Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War at the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1865 |
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11th corps 2d corps 6th corps A. A. G. Telegram advance Answer April 11 artillery assault Assistant Adjutant attack Banks's ford batteries battle battle of Chancellorsville battle of Gettysburg brigade Burnside Burnside's BUTTERFIELD cavalry Cemetery hill chairman Chancellorsville Chief of Staff Colonel column committee met pursuant corps commanders crater crossing Culpeper D. C. WAGER DANIEL BUTTERFIELD despatch directed division enemy enemy's line explosion fight fire flank force Fredericksburg front General-in-Chief Gettysburg H. W. HALLECK Hagerstown Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS ARMY Heintzelman infantry JOSEPH HOOKER July 30 June Lee's army Lieutenant Major General Burnside Major General HALLECK Major General HOOKER miles morning move movement night o'clock occupied officers Official copy operations opinion position Potomac Question Rappahannock rear rebel received regiments retreat river road S. F. BARSTOW Secretary of War Sedgwick sent Sickles Taneytown telegraph to-morrow troops Warren Warrenton Washington
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Page viii - The Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of...
Page 293 - My original instructions require me to cover Harper's Ferry and Washington. I have now imposed upon me, in addition, an enemy in my front of more than my number. I beg to be understood, respectfully, but firmly, that I am unable to comply with this condition with the means at my disposal, and earnestly request that I may at once be relieved from the position I occupy.
Page 249 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence, and liable to be torn by dogs, front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Page 155 - ... worst you at that point, while his main force would in some way be getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled...
Page 206 - 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 260 - If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him ?" The Confederates under Ewell entered Pennsylvania June 22.
Page xlv - We have good reason to suppose that the enemy is moving to our right. Please advance your pickets, for purposes of observation, as far as may be safe, in order to obtain timely information of their approach.
Page 294 - The sorrow of parting with the comrades of so many battles is relieved by the conviction that the courage and devotion of this army will never cease nor fail; that it will yield to my successor, as it has to me, a willing and hearty support. With the earnest prayer that the triumph of this army may bring successes worthy of it and the nation, I bid it farewell. " JOSEPH HOOKER, Major-General.
Page 434 - ... nearer and nearer. The compromise was that the King should marry, that Parliament should pass an Act enabling the lady to be the King's wife without the position of Queen ; and when I saw His Majesty on November 25 he asked me whether that proposition had been put to me, and I said yes.
Page 206 - No paroling on the battle-field, no paroling of entire bodies of troops after a battle, and no dismissal of large numbers of prisoners, with a general declaration that they are paroled, is permitted, or of any value.