A History of the Army of the PotomacGibson bros., printers, 1893 - 752 pages |
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A. P. Hill advance arrived artillery attack bank battery Birney bridge Bull Run Burnside Capt Captain captured cavalry Chancellorsville charge column command compelled Comte de Paris Confederate crossed Culp's Hill D. H. Hill directed division Doubleday Duffié enemy enemy's engaged Ewell field Fifth Corps fight fire force Ford forward Fredericksburg front Gettysburg Gibbon Gregg guns Hancock Harper's Ferry headquarters heavy Hill Hooker infantry Iron Brigade Jackson Lee's army left flank Lieut line of battle Little Round Top Longstreet McClellan McDowell McLaws Meade Meade's miles morning moved movement night o'clock occupied officers ordered Pennsylvania Reserves picket Plank road Pleasonton position Potomac railroad Rappahannock rear reënforce regiment retired retreat Reynolds Richmond Ricketts Ridge right flank river rode Second Brigade Second Corps Sedgwick sent Sickles Sixth Corps skirmishers soldiers staff Stuart Third Brigade tion troops Union Union army Warren Warrenton Washington woods wounded York
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Page 710 - GENERAL : Your note of last evening, in reply to mine of same date, asking the condition on which I will accept the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, is just received. In reply I would say that, peace being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon, namely, that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged.
Page 710 - GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Page 249 - In coming to us he tenders us an advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away. If we cannot beat the enemy where he now is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchments of Richmond.
Page 310 - 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...
Page 710 - 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.
Page 310 - 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 as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 249 - Market, and Fredericksburg, and you see how turnpikes, railroads, and finally the Potomac, by Aquia Creek, meet you at all points from Washington. The same, only the lines lengthened a little, if you press closer to the Blue Ridge part of the way.
Page 594 - Mr. President, I accept the commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought in so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me ; and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies, and above all, to the favor of that Providence which leads both nations and men.
Page 248 - My Dear 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? As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. But the enemy does now subsist his army at Winchester, at a...
Page 249 - For a great part of the way you would be practically between the enemy and both Washington and Richmond, enabling us to spare you the greatest number of troops from here. When at length running...