right, which I shall make every preparation for guarding against and resisting.
第 191 頁 - Valley, where it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return. Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command ; such as cannot be consumed destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed ; they should rather be protected...
第 172 頁 - Sixth corps ; Crook's command was ordered to move out on the White Post road, one mile and a half beyond Berryville, file to the right and secure the crossing of...
第 188 頁 - The very best troops of the confederacy had not only been defeated, but had been routed in successive engagements, until their spirit and esprit were destroyed. In obtaining these results, however, our loss in officers and men was severe.
第 191 頁 - In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, as it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return. Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command. Such as cannot be consumed, destroy.
第 184 頁 - Alleghenies, with directions to burn all forage and drive off all stock, &c., as they moved to the rear, fully coinciding in the views and instructions of the lieutenant-general, that the Valley should be made a barren waste.
第 187 頁 - Merritt, from being on the right in the morning, had been transferred to theleft ; that the remaining two divisions of the Sixth corps, which were to the right and rear of Getty about two miles, should be ordered up, and also that the Nineteenth corps, which was on the right and rear of these two divisions, should be hastened up before the enemy attacked Getty.
第 177 頁 - ... communications up the Valley. The difference of strength between the two opposing forces at this time was but little. As I had learned beyond doubt from my scouts that Kershaw's division, which consisted of four brigades, was to be ordered back to Richmond, I had for two weeks patiently awaited its withdrawal before attacking, believing the condition of affairs throughout the country required great prudence on my part, that a defeat of the forces of my command could be ill afforded...
第 189 頁 - ... however, our loss in officers and men was severe. Practically all territory north of the James river now belonged to me, and the holding of the lines about Petersburg and Richmond by the enemy must have been embarrassing, and invited the question of good military judgment. On entering the valley it was not my object by flank movements to make the enemy change his base, nor to move as far up as the James river, and thus give him the opportunity of making me change my base, thereby converting...